Thread: Razors are measured in eights...

To answer the question the video asks in the title; Yes, very much so.
The world is moving towards metric more and more every day.
It's gonna take a wee bit longer to get those thick-sculled Americans on board, but on board they will come.
Might as well just take the jump straight away....

That was, um, interesting...

Originally Posted by Birnando

...It's gonna take a wee bit longer to get those thick-sculled Americans on board, but on board they will come...

We're moving steadily towards the metric system inch by inch.

So now, I guess we will have to say, "Give an inch and they'll take a kilometer?"

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

"Give an inch and they'll take a kilometer?"

Another US gaffe here.

If people in the US DO say these words, they say CEN-timeter, MILLI-meter and NANO-meter. But when it comes to kilometers we decided on kil-OM-eter. Might as well say cen-TIM-eter, mil-IM-eter and nan-OM-eter. I don't get it. It's all messed up. Gotta start over.

Also, why do we not have metric time? 100-seconds per minute, 100-minutes per hours and 10-hours per day. This has bothered me for years.

Oh well, what's so bad about 29/32nds and 113/164ths anyhow. You can do that stuff in your head with a little practice.

Yes, I feel metric is the best, and easiest way to measure. I have some machinist and carpenter friends who abhor it. As I build things, I prefer the millimeters and centimeters. Fractions are more difficult for me to figure, since I don't use them regularly.

The only thing that makes logical sense is binary - it's the most minimalistic and doubling and halving is as simple as it gets.
That's why measuring razors in 8ths makes a lot of sense regardless of the base unit. My favorite razor size is 2cm, so I'd rather the base unit be cm instead of inch.

As far as time goes, Swatch tried to push a 10-base system in the late 90s as part of a marketing campaign. They divided the day into 1000 parts each called 'beat', though it hasn't really caught up. http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/internettime/

Originally Posted by gugi

The only thing that makes logical sense is binary - it's the most minimalistic and doubling and halving is as simple as it gets.

but of course...

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yes, I feel metric is the best, and easiest way to measure. I have some machinist and carpenter friends who abhor it. As I build things, I prefer the millimeters and centimeters. Fractions are more difficult for me to figure, since I don't use them regularly.

About 0.60% of our clients now order textiles from us in metric and rest order in SAE. I do a lot of crazy conversions on fabric, like grams/sq meter to ounces/sq yard and the like. Some want to know fabric break strength in pounds per inch, others want newtons per centimeter... nuts. My own shop manager can't work anything from metric. I need to convert all euro-orders into SAE.

Bright spot? -40C and -40F are the same thing.

Regardless, I still think of all my razors in 16ths.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yes, I feel metric is the best, and easiest way to measure. I have some machinist and carpenter friends who abhor it. As I build things, I prefer the millimeters and centimeters. Fractions are more difficult for me to figure, since I don't use them regularly.

I am a Toolmaker in a manual machine shop. Most things that come in our shop via pharmaceutical and food industry is in metric. We convert everything into English measurements. In the beginning it was a pain, now its second nature. The .039370" = 1m.m. is forever in my brain.