[jdpedrie]

Every carpenter I’ve met uses sixteenths of an inch, and every metal worker uses thousandths.

[23B1]

Neither of those jobs require serious tolerances

[jdpedrie]

Sounds to me like what you meant to say is that your criteria for determining whether someone's profession is "serious" is whether they use metric or not.

[23B1]

Sounds to me like you're not commenting in good faith. Begone, nerd.