Why Americans still use old imperial system and brag about it. Doesnt it makes them too primitive. What do you feel
There are some cultural attachments to Imperial units (changing country songs about riding for miles on trains to kms just doesn’t work), but in general, yes, it’s just backwardness and anti-intellectualism.
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Point taken, let me work on that for next Sprint
It's not about being primitive, but this country loves complications. Measuring stuff in terms of lbs and oz, fl. oz, where things are not even with 1s, 10s, 100s but some odd fucking 16.4 units per head or so, which slows down people when they try to make some calculations in the head.
One theory I’ve heard: A lot of countries switched during a war/revolution. We haven’t had a real war in a long time.
How about world war 2? Oh sorry I forgot it wasn't a real war
Uh... What about Vietnam war?
Not nearly as primitive as Blind TC units.
coz we are different
And foolish
Around the time the rest of the world switched, there was a significant US movement of people who believed that imperial measurements were derived from the bible, and that Metric was against God. I wish I was kidding.
We are not alone. Mighty Liberia also uses imperial. The real answer is that it’s hard to change a huge population without a convenient bottleneck. When I was a kid I got to see the era of double signage on the roads and on packaging. We did that for a decade and then gave up; people just weren’t moving outside of the sciences (which moved totally) and manufacturing (which moved but also is hampered by legacy). In the end, once the industries moved, who cares? As a USAian I will also admit that I find many of the metric measures tedious for every day life. A meter is too big and a centimeter is too small; volumetric measures are otoh just fine; Celsius loses precision without a decimal and there’s a huge difference when you get to around 40C about that extra degree. People don’t like using decimal measures and that goes for meters as well. Metric would have been unambiguously better if the core units had even smaller allowing decimal-less abbreviated measures with higher precision in the range of values that humans care most about. Oh well, about a hundred years late for that.
This is an interesting argument and I’ve heard this before, it does make sense if you haven't used metric extensively. However, once you start using metric in everyday activities, you’ll come to realize that about 25mm is an inch (don’t think about it as 2.5 cm) - and 30 Cm or 300 mm is about a foot. You don't have to measure things in terms of meters - that's the beauty of the metric system. This is the same with volume/any other unit of measurement. You have to mix up the milli/micro/kilo/whatever interchangeably in order for it to be relatable. Give metric an honest shot, it does have a bit of a learning curve - totally worth it in the end.
Dude. Duuuuude. Seriously. You complain about using decimals. Really???????? WTF! You use fucking fractions with imperial. Gimme a break, really. You clearly never used metric.
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Not as primitive as your English lmao
I dont need to perfect English, its just for conversation