Thread 514918048

Is there any reason to be the only country in the world to still use the imperial system?
We often hear Americans saying the imperial is better for everyday use, but a lot of the conversions are constants.

1 kilo is 2.2 pounds,
100 kilos is 220 pounds.
1 mile is 1.6 kilometers
A pint is around 0.5 liters.
A cup is around 2.84 deciliters.
An ounce is around 28.35 grams.
Water freezes at 0 C° and boils at 100 C°.

I fail to see how imperial is allegedly better in everyday use. If you learn the metric system it's very easy to do conversions.
1 kilo is 1000 grams.
1 liter is 10 deciliters.
1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
1 liter of water is 1 kilo.

In the kitchen you can use a measurement of 1 deciliter for both liquids and solids like flour or sugar.

The average internal combustion engine consumes about 10 liters per 100 kilometers.

The average height and weight for an European male is
180 centimeters
70 kilograms
(versus 5 feet 11 inches and 154 pounds)

The average big mf is 200cm/100kg

Internal conversions in the metric system are much easier. Can't do the imperial without a conversion table and a calculator.

>>514918048 (OP)
Fuck your faggot ass metric system NIGGA

in weeks two more

You'll have to pry my teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups from my cold dead hands

Dont even ask americans about their 2x4, it might be a piece of lumber or a vehicle. for americans, everything needs to be simple, and everything needs a quirky colloquial word. It's why they call their stomach a "tummy". It's childish...anyway, they inherited this trait from their german ancestry. Germans have even more pathetic words. A mobile phone will be a "handy" or a "mobi". They refuse to finish words and love the -i suffix. When Americans are tasked to do something, they will have to get 2 cups of Mac and Cheese, go 25/74th of an inch to the left and use a wire of AWG 18 to calculate the required CFM as they struggle to get some R&R at the DMV. Alas, such is life...

measuring the thickness of wire?! What?? That's impossible. You cant measure 1235th of 6/16th of an elbow.

Thats why we invented American Wire Gauge!
we will simply invent new ways of expressing the same thing instead of simply measuring in millimeters. the american Way

if you want to tell a fat american girl how thick your cock is, what should you do?

maybe you use AWG. counter-intuitively, AWG 1 is much thicker than AWG 20.
So, not only do they choose a new measuring system just for wires, they even invert the scale. A low number is a thick measurement.

Make it make sense.

What the fuck is a kilometer dumb ass nigga you mean 2.2 miles.

>>514918048 (OP)
Never. Metric is cold, soulless trash. Imperial is based on the human form. Think about, if you are able. I doubt it.

Metric is retarded. Imperial units evolved over time and correspond to dimensions humans commonly have to deal with.

t. Mechanical engineer who has designed machinery and done math w both systems

>>514918048 (OP)
the real reason why it will never change: Imperial units are written into laws, standards, and building codes. Land is measured, survey monuments placed and legal descriptions written all in imperial units. In much of the country land is sectioned off into square miles with roads every mile. Imperial units are so deeply interwoven that changing would be costly while only making calculations easier for those who are too dumb to be making calculations of any importance anyway.

>>514918048 (OP)
>only country in the world

>>514918048 (OP)
When the metric system was created (late 18th century, early 19th century), its purpose was to make life easier for the scientific community, since each country had its own measurement system, requiring a huge amount of work in reviewing studies and scientific education. Nowadays, conversion between measurement systems is done in fractions of a second by any pocket computer, so it no longer matters.

The metric system is simply obsolete; it no longer has a reason to exist, since the problem it was created to solve no longer exists.

>>514920599
>Imperial units are written into laws, standards, and building codes. Land is measured, survey monuments placed and legal descriptions written all in imperial units. In much of the country land is sectioned off into square miles with roads every mile.

All that was true of Canada but we converted to metric in the 70's anyway

>>514918048 (OP)
well let's see what kind of important inventions appeared in the last say 200 years

>rest of world uses metric
invents
>nothing

>AMERICA uses imperial units
invents
>steam engine
>railroad
>flight
>skyscraper
>harnessed electricty
etc.

>>514918048 (OP)
For the same reason that Germany did not swap over to entirely jet powered aircraft. The re-tooling of machines for manufacturing parts and the training of mechanics and fabricators would have been a logistical nightmare. The U.S. is fricking huge and this sort of a deal needs to be done very deliberately and slowly.

The U.S. does use metric for military and scientific pursuits and whenever they really need something done precisely. It's simply industry and that populace at large who use Imperial.

>>514918048 (OP)
yuck

>>514918048 (OP)
Metric proponents conflate the prefix with the units. The problem isn't kilo, micro, giga, etc. The problem is meter, gram, liter, centegrade. Terrible robot-like choices. A foot is useful, a yard is useful, a meter is nothing. A gram? Too small, retard, should have called "kilograms" "grams". Cup? Makes perfect sense. Gallon? Yes! Liter? Awkward, so now we have "two liters" instead. It's such a colossal fuckup. If bongs and euroids had any sense they'd start using millifeet and kilopounds.

>>514921993
Your country is like 5 cities stuck like barnacles to our border and the rest is gnomes and bigfoots.

>>514919023
Too much uncertainty when using mm, much better to pick and name a subset. They should have named them A B C etc not 1 2 3 though

>>514922818
ok...?