Imperial vs Metric

[handle]

Sick of it! WTF uses imperial! And Why?
You say you got 1/4 Oz ! Wtf, then you gotta change it to Grams anyway

Countries Using the Imperial System​

So many countries use the metric system, it might leave you wondering, “Who still uses the Imperial system?” Only three countries in the world use an Imperial system of measurement:

• Liberia
• Myanmar
• United States of America

 

[fidelis]

RAHHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER

 

[pshcrmth]

Don't tell me in United States of a'Murrricka ppl as well telling their weight in so called 'stones' and 'pounds' ?!?

..that's so damn awkward...

....

 

[fidelis]

i heard pounds but never stones :x

 

[pshcrmth]

1stone = 6.35029kg

 

[handle]

I know aye, the question is who is copying who?

• Liberia
• Myanmar
• United States of America

obviously we mount our horses from the left hand side.

 

[fidelis]

afaik the USA started it..? no clue why the other 2 countries do it tho :x

imperial isn't that bad... it's impractical but as an american i use it in conversation since that's what i/most people are used to. i like to use metric for science stuff though!

 

[miner21]

Even in the US our hospitals dose meds in Metric

 

[handle]

To me it just makes sense to use the metric system.
The metric system is the U.S preferred system of measurement for trade and commerce.

 

[miner21]

The only thing I still suck with the metric system is kilometers. I cant visualize it as a distance or speed. Everything else I got down

 

[handle]

True. They way I gauge it is there's two houses on our farm and they are 1km away from each other. Pretty rough, but gave me a visual sense of the distance, OR 2.5 times around the Olympic track, 400m + 400m + 200m
Speed is like 0.6 something like that. If I'm doing 100kph I think that's 60mph. OR the speed of sound is 1220kph vs 770mph roughly.

 

[pshcrmth]

Indeed, perfect in to point lad! And imperial system gives You that odd numbers, not easy to calculate compare to even numbers in metric system.

 

[pshcrmth]

Not only those 3 above in UK is same, or even much more complicated, especially weight and length measurement its thing which my brain still didn't get used to...