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u/MidgetMan10150 13d ago

Also 1L of water is 1KG

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u/SpeedySpeedBoy36 13d ago

And 1 dm3

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u/arfelo1 13d ago

This is the one that was missing. Litres is an SI analogue, but it's not actually metric. The metric standard for volume is m3

m for length

m2 for surface

m3 for volume

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u/Zetkin8 13d ago

It's a metric unit, but not an SI derived unit. Actually, it's integral to the metric system because it connects the metre and the kilogram.

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u/coffeeborne 13d ago edited 13d ago

Not really. Density is what connects volume and mass. How would a volume unit connect a lenght to a mass?

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u/arfelo1 13d ago

And it's SI unit is kg/m3. No liters

I think it did help establish the reference value for mass, as in 1kg is the mass of 1L of water. But it's no longer involved as a standard unit of reference for volume.

Nowadays it is more frequently used in the same way as gallons. For day to day stuff. Liters of water, liters of gasoline, a brick of milk is 1L...

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u/Mostafa12890 dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 13d ago

Who uses a brick of milk? I’ve never heard anyone describe it that way.

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u/arfelo1 13d ago

Sorry, a carton of milk.

Brick is a spanish word that means carton.

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u/Panchenima 13d ago

brick means carton in spanish??? i might be wrong and for this i ask you in wich spanish country does this happens? as a native spanish speaker:

Brick = Ladrillo (for a construction, sometimes used to denote packs of compressed drug)

Carton = Cartón as in caja de carton or carton box, but no one uses carton for a box, just caja.

I've never seen or hear those two as interchangeable.

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u/Dsmario64 13d ago

Yeah I was about to say, cartón de leche is how you say carton of milk in Spanish, it's exactly the same as English.

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u/SlushKami I want pee in my ass 13d ago

Only bricks of anything is coke.

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u/ThePopKornMonger 13d ago

I was so mad in 8th grade American Science class when they pretty much told us that they weren't allowed to teach us Metric and we couldn't answer in metric.

This was the same time we had to stop turning in papers in cursive as well. My chicken scratch was horrible and its until a few years ago I started doing the curly tongue again. Still have catch up from the late 90's. Still have not found a workplace where its allowed though.

Got everyone trained to be confused in America, but that's what happens when you let Grissy-poo's old man Maxwell produce American Public School Text books, getting us trained up.

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u/Stratos9229738 13d ago

Even US second graders are taught both metric and imperial units. Your schooling decades ago isn't relevant today.

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u/I_Like_Boats_ 13d ago

Or easier 1000L is 1m3 which both is more commonly used than 1kL or dm.

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u/Orisara 13d ago edited 13d ago

I work in swimming pools and it's how you can easily get the volume of a pool.

10mX4mX1,5m = 60.000L. Simple and handy to know when a lot of products are labeled in a X amount per 10m³.

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u/City-scraper I have permission! 13d ago

Which freezes at 0 °C and boils at 100

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u/kelvin_bot 13d ago

0°C is equivalent to 32°F, which is 273K.

I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand

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u/My_user_name_1 13d ago

If I ever start a country, I'm using Kelvin as my official temperature measurement.

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u/damienVOG 13d ago

The problem with that is that it's not very humane, kelvin is better for science celcius is better for humans

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u/Chapped5766 13d ago

Kelvin is literally just absolute Celsius.

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u/nidas321 13d ago

Oh what a beautiful day it’s 298K, I’m gonna go for an ice cream! A few weeks ago it was just 282K, I was freezing my ass off! See how it gets annoying?

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u/MountainHipie 13d ago

I get your point, I feel your point in my perception of temperature. It only annoying because the common measures have such a wide range of physical response compared to measurements in K. If that's what we all grew up with though I think it would be totally normal.

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u/tossedaway202 13d ago

Yeah but understanding that you will freeze to death in 220 Kelvin and die of heatstroke in 325 Kelvin isn't very intuitive

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u/joe_last_name_mama 13d ago

That went from 0 to 100

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u/nikoniche 13d ago

i will be that guy and say that its 998 grams

but yeah we still rule

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u/OnkelMickwald 13d ago

Doesn't it depend on temperature and pressure and shit?

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u/koshgeo 13d ago

It does, but it's a slight variation (less than a percent between 0 and 30C, for example).

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u/PuzzleheadedDebt2191 13d ago

The diffrence between 1kg and 998g is also less than 1% (0.2% to be precise).

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u/wasdninja 13d ago

It is now known that the density of water also depends on the isotopic ratios of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in a particular sample. Modern measurements of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, which is pure distilled water with an isotopic composition representative of the average of the world's oceans, show that it has a density of 0.999975±0.000001 kg/L at its point of maximum density (3.984 °C) under one standard atmosphere (101.325 kPa) of pressure.[6]

From wikipedia. The 998g must be some really old stuff.

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u/SquirrelSnuSnu 13d ago

Wont that depend on altitude?

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u/AdStunning8948 13d ago

"gm" for gram? Even a school kid knows it's g...

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u/SimDoy 13d ago

Ohh it was grams I was a bit confused what gm was

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u/nikoniche 13d ago

grandmaster WWE 4 time champion and his name is JOHN CENA

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u/Clickbaiting_4_u 😳lives in a cum dumpster 😳 13d ago

"He supports the rapists, but he's a good guy" - John Cena

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u/Suck_Me_Dry666 13d ago

Now do it in Mandarin.

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u/BuffaloBillsButtplug 13d ago

Bing chilling 🥶

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u/Project_298 13d ago

Can’t this dude speak Chinese also?

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u/killjoy_enigma 13d ago

Du du du duuuu

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u/NutronStar45 dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 13d ago

where is john cena?

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u/InspirationalFailur3 13d ago

It's general manager of course, I'm about 6 and a half general managers tall.

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u/JackRabbit- 13d ago

gigameter, or 1,000,000,000 meters

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u/MaxVersthappeningOff I want pee in my ass 13d ago

no that's Gm, gm is for good morning

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u/draguninmyanus We do a little trolling 13d ago

Least educated shitposting user

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u/DRAMATRON09 13d ago

*most

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u/draguninmyanus We do a little trolling 13d ago

It's mostest though🙄🙄

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u/Daiki_438 fat cunt 13d ago

Grams are “g” and not “gm”

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u/PurityKane 13d ago

Oh! So that's what gm was! I just thoughtlessly went through tye picture and thought it was something more obscure that I didn't remember

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u/andreisimo 13d ago

The obscurity had you confused a skosh?

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u/LTUAdventurer 13d ago

The whole metric side is a bit weirdly put together

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u/Not_obviously 13d ago

I have a math program where gram is gm because g is 9.81m/s2. So it might be someone thinking about that

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u/GeralOG 13d ago edited 13d ago

I used to hate when our exm papers used imperial system and you're gonna suck at it if you dunno how to convert 😭

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u/[deleted] 13d ago edited 13d ago

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u/Chrillosnillo 13d ago edited 13d ago

Fortunately only three countries use it, Myanmar, Liberia and South Canada

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u/CringeKage222 13d ago

is dragging whole world in

America is not the whole world mate

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u/MrHyperion_ 13d ago

Technically US is part of the world so the average gets hit.

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u/gasbmemo 13d ago

America isn't even the whole America

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u/CringeKage222 13d ago

Not even the whole north America

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u/HorseGatherer 13d ago

How is it dragging the whole world in? I only encounter it when watching American documentaries and such.

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u/Mystic_Haze 13d ago

I wouldn't say it's really dragging the whole world in. But it certainly can make international trade and business a little more difficult. However even this isn't that big of an issue since a lot of international trade and business is done in metric anyway.

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u/Cuntilever 13d ago

Made my college significantly harder, especially the board exam. It's even worse for themodynamics, you get introduced to a steam table that has both metric and imperial system.

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u/nonotan 13d ago

Jesus, I assumed imperial was mostly left out of any science stuff, like maybe you'd have math problems in imperial in elementary school or something, but once you start having real physics classes it'd obviously all be in metric as a matter of course. Thermodynamics in imperial sounds stupid as hell.

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u/L0L303 13d ago

Idk very weird to have imperial in mech eng .. idk what school this person went to but that isnt not the norm at all

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u/Yowseff 13d ago

As most of the parts and manufactured equipments still use imperial units it will forever be there.

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u/SlantViews 13d ago

Went to school in Europe. They explained to us how to convert to Fahrenheit. Never ever used it even once in my life.

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u/NeilOffTheYoungOnes 13d ago

The US uses United States Customary Units, not the Imperial system.

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u/Richardknox1996 13d ago

7040 yards. The imperial system is an ungodly mess. Out of all the things to keep from the brittish, why did they have to keep that. And on a related note, when pushbikes were stardardized...WHY THE FUCK DID THEY CHOOSE METRIC WHEN ITS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THE REST OF THE WORLD USES IMPERIAL FOR.

I swear, americans are doing this on purpose just to feel special.

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u/ScreechingPizzaCat 13d ago

America was going to convert to the metric system in the (late 1700- early 1800) but the ship that was carrying the second kilogram weight was attacked by pirates and the ship sunk.

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u/n0xsean 13d ago

History is amazing. I love this gem of a fact.

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u/Lysercis 13d ago

Okay we need to find the wreck and recover the second kilo so the US can finally convert!

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u/I-Make-Maps91 13d ago

Speaking about distance specifically: because the mile is a very useful unit that's been baked into so much. Surveyors used to use rods and chains, which were literally a rod and a length of chain and the tools of a surveyor. A rod goes back hundreds of years, possibly thousands, and in the US is defined at 16.5 feet, or precisely 1/320th of a mile, and the perfect acre is 660' x 66' or 40 rods by 4 rods. A chain is 66' long and only ~450 years old. If you're at all familiar with US surveying, those numbers should be starting to look very familiar because they reappear everywhere.

A rod began life as the length of a pike shaft, which was useful because most people would be familiar with it/have it handy. The chain exists as a method of combining training English land measurements, with were based on the number 4 (hence 4x40) with the decimal system and base 10 math.

I'm not disputing the simplicity and elegance of metric, but the people of the past weren't stupid and chose the units they did for a reason; there's logic behind it.

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u/xorgol 13d ago

ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THE REST OF THE WORLD USES IMPERIAL FOR

Eh, not quite, where I'm from we use French inches for bike wheels.

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u/koshgeo 13d ago

And which type of mile? Statute mile, US survey mile, international mile, or nautical mile? Sometimes the answer will be the same number of yards (but the yards aren't the same length), sometimes it's different.

You can make some assumptions, but miles are crazy when you get into the details, especially if measuring over longer distances at high precision.

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u/PuzzleheadedEnd4966 13d ago

There are also about 18 different German miles. Even better, a lot are around 7km long, but apparently go up to 11km:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_units_of_measurement#Length

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u/TI_Pirate 13d ago

Q: How many yards in 4miles

Q: How often does this come up?

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u/jweezy2045 13d ago

How many centimeters in a third of a meter?

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u/Tr1angleChoke 13d ago

I need to measure out exactly 1/3 of ANY metric measurement vs I need to measure out exactly 1/3 of any Imperial measurement. Now, which one is more accurate?

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u/nvolker 13d ago edited 13d ago

Metric is great for that kind of stuff, but having 1 mile roughly equal to “how far you go per minute on a highway” is pretty convenient. Especially because many Americans have really long commutes. Next exit is in 5 miles? I’ll be there in about 5 minutes.

And having the temperature in weather be reported roughly “on a scale to 0-100” is convenient too.

But yeah, for everything where you have to do more than super-basic math, metric wins.

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u/TheFinalGibbon Literally 1984 😡 13d ago

C'mon guys

Clearly the Egyptian Cubit is the best system of measurement

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u/StructuralFailure 13d ago

ah yes I love anatomical units of measurement that are different for every human

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u/SnowGree 13d ago

Remind me again where the names of the units "feet", "inches" and the like come from?

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u/SuccessfulSuspect213 13d ago

1 liter of water at 1 atmosphere and 1g gravity will weigh exactly 1kg and fill exactly 10x10x10cm

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u/ClearlyCylindrical I came! 13d ago

It will also be 1kg in 100g of gravity

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u/Interesting-Oven1824 13d ago

The gravity was related to volume, I guess.

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u/ClearlyCylindrical I came! 13d ago

No, the pressure is what matters for that. And water is essentially incompressible untill it starts boiling anyway.

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u/No_Communication6909 13d ago

No water is uncompressable

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u/cirelia 13d ago

Also its water at 4°c which is when it has the highest density

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u/cheebnrun 13d ago

I petition to change the amount of yards in a mile from 1760 to 1776

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u/NutronStar45 dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 13d ago

I petition to change the amount of bald eagles in a gun from a hamburger to a freedom

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u/northeast-dhokla 13d ago

Reminder that the imperial system is really a bunch of unrelated systems smashed together. Nobody actively decided "we're gonna have one unit that's exactly 5280 times another unit", the mile and the foot have completely different origins.

It is really silly that the US hasn't switched to the metric system yet, it makes international trade and communication in general unnecessarily complicated & conversion of units is time consuming

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u/albela_bhai-op 13d ago

Because metric system wasn't invented by a drunk asshole by rolling dice

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u/Posty1224 13d ago

Literally the only reason we don’t use it is because some fucking pirates stole the kilogram sent to us by the French.

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u/albela_bhai-op 13d ago edited 13d ago

the US tried to switch in the past. In 1975 the metric conversion act passed, and was meant to slowly transition measurements from imperial to metric. Unfortunately the flaw with it was adoption was voluntary, so it never took off past a few federal mandates.

People had the chance still they chose imperial

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u/treborthedick 13d ago

The funniest thing is that the US customary system is defined by the metric one.

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u/FerdinandRusdelton 13d ago

You had the chance still you chose imperial

As if I, or some other individual is responsible for choosing imperial. Get off your high horse.

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u/Jivits 13d ago

Don't british people love using "stone" when talking about weight loss?

I imagine some of the people in here on their high horse are British, so maybe they should take a look in the mirror first.

They use a mix, we also use a mix. Our soda comes in 2 liter bottles.

We are the same!

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u/starswtt 13d ago

Yeah Brits still use imperial a lot, I'm not sure where the elitism comes from. They don't use it for almost everything the way the Americans do, instead it's a weird metric imperial hybrid.

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u/ScotsDale213 13d ago

Do you even know how expensive switching over would be at this point? Because I don’t, but it’s a lot. Switching over every one of those signs on the side of the road, not talking about the big ones either, the little ones that are each like a tenth of a mile from each other, those alone would cost a ton of time and effort to switch. I’m not sure it’s even economical to do at this point so we might just be stuck.

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u/rhamphol30n 13d ago

I'm in construction. I can't imagine the headache of converting all of the things I have to work with. It would add a ton of complexity to my job, and I'm not one of the guys who actually has to build the building. They'd have to rewrite every code book and get them approved in every state. Every single part would have to go through UL again because the manuals would need metric measurements. I'd have to know what year a building was last renovated/built to know which measuring tape to bring in (buildings get locked into the code they were built under)

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u/Posty1224 13d ago edited 13d ago

This is what pisses me off, Euros “here’s this awesome standard of measurement that’s mathematic wanna try it?” Young just formed America goes “hell yeah sounds awesome send us one” also euros steals the kilogram sent to the states meaning our system arbitrary British units got entrenched fuck you english cunts

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u/Riemero 13d ago

For how long are you going to keep using that excuse?

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u/CoffeeParachute 13d ago

I support switching but its probably not gonna happen anytime soon. I mean we've tried to implement it like 10 times, its hard to change something stubborn people have been using their whole lives.

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u/orklah 13d ago

You just have to wait until stubborn people died. You could have done that 10 times easily. That's not like stubborn people exists only in the US, the whole world managed to switch

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u/CoffeeParachute 13d ago

If you were right then we wouldn't be making these comments. Clearly we are more stubborn.

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u/aberrasian 13d ago

Right? Amazon prime exists now, just order another one!

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u/dyingprinces 13d ago

All the equipment in my laboratory that measures temperature is set to Fahrenheit. For the temperature ranges we work with, 1° C = ~2.2° F. So by using Fahrenheit we're able to see changes on the temperature readouts 2.2 times faster.

We use metric for all other units of measurement. But when it comes to temperature, Fahrenheit is objectively more useful.

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u/ToaKraka 13d ago

Reminder that the US customary system is not the same as the UK imperial system.

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u/Sonadel 13d ago

The US is on the metric system internally, they just convert everything for general reference and that’s the weird part. The US was one of 17 nations that agreed to help arrange the metric standard too.

"All the units we commonly use, like feet, and gallons, and so on, are actually defined in terms of metric units," says the NIST's Patrick Abbott. "It's just a little translation that we do here - but our country is actually on the metric system."

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u/TheFinalGibbon Literally 1984 😡 13d ago

Holy shit is that a Jan Misali fan I see?

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u/Sipas 13d ago

It is really silly that the US hasn't switched to the metric system yet

I understand adoption would be very difficult in such a huge country with very complex industries but the lengths some Americans go to to justify imperial is absurd. I had some guy argue Celcius wasn't precise enough for weather forecast, he claimed he wouldn't know what to wear out if weather report was in Celcius.

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u/northeast-dhokla 13d ago

It's fun how American agreed to use the metric system for one thing and one thing only - caliber of weapons...

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u/albela_bhai-op 13d ago

Actually pharmacy and prescription drugs also use metric system

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u/hellrazor862 13d ago

And soda.

But just the big bottles.

Little bottles, fuck you, ounces!

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u/MrJagaloon 13d ago edited 13d ago

Also for some amounts of illicit drugs

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u/I-Make-Maps91 13d ago

No, the US is entirely swapped to metric behind the scenes. The units are defined relative to metric numbers and anything pushing boundaries is done in metric. Even the USGS measures everything in metric and converts it.

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u/nikoniche 13d ago

did you just quote your entire response

or am i dumb and its a quote from some famous person

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u/GodspeedandGoodnight 13d ago

It is really silly that the US hasn't switched to the metric system yet

I wonder if the people who say this understand how incredibly expensive it would be to replace every reference to any weight & measure on road signs, tools, regulatory paperwork, etc.

Not to mention the lost productivity of people making errors.

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u/Blink712178 13d ago

Americans rather use bald eagles per freedom than the metric

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u/PussyCrusher732 13d ago

just wait until you find out we use both

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u/Commaser 13d ago

When I hear people talking about gallons to measure liquid in the imperial system I like to think that there's an international meeting of every gallon fabricant in the world and they all come together to decide that they will all produce with the exact same volumes so that every gallon in the world is the same.

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u/saitir 13d ago

Well, except that a US gallon is smaller than an imperial gallon... 3.8 litres vs 4.4

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u/muchvape2000 13d ago

And Canadians often use it casually to refer to 4L

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u/azakukai 13d ago

Fuck you i’ll take my litre bottle have a pint with the lads

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u/SotB8 13d ago

a litre bottle and a pint

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u/longestboie 13d ago

STOOOOONES

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u/Primarch_Nomad I said based. And lived. 13d ago

Okay

continues to use imperial because I'm genuinely not as smart as people think I am

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u/justasmalltowndad 13d ago

Or are you smarter? The metric system makes math easy, but to use the imperial system correctly takes extra brains.

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u/Impossible_Garbage_4 13d ago

That’s fair. The imperial system definitely takes more memorizing. For example, to remember how many feet are in a mile I gotta remember “5 tomatoes” as a funny way to remember “5 to(2) mate(8) oes(0).” 5 2 8 0, 5280 feet in a mile.

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u/Seapuppy2006 13d ago

At least youre self aware

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u/teentitanscrypto dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 13d ago

The metric system was intended so you wouldn't need to be

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u/AKHKMP 13d ago

As an Asian, my head exploded when i hear 5/16th of an inch

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u/I-Make-Maps91 13d ago

Base 12 > base 10, but it's far too late to make that switch now. It's more freely divisible into equal parts in a way that's far more useful than base 10 in day to day life and you can still count to 12 by counting the finger joints on one hand.

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u/ArietemTaurum 13d ago

jarvis i'm low on karma post america bad

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u/FerdinandRusdelton 13d ago

USE METRIC ITS MORE INTUITIVE!!

"Hey how long is a foot? About the length of my foot? Thanks"

"Hey how long is an inch? About the length of the first digit of my finger? Thanks."

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u/GlitteringHoliday774 13d ago

The problem is that it isn't as simple as just use metric. Most people here couldn't tell you how long a meter is or what a gram is supposed to even measure. Even beyond acceptance of such a widespread change, a large portion of the population would literally be unable to comprehend it. This is not even beginning to mention the bureaucracy we would have to go through to make it law and the sheer amount of money and resources it would take to change all of our signage, machinery, and standards into metric.

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u/TNT_Jonathan stupid, fucking piece of shit 13d ago

On one hand it’s dumb to even use this system, on the other hand they’re smart for even knowing how the system works

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u/SmallSux Blessed by Kevin 13d ago

it's one of those things when that wanna be unique kid chooses the most complicated thing to show others that they are different and unique from them, just imo

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u/cogito_ronin 13d ago

In an age where conversions are as easy as computer input, why is it dumb to use this system

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u/_Citizen_Erased_ 13d ago

All Americans are born and raised with it, and didn't choose it.

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u/MisterBicorniclopse 13d ago

Acre is the most useless way to measure because nobody knows how much it is

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u/i_am_theonewho_ASKED We do a little trolling 13d ago

In my opinion, it's just used for dramatic purposes

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u/Mr_Igelkott 13d ago edited 13d ago

Not true, in last action hero arnold asks a guy "Want to be a farmer? Here's some acres for you" before sending the guy flying with a kick. To get the size of an acre simply divide the distance Arnie kicked him with "some" and then multiply that with itself

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u/smithsp86 13d ago

An acre is just a furlong by a chain.

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u/limasxgoesto0 13d ago

Worked at an agriculture company. Acres mattered a lot

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u/Background-Machine46 13d ago

Actually the imperial system is better. You forgot to take into account that AMERICA uses it, nerd🤓

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u/fightbackcbd 13d ago

We use both systems depending on what you’re doing. Selling lumber? Imperial. Selling cocaine? Metric.

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u/TheGODofpizza1524 We do a little trolling 13d ago

And American people are famous for their intelligence?

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u/Bergonath 13d ago

Lack of intelligence, yes.

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u/_H4CK3RM4N 13d ago

They have to be good with large numbers in their system. They daily have to deal with them when they step on the scale.

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u/BulldogPH 13d ago

And our healthcare bills 😎

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u/jrgbd1 13d ago

Ouch

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u/stoneydome 13d ago

We import like 90% of the global intelligent people

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u/ALurkerForcedToLogin 13d ago

The H-1B genius visa was such a good idea, I'm surprised we came up with it ourselves, honestly. It's the United States's best economic tool.

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u/AJ-FROM-SHAOLIN 13d ago

It. Was. A. Joke.

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u/Persun_McPersonson 13d ago

Um, [sniffs and pushes up glasses] acktchually, the United States of America uses a slightly different system of measurement from British Imperial, called the US Customary system, or "Freedom Units" if you want to be extra precise [rubs your leg].

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u/triclops6 13d ago

A coworker once told me metric seems good but it's actually dumb because the distances aren't large enough and I've never quite heard anything so quintessentially american before or since.

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u/igowhee 13d ago

I'm from India and both metric and imperial systems are used here except to measure liquid and weight.

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u/reddit_is_sensitive 13d ago

1Gal is 4qt. I dont know anyone who refers to liquids of less than a gallon in terms of inches cubed..

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u/jackelfrink 13d ago edited 13d ago
  • Tablespoon = 2-1 = ½ Ounce
  • Ounce = 20 = 1 Ounce
  • Jack = 21 = 2 Ounce
  • Gill = 22 = 4 Ounce
  • Cup = 23 = 8 Ounce
  • Pint = 24 = 16 Ounce
  • Quart = 25 = 32 Ounce
  • Pottle = 26 =64 Ounce
  • Gallon = 27 = 128 Ounce
  • Peck = 28 = 256 Ounce
  • Half bushel = 29 = 512 Ounce
  • Bushel = 210 = 1024 Ounce
  • Cask = 211 = 2048 Ounce
  • Barrel = 212 = 4096 Ounce

It should be obvious that a system that is designed around 2X is going to get fucked up if you try and convert it to x3

It would be just as easy to mock and ridicule the metric system with "1 liters is a cube 10cm to a side, but 10 liters is a cube 21.544cm to a side. And it gets worse! 100 liters is a cube 46.415cm to a side. Gee! Metric sure is stupid for using totally random numbers that some dipshit pulled out of a hat and have no meaning. We should all switch to a more logical system that goes 10 then 20 then 40 and not this bullshit garbage that goes 10 then 21.544 then 46.415".

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u/doofusmcpaddleboat 13d ago

When you go down to Costco, be sure and grab two pottles of water

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u/hey_you_yeah_me 13d ago

I'm gonna be honest here. Either a non-american made this, or OP is just bad with measurements. In "acres", it went from acre -> feet -> yard. That gave me a good laugh :)

For my non-american friends. A yard is bigger than a foot. A yard is exactly 3 feet. It should've been "acre -> yard -> feet"

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u/jim_ocoee 13d ago

I've never seen, nor felt the slightest desire to know, how many square inches are in an acre

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u/SilentViperGT 13d ago

This is like getting mad for a German speaking German in Germany or an American speaking English in America... It's the math language we were taught, we can fluently think in the imperial system.

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u/Western-Flamingo7905 13d ago

Funny how guys from USA say we are better at math, but they forget that in science, electrical enginering and medicine,... use metric system for long time.

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u/Dhuyf2p 13d ago

Wait, the US is known for being good at maths?

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u/FerdinandRusdelton 13d ago edited 13d ago

Objectively yes. Our country is a country of immigrants, and we import the smartest people from around the world. The US is known for being good at math, science, engineering, etc.

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u/BlazeWasTaken06 😳lives in a cum dumpster 😳 13d ago

"WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!"

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u/FerdinandRusdelton 13d ago

All the condescending Europeans make me want to keep using the imperial system honestly. If Europeans just said "yeah America should switch, but it's no big deal." That would make sense. But all the Europeans in the comment section are saying things like "AmErICAnS aRe aLl So StUpId" so it makes me want to keep using it out of spite.

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u/Tigerphobia 13d ago

It's funny cause all the serious applications in America like in science and engineering already use metric. So the Europeans are just seething over Americans average conversations like it's any of their business. Most schools in America teach metric too, I literally learned it in 1st grade along with imperial.

I'm gonna keep using it cause Europeans are so sensitive that you can say to cook something at 350f online and you'll get 30 mad people ranting about metric. It's that easy

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u/Toastwitjam 13d ago

Europeans drinking pure copium because the average American doesn’t use metric yet our institutions that do still outpace any of Europe’s countries.

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u/ZeroXa2306 We do a little trolling 13d ago

Hey man, european here, i absolutely understand you. Spite is the greatest motivator

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u/schmitzel88 13d ago edited 13d ago

The part that is always left out is that any scientific field in the US has been metric for decades, and the only remaining imperial measurements are for things like building supplies which are fine in imperial and are well-standardized already.

Many homes have 8ft ceilings, which is great for construction because drywall comes in 4x8 sheets and the standard length for construction lumber is 8ft. Doors and windows are usually in standardized sizes as well, and buying a 3ft wide door is a lot nicer to work with than buying a 0.98m door. Switching to metric just for the sake of it is even stupider than whatever OP is accusing Americans of.

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u/iuay5NJ8J2qvgpXz 13d ago

Obviously in 1000 years this will have been normalized

In 500 years realistically too

In 100 years the transition might be done ?

Eventually it's gonna happen, don't resist it

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u/I-am-that-Someone 13d ago

kL? Tell me you don't use the metric system without telling me you don't use the metric system

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u/tjr0001 13d ago

Tonne? Real men use MegaGram.

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u/Axeclash 13d ago

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.

-Josh Bazell

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u/Key_Conversation5277 13d ago

Even NASA uses metric

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u/Maxg2909 13d ago

thats the first time I've ever seen kilo litres lol

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u/cedeho 13d ago

Really should have just used 1m³

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u/jcbevns 13d ago

You're meant to use fractions for imperial system, decimals with base10 is metric.

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u/MrXonte 13d ago

decimal means base10

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u/ThePowaBallad 13d ago

The fact that the distance/displacement/length measurement, the area, the volume and the mass are in different orders annoys me

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u/ezk3626 13d ago

Cool, cool... now divide by 3, 4 and 12.

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u/Slazman999 13d ago

Don't forget the furlong.

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u/TheBSQ 13d ago Starry

A reminder, the US does not use “Imperial” measurements.

The US uses US customary units, which are often identical to imperial, but not always.

One of the differences is that there are 128 US fluid ounces in a US gallon, whereas there are 160 Imperial fluid ounces (which are slightly smaller than US fluid ounces) in an Imperial gallon.

this meme says “Imperial” but lists US Customary values for the fluid measurement. So, either it’s mislabeled, or they use the wrong measurement system.

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u/IBuildBusinesses 13d ago

There’s a reason science around the world is based on metric.

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u/alagorn9 13d ago

Imperial system was created by cat on number keyboard

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u/zeusecutek 13d ago

NASA uses metric. More precise, and easier to calculate, so that they don't make their famous mistake again.

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u/draedek Stuff 12d ago

Britain invented and used the imperial system first, this whole operation was there idea.