"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Why do americans still measure in feet/inches

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The US is too cool to be like the rest of the world. They're special. Honest.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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My biggest complaint is that I grew up solely with the metric system, but we still use SI for a lot of things.
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Actaully, SI is another name for the metric system.

I think you mean to contrast SI/metric units with customary/imperial units.
 
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Phyzzle said:
Actaully, SI is another name for the metric system.

I think you mean to contrast SI/metric units with customary/imperial units.
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Actually, unless my memory mistakes me, SI is an international standard of measurements used in science and engineering. Depending on what you are measuring (i.e., rotational force, energy, volume, work, momentum, temperature, etc...) you use a certain unit of measurment (i.e. joules, grams, newtons, kelvins, cm, etc...) not exclusively metric. It just so happens most SI units are metric.

Though I will admit, I could be wrong.
 
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Many Americans do use the metric system virtually every day, especially those in public schools. There, they learn vital knowledge regarding the proper methods of measuring and paying for grams and ounces. :rolleyes:
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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The reason its still around is because its always been around. It's just easier to keep it than to ask EVERYONE to change it.


But I got to admit. I thik it's a horrible system with all those fractions. Decimals are easir to make sense of than: What's bigger? 3/5 or 9/16?

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I'm stll thinking.
 
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Call_Me_Daddy said:
The reason its still around is because its always been around. It's just easier to keep it than to ask EVERYONE to change it.


But I got to admit. I thik it's a horrible system with all those fractions. Decimals are easir to make sense of than: What's bigger? 3/5 or 9/16?

Duuhhhhh.........



I'm stll thinking.
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3/5 ;)

It just depends what you've grown up with. The systems each person has grown up with have become second nature, it's difficult to curb habits that are built into your brains hardware.
 
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The term for the system used in the USA is the 'US customary units' based on the old English Imperial System.

The International System incorporates the metric amongst other things.

We have it f*** up in the UK, as we use both.
 
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