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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 327: …you would hit them in the head with a whiskey bottle.

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Arts, Education, Leisure, Crafts, Design, How To

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about metric, raids and keeping your content safe.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have to rant, just I don't, I'm not a rant person, but I have to respond quickly, shortly,

0:07.9

succinctly to people who say, maybe you should just me use metric, it drives me crazy.

0:15.9

I mean, you mean metric, the unit of measurement, the standard system?

0:20.4

Okay, so we get this all the time.

0:23.9

The other day, we posted a sticker that our buddy, Chris Zepp, made and it's a little

0:28.6

cool little chart that has, you know, conversions from metric to imperial to fractional to, you

0:37.2

know, it's decimal, it's just, it's all of the little conversion, everything you need.

0:41.8

And we posted about his stickers saying like, oh, these things are really handy, you should

0:46.0

go get some.

0:47.1

That was the post because they're helpful and he made a cool thing.

0:51.2

And like 99% of the responses are, maybe you dumb American should just use metric.

0:58.3

And okay, I don't disagree with you, but I live in America surrounded by several other

1:03.8

million people who don't use metric.

1:05.9

I can't just decide to use metric and like go to the stores and be like, hey, can I have

1:09.9

a metric size piece of plywood, please?

1:12.2

Right.

1:13.2

It's not how it works.

1:14.2

And I don't understand that mentality is just like, you guys are so dumb.

1:18.0

Why don't you just use the thing that you didn't grow up using and you're not surrounded

1:21.4

by a society that uses like, that's not how societies work people.

1:26.4

Anyway, rant is complete.

1:29.0

And metric is interwoven, it metrics interwoven in everything, every single thing, like if I look

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