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Old 01-02-2014, 10:55 AM   #13851 (permalink)
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Trust me BD, I've had to * or / by 25.4 for over 20 years. It's a pain when you get drawings from other countries that need changes right away, or they spec out that things HAVE to be in metric.

The thing is that Imperial is so embedded in our country that changing the standard would cripple some industries... for a while anyway. I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to go metric.
Many people in Canada still use imperial for lots of things. Mostly older people (like 40+ let's say) who learned imperial in school. Canada only started using the metric system in the 80's. People got used to it pretty fast, but yeah both kinds of measurements are still used in some cases.

It's funny how the US still uses imperial, but they see themselves as a progressive superpower in terms of globalization. A bit ironic.

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See what it says? IMPERIAL. WE are the empire, so we use what is appropriate. YOU are our empire so you use that other crap.

And Thailand and Liberia's insurrection shall soon be crushed.
lol, that's not Thailand, it's Myanmar/Burma. You're right on track with a military police state

I believe it's called Imperial because it was invented by the Brits to standardize measurements in the empire, of course the US was once part of that empire so I guess they just stuck with it. The UK is officially metric now though, (according to that map).
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:57 AM   #13852 (permalink)
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Mostly older people (like 40+ let's say) who learned imperial in school.
Ouch.
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Old 01-02-2014, 11:00 AM   #13853 (permalink)
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Ouch.
Did not mean that in a bad way. But my parents, for example, don't use centimetres when they are measuring something. It's always inches, etc.
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Old 01-02-2014, 11:00 AM   #13854 (permalink)
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lol, that's not Thailand, it's Myanmar/Burma. You're right on track with a military police state
Hear that sound outside your door? Those are tanks. That's what happens when you try to correct America.
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Old 01-02-2014, 11:37 AM   #13856 (permalink)
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Old 01-02-2014, 11:44 AM   #13857 (permalink)
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Old 01-02-2014, 11:45 AM   #13858 (permalink)
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Back in April I decided I was going to put away some money and get a Schecter Corsair for myself for Christmas. I never ended up saving up that much and spent the money on other instruments, but yesterday I was just browsing the local Craigslist ads and I found someone local selling a really nice black/red version for only $475 (they retail at $799). Kind of feel like an idiot for not keeping up with the savings because my Telecaster just isn't sounding that great anymore.
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Back in April I decided I was going to put away some money and get a Schecter Corsair for myself for Christmas. I never ended up saving up that much and spent the money on other instruments, but yesterday I was just browsing the local Craigslist ads and I found someone local selling a really nice black/red version for only $475 (they retail at $799). Kind of feel like an idiot for not keeping up with the savings because my Telecaster just isn't sounding that great anymore.
Not sounded good to you?? Or listterly falling apart and needs tlc to sound better?

Because I think Tele followed closely by a strat is the best sounding guitar on the planet, while they are often made and setup poorely they typically always sound pretty good to my ears with a decent amp.
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Old 01-02-2014, 01:13 PM   #13860 (permalink)
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Not sounded good to you?? Or listterly falling apart and needs tlc to sound better?

Because I think Tele followed closely by a strat is the best sounding guitar on the planet, while they are often made and setup poorely they typically always sound pretty good to my ears with a decent amp.
The ultimate Telecaster sound (at 1:55 mostly):



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