Why do americans reject the metric system?

I think he means stone like "he weights x stones" but I guess that's a british thing, i don't know.

What about it doesn't make sense to you? It doesn't get much more straightforward than multiplying by 10.

>Why do americans reject the metric system?
low IQ

I don't know what a stone is either.

I suppose the Brits are to blame for that one then.

Have to love how Jow Forums claims imperial is too complicated and too dumb at the same time.

a kilometer is a bit less than half a mile
5km/p is like 3mph

how come britain officially adopted metric but still uses imperial for most stuff
>ounces
>miles
>pound
>feet

5 km/hr is walking speed.
A km is what they made us run 3 times a week in school and walk every day.

to piss off brainlets like you

Imperial is useful for daily life, I use metric professionally but it doesn't come natural to me at all. I feel very much like . And I think trying to change that from the top-down hasn't worked, really. We would only become a metric people if the law were made much harsher.

5'7 = 1.70m
5'8 = 1.73m
5'9 = 1.75m
5'10 = 1.77m

What if I want to represent 1.71, 1.72, 1.74 and 1.76?

im not pissed off tho
i guess it comes down to what you're used to
britain only adopted metric in 1975, it makes sense that an island nation doesnt change habits

That's British you fuking Muslims

What Britain officially says/does is very different to what Britain actually says/does

wait so american rulers don't use centimetres?

>sometimes the jump is 3, sometimes 2cm
reeee

1 inch = 2.54 cm

Metric is still more logical than the US system.

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youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk

Fuck you man, we had to run a mile

I have no idea how to judge measurements in metric outside of the common ones and relearning would be as difficult as replacing your native language. If someone told me their house is 16km away or that they said throw this rock 75m I would have no idea really. All I really know is 0c, 100c and 5km, 10km from running but I only know how long that is because of their conversions

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Everything is smooth.
5 km = 5000 meter = 500000 centimeters

Well yeah I know how it works but I couldn't apply it to any real world scenarios

>If someone told me their house is 16km away or that they said throw this rock 75m I would have no idea really.
>All I really know is [...] 5km
Doesn't make sense. If you have an idea what 5km means you should also grasp what 16km would be.

Maybe you knowing your height would give you some sense? Dunno...

Our brains our so large we don't need simplifications like metric

That's not what he's talking about.
How faster is 20 mph than 20 kph? Or is it slower?
Can you gauge the distance with your eyesight in feet?
The pants in the shop have 32 inches length – do they fit you or not?

This kind of mundane questions you won't be able to answer and it's the same for a mutt with metrics system.
I doubt you can fix it within a generation. The best best is to start teaching metrics in schools and in 50 years the imperial system will be dead

Please answer this, I refuse this to be true.

I think they use inches instead.

During school, One half (lengthwise) has inches the other half is centimeters
Don't know how it is laboratories or anything important though

Youd better believe it Toothpaste Man

Well actually a lot of rulers have both

But metric is easier to visualize. 1 km = 1000 meters
1 meter = 100 cm

Their system is crazier
1 mile = 5280 feet/1760 yard
1 foot = 12 inches

>knows 5 and 10km
>doesn't know how much 16km is
Dude, you can make an educated guess.

Of course it is for you. But not because of it's being logical, but because you've been exposed to it your entire life.

It's not the same, I only know those 2 from racing on predefined courses, if someone told me to run 5km on a track I wouldn't know how many laps to do (without converting it). It's too late to fix us, everything for the past 300 years uses imperial except science stuff

Oh no, I understand it needs some generations to fix trough some education on school teaching both systems at first and then just metric and you have been in the imperial system your whole live so you don't know better. I can understand that. But you already know 5 and 10 because of your running. Just add those two up and you're almost there. It was more of a way of me saying "you should've used a better example."

But to be fair I have also some things I can't grasp. I have bought computer screens and TVs a lot. They advertise them in inches. Still don't know what the fuck the size is unless I see it in the store, so I get your problem.

It's just a matter of exposure really. I've got a pretty good grasp of weather in Celsius, 20-23~ is a really nice day and anything below 5C is cold. Also weights to from the gym.
But I don't know how to gauge speed at all. I have no idea if 45km/h is fast or not

50km/h is standard urban speed and quite fast. It’s 30mph

I understand that. It's like asking the rest of the world to use metric time. But your country is one of the last countries to adopt the ISU and it's going to hurt you in the long run.

There's not much use for it now. It would take decades just to re-evaluate all the existing buildings.

And even then it will come down to a weird measurement with lots of decimals.

I will say I love working in Metric because it makes things way easier. It's not hard to learn for us Americans, it's just hard to apply to our country today. I can't visualize 1 meter but I can visualize 1 foot.

Fahrenheit is based though, not needing decimals for an accurate reading makes being /comfy/ easier. It is the more accurate form of temperature measurement but sucks dick if you have to put it into Kelvim/Celsius. Celsius os great for calculations because you just subtract 273 to get Kelvin.

Tl;dr Farenheit is based. Applying metric units to America would be a shitshow but it is the better unit for measurement

They are unique and exceptional.
This is what Mr. Pompeo said yesterday while basically trying to convince american senate to start a war with russia

How do Americans measure volume?

What if an item is 4 inches by 3 feet by 2.5 yard? What is the volume?

Fahrenheit is by far the most ridiculous part of your system. I can work with inches and feet. But Fahrenheit makes no sense at all.

>Its 100% muh regional pride.
implying that's a bad thing

This equation explains it all. To get Farenheit you multiply it by 9/5 (roughly 1.8) this means it is 1.8 times more accurate and it really shows. For example in Celsius you need atleast 1 decimal place/3 digits to get the same reading as a 2 digit Farenheit reading.
For example:
56 degrees Farenheit = 13.333 degrees Celsius

So you put more effort into getting an accurate reading by using 1 maybe 2 decimal places, in America we rarely ever use decimal places for Farenheit.

No inches and feet are fucking stupid.

Don't even get me started on gallons and pints and cups. Fucking Anglo stupidty right there.

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It’s not bad perse but you should not turn everything into a cultural tradition.

Its not because of regional pride (although we are unironically the best fucking country in the world, God Bless America) you dolt, read my post explaining it.

It would take a shitton of time and money to put all existing structures into Metric. Every blue print, building dimensions, max weight load, temperature requirements, etc. Would have to be redone.

Fuck that. We spend our money on burgers and beer, not some stupid commie/socialist scientific mumbo jumbo. Metric is the equivalent of simplifying going from inches to feet to yards, cups to gallons, etc. By moving a decimal.

Vox made a video on this. The USA once actually wanted to go metric.

>To get Farenheit you multiply it by 9/5 (roughly 1.8) this means it is 1.8 times more accurate and it really shows

Am I being baited ?

God damn, how are burgers so dense?

>inb4 I was only pretending to be retarded

>So you put more effort into getting an accurate reading by using 1 maybe 2 decimal places, in America we rarely ever use decimal places for Farenheit.
oh no not decimals my brain can't take it

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You dumb twat frog.

If you need more digits places to get the same measurements as a unit with fewer digits, then the one with fewer digits is easier to use.

I'll dumb this down for you:
More numbers for the same temperature = Less accurate as something that uses less numbers.

I get replies like this every time I point this out. I think it is a regional pride thing that Euros can't comprehend that one (and only one) aspect of their measurement system is not as accurate or simple as ours.

Trips. Yeah, we could have but that would make it easier for communists to use our designs. Especially during the space/arms race when we thought about going to metric.

edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/#1

But now that we work with other countries it is shitty. But it works because NASA can't even convert it that well, let alone communists in the 1960's.

40 fucking hot
30 hot
20 room temp
10 cool
0 freezing

What's so hard about that?

Most celsius to farenheit conversions have 1 decimal place.

Most farenheit to celsius conversions have 3+ decimal places.

It takes fewer numbers for the same temperature. Also I'm going to fuck all your native QT's and brainwash them to become gun toting americans. Then I'm going to leave them there so tax money will raise my bastard children.

The essential explanation is that the metric system being in 10 base is more practical for calculations, work, science whatnot.
Imperial system is much more easy to understand, and on a day to day basis using terms like mile/yard/ounce/pound is much more simple to get a grasp for its actual physical meaning.

>o-oh no Americans have a more accurate unit of measuring JUST ONE aspect
>nevermind metric is better than imperial in every other way
>I better use stale memes about Americans to hide my hurt fee fees

Thank you based swede. I'll share my bed with you if you want to.

I get what you're saying, but no one would feel the difference beetween 13° and 13.333° or whatever, there's no point in being so precise.

But we don't use decimals outside science either here. The difference between, say, 22 and 23° isn't really noticeable
But we instantly know when to be careful on the road as things approach 0

It's not more accurate, you brainlet. You can scale any measurement to either systems.

I see your point but because of thermodynamics and all that, there is little use for very precise measurement.
When you want to measure the temperature in the fridge, it can be 7c at the top and 5c at the bottom, 6c at the door and 4c at the back.
When it’s 25c outside it can be anything depending on the wind, the surface, the shade.

Because of this temperature is never precise and 50 Fahrenheit will be just as inaccurate as 50c

Metric is more logical mathematically and easier to calculate.
However people very rarely will have to do math with measurements in every day life, they instead either have to gauge or read them.
In that context any arbitrary system that let's you use small numbers for everyday things is sufficient.
How much does this rice bag weigh? How far is this city or that shop? Stuff like that work as well in one arbitrary measurement as another.
Metric is superior as I said initially (due to easy math), but enforcing it in everyday life matters very little.
I'd argue the horrible base 60 system we have for time and the clusterfuck of months and weeks is more of an issue.

>we are unironically the best fucking country in the world

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It actually would, just all the public signs alone would require immense manpower. They obviously should since metric is so much more useful and universal, but I understand why it's not their priority considering their country's current state.

>it's going to hurt you in the long run
>Implying it didn't already

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We're already taught the metric system in schools. I don't know why euros think we aren't. Maybe it's just some schools actually, idk, but my school district taught it.

And then the signs would conflict with the speedometers in nearly everyone's cars. I could see that ending badly.

USA officially adopted the metric system in the 19th century.
the imperial system is defined in metres.
youtube.com/watch?v=SmSJXC6_qQ8
The Utah constitution from 1895 required the metric system to be taught in schools. This requirement was repealed in 1987. But all scientific fields use the metric system so I guess its usually taught in middle-school or high school ?

Boomers

>penny, dime, nickel, quarters

why don't americans just say 0.25 cents like everyone

i thought it was bongs that did this

This is a science channel, here he explains why 1m is 1m, got the english sub. Enjoy!

youtube.com/watch?v=GEKU3x8uB6o

I was taught the metric system, and our rulers always displayed both imperial and metric units

why bother reteaching? just teach the new generations.

I never got this "I can't imagine what a kilometre is" argument. Burgers measure everything in "foot" "ball" stadiums anyways.

>1 thing
>10 things = decathing
>100 things = 10 decathings = 1 kilothing
How is that hard

decathings = 1 kilothing
>How is that hard
wew

1000 = kilo
1000 grams = 1 kilogram
>polish education

What did you guys do while the site was down I was so fucking bored

>Yeah, we could have but that would make it easier for communists to use our designs.
lamo what horse shity

/gif/ didn't have offline webms and also read some archives

Just to piss you off.

>using grug tier units
Can't make this shit up

And the US pretends to be an island.

Never once met a European who understands imperial or how it works, their opinions are worth less than your average Youtube comment.

We're broke and can't afford to change everything to appease whiny Euros

But Pajeet

You are European

Continental then, I don't give a shit.

But your lords and master, China and Israel use metric too?