Gasp! The Neighbour of The Beast!
The metric system is so evil, you round down!
I watched a bit: Is this supposed to be satire? Or are Tucker and guests really that stupid? I checked to make sure this clip didn’t air on April 1, which is the only other explanation I could come up with.
Like with all of Tucker’s work, its kayfabe acting. For example, Tucker isn’t so dense as to not know how to pronounce kilogram 
; but breaking performance by acknowledging the idiocy removes all the emotional impact (and primes the audience to think logically/dispassionate).
The last thing Tucker wants is for his audience to be rationally evaluating his ideas. Like a Pro-wrestling audience, he needs them to be emotionally invested and in a state of suspension of disbelief of absurdity.
The measurement standard at a very large aerospace company, sounds something like ‘flowing’, is also decimal-inches.
Not satire or stupidity (on Fox’s part, anyway), just keeping the deplorably-ignorant base stirred up. The metric system is just another foreign thing the foreigners are trying to use to take over American culture.
The entire US aerospace industry is based on decimal inches, btw.
On Google news, they show your local weather over on the right. There’s options for which temperature scale you want. I sometimes change it to Kelvin (the high today will be 308K). I guess that makes me a commie or something. Definitely un-American, anyway.
I’m going to start using “bits” instead of “cents” in determining amounts of money to protest the adoption of the metric system!
Not shillings and farthings?
Count your money in ha’pennys. Don’t forget the exchange rate as well.
Is that anything like asking what three toucans make?
BTW, I missed this post since I was posting at nearly the same time. Thanks for the laugh. Even Eddie is laughing.
Melbourne’s slipping a decimal on ‘cm’ was probably just an editing oversight.
… As was yours with ‘mm.’ 
SI is not, of course, the French metric system on which it was based. And if you think that France had ‘several’ pound units, you misunderstand the scale of the problem.
It should be pretty easy for English speakers, too, given “cents” and all in currency.
There are going to be some *very *unhappy pigs out there. Whoever did the conversions got it seriously wrong.
Having grown up with Imperial measures and converted to metric, I can say that I am happy with both, but calculations in metric are way easier due to the decimal scaling. On the other hand, feet and inches are more intuitive at a more rural level of technology, and you always have the measuring devices to hand.
What is a decimal inch?
Inches which are graduated in tenths, hundredths, etc.
Which conversion is wrong? I assume Tylan 100 really does contain “Tylosin (as tylosin phosphate) . . . 100 g per lb.”
Contrary to a view expressed several months ago in another metric thread, the decimal metric system is clearly best because the entire world now uses decimal arithmetic. If we’d adopted duodecimal arithmetic, we’d want a duodecimal metric system.
It seems too late to change now, but one might wonder what the optimal arithmetic base for humans might be. In addition to base 10, bases 20 and 60 have also been tried. There have been hybrids: the Harrapans used both base 2 and base 10, IIRC; and the English, almost up until modern times, used “hundred” to mean either 100 or 120 depending on what product was being counted!
Anything much less than 10 would be unwieldy, as would — since it is very convenient to use and memorize separate symbols for the digits — anything more than 12 or 16. 12 has obvious advantages over 10, but humans have ten fingers. Ergo base-10 is best.
They did. They only called it “pound” if they were speaking with those strange people across the Channel, but they did have multiple livres. And multiple other units of weight. And multiple many other things.
I like that comparison. The “intentionally mispronouncing something to make it look silly” is exactly the sort of thing that, say, The Miz would do.