1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

Nope, looked there it's missing also. 

Check under the drawer.  Left handed tools always hide/reside on the unexpected side. 

My mother was left handed, and when we kids were young she liked to sew up clothes for my 4 sisters.  Left handed scissors I've inherited somehow and as they are completely useless to me I have them hot glued and zip tied to the bottom of my desk pencil drawer.  That way I'll never pick them up accidently to use, but as a family heirloom they'll remain with my belongings long past I've moved on. 

2 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

Check under the drawer.  Left handed tools always hide/reside on the unexpected side. 

My mother was left handed, and when we kids were young she liked to sew up clothes for my 4 sisters.  Left handed scissors I've inherited somehow and as they are completely useless to me I have them hot glued and zip tied to the bottom of my desk pencil drawer.  That way I'll never pick them up accidently to use, but as a family heirloom they'll remain with my belongings long past I've moved on. 

One day after you’ve gone and your family is going through your stuff, they’re going to think you were losing your mind.

5 minutes ago, Zack said:

One day after you’ve gone and your family is going through your stuff, they’re going to think you were losing your mind.

Naw, that has already been determined. 

If you really want to mess with your descendants, add a bag of marbles with the scissors

 

Dang @Ron Dudelston, you started a fire storm here, look at these replies!

13 minutes ago, JWD said:

If you really want to mess with your descendants, add a bag of marbles with the scissors

 

Too late.  I already lost all my marbles. 

4D

Just now, 4DThinker said:

Too late.  I already lost all my marbles. 

4D

See, you should have hid them away for safe keeping already! 

2 hours ago, JWD said:

See, you should have hid them away for safe keeping already! 

That's how I lost them.  There also is a lost metal box with 20k cash in it somewhere in my house. I vaguely remember putting it away for safe keeping.   

4D

1 minute ago, 4DThinker said:

That's how I lost them.  There also is a lost metal box with 20k cash in it somewhere in my house. I vaguely remember putting it away for safe keeping.   

4D

 Been there done that..... ok, not quite.  Never had that much cash!

 

But that means your marbles aren't truly lost - you just don't remember where you left them.  A subtle, yet vitally important distinction to be made as we age!

English all the way ......... unless I'm getting an idea from a YouTube video for a project and it's done in metric......then I whip out phone because I have a conversion app for that. 

 I wasn’t schooled with metric, so I prefer not to use it. My dialysis clinic uses metric , but they must use both to compare…

The medical professions tend to use metric.  I remember once when asked how tall I was, I said 6'5" and you could see the nurse trying to convert an out of the usual size.  Then I said, "195 cm".  Oh, OK.

 

Another time I think they measured me in metric but reported in my version of the chart to 6' 4.289"

I know a few years ago, there was a problem because the engine of a car was one and the transmission was the other.

 

Worst I ever had was a spec for a 6mm bolt, 3" long.  Must have been from England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMEDZp7ZZs

 

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My parents had a 1976 Saab when I was in HS, it was a mix of SAE and metric.  My 1972 model was all SAE, and really a kind of better car. 

 

The 76 had Bosch fuel injection, which worked great right up until it didn't.  Then troubleshooting it was like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer.  So the mixed wrenches needed didn't seem too bad in that context.  I mild annoyance on top of much bigger problems!

Heard a good one today.  There are two groups of people on the earth.  One group uses the metric system.  The other group has sent crewed missions to the moon :D

 

Yeah, yeah, I know they don't have a whole lot to do with each other.  But it does demonstrate that great things can be done without a devotion to the metric system!  It's all just numbers.

Definitely English

Paul

English, it's what I've used for a very long time. I can use Metric but English is just easier for me. The only thing I don't like is converting from one to the other, what a pain!

9 hours ago, JWD said:

Heard a good one today.  There are two groups of people on the earth.  One group uses the metric system.  The other group has sent crewed missions to the moon :D

 

 How much you want to bet that the trip to the moon had more metric measurements than English? Yeah, I know there's no proof, but the scientific community knows which system is easier. I'm not fluent with metric but I wish i was. Bear in mind there are only three powerhouse countries that do not use the metric system. Along with us there is Myanmar (which i still call Burma) and Liberia.

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

 How much you want to bet that the trip to the moon had more metric measurements than English? Yeah, I know there's no proof, but the scientific community knows which system is easier. I'm not fluent with metric but I wish i was. Bear in mind there are only three powerhouse countries that do not use the metric system. Along with us there is Myanmar (which i still call Burma) and Liberia.

 

The start of the program was in the late 50's and concluded in the early 70's.  The big metric push in the US was in the mid to late 70's as I recall.  I would be willing to bet it was 100% calculations done with SAE measurements, an awful lot of that calculating likely done with slide rules.  Those engineers were experts.

 

One thing that people miss is that it simply doesn't matter what you use.  The big mistake that I see people making - some of them phd physicists - is forgetting that comparative measurements must share a common reference.  It isn't two different systems (or six, whatever) that makes measuring difficult - it is not keeping your references straight.  The only analogy I can come up with is in English vs metric temperature - the zero point is different, making the conversion difficult.

 

Length conversion is much more simple and more a matter of habit than anything else.  The basic 1 to 25 scale is easy if you stay under a foot.  Most of what I do at work is under an inch, so 0.001" to 25 microns is no big deal.

 

Honestly, I think most of the appeal of the metric system is that it's easier to use when people are too lazy to write stuff down!   And we all know that's most of the time :D