Unless you are in engineering and everything is in writing, the metric system always seemed fairly dopey and confusing to me on its nomenclature.

Why have related measurements that always rhyme or sometimes sound the same. Deci and deca, two things ends in a 'iter', (meter liter). Granted in the English system pound force and pound mass are confusing at first, everything in the metric system is hard to communicate even though the math is easier.

If one system were outlawed tomorrow (either way, I don't care), it would take the people of this world about 10 days to be able to get used to it, not sure why it hasn't happened yet.

 

Your dad, move out and get your own fridge...

 

18 and going to college, can't get my own fridge.

Also, the metric system is easier to use, hence why most of the world uses it...

 

So that makes Americans smarter then?

 

I suspect it's economics as much as anything. Could you imagine how much it would cost to go back and replace all the speed limit signs, and update all the machinery & tools that are based on the "old" system?

 

Inch and feet are awesome for day to day measurements and for that reason I support the English system. Measuring shit in centimeters and decimeters is retarded.

 

That's true, inches and feet are probably the best things about the english system.

 

I remember being in elementary school in the mid 70's and there was a big push for the U.S. to go metric so we spent something like 2 yrs learning it then they decided to go back to the old way.

And then about 5 or so years later when they tried for force "new math" on us. What, did the old math spoil or something? Did they look in the text books and say "We can't use this math anymore, it's past it's freshness date"?

No wonder I never got too far w/ math.

 

I leave my speedometer in km/h to confuse myself.

 

With many food products, the greatest cost is the packaging; water being the epitome of this concept. And for a long time, buying a larger quantity generally meant getting more of the food product for your money because of the lower amount of packaging needed per unit of food (And of course, the producer would also get a cut of the packaging savings as well.).

Well, eventually stores wised up and realized that most people don't bring their calculators to the store and compare. Yeah, some stores post the price per unit on the shelf label, but ever notice that sometimes the calculation is wrong, or the units are different, or it only applies to the non-sale price and you have to calculate the price/unit for the sale price? They found that most people just assume that the larger container is the better price and just grab that.

We've noticed this in particular with cat litter at Target. Sometimes the bigger container is cheaper per unit, while sometimes the smaller is, depending on the sale.

So with the water, of course is makes since that the price/unit of the 12 half-liter bottles is going to be higher because you're paying not only for the packaging, but for the convenience (which is part of the product they're trying to sell). However, the increase in the price/unit between the 4-L and the 10-L jugs is most likely the store betting that most customers that are buying for quantity will just assume the value is better with the larger size.

Doesn't sound retarded to me. Sounds like the store is just trying to pull one over on their customers. Nothing new.

Shop smart!