[pct-l] about potty trowles/ grams vs. ounces

[Paul Robison]

i was going to leave this topic alone but i'll chime in...
Grams and Kg beat ounces and pounds.  if someone is backwards enough to not WANT 
to learn them,  and lazy enough to not want to google a conversion then that's 
on them.

metric should become standard, in the mean time,  why would we resist people's 
natural tendancy's to use a better system?
~Paul





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From: Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net>
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Cc: jomike at cot.net
Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 12:14:23 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] about potty trowles/ grams vs. ounces

I've been using grams and kilograms for my gear weight for years. It makes 
the addition and comparisons a lot easier -- no more getting 42 oz and then 
how many pounds & how many ounces is that? Sure I could figure it out, but 
I'll do the easy straight forward way. The US led the way with a decimal 
currency system but seems to resist metric because someone else invented 
it. ;-)

  I also have columns for pounds & ounces, and pounds to 2 decimal places 
and I sometimes use these.



Tortoise

<> Because truth matters! <>

On 12/15/10 11:43, jomike at cot.net wrote:
> This brings up another advantage of being a Heavy Trucker. Heavy Truckers don't 
>worry about how many grams they are carrying but how many kilograms.
> 44 grams is about 1.5 ounces.
> 101 grams is about 3.6 ounces.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Thank you for the conversion. You guys drive me crazy with frustration when 
>using grams. Isn't it enough that packs are now being measured in liters? Yes I 
>know the metric system is what the rest of the world, but I've yet to learn the 
>conversions. Please list both when posting, if you don't mind.  :)
>
> are we there yet
>
>
>
>
> ...going to the mountains is going home.
>
> John Muir
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