Grams vs Ounces

[bullet08]

Up until 5th grade, I used metric system. Since then US Customary System/Unit. Apparently, USCS is similar to imperial system, but not exactly.

Usually get the blend I like. Not by which system the vendor follows. I know some blends come with .25 oz more, some option for 2 oz might not be available.

 

[captainsousie]

Wait until you all get into old UK proof calculations vs the rest of the world. Or maybe alcohol by weight (%abw) vs alcohol by volume (%abv) which is especially important in some US states.

I've gone between metric and imperial for the last 7 years and honestly it doesn't take much thought, it is just that natives of both refuse to try and understand the other.

 

[Worknman]

Slightly off topic but as an electrician and someone who has to use tape measures I can definitely say that the metric system is far easier to use. Trying to do arithmetic on the fly when fractions are involved is a PIA, its way easier when using single digit and 10 digit integers.

 

[mingc]

Slightly off topic but as an electrician and someone who has to use tape measures I can definitely say that the metric system is far easier to use. Trying to do arithmetic on the fly when fractions are involved is a PIA, its way easier when using single digit and 10 digit integers.

When I think of all the errors that can happen with fractions and converting them back and forth to decimal, I wonder how many lives and/or limbs they have cost in construction and manufacturing.

 

[anotherbob]

Oops, my mistake.

That's what happens when you do research on proof. You know making sure it's really 80 proof.

 

[Worknman]

When I think of all the errors that can happen with fractions and converting them back and forth to decimal, I wonder how many lives and/or limbs they have cost in construction and manufacturing.

Exactly. For instance try taking something like 22 7/16 inches plus 13 and 5/8 inches and divide it into 3 equal parts.

 

[Ahi Ka]

NZ Excise tax and duty free allowances are calculated on a per 50g basis. So that extra .25oz is gonna cost you a shit tonne down under.

 

[workman]

Oh yeah, US merchants sell bulk by the oz when they break the bags up.

100% alcohol = 200 "proof" by US measurement. So, whiskey, rum, cognac, vodka, etc., which are typically 20% alcohol are 40 proof.

You're confused too it seems ?

 

[jewman22]

Well OP, if you can convince the US to get in line with quite literally the rest of the world, this will no longer be an issue. I mean it's just the US, Liberia and Burma that don't use the metric system. The Brits pick and choose which parts of Imperial and metric they want at any given time, which is more confusing, but hell, they cant even figure out how to drive on the right side of the road.

 

[mingc]

You're confused too it seems ?

Looks like I'll have to cut my drinking in half!

 

[kcghost]

I never found this confusing. 50 gram = 1.75 ounces and 57 grams = 2 ounces.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nor have I. It's only the damn Celsius scale that is often used for temperature.

In fact, I prefer using grams when measuring coffee or tobacco.

 

[fireground_piper]

I have preferences mostly based on size. For small amounts or lengths, I like grams and CM/MM. Once I hit a pound in weight, or maybe 3 inches in length, I exit the metric system mentally and move over to the US standard.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

I was also one who was going to mention the system with Drams and Grains (7000 grains = 1 pound). Glad we don't also use the Gill. (once upon a time the U.S. Revenue Marine allowed a 1/2 gill of rum ration to the crewmembers daily)

 

[Country Bladesmith]

(I do fine with weight and speed conversions, but Ander Celsius annoys me.)

Could be worse. When he created his centigrade scale, it was originally sort of “upside down.”
He had the boiling point of water as 0 degrees and the numbers got larger the colder it got. The freezing point of water was 100 degrees on his original scale.
Finally it was Carolus Linnaeus, the Swiss botanist that gave botany and zoology students the joy that is binomial nomenclature, that saw the madness in this and flipped the scale around.

 

[RookieGuy]

It's never been that hard. 36 centiliters is 8oz, 25 centigrade to a foot, anything between 15 and 30 metric degrees is comfortable, and it's 6.5 decameters to the pint.

 

[jaygreen55]

It's interesting that liquor and weed are the 2 consumer items in the US that are sold in metric measures.

Really? I buy my whiskey and wine by the fifth (1/5 gallon, 24oz) Vodka by the quart and my weed by the ounce or fraction thereof. A bottle or can of beer is still 12 oz or a pint

 

[mingc]

Really? I buy my whiskey and wine by the fifth (1/5 gallon, 24oz) Vodka by the quart and my weed by the ounce or fraction thereof. A bottle or can of beer is still 12 oz or a pint

I was speaking specifically of liquor, i.e., distilled stuff. Aren't your bottles marked in metric? Mine are and so are my wine (American or otherwise). Interestingly, my beer isn't, not even the imports.

The legal ganja shops here sell by the gram.

 

[captainsousie]

I was speaking specifically of liquor, i.e., distilled stuff. Aren't your bottles marked in metric? Mine are and so are my wine (American or otherwise). Interestingly, my beer isn't, not even the imports.

The legal ganja shops here sell by the gram.

Yup, 750ml for what used to be a 5th here. Interestingly, it's 700ml for a bottle in most of the rest of the world.

 

[pappymac]

I was also one who was going to mention the system with Drams and Grains (7000 grains = 1 pound). Glad we don't also use the Gill. (once upon a time the U.S. Revenue Marine allowed a 1/2 gill of rum ration to the crewmembers daily)

Ahhh. The good old days.