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Is The Metric System Actually Better?

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[quote]@paultidwell8799
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VERY recently, like within the past few years, I had an experience where I was driving and someone's hand dragging across the dash accidentally pressed the button that switches miles per hour to kilometers per hour just in case any of us State side visits' Canada, and I have intention to do exactly that. But the switch was in our 2013 Prius, and I was literally DRIVING when it flipped over to Kilometers, and you can't imagine the sense of panic as I had no clue where that button actually was, the Road was 50 Miles per hour, and it's like if I had the formula I could do the math but, not in my head here. Cars speeding past me as I tried to find the switch and everything, Eventually we did, but just the nightmare of being in the middle of operation and it accidentally being flipped taught me we should just use the damn metric system, Further, that Button, that Toyota had to manufacture into the damn 2013 Prius shouldn't need to exist. [/quote]
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Well, metric is better than imperial, but far better still is FFF!

The Furlong–Firkin–Fortnight system is much more fun to use!

The Firkin is defined as the mass of an imperial firkin (9 imp gal) of water. And as we all know, the imperial gallon is the volume of 10 lb of distilled water, so the conversion is easy! Note: that's imperial gallons, not wine gallons (same as US gallons), not ale gallons, not dry gallons; please stay with me!

It goes without saying that a Furlong is 40 rods (or 220 yards for you stick-in-the-muds), and a Fortnight is two weeks. Thus a square furlong is 10 acres. Easy peasy!!

One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 sec; who's gonna notice the difference?

The speed of light is 1.8026×10^12 furlongs per fortnight, or almost exactly 1.8 terafurlongs/fortnight.

Naturally we'll be using Fahrenheit for temperature and Franklins for electric charge because they both begin with an F. DON'T ask about fathoms.