sorry but I'm just not going to use it (the metric system)!

>>509773349 (OP)
Imperial is base 60, not base 10.
It's designed the way it is to be easily calculable using fraction...
e.g ⅒ ⅑ ⅛ ⅐ ⅙ ⅕ ¼ ⅓ ⅖ ⅜ ½ ⅗ ⅔ ⅝ ¾ ⅘ ⅚ ⅞
It's especially important when related to shipping, or travel where making mistakes could leave you to die in the middle of nowhere.

>>509773349 (OP)
metric system was part of the Year One movement in the French Revolution, same system that tried to force the day to be divided up into ten hours of 100 minutes each
it didn't work even though Robespierre sent entire universities to the guillotine to impose it, for the same reason metric was never fully adopted outside of science labs: it completely ignores the fact that the natural world is messy any imperfect, and that the ability to instinctively divide things by twos and threes with simple string and line tricks was more effective than the perfectly exact measurements that the metric system demands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

>>509773349 (OP)
my hudspn gets 50 rods per hogshead and thats the way i likes it!

>>509773349 (OP)
it's a stupid dichotomy because they both have different uses
for stuff like long distances, mathematical purposes, stuff like that, metric makes more sense. For small-scale stuff, rules of thumb, times where you have to eyeball stuff or work quickly without much higher reasoning, imperial tends to be much more appropriate. For instance, if I had to measure the walls of a house I was building, I'd use the metric system; but if I was baking, telling me I need five tablespoons of oil is a lot simpler than telling me I need [X] ml of oil.

QED, Imperial is superior

>>509777119
this is an excellent picrel and the reason I wrote >>509776936 but metric still has its uses, just no use being dogmatic about it. There's no need to "choose"

>>509777523
True. Metric does have its uses.

The Great Pyramid of Giza actually uses both the Imperial and the standard Meter in its metrology.

The ancients also used the Imperial Foot.

Days in a Year x Degrees in a Circle x 1000 = circumference of Earth at the equator in feet.

365.24 x 360 x 1000

How did the ancients know the circumference of Earth at the equator and why did they use feet?

>>509773349 (OP)

>>509776936
these are so hard to use

>>509773349 (OP)
I just find it funny Europeans usually are like

>Only retards use the U.S. customary system
>Oh my God, who can remember 32° or four quarts to a gallon? Not my pea brain! I need numbers divisible by 10, please!

>can't even divide a meter into 3rds
What's the fucking point?

>>509773349 (OP)
>middle finger vs menorah

>>509774716
Also, he explicitly wanted a 10 day week so that the peasants wouldn't know what day they were supposed to go to church.

We get our seven day week from the bible, and the bible commands us to rest and worship on the 7th day. Atheists hate that, and wanted to eliminate the week for no other reason than their hatred of religion.

It's a similar pettiness behind the push to use CE instead of AD. They just openly hate christianity. They're not trying to change references to arabic religions. Just christianity.

>>509773349 (OP)
Post the menorah one

1 litre of water = 1kg
1000 litres of water = 1 metric ton, equivilent to 1 cubic metre etc etc

I love metric for quickly working out weight and volume etc. I'm not sure how much a kilometer weighs though.

>>509782112
Just keep dividing by 3.3 until you reach infinity silly

>>509773349 (OP)
>All these copes
The US only uses imperial due to tradition. In fact, congress passed a law to transition to metric decades ago, but the law lacked teeth and went widely ignored. The whole "rational everyday use" cope for imperial is largely just retardation. Any system you regularly use will create an intuition about its units. That said, they do have rational base measurements in origin. A foot is literally the length of a foot. A mile is a thousand steps. Temperature its a bit more awkward. 0 in farenheit is the freezing point of brine. Farenheit became the temperature scale of choice not because its a good scale, but because the autist who made the retarded scale also made the most precise thermometers at the time the British Empire was kicking off.

>>509783367
this, a lot of the stuff I hear about imperial being better than metric boils down to the fact that it's been commonly used and is therefore learned and intuitive, which metric often then replaces. For instance, 5"10 is only a better way of measuring height if you live in a country where that's commonly how you measure height, in france for instance instead of saying "I need a 6 foot man" roasties will simply say they want a guy who's 180cm tall instead.