Is there no limit to their stupidity?

[Duppers]

FOX HOST TUCKER CARLSON ATTACKS 'INELEGANT, CREEPY' METRIC SYSTEM THAT THE U.S. ALONE HAS RESISTED

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-tucker-carlson-attacks-metric-system-1442485

[unblock]

1. down with that french metric system! we will stick with the american-made avoirdupois system!

[ProudLib72]

32. Hmmm, speaking of avoirdupois, I'm sure the Rump's "239" was actually kilograms

[area51]

2. Short answer: Nope. n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

3. That's easy. No.

The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits (generally attributed to Einstein).

[lunatica]

4. Is this a thing right now?

they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in order to deflect attention away from the Trump family of grifters.

[PA Democrat]

5. Poor Tucker! He looks so confused.

It must be tough for him to wrap his little pea brain around something as scary as the "creepy" metric system. OMG! It involves MATH!!!!!

[Dave Starsky]

17. Is that an actual screenshot of this?

He always looks like a particularly stupid deer caught in the headlights of a car. That is pretty much his default slack-jawed expression.

[smirkymonkey]

37. Tucker mode...

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. Constipated.

I’m sure you meant to say “he always looks so constipated”.

Tucker’s a clown.

[irisblue]

30. Vapid slack jawed attempt at intelligent response.

[Duppers]

6. As if our "imperial system" was sent from god?

"Made up"?!

"Imperial vs. Metric System. ... Most countries use the Metric System, which uses the measuring units such as meters and grams and adds prefixes like kilo, milli and centi to count orders of magnitude. In the United States, we use the older Imperial system, where things are measured in feet, inches and pounds."

[Wounded Bear]

7. Serious irony there, isn't it?

The country we got the "Imperial System" from no longer uses it.

[shanny]

8. Not really. They are exceptional. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. Not as of yet.

[genxlib]

10. This is the perfect cross section between anti-intellectualism and anti-globalism

After all, why would we want our scientist to be able to talk to other scientists.

I am an Engineer and have worked in both systems. The Florida DOT was essentially completely converted in the 1990's. We produced surveys, plans, specifications and calculations in Metric. It took some getting used to but it wasn't a problem. However, when the plans got to the Contractors, they flipped. And within the year, everything reverted. All the hard work of getting shifted over was lost and we are behind yet another generation.

People who don't regularly work with units don't really realize how fucked up the American system is. If I need to convert from meters to kilometers, I just move a decimal point. If I need to convert 400' - 5 3/32" to miles I need to divide 3 by 32 then add to 5 then divide by 12 then divide by 5280. Similar craziness with teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, gallons...ugh.

The SI system is far superior. The only things it lacks is fundamental human recognition. People like to be able to visualize their units. It used to be a problem for liters but now everyone knows what a 2-liter soda bottle looks like. It just takes time to get used to.

We are so far behind the curve on this. We could be completely converted and in the 21rst century in a matter of a few years if we wanted to. But we are so freaking stubborn. Go 'Merica

[Duppers]

13. Well said! 👍

"...we so freaking stubborn." And I'd add ignorant and lazy.

Metric is far superior, as my physicist hubs and son can attest to. Yep, folks could get used to using it quite quickly, imo.

Such a shame re: Florida's upgraded DOT being discarded.

[brush]

38. It would be easy enough to convert if we start with equivalent measures...

side by side in packaging, printing, advertisements, etc. For instance, 1 liter is 1.056 quarts, almost the same. 1 meter is just a little longer than 1 yard—1 v 1.09 or 39.3 inches.

Once people get the equilvalent measures in their minds it won't be so mysterious, intimidating or impractical to switch. And of course it wouldn't have to be overnight. The comparisons will soak in over time without people thinking they were forced to do something they don't want—the resistant ones that is.

[yonder]

40. Yep, same thing here as a surveyor in Idaho

When we tried putting to the ground all those civil plans designed in the Metric system, contractors went nuts. And of course it didn't take long to revert back. Imperial is fine for U.S. surveyors, hardly useful elsewhere. And then you have the International Foot and the U.S. Survey Foot, which usually only matter to surveyors and mappers anyway.

Carlson's a fruitcake. How may leagues in a parsec? Divide a meter by 7 shaftments, what do you get? Something useful? He's a 20 twip measure in his own twerp-inch world.

[Chakaconcarne]

11. Well, I guess I'll be stop using the mertic system crz Fox news told me to

I could never understand it anyway...

Yut, yut...

[Brother Buzz]

12. I didn't know Tucker Carlson was a Stonecutter

[empedocles]

14. A metric system that uses Arabic numerals? Egads!!!

[Bayard]

15. Inelegant and creepy.....

Sounds like self-analysis to me.

[Duppers]

16. 😂 Yep.

Spot on analysis, Bayard.

[GoCubsGo]

18. "Inelegant"? Yes, and that's the best part about it.

It's a simple Base 10 system. None of this having to calculate fourths/eights/twelfths/sixteens... bullshit. This country is beyond stupid for resisting it.

[Dave Starsky]

24. This country hasn't been resisting it.

US engineers, doctors, other health care workers, and scientists have been using the metric system since almost the very beginning. You should thank the Goddesses that your pharmacist easily knows the difference between a milligram of your medication and a gram, and the effects of each amount. Thanks to the metric system, they can do all that math in their head. They don't have to convert "drams" into a pint.

I really thought that the "controversy" behind the metric system went away in the 1970s. The only idiots still kvetching about the metric system are people who never had to measure anything accurately as part of their job.

[GoCubsGo]

41. Yes. I know science and medical workers use it.

I spent a lifetime doing scientific research. Which is why I know how easy it is to use. Most people still won't use it. Our highways are still miles/mph, our weather reports are given in degrees Fahrenheit, our recipes still in cups, rather than grams/dl, milk and gas still get measured in gallons. If this country wasn't resisting it, that would all be in metric now. Like the rest of the world.

[tblue37]

19. Does he think English measurements were handed down by God rather than being "made up"? nt

[Duppers]

20. 😂 Yup.

My same thoughts posted above.

[Dave Starsky]

22. Jesus Himself drafted English measurements.

He rode 40 leagues on a donkey into Jerusalem.

[SoCalNative]

25. Silly! Don't you know that Jesus

rode a dinosaur into Jerusalem!

[kskiska]

21. At one point (can't remember the year) this became an issue.

The powers that be edged toward metric and there were a few changes - things like bottles of soda are now labeled as liters (alongside ounces), but it never went much further - not even gasoline.

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. Soon Carlson will suggest that yard sticks be called "Freedom sticks"

[rurallib]

26. Ca you score below zero on an IQ test?

I think we have a candidate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. The metric system is actually a lot easier for stupid people

because it's a base-10 system. So you'd think a numpty like Carlson would welcome it. The reason he hates it is an especially stupid one, and it's that it's the system that most of the rest of the world uses it and we don't want to do what the rest of the world does because America.

[lapfog_1]

29. I will contemplate their level of stupidity

after taking 50mg of my favorite pain killer... downing it with a swig from my 1 liter bottle of soft drink before going back to measuring my computer storage system latency in microseconds.

[Duppers]

35. 😉 Good ones!

[dewsgirl]

31. I bet what's behind the segment is that the metric system is beyond the audiences comprehension and

and makes them feel stupid.

[maxsolomon]

34. Base 10?

plus LATIN? Balderdash!

Get off my lawn, Euro!

[GoCubsGo]

42. No. It's an inability to handle change or anything that is different.

The majority of them could easily understand the metric system, if they made the effort to learn it. But, learning new stuff scares the shit out of them, just like brown people, foreigners, educated women, non-Christians... They can't stand anything outside of their sheltered bubbles. It terrifies them.

[maxsolomon]

33. It's not Stupidity, it's PROPAGANDA

and there is no limit to the firehose of bullshit they direct towards the weak of mind who are their marks.

Carlson doesn't believe what he says. He's a gaslighter like President Bullshit.

This is a technique, like the multiple crawls at the bottom of the screen.

"Enjoy":
http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

[VOX]

43. Precisely that! An addictive toxin of fear and rage, fear and rage, ad infinitum.

Always with the subtext of “only WE will tell you how ‘these others’ are destroying everything you hold dear.”

The ghost of Joseph Goebbels is weeping with unbridled envy.

[rampartc]

36. has there been any effort to phase in the metric system since the carter administration?

only the most forward looking segments of society, pharmaceutical and street drugs, seem to have entered the 19th century.

[Initech]

39. It's pretty much a black hole at this point!

[Totally Tunsie]

44. Years ago, as the local high school was looking to expand their evening classes,

school officials were looking to the public to suggest courses in which they'd have interest. My suggestion was a course on the metric system and metric math. I thought it was a brilliant idea. It was soundly rejected.

[struggle4progress]

45. "Liters! and meters! and grams! Oh, my!"