Re-designed D'Addario Website Sucks for the Canucks!

[MultiScaleMale]

View attachment 3572895

I blame the neighbors for our residual use of the imperial system. It's cumbersome and makes no sense at all, whereas if you can divide/multiply by 10 in your head, you're good to go with the metric system.

How do you ask for lunchmeat of cheese at the deli? I had an odd thought last night wondering if metric delis sold 10% more on average than imperial delis - assuming that imperial usually ask for a pound or a half pound and metric would ask for a half kilo or quarter kilo (1.1 lbs or .55 lbs). Or is an 8.8 lbs (4 kg) bass more acceptable in a metric country versus the US where the ideal is to be under 8 lbs?

 

[vindibona1]

Everyone should be striving to use the Metric system.
I switch to Celsius, Kilometers, & Kilograms wherever possible.
Metric is simply easier to use, especially if you're doing any dimension/volume calculations.

Yes, but...
America was supposed to fully move to metric in the 60's, but it never took. It is extremely difficult to internalize what metric means practically when you're used to the English system. Celsius does not have a direct correlation to Fahrenheit. Those of us know that 72°is balmy can't relate to what 22°C might FEEL like? You can know cerebrally, the 22° seems cold, even if you know. And millimeters? You go from CM to MM and mm's are so small that fractions of it seem less friendly than working in 64ths". And then there is fuel... Filling up your tank in Litres gives the gas company a psychological tool to rip you off. $1/litre seems cheap in comparison to $2.80/gallon. But in reality it's more than $4/gallon. But I suppose if you did mileage in Kilometers you can drive 60kph and think you're driving fast, while all the while you're only going 37mph. Nixon should have had us switch to Km when he had the chance and had the speeds across the nation capped at 55mph due to the Arab oil embargo. While metric is logical at face value, in truth it really doesn't matter. America had been using English measurements for centuries and doing just fine. Once you learn it, what does it matter? Throwing Metric into the mix just confuses everything. One could metaphorically make the case that Americans need to learn Spanish and Mandarin... yikes... we sort of do :0 [But then again, most educated Mexicans and Chinese speak English... just sayin']

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I wish everyone would just switch already, but I also wish that people would use a date format that is unable to be mistaken (23-Oct-19).
Bernard Trink used to write for the Bangkok Post & often his musings involved human nature.
One of downsides of human nature is fear of change, even if it's for the better.

 

[michael_t]

I also wish that people would use a date format that is unable to be mistaken (23-Oct-19).

Do you mean Oct 19, 2023? Or, Oct 23, 2019?

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Almost anything is better than 10/23/19, IMHO.
Only folks in the U.S. use that format AFAIK & if your day is 12 or less it can be confused with the month, anywhere outside North America.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I wish everyone would just switch already, but I also wish that people would use a date format that is unable to be mistaken (23-Oct-19).
Bernard Trink used to write for the Bangkok Post & often his musings involved human nature.
One of downsides of human nature is fear of change, even if it's for the better.

More commonly written as 2019-10-23 in the computer world so it is more easily sorted.

 

[Vinny_G]

There should be a selector if you want in Imperial or metric on that website. Satisfies everyone in the world! You are welcome, D'Addario!

It never bothered me that the two live side by side, it's also a question of habit.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

so it is more easily sorted

If you know how to parse text into columns it's unnecessary, but it's better for the files in a folder.

 

[Vinny_G]

Germany here, diameter/tension shows up in inches/pounds.

Which is okay - Europe uses the metric system for everything - except screen sizes and string diameters

To my knowledge, both are shown, at least in my country.

 

[Root 5]

Speak for yourself, I use metric for just about everything!

I do too! But not setting up a guitar - string/saddle height, relief, string gauge. I like metric, it is better than imperial overall IMO. I'm of an age where I grew up learning both systems. I wonder what system an 18-yr old would use.

 

[Root 5]

Actually I measure all my setups in metric. String diameter and tension in imperial... and only because it’s the accepted standard.

Freak.

 

[BioWeapon]

I do too! But not setting up a guitar - string/saddle height, relief, string gauge. I like metric, it is better than imperial overall IMO. I'm of an age where I grew up learning both systems. I wonder what system an 18-yr old would use.

Well I'm not much older than that so... I also have no choice but to use both systems in my engineering job of course. I tend to mix them doing woodworking too depending on the project, in fact most if not all my cut plans and diagrams have both units on them.

 

[Root 5]

I also wish that people would use a date format that is unable to be mistaken (23-Oct-19).

This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
10-09-19 can mean Oct 9, 2019 or September 10, 2019.
Needs to be standardized.

 

[Staccato]

Found this, and sent them an email:

Give Us A Call

D'Addario Canada
1-170 Alden Rd.
Markham, ON L3R 4C1

905-947-9595
1-800-268-6855
[email protected]

 

[MustangWally]

Celsius, Kilometers, & Kilograms

I was raised with Imperial measurements, then about my 15th birthday the country I lived in went to Metric. I hated Metric then and I hate it now, it has no basis in experience to me - for example a foot is about the length of a human foot, whereas centimeters don't really equate to anything that I can think of. Now I live in the US things are back as they should be - everything makes sense again.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

As if all human feet are the same size. Base 10 is easier & the Meter is based on the geometry of the Earth.
I was quite the opposite & felt right at home using the Metric system in Asia.

I also was able to enjoy using 24-hour time & no one misunderstood me.
Here at home people act like I've just grown two heads if I say twenty-hundred.
Try using the word prawn & see the looks!

 

[diegom]

And, on that subject...
Invalid Link Removed

 

[Stewie]

Been in the building trades since before most of you were born(graduated High School?). If we changed to metric in the U.S., all the building codes would have to be rewritten, it would be damned near impossible to fit stuff in the standard 16 on center building, and all of our heads would explode. The tires on my truck are 245 70 16.5 How 'bout that, a combination. I haven't checked recently, but BMWs used to come with 15 inch steering wheels. If you are in the medical, or sceintific profession, by all means, use metric. But LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE

 

[Stewie]

....and I'll take the pound of gold, you can have the feathers.

 

[Frank77]

How do you ask for lunchmeat of cheese at the deli? I had an odd thought last night wondering if metric delis sold 10% more on average than imperial delis - assuming that imperial usually ask for a pound or a half pound and metric would ask for a half kilo or quarter kilo (1.1 lbs or .55 lbs). Or is an 8.8 lbs (4 kg) bass more acceptable in a metric country versus the US where the ideal is to be under 8 lbs?

Retailers do both. In all supermarkets I've been to, meats will have both metric and imperial values on their labels. One may be printed bigger than the other, but they're both written.