The Metric System

>>132209062
>Advocating for globalism
I don't know, sound like a good idea.

>>132209062
>metric system
>literally better than the metric system
I'm guessing you meant US version of imperial?

>>132209062
You have guns so your goverment tries to undermine you in different ways, like keeping you uneducated through common core or this shitty unit system.
Laugh about irrelevancy of my country all you want but it never happened to me that cashier would look confused at you when you give him 12 bucks and 50 cents when he asks for 11 bucks and 50 cents, in America they simply don't get that you want a one dollar bill and not shitty coins, some retards even thinks it's a tip.

The metric system was only invented because frogs wanted the length of their cock to sound bigger.

Saying that imperial units are arbitrary is like saying that it’s arbitrary for a coat to have two sleeves.
22/7 you fucking mong.

When Eurotrash switch to Metric time, I'll pretend to listen to them.
>Oi, M8, I done got up at 3.08 bongs and went to work.
>Quitting time done be 7.62 bongs.

It's all quite capitol, M8.

>>132209062
>>132209213
I'm fucking autistic, I fucked up with the imperial

>>132209280
What? In Europe we use normal 24 hour time.
Not that weird shit you posted.

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>>132209354
>I'm fucking autistic, I fucked up with the imperial

It's OK, M8.
1/8th of a bong is still the same thing as as 1/7th of a bong, at sea level, in a vacuum, squared.

>The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the North Pole to the equator, but because the faggot calculated wrong, it was later retconned to be the distance travelled by light in 1/299,792,458th of a second, in a vacuum.
>pls gib (you)'s

>>132209695
standardised values for both systems are equal problems, but metric has the benefit of it being decimal, and henceforth, more logical.

>>132209577
>In Europe we use normal 24 hour time.
>24 hour time
>normal

Why the fuck are you still living in the dark ages?

One Metric Hour is 2.34735426 English hours.
You fucking savage.

>>132209062
Because your still cucks to the british empire. Imperial measurements ftw.

>>132209062
What would happen if you decimalized music?

10 notes in an octave instead of twelve

I'll tell you. all music would sound shit

>>132209062
>is it better?
Yeah
>is it easy to switch over?
No
>Are we teaching both right now?
Yeah.
>Are we teaching both, so we can switch w/o fuck ups?
Yeah
>Is this thread pointless
Yeah

>>132209695
>>The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the North Pole to the equator, but because the faggot calculated wrong, it was later retconned to be the distance travelled by light in 1/299,792,458th of a second, in a vacuum.

That's not the reason - it just makes far more sense to derive the unit of length via a natural constant rather than something ambiguous. The meter is still the meter, just the formal definition changed.

>>132209062
This map is a lie, Britain doesn't use the metric system.

>>132209280
Time will only be metricised if we become a space faring race at which point measuring time to a scientific standard would become more usefull than measuring it to the rotation speed of the earth. Rotation speed of the earth could be metricised but it would be ugly. Personally id prefer a global shift to base 8 measurement for everything, including time.

>>132209269

It also never happens in Europe that you see $11.99 (cause $12 is just too obvious!) and then go to the cashier and he asks you for 14 bucks because taxes aren't included in the price.

>>132210119
Yes you do

>>132209062
>antarctica is on imperial
>not wanting to side with time travelling alien nazis

>>132209963
Johnny Rotten disagrees, he doesn't know or care wtf an octave is in the first place

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>>132209824
>metric has the benefit of it being decimal

Yeah. My cock is 2/3 of the distance from the Great Pyramid to the North Pole, in July, with a Titanium measuring stick, times .00173567428.

Totally logical.

>>132209280

>tfw be American

> have to learn metric to learn science because imperial is arbitrary garbage

> make a stupid analogy to not look even stupider

> look even stupider

>>132210160
>id prefer a global shift to base 8
Why is that?

>>132209924
What the fuck are you talking about you dumb double nigger? We have same time as you just use 13:00-23:59 instead of 1:00PM-11:59PM, your example (7.62bongs) doesn't even exist since it's 8:02(AM), or are you reffering to the fact that day doesn't have exactly 24 hours? We have a leap year for that.

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>>132209062
because you
((special))

>>132210187
Not where I live.

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>>132210163
The 99 and 0.90 trick is pretty much well known even in Europe, but you're right on the tax part.

>>132210258
Agree with switching over, but
>have to learn metric to learn science because imperial is arbitrary garbage

All mathematical systems are arbitrary. They're all made up of standard units of measurements in order to have uniformity.

euroniggers make fun of americans for only knowing one language even though they only know one system. FACTS: being smart and to know the metirc and impeerial sysem is good for your brain and thinking kind of like how its good for your brain to know more than one language but america only needs one language so gtfo spics instead we just learn 2 systems so our brains are good (usually smarter) than europeans.

>>132209999
>That's not the reason - it just makes far more sense to derive the unit of length via a natural constant rather than something ambiguous

Yeah.
That's why one Astronomical Unit (The astronomical unit (symbol au, or ua is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun. However, that distance varies as Earth orbits the Sun, from a maximum (aphelion) to a minimum (perihelion) and back again once a year. Originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion, it is now defined as exactly 149597870700 metres (about 150 million kilometres, or 93 million miles))).

is a constant.
Not random at all.
Nosiree.


You wanna come look at my EasyBakeOven Mister?
Even my momma done think that 13.22cm is done better than 7.524" of cock.

She done be a visonary.

>>132210564
You must live in a timewarp then.

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>>132209062
>Literally better than the metric system,

I agree, standard is better the metric system and even a stupid fuck can learn it, unless their as dumb as a Euro. Its the system of measurement that put a man on the moon and won WWII. In fact you can trace all fuckups to the metric system.

Fuck, its great being an American.

>>132210596
stop stealing our Swiffers

Imagine how much it would cost the US GOVT and businesses to convert to metrics. Every road sign in America would have to from mph to km and from miles to kms. What about milk carton? What would it cost to change all the machining and packaging from quart to litre or half gallon to 2 litre bottles? Now apply that to all beverage companies in the USA. Food manufacturers as well convert all packaging from ounces to grams and retool the manufacturing line to ensure proper weight in the new packaging. Tape measures. Rulers. Yardsticks. The timber industry. 2 x 4 becomes a 50mm x 100mm. And on and on.
The simple answer is, it costs too much $$$ to change.

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>>132209062
>It is far superior and easier.

Try again

>>132209062
In a war, captured equipment and munitions are a fact of life..the US can easily capture, repair, and maintain weapons and vehicles from anywhere in the world using readily available tools..the reverse is not true

>>132210721
Is the AU an SI unit?
If course not, you mongrel.

>>132210871
Well this too. Imperial really isn't that hard to learn. It's easier to learn metric yeah, but it's not a major improvement. I started with Imperial, and learned metric in about a day, since you use mostly metric in the military.

>>132210871
>put a man on the moon
German tech from German scientists
>won WWII
russian zerging won

>>132209269
I do that all the time and get paper back.

>>132211159
>German tech from German scientists

Love this meme

>>132209269
Home schooling and private schools are pretty common here in the U.S. Someday if I ever have children, they will be home schooled.

>>132210402
Base 8 is better due to the fact that it is divisible by 2 all the way back to 1. Crircles are also naturally divided into eights by continuosly halving the whole.
There exists advocates for base 12 as it is divisble by 2,3,4 and 6, but tge simplicity of the system breaks down when an odd number is produced by mathemeatical computation. It is also un natural to divide a circle into 12. 0,3,6,9,0 divisions on a clock face fit nicely but 1,2,4,5,7,8,10,11 are autistic.
In short base 8 is the simplist and quickest number system for the human brain to comprehend. 10 and 12 arent bad though.

>>132210564
Bong from the past tell me how much simpler is life.

>>132209577
We never use that here we call the military time

>>132209963
Good thing sound is measured by decibels and hertz which are both metric.

>>132211020
>Is the AU an SI unit?

Yes, you fucking mong.
1AU is 6.452738423 bongs long.
Not a single bong more or less.

>Muh Metric Time
A furlong is 1/8th of a mile, or 660 feet.
A chain is 1/80th of a mile, or 66 feet.
An acre is one chain by one furlong.

Back to the point, why is metric "better"?

Is it more accurate?
Is it tied to a universal constant? (when it was created, not a bullshit retcon)
Or, as I suspect, is it just another random measurement?

Keep in mind that one AU is now defined as exactly 149597870700 meters, nevermind that the Earth has an elliptical orbit; metricfags decided that the average was good enough.

And, nevermind that the distance from the Earth to the sun has fuckall to do with universal constants.

It's better, because Metric System!

I call bullshit.

>>132211411
Interesting. I've never even questioned it. Thanks anon

>>132209280
it's a fact our cocks are bigger than yours
you are china tiers

>>132210871
NASA uses metric system actually

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
>The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit

>>132211563
>Back to the point, why is metric "better"?

Because everyone apart from some prehistoric tribe on a remote island uses it - that's the only reason.

>>132210951
The money saved would outweigh the costs

>>132211563
It's better because it's easier to calculate between units and it is more wide spread. Yes, any definition is arbitrary, whether a foot is that way because it's the length of some king's cock or a meter because the manlet who invented it was that tall. But unlike imperial, in metric other things are not arbitrary. A kilometer is 1000 meters and a kiloliter 1000 liters. On your imperial side you have an extra level of arbitrary retardation: a mile is 5637 whatever feet and a gallon is 128 ounces???

>>132209280
>using caliber to express time.
Only an american could have thought of this.

>>132211563
AU is not an SI unit

isnt every imperial unit defined by a metric measurement anyway?

>>132210964
This article is crap
Its completlwy biased bull. Highlighted by the fact right at the end ot states 200cL of red wine why doenst it just say 2Litres of redwine. And why is this euro getting shitfaced every night, cunts gonna need a liver transplant if hes downing 200cL of wine every night.

>>132211657
>Gibs Money Plox

You poor nigger bastard.
>Am of Metric
>Am of worthy of gibs
>Am of 13.23cm cock

I almost feel sorry for you.

>>132209062
How about no

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>>132211983
>Highlighted by the fact right at the end ot states 200cL of red wine why doenst it just say 2Litres of redwine. And why is this euro getting shitfaced every night, cunts gonna need a liver transplant if hes downing 200cL of wine every night.

See this is part of the reason why metric is so fucking stupid.

Something as basic as centi isnt understood by those taught the metric system in school.

why is an imperial socket set named as
3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 11/16, 3/4, 13/16, 7/8, 15/16, 1,

instead of 6/16, 7/16, 8/16, 9/16, 10/16, 11/16, 12/16, 13/16, 17/16, 16/16

>>132212016
>I almost feel sorry for you.

No need to. I only know niggers from the internet, rather than having millions live amongst me.

>>132210964
>I can imagine the meaning of thirty feet with minimal effort
Because you grew up in a culture which used imperial system. I can imagine 5 meters just as naturalistically.

>>132209062
The metric system is the definition of globalism

>>132211961
Yes

>>132209062
I assumed Americans kept using Imperial and that weird-as-fuck Month/Day/Year date system simply to troll the rest of the world, and because they're so large that they don't need to care that their measurement and recording systems are completely arcane. All these movies and TV shows with people talking "feet" and "pounds" and no one else knows what the fuck they're on about.

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Imperial system is the superior method for weather because the Celsius range is too small.

>>132209963
just add in 8 extra half steps.

your life is now better.

>>132209203
Well shit, I guess it's time to throw away our number system, too.

>>132211657
That's a pathetic reason

>>132212268
>needing more numbers than just 0, 1, and everything in between
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>>132212123
The fuck you on about cunt. Centi is taught and understood by cuntss taught the metric system i did the conversion on my fucking head. 1metre=100centimetres=1000millimetres
1Litre=100centilires=1000millilitres
1gram=100centigrams=1000milligrams

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The imperial system is a white american's we wuz kangz. Of course, it's completely different from what ancient egyptians or freemasons of the scottish rite use. And obviously, they do not realise that the metric system is an advancement of the ancient measuring system of the Golden Age. But still.

WE WUZ KANGZ WE HAZ EMPERIAL AND ALZO PROPORTIONZ CENTI NO EVEN MAKE SENS WE WUZ NOT KARE ABOUT DEM ZEROZE ! ! !

watch all video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y

metric is defined in imperial units

>>132212146
Cos its retarded

>>132212170
This i work in measurements all day i can imagine distances in feet, chains and metres. Though when computing i always convert to metric for simplicity.

I don't mind either way, but it would be difficult as all hell to change it. We would have to change all of our traffic signs for example, and you have to get the population to understand a system they never use outside of Science class. Getting a population of 320 million+ people to understand a new system AND use it in their daily lives would be difficult.

>>132212484
English unfortunatley not so easily understood
Fml

Do Americans call it the Imperial system? Given the history with the UK I would've thought they'd want to stay away from that.

>>132212149
>only know niggers from the internet
The only nigger I know is you.

>B-But, MUH Metric Systum.
It's as arbitrary as Stones, M8.

>Nuh-Uh!
>I's done be 1.47245378 metres tall.
Arbitrary.
>Nun-uh!
>Every 1/10th of a kilo I lose is one random unit of a fraction of an XBOX
>I done gots 3,342,000 good boy points

Good for you.
Faggot.
You Done earned one gud boi meal.

>I can tell you exactly how many 0,3472800954 of an asshole that is

Keep it to yourself, pedro.

>>132212715
Convert over a 10 year period it takes a decade or so, its been done by other countries there are examples of how to do it effectively

>>132212146
Cause try and place a 13/32 on that list.

>>132212268
>0
>really cold outside

American """""winter"""""

>>132209062
use

Imperial for actual practical work

Metric for counting beans

dozenal sytem based on 5,040 for anything to do with dividing up spoils

Hex and Binary for house numbers

>enforce the law folks

>>132212884
>really cold outside
>Use Metric Temperature
>be 0 Degrees
>not sure if T-Shirt or Jacket weather
>100 degrees
>be dead

MUH Climate Change!

>>132212807
>arbitrary as stones.

Yes it was just arbitrary that 1 litre of water weighs 1kilogram and measures 10cm x 10xm x 10cm if put into a cubic container. Just arbitrary that that 1 litre boils at 100 °C

>>132212268
O deg F some autist made a salty brine and cooled it to freezing doesnt get more abitrary than that
0 deg C water freezes
0 deg Kelvin absolute cold notging colder can exists.
FARENHEIGHT IS FUCKED

>>132212489
why don't you look up how metric units are actually defined instead of relying on this mong's video?

>>132212715
Every other country managed to. are you guys just retarded or something?

Oh wait, yeah you are.

>>132213018
Cos autism

>>132209062
As Turing the eternal faggot has argued, imperial system makes convenient divisions of base 2 and 3, while metric only devide by 5 or 10 easily. Spliting a piece of wood into three pieces is better done with imperial than metric system. Also imperials give reasonable increments for daily use without the application of fractions like metric constantly does.
And we are used to imperial system, so fuck you.

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>>132212884
>Poland thinks he knows what Cold is

>>132213082
I have never seen fractions employed in the metric system but i see it used for imperial all the fucking time

>>132213051
Most countries don't have as many people as us. You yuros don't have nearly enough people in your countries to understand. Converting a few million people vs. hundreds of millions people are completely different.

>>132209062
>It is far superior and easier
No ot isn't, especially if you build anything at all. System of 12 > system of 10 because of more divisers. The superiority becomes fully apparent when you build ships or structures.

>>132213161
Anything under 10c is cold and will probably kill you

>>132213161
Oh wow it's cold in Alaska & Rogers Pass.
Moron.

>>132209062
Why doesn't Antarctica use the metric system?

>>132213082
>Spliting a piece of wood into three pieces is better done with imperial than metric system.
Only if the piece of wood naturally occurred in exactly 1 yard of length or whatever the fuck.

>Also imperials give reasonable increments for daily use without the application of fractions like metric constantly does
Metrics never use fractions retards, it's a decibel system. You can measure anything without ever having to use a fraction. IMPERIAL is the stupid system where you have people saying they're "five foot seven" and then you realise that the seven isa fraction of 12.

>>132213015
Speaking of autism, there are no 'degrees Kelvin'. It's just 'Kelvin'. That is, 0 K, not 0 deg K.

The reasoning behind this is not impressive.

>>132213280
>decibel
Decimal* I guess I'm the retard.

>>132213279
They are stuck with atlantean units.

>>132213012
>Yes it was just arbitrary that 1 litre of water weighs 1kilogram and measures 10cm x 10xm x 10cm if put into a cubic container.
Yeah, it is
also
Just arbitrary that that 1 litre boils at 100 °C
2 liters also boil at 100 """"""Degrees"""""" C. And 3 liters. Oh, and also 9 liters

>>132213376
What does FAGenheight boil at? I literally have no idea.

>>132213451
>Anything under 10c is cold and will probably kill you
What's the pressure?

>>132211411
I'm all for base 12, but this is the first time I've heard someone argue for base 8. I believe at least one ancient civ (maybe the Babylonians?) used it. I have to disagree with you on dividing a circle into twelfths, though. 30 degree slices are fine.

>>132213451
That's because you're stupid.
>212°f

>>132213018
retard

https://www.nist.gov/pml/productsservices/si-redefinition-portal

and again

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/06/million-pound-deadweight-machine-officially-open-business

>>132210964

>A stone is 14 pounds and corresponds with a stone

HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh god is this article for real?

>a furlong

>a pound is what you imagine holding in your hand

And the best part is:
>a meter doesn not match anything

I`, 192 cm high so half of me is nearly one meter
The avarge human step length is one meter

>>132213227
More is not better. A number only divisble by 2 or a multiple therof is simpler. Base 10 is divisble by 2 and 5, not and 10. Base 12 by 2,3,4 and 6. Base 8 divisible by 2. Being divisible by 2 is the common factor here and is the only thibg needed. Base 8 ftw.

>>132213279
It does only inhabited by scientists who use metric. Every country with antarctic claim uses metric.

>>132213071

>aussie
>scientist

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>>132213376
>HURR DURR it's all arbitrary
>Let's make an arbitrary system that is twisted and has incoherent proportions

>>132213451
Isn't 0 °F something like the temperature of horseblood in summer when the birds are tweeting six times, indicating that fall will come quickly and -50 °F the temperature at which onions are as moist as a bear's back if he comes out at the end of winter which means that the weather will be good in spring?

>>132213451
fahrenheit was not intended for cooking or what, it was used to describe reasonable temperature of Northern Europe for daily use.
But if you do wonder and dont wan to jewgle, water boils at 212 F under STP

>>132213315
Huh good point my autism was showing

>>132213555
I can tell that you have never built anything with your soft feminine hands, and are unaware of how to find square, radius, or layout an elipse.

Geometry and Imperial are inseparable.

>>132211254
>Love this meme

Is it a meme if its real?

The real proof is that you buy electronics in watts rather than foot pounds.

60 watt light not 44.25 ft lbf/s

When you get down to brass tacks all units of measurement besides AU are arbitrarily decided upon values. You faggots are getting blinded by how many marks on a ruler your cock doesn't make it to when you should be worried about important shit.

>>132213342
atlantis was in the middle of that ocean between burgerland and niggerland, the pacific? any way it sank when the waters rose after the last ice age ended

>>132213497
Standard atmospheric at tge earths surface

>>132213376
no its 1cm3 of water takes 100joules of energy to increase 1 degree of temperature or something

>Rest of world: switch to metric
>US: No
>RoW: Why not? It's better.
>US:I don't care, I like what we have and it works for us.
>RoW: Reeeeee! Just do it and fall in line!
>US: Get fucked!

>>132213501
Dwell on it some more anon the longer you think of a circle in base 8 the simpler it becomes.

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>>132209269
>cashier would look confused at you when you give him 12 bucks and 50 cents when he asks for 11 bucks and 50 cents,
> in America they simply don't get that you want a one dollar bill and not shitty coins,

>remove $10 + 2x $1 bills and 2 quarters
>hands $11.50 + $1 bill to cashier
>returns $1 bill

>>132213696
False, infact all of those things are simpler in base 8.

>>132213719
>not rating lightbulbs in horsepower

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>>132213753
Antarctica is Atlantis.
Atlantis used to be in the Atlantic Ocean (thus the name Atlantic Ocean). Due to climatic changes, it got flooded and thus "sank" into the water. Later, when it was already under water, it moved to the south (research Charles Hapgood's "Shifting Crust", a theory backed bei Einstein). During this movement, it slightly rose again. Still being covered in thin water however, the water froze due to the cold temperatures of the South Pole. Now, Atlantis is still a sunken island. The water just turned to ice. That's all there is to the mystery.
Governments of the entire world have interests in Atlantis out of various reasons. Old civilisations, "New Swabia", some other occult shit, possible natural resources and so on. You know the rest I guess.

>>132209062
It makes sense when you remember people. 0F is fucking cold. 100F is fucking hot. By proxy, 40-60 is comfortable, 40-30 is a bit cold, 60-70 is a bit warm. So on and so forth, before individual preference.

>>132213555
>system of 10 because of more divisers


5040 = 420 x 12

best system

>>132212268

0 degrees isn't fairly cold outside, it's optimal temperature for a white man.

>>132211660
Um. No

>>132213206

But europe has more people than the us...jesus you burgers are fucking stupid

>>132213684
>Isn't 0 °F something like the temperature of horseblood in summer when the birds are tweeting six times, indicating that fall will come quickly and -50 °F the temperature at which onions are as moist as a bear's back if he comes out at the end of winter which means that the weather will be good in spring?
I laughed a lot.

>>132214519
Notice how I was talking about countries not Europe as a whole? Each European country switched on it's own. Stop being retarded

>>132214617

No, actually we didn't. And you specifically said we yuros don't have as many people.

>>132214679
Yuros don't have as many people in their individual countries compared to the US is what I meant. Maybe it was poorly phrased, but that is what I meant.

>>132213051
Why you hiding behind that flag, Mohammed

>>132214766

Besides, I don't think that's the reason at all. You just like to be different. And that's good. But engineering/science wise, everyone uses metric because it IS better. Well, from my collaboration experiences with US engineers anyway.

>>132214842
You mean this flag Cletus?

>>132211411
>but 1,2,4,5,7,8,10,11 are autistic.
only cause youre used to metric and 1/3 of something is not very natural in metric system
to add many fractions are wonky in metric

>>132214766
Well HURP DE DERP i guess each fucking US state can switch on their own. Surely the 30,000 people in Idaho can change over a few street signs and order in some rulers from across the border in canada.

>>132214914
>>132211411
also base 12 covers all fractions by simply doubling the denominator

>>132214914
>Hey Cletus, what's 1 / 3 of 60cm?
>It's 20cm Randy
>Sounds not very natural to me.

>>132214421
0 degrees F is quite a bit colder than 0 degrees C. At 0 degrees C I can walk around in a reasonably thin jacket and possibly enjoy the snow while at 0 degrees F I have to bust out my thick winter coat and thermal underpants just to survive the harsh winds and unforgiving cold.

>>132209062
we have in every scientific and medical cause in the USA. We also have in many ways, by just adding it to the vocabulary. Hence, why we buy our soda in 2 LITER, and our milk in GALLONs.
Basically we DO use metric where it matters, and don't, when we see no practical need. It's just practicality.
You might as well ask why we still use $1 bills. Things don't have to be 100% logical, to still be the best choice. Logic is not the be all, end all, especially for minor things such as how you measure your butter.

>>132214854
What you said is definitely a big reason and probably the main reason. But I believe what I said is a reason for the government to not change it. Is sounds like a big hastle for a population of our size to change systems.

>>132214971
Then this would create bigger problems since some states would convert and some wouldn't. If you went from one state to another and the whole system changed each time, it would be a pain in the ass.

>>132209269
wtf
Why would you hand over an extra dollar if you want it back? Is this some gypsy custom?

>>132215126
>That would cause more problems
Yet SOMEHOW this didn't happen in Africa, in Europe, in South America, in Asia.

Do you now what happened when Switzerland, the only country in continental Europe that drove on the left converted to driving on the right like the rest of the contiguous continent?

No road accidents for 5 years is what happened.

>>132214064
>no I'm right and you're wrong now shut up!!!!

>>132213333
them digits

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>>132215260
I do have to admit tipping has gotten fucking Jewed out the ass in America. Most restaurants in NYC now expect 30% as standard, and 20% is seen as an insult. It's funny watching old movies when they talk about 10% being a big tip...
That's also not including 80 fucking taxes too, so your "2 for $19.99" meal is actually about $30 when you look at the receipt.

>>132215053
>hey Jacques, what 1/3 of a kilometer
>its 333.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333... meters
>hon hon

As a craftsman I agree. It wouldn't take long to get used to it. The math can get confusing on a long hot day trying to figure or multiple angles and lengths based on what is essentially a base 16 system

>>132215443
I know, I'm a bartender. If we ever switch to a salary or hourly wage, I'd quit.

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>>132209062
>tfw the US uses the British metric system

ironic isnt it?

>>132210253
Is this what American's actually think the metric system is?

>>132215454

No lol, 1+1 can equal 3 provided the value of 1 is sufficiently high. Do you even math bruh?

>>132215567
First system best system

>>132215322
Name one country in the world that has different systems depending on where you go in the country? If the US switched systems, letting each state do it separately and only if they want to is a disaster. States are not like countries, you can't just say they are the same. In Europe when they were all changing over time to the metric system, it was separate countries changing, not states in each country.

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>>132209269
That has only happened to me once and it was some stupid black bitch with an attitude about it, like it was some weird alien thing. In reality, it's actually really commonly done here, only a few young or retarded people will not understand.

>1m 50cm
>~4.92f
>1m 60cm
>~5.24934f
>1m 70cm
>~5.57f

Now tell me which is more logical.

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>>132215561
>order $9 bottle of bud light
>bartender flips the cap, hands it over, and unironically expects a $1 tip
You know in the 20s, the progressives tried to ban tipping because they saw it as immoral?

Literally the only thing metric is good for is bolt and nut sizes. Other than that it can fuck off.

>>132209062
the strong do as they will the weak do as they must

>>132209963
>music is currently measured in feet and inches

How fucking retarded are you?

>>132212170
>30 ft
>5 m

What did he mean by this?

>>132211515
Idiots call it that. The rest of us grown ups use it daily.

>>132213279
>Why doesn't Antarctica use the metric system?

>Emperor Penguins
>Imperial System

Take a wild guess anon

>>132211945
This. Ameriniggers are muslim-tier.
http://fortune.com/2015/03/10/american-millennials-are-among-the-worlds-least-skilled/

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friendly reminder the metric system will be the official system on Mars

>>132209203
Jesus christ.

>>132213161
>Alaska
I don't think you live there, Tyrone. About 1-2% of your mutt population actually resides somewhere around there. Which is why your joke of an army actually needs to come here to learn arctic warfare of all places.

No-mooner "countries" aren't relevant to anything.

>>132209824
>more logical
>my math is more math than your math

>>132213333
>>>132213280
>>decibel
>Decimal* I guess I'm the retard.

checked. a very loud retard.

>>132209824
computers are base 2. you should do all math base 2, that way we don't suffer roundoff errors, every calculation will be exact.

>>132215724


1ft
2ft
3ft

seems fairly standard

6'4"

yup, still works

The US has adopted the metric system. The national standards for US uses weights that are metric standards. They still use the kilogram duplicate from the 19th century. All they do is place a conversion factor in front of it.

>>132210964
>shekel

Also
>thumb is a different size between different people
>foot (measurement) is way longer than a foot (body part) nothing natural there

Problem with these units is they're a pain in the ass when you're trying to calculate them relative to things measured in other units. Metric is easy divide or times 10 but fuckups based on making calculations in the US system have cost billions

It's also based on what people were raised in. Since Canada is a clusterfuck of old and new units still I find miles feet and degreesF to be a completely alien language compared to kilometres metres centimetres and degreesC but since in my area we still use pounds for fucking everything I find weight in pounds comes more naturally to me than Kg

One switch i think should be made in the US is to Celsius. It's actually more relatable to real life since 0 Celsius is the freezing point of water you can actually imagine the feel of the temperature based on that things like if it's - degrees outside in the morning I know to watch for ice while driving etc but the Ferinheit system I have no idea what that's based on

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>>132209062

>>132209280
There's no different measures of time it's based on the position of the sun unless you count "military time" of 0-24 vs the 1-12AM and 1-12PM as separate. Personally it would be cool if we went to using military time because especially in the Internet age where lots of shit is in writing because fags forget so often whether to specify AM or PM

>>132209963
Except you don't ever have to perform calculations based on music

>>132213501
>maybe the Babylonians
nah, they didn't use base-8
they used base-60

>>132210964
>an inch is a thumb

Nigger, not even close. Every time I try to get an estimate of a measurement with my thubms, it ends up being completely wrong. Same for feet since I hve huge feet. The only reason why you morons can't get an intuitive feel to the system, is because you have have never used it before. I know approximately how far a meter or kilometer is. I also get the advantage of easily converting between the two.

>>132209995
Why doesn't the US just make metric a "legal" unit of measurement? Wouldn't even cost them fuck all just write a law saying "it's legal to use metric for speedometers and trade and selling gas and such" and let people be free to want to use metric if they want
I can't even drive my car with custom gauge set up to the US without changing the speedometer insert to a MPH one because mine is usually in KPH only. Just because the speedometer isn't in miles they were gonna turn me back at border for having a vehicle that wasn't street legal

>>132217691
That graph is severely wrong. 1000W = 1,33 hp
No way that graph is accurate

>>132209963
Nigger, this must be the niggiest comment I've ever read. You do not perform calculations on music. Whenever you do, you do so on the concept of sound, which is using the following:
dB, Hz, amplitude or wavelength, as well as its speed, all metric.

>>132209062
You're saying the metric system is better than the metric system? FUCKIN DUMBASS

>>132210564
Britains "non metric" system is a clusterfuck. US one is at least kinda easily translated

Why is your gallon less than a proper gallon everywhere else?
More importantly what the actual goddamn fuck is a "stone"? I know pounds is already the unit of your money but come on it's a pretty big unit of measure when being only 14 of them makes you too obese to walk. Is 10 pounds 0.00000000051982 of a stone or some shit?

>>132215588
Ignore him that's my autistic brother

>>132209062
>tfw the only reason we hear about the fucking retarded imperial system is because of burgers' cultural imperialism

>>132210610
There's literally nothing wrong with knowing only one language

Everyone else in the world learns English and Metric to communicate with everyone else. Why should I who was raised with both of these bother learning any foreign jibber jabber if foreigners are just learning my communication methods anyway?

>>132210871
Metric was used by scientists for a long time in the US because it's easier to perform long complex calculations in it. Atom bomb project and moon landing was done in metric

Also fun fact: your military uses metric though they didn't in ww2

>>132211159
Pretty sure the Soviets didn't use metric in the 40s I think it was some retarded tsarist or communist system based on shit that the dear leader thought sounded cool at the time

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The metric system was how Germany was able to give us all cancer.

>>132212408
It's the exact same reason English is better.

>>132209062
OP only wants the metric system because saying his dick is 10 centimeters sounds better than 4 inches

the solution to the problem: make everything base 10 and based off the mile and keep the mile the same size that way no road signs have to be changed as they're all just in miles anyway

>>132219152
Yard could be redefined as 1/10 of a mile foot then as 1/10 a yard etc. Now you have a base10 system and didn't have to spend billions changing road signs

>>132212268
>Celsius range is too small.
what is 0.5C? what is centicelsius. millicelsius? Oh that's right, ameridumbs cannot into decimal numbers, because their shitty system is not decimal based, the system that the whole world, including you retards use.

>>132218313
>That graph is severely wrong. 1000W = 1,33 hp
>No way that graph is accurate

it's a logarithmic scale, Einstein.

>>132211563
>The AU cannot be the average of the perihelion and aphelion for convenience, it must be tied to a universal constant
>ignoring distance measurements of light-seconds or light-hours
>will immediately reee that I used an arbitrary collection of seconds and called it an hour even though an hour has no universal constant

>>132215454
>hey burger, what is 1/3 of an inch
>1/3 of an inch
retard.jpg

>>132213876
This