Renegade_Turner wrote:Height is generally measured in feet and inches. For example 6'2" is 6 feet and 2 inches. Why change it when there's no problem with it?
Also, people are used to that system. This way, people know when someone is 5'0" you say "WTF THAT'S SMALL" and when someone's 7'0" you say "WTF THAT'S HUGE".
However, if it were in centimetres, if someone said they were 186cm, you'd be like "WTF DOES THAT MEAN?"
It means fair big - course, you're right that I'd be slightly more comfortable with feet, even if I can read both. In France though they'd have no idea what you were talking about if you started using feet - their national ID cards have their height on them in centimeters (kindof creepy in a way). The retarded thing about the French is that they mesure television screens in "thumbs" (=inches), and generally have no idea how big a "thumb" is (as big as your thumb mabye? Everyone's dumb but me), even if they can tell you that a 32 thumb television is "yay big".
The French invented metric during that pants wetting phase that generally follows their revolutions (the French are permanently revolting - b'doomp t'shish). If memory serves they also changed the names of the months and restarted the calender, but it confused everyone so much that they had to change it back... Mabye using the French as an example was a bad idea - your "all
sane people use imperial mesurements" argument still stands.
Guess I'll be a dirty fence sitter and use both when it suits - still think decimal is the way to go though, unless you're a robot.
