Americans...seriously...why do you hate the metric system?

[Delinquent]

Metric just makes sense, the imperial system is crazy like one mile = 5280 feet and shit like that. the 10mm = 1cm, 100cm = 1m, 1000m = 1km makes sooooo much more sense

Exactly! None of this 1/8th, 1/4, bullshit. Just 1,2,3,4,5,6 mm, cm, meters. If it's a half of one of those it's simply 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, etc.

How can anyone think that the metric system is harder blows my mind. It really does because if you actually sat down and thought about how much more simplified and unified the system is, it really is leaps and bounds ahead of this archaic system we use.

Just one of the MANY things wrong with this country

 

[BBR100]

How long ago did we convert to the metric system?

In everyday practice I'd be lost without lbs. inches and yards.

It's easier to visualize someone who is 6 ft vs 1.8288m or 200 lbs as 78 3/4 kilos.

 

[stosstruppe]

Those damned Liberians, fucking our shit up!11

 

[Scotsman]

Well a lot of other countries use a mix of the systems. In the UK you still drive in miles per hour, distance is in miles and yards, you order beer in pints (royal pints at that which are 17 ounces), and if you ask how much someone weighs you get it in stones. In Canada you still use lbft of torque, on drill rigs you often still use gpm for flow, if you ask someone how much they weigh or how tall they are you get an imperial answer.

As for your trade system idea, that's what conversion charts, calculators, and computers are for. Also since a lot of industrial standards are set in the US it is the rest of the world that has to convert for their needs.

Lastly it would cost billions of dollars to convert everything in the US to the metric system, so that in and of itself pretty much ends the argument.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Y_lifter]

Yea, U.S. kids are slowly converting. It's us older stubborn fucks that are the issue.

My 16 yr old daughter speaks to me in centimeters and meters and I'm like..
"Speak English girl" !!

 

[inkspot]

Yea, U.S. kids are slowly converting. It's us older stubborn fucks that are the issue.

My 16 yr old daughter speaks to me in centimeters and meters and I'm like..
"Speak English girl" !!

speak for yourself sir.