.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!

I don’t trust you, stranger number man! And the above… well that just proves there’s a conspiracy!

Yeah but they're not interchangeable.

I wonder, did you feel like "cool" writing this comment? It's an honest question. Sorry in advance if it sounds like a jerk question.

Probably not. It's a fairly rare round outside of fallout.

We can’t imagine 9mm on a whim either.

The metric system but with warthogs, refrigerators and football fields. That's .64 football fields, or .48 decawarthogs.

I thought he is orange

Ah, good to know.

And is expensive as fuck. As is the downgrade, .40 cal.

Maybe it's changed since I last had to purchase any, but it was twice as expensive as .45 bullets, and the guns always seemed subpar to other calibers anyway.

SW stands for Soft Wankers.

Width, not length.

A thou is a milliinch

Every company ive ever worked for has been metric. All American companies. But i do machines and instruments.

I deal with standard / uscs units because suppliers still do

The thing is, we just use whole numbers. If you get under 1, then you move down by one SI prefix et voilà, you have whole numbers again

I've never thought of counting on fingers as a good reason for using it for units. But since our numeric system is base 10 (likely because of having 10 fingers indeed), it's easier to have our unit systems as base 10 too. If we all learned to think in base 12 from ground up, having base 12 units would make a lot more sense too

The thing is that outside of North America people aren't terrified to death of decimals. We actually use them and find the process simple. So those factors of yours are completely irrelevant to us.

Btw you can count to 12 on your fingers with one hand. Starting from the end of the index finger tap each segment of the "remaining" four fingers with your thumb.

I heard someone claim that's how Babylonians invented and used the base 12 system in the first place.

I know it'll never happen but I'm still camp duodecimal, all the way.

There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.

12 is better than 10, I'll give you that. But 100 is better than 144, and 1000 is way better than 1728.

And that doesn't even get to 0.1 versus 1/12, or 0.01 versus 1/144.

So 12 might be a better standalone number, but it's a terrible base to work in.

If you look at your hand when it is wide open and palm up you can use the tip of your thumb to touch any of the 12 (four fingers each with three) sections of your fingers. Counting in 12 might be very intuitive for early humans - or might not. Who knows.

Sure, but does my 5/32" drill hit go left or right of the 7/64" on my drill bit sorting block?...

Genuinely, that would be the funniest reason... Maybe we should be inundating Trump with recommendations like this to 'fix' his approval ratings.

... and then hang him anyways after the next Nuremberg trials.

when you put it like that we're pretty much on par with the UK's adoption of metric

Recipes being imperial is the dumbest thing ever and I always convert mine. "Two cups and one tablespoon flour" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. I will defend feet/inches though for very specific cases where you may be dividing something into thirds like sometimes with woodworking