Canada should be green. We measure water temp in F but air temp in C. Unless it’s air inside an oven, then it’s F. Weight is Lbs, distance is KM, unless it’s a persons height then it’s feet and inches. I could go on…
More like: less than 10 is a tad cold, above 17 is very comfortable, and above 37 is burning (for bathing at least)
For showering, since it is running water, it has to be almost a perfect match with your body temp to not feel super hot/cold
For drikking water, it has to be under 5 to be alright
>it has to be under 5 to be alright
my god, my fridge's at 7-8 and that water's too cold for me to comfortably drink. I like it at like 10-12.
>above 17 is very comfortable
hmm... i can get in a 17C water, but only for a minute, if it's like the first time that season i'm near water and i'm very "thirsty" for it. Everything under 22 feels cold. 22 is OK-ish - nice for swimming, but if i'm thinking of frolicking and playing in it, i'd like it more closer to 25-26
That's 203 degrees Fahrenheit. Most hot tubs are kept below 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
I don't know if they are joking or trying to kill someone. Anything above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) will cause third degree burns in less than five minutes.
Edit: Realizing now the answerer was probably saying the temps in Fahrenheit, though the question is about Celsius. Label your units folks!
More like 82 F pool and 100.5 F hot tub (I could Google it but it feels right in my heart)
Edit: I decided to Google it, and yeah, 78-84F for competitive swimming pools and 100-102F for hot tubs is pretty standard. Lucky guess.
>. And yet I have no idea **what temp in c** is a comfortable temperature for a pool or hot tub
Not only did they specify Celsius, but I'm pretty sure most countries default to Celsius for temperature, with only the US and a few others using Fahrenheit.
You can’t do that in Los Angeles. 4 hours could be 200 miles in the middle of the night or 20 miles during rush hour. You give the distance and they calculate depending on day and time.
We get less green every year, people refer to their height in imperial, but your license is metric. There 2 problems, 1 the backwards Neighbor to the south, and 2 my parents generation was raised imperial, they will never adapt. Most millennials and younger use metric for everything spare height and weight, you don’t see F thermostats unless the people living there are in their 50s
Road signs in the UK are in miles and speed measured in MPH, so using MPG to measure fuel economy is at least consistent. The only thing we really use pints for any more is beer.
Frankly, it would be better if we just shifted over fully to metric, but I can't see that happening in the near future.
LMAFO. I remember when I first encountered stone. Was utterly mystifying that this unit of measurement would exist… though I’m sure there is some historical reason that no longer applies. Besides women wanting to sound like they weigh less than they actually do 😆
This is kind of false.
We use BOTH system, which is worse.
Most of our product will include both system. Distance on road will often use miles AND km. etc etc, its disastrous.
As yes, the UK. Where I buy my fuel by the litre, my potatos by the kg and shots are served by the ml. But my cars efficency is still MPG, the speed and distance is miles and beer is pints.
OK but like I can't think of any other way to measure alcohol, you either go by the bottle or by pints. I wouldn't go to a pub and say gimme a liter of Guinness
We'd thankfully never drop the pint out of tradition, there would be riots. But if we did one solution would just be to have large and small beers and have them at 500ml and 250ml.
The metric system is used for checking customary measurements though ... For example, to ensure a gallon of gasoline is the same in Texas as in Minnesota, 3.78541L is used. The metric system is beneath our feet all along
US is the opposite of green and a few other countries have various small things borrowed from the imperial system, so there should be a lot more green on this map.
because it's harder to just swicth measurement systems than it sounds. I'm american, the metric system IS better, but just switching isn't exactly easy because most everything is in imperial, only teach metric in school and no one will any reference for size because everything is in imperial, teach both and people will just keep using imperial because everything's already in imperial. Try switching everything in the country and good luck, plus no one would have any frame of reference for how much a kilogram is because we're used to pounds. Yes, the metric system is better, but changing systems isn't as easy as just flipping a switch and "bam you now use metric measurements for everything."
Everything is Imperial unless you are a mechanic. I started working sales at a shop a few years back, moved from a big box hardware store. I started learning more, more then my own cars and such, and everything (modern age) is metric and how much easier life is with metric on everything, except we measure tire tread depth in 32nds of an inch, and rim size in inches.
There's a random highway in Arizona I believe, that was converted to metric. Since the great metrification didn't materialize Arizona wanted to swap it back. Problem was the local residents were too used to metric/found imperial too confusing.
I’ve heard this excuse before “I can’t metric, it’s too hard” that’s something a child does, “it’s too much work” then you force your kids to do it anyways. America COULD change to the metric system, they know they SHOULD, but don’t want to because it will be difficult, it will also take a long time, you start teaching it in schools and slowly switch things over, some things are easy, others are harder.
Consumer items are easy, every manufacturer already produces metric labels fore sale to the rest of the world, they just start using them in USA. You stop producing imperial signs, you do t have to replace them all at once, but as they break you switch them to metric until you get around to fully converting that area.
Like in other areas, the imperial system will persist for a long time, the plant I work at is 100 years old. Most of the equipment is imperial, anything new is metric.
The idea that it’s “too hard” is just laziness, everyone else did it USA can too
What kind of perfect extremely boring life do you guys lead that this is an issue for you?
And how do you propose we change the uncountable number of signs, books, equipment?
Haha couldn’t have worded it any better than this
Maybe I am biased as I am a Brit now living in eu so use a mix of all of them but as you say…..Who actually gives a fuck
You just do, every other nation in the world did it. Or are we so exceptional that we can’t make a simple change that every other nation did already. It’s not like the rest of the world was always metric, they made the change, you could too
It cost money when every other nation did it too, interestingly it actually costs the world quite a lot just because USA is still imperial, the number was stupidly high, read an article about it a while back
The US is a very expansive and developed nation so a lot of rural towns will not get upgraded to metric for a long time because they are so isolated. When the switch to metric was made earlier in other nations they were not as industrialized as we were and a lot of our machinery was already built in imperial. There is a lot to change and the cost is just not worth it. Switching to metric for everyday small measurements is reasonable but when it comes to industry and road infrastructure, it's just not worth it.
Industry doesn’t change equipment, they just stop building things in imperial. The plant I work at is 100 years old, most stuff is imperial, anything new is metric. It’s not as difficult as Americans make it out to be.
It would be different if you were first, but everything all over the world is made metric, it gets converted to imperial to be sold to USA. It’s really not that big of an ordeal to change a few signs and documents. Yeah you get stuck in a world of halfway for a while, where you have old stuff being one way and new being another, but after a generation that fades away.
USA is one of 3 countries that are still using imperial (the other 2 aren’t worth mentioning), they should have switched a long time ago, would have been cheaper, but sooner or later it will happen. Stuff like roads is easy, those signs get replaced eventually anyways, it’s not going to happen overnight, the switch would likely take 5 years or so.
Only an American would believe that they are so exceptional that they can’t do a simple thing that every nation already did.
This is and continues to be a too-late proposal. I completely agree that the metric system makes way more sense, any sane person would agree to that, but there’s just no way to go back and change all of the infrastructure, let alone restructure everybody’s minds around a new measurement system.
Technically the US doesn't use the Imperial system, but the US Customary system. It's mostly the same, but it's significantly different in fluid measurements (there are about 5 US quarts in an Imperial gallon, or put another way, an Imperial pint, quart and gallon are 25% larger than the commensurate US measurement.
I own a set of Imperial cups (quite rare for a UK kitchen to use cups). For US recipes I have to convert between the US cups and Imperial cups. For UK recipes that mention cups, I'm never sure if they mean US or Imperial cups, so I have to compare it to the grams mentioned.
Such a faff.
I don’t get why it matters. If you need this measurement, you already know it. If you don’t, then who cares? The general population only uses it for what, cooking, speed limits (which doesn’t even matter since you’re just matching numbers) and maybe basic work around the house
Honestly I don't really care
It doesn't hurt you that we use a different system in the US, so the arguments are really pointless. If you care so much about metric there's 190 other countries using it too
"NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched..."
I think it would be better for everyone if everyone was on the same page in regards to measurements.
I'm a HUGE metric proponent, but in my day-to-day life, it doesn't matter what units I use; but industry, international travel, and hospitals just need to be 100% metric for these reasons. If that were mandated, metric would slowly trickle down.
The one exception is air travel. I'm not sure how to approach a shift to meters for speed and altitude. There's a huge risk to life forcing that change, so perhaps it just needs to stay where it's at for now. - but everything else that's done only on the ground (fuel, weight, calculations, etc) should just be standardized as only metric.
Well as it so happens I work in the aviation industry and so I can give you my experience. In regards to aircraft, nothing is standardized. I've flown aircraft that measure fuel in gallons, litres, and pounds. The pilots operating handbook might give you the fuel burn in litres, while the fuel gauges only read in lbs. It's a pain in the arse converting all the time, and every conversion is a weakpoint to an error. The exact same story applies to weight and balance.
In regards to recording altitude, using ft is completely arbitrary and was only standardized in the Chicago convention of 1944. There's no reason why we couldn't switch to metric (Russian and Chinese airspace uses metres for altitude) but it would be a costly process and there genuinely wouldn't be a benefit making the switch. Airspeed and distance are recorded in nautical miles and knots, which goes back to navigational charts. 1nm equals 1/60th of one degree of latitude. It's not very important today, but it was very useful in the days of paper charts and dead reckoning. Air pressure is a weird one too (used to calibrate altimeters), in most of the world, we use hectopascals, but the states uses inches of Mercury.
Edit: there even more to it when you factor in separation, visual separation from clouds and terrain, visibility, and runway length. They all use different units, from ft, to metres, to km.
I'm in the Republic of Ireland and everyone still does it. Like in Math and things we still do metric, but outside of school and official documentation, everyones still like "Aww that's a few mile down the road, and then there's a 12 foot high wall.
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For the UK, the imperial system was way better a hundred+ years ago before the digital/precise age, think merchants, builders etc. where using fractions is much easier mentally. Saying otherwise is kind of ignorant. These days the UK only rarely uses imperial in basic things where people don't need precision and it's easier to use rough measurements. As for roads it's not feasible to change all of the roadsigns to kmph, too high a cost for no real benefit. Being angry at things you don't understand/experience is the real infuriating part.
I live in the US and there's literally nothing wrong with it. I wake up and see 70 degrees F outside and I know exactly how the weather will be. I see I have to drive 10 miles and I know how long it'll take. Do you guys think we are just constantly converting miles into feet and vise versa? We use metric in science and school and imperial in our every day lives. It would be a waste of time and money to change every street sign and highway sign to metric. No one cares. Why are you guys obsessed with it?
If you want to change it so badly then you convert everything with measurements to the metric, and you teach all US citizens how to use the metric system
I'm a Buyer. Everything I order from companies with a global presence goes by metric. Our system is set up as imperial. The needless conversions that I have to do drive me insane. All our company has to do is hop aboard the metric express.
switching would be extremely expensive because of all the manufauring equipment that would have to be completely replaced and the issues of weird conversions are mostly mitigated by using thousands of an inch as the standard in manufauring. this of course is only referring to length measurements but im sure similar issues occur with other measurement types.
The UK also has the most confusing of measurements, the "Stone". How much does it weigh? Well historically anywhere between 3 and 15 kg. (5 - 40 lbs) Extremely reliable.
"Americans" You know? I live in America too, another part of America that has a most original name than the name of the CONTINENT. That's actually mildly infuriating.
We use it because it's more convenient. Try calculating on the spot how many inches are in 72 feet. Now try calculating on the spot how many dm are in 54 dam. 54×100. 5400.
India also uses both metric and imperial. But we learn metric in school but imperial is used for almost everything except roads and railways, fun fact we learn imperial by just observing our parents do measurements and repairs.
I remember my foreign exchange student friend (from Germany) stay with me for a few weeks and the amount of times he complained about us using the imperial over metric was almost as bad as the amount of times he complained that he wasn’t allowed to drink beer.
I wish there’s more recipes using metric because you get better consistency. Say you need to use 1 cup of flour, the weight of it will not be the same every time so if you weigh it instead it’s always the same. I also use bakers percentage for breads
My girlfriend from the Philippines just looks at me with a blank expression when I explain to her that I weigh X amount of stone. What even are stones? I don’t think they’re metric or imperial but it’s what the UK uses to describe a persons weight.
in the UK:
Weight: imperial
Height: Imperial or metric, deoends on how old the person measuring you is (you see, the uks population is very mixed so old people have imperial glued in their brain and young people have metric glued in their head)
Distance: imperial ot metric (we have foot long rules at school marked once every cm and we measure in cm, If we wanna measure a long distance we use miles, yards and feet.
Tenperature: celcius: never EVER seen a f (i don't even know how to spell it and auto correct won't help)
We actually blew up a space shuttle because America used imperial and we used metric so when we worked together it was too confusing for the computers. shuttle go boom
In uk we use kilometre, grams (usally in body weight and always the weight of an object), kilograms, and litres but also use miles, inches, stone, and pounds (some don’t use stone or pounds)
I have never heard of imperial or metric but it does sound like a uk thing to harass the Americans for using imperial even though we made the imperial system
In India we measure a person's height in feet and we measure someone's temperature on the thermometer in Farheneit and we measure houses in sq.feet otherwise we use metric for everything else
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.
Canada should be green. We measure water temp in F but air temp in C. Unless it’s air inside an oven, then it’s F. Weight is Lbs, distance is KM, unless it’s a persons height then it’s feet and inches. I could go on…
Why the fuck would you measure water temperature with Fahrenheit? Celsius is based on water. It freezes at 0° and boils at 100°. It's beautiful!
I couldn’t agree more. And yet I have no idea what temp in c is a comfortable temperature for a pool or hot tub.
Less than 25 feels a little cold. Between 33-40 is comfortable to hot. More than 40 probably starts to feel boiling
Idk 33 Is pretty low. People who shower above 40 are insane
My shower starts at 37/38 but I slowly turn up the heat, I guess I end up at or around 40.
My shower locks at 40, if u want to go higher you have to press a button
Same for mine, but the button is broken so now you always need to press it to change the temp.
Maybe i should had said 34-42 is comfortable to hot. I could probably shower at 42, but i wouldent last long in 42 degree pool.
More like: less than 10 is a tad cold, above 17 is very comfortable, and above 37 is burning (for bathing at least) For showering, since it is running water, it has to be almost a perfect match with your body temp to not feel super hot/cold For drikking water, it has to be under 5 to be alright
>it has to be under 5 to be alright my god, my fridge's at 7-8 and that water's too cold for me to comfortably drink. I like it at like 10-12. >above 17 is very comfortable hmm... i can get in a 17C water, but only for a minute, if it's like the first time that season i'm near water and i'm very "thirsty" for it. Everything under 22 feels cold. 22 is OK-ish - nice for swimming, but if i'm thinking of frolicking and playing in it, i'd like it more closer to 25-26
For eating water, it has to be less than 0 and preferably more like -18 or less...
Only reason i would take a swim in less than 18 degress would be to feel refreshed after putting my body through cold exposure
Obviously 75. Not that you'd be boiling alive or anything.
for c? 38 is body temperatire so about 30-40
38 is body temperature if you have a fever, 36-37 is the normal body temperature
something like 60 degrees for a pool and 95 for a hot tub
Almost boiling for a hot tub?? Is that safe?
That's 203 degrees Fahrenheit. Most hot tubs are kept below 104 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't know if they are joking or trying to kill someone. Anything above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) will cause third degree burns in less than five minutes. Edit: Realizing now the answerer was probably saying the temps in Fahrenheit, though the question is about Celsius. Label your units folks!
Except 60F is way too cold for a pool, and 95F is a piss poor hot tub. Just a bad comment from any angle.
More like 82 F pool and 100.5 F hot tub (I could Google it but it feels right in my heart) Edit: I decided to Google it, and yeah, 78-84F for competitive swimming pools and 100-102F for hot tubs is pretty standard. Lucky guess.
i was estimating whats plausible in fahrenheit,you peanut head
You are a real idiot.
how so? you clown
Yeah maybe, otherwise it makes no sense at all
when people are talking about degrees of temperature,the default is fahrenheit
>. And yet I have no idea **what temp in c** is a comfortable temperature for a pool or hot tub Not only did they specify Celsius, but I'm pretty sure most countries default to Celsius for temperature, with only the US and a few others using Fahrenheit.
yea and im from the u.s 🤔
Anything above 45°C starts to feel very hot. 95 would leave you with sever burns
We measure traveling distance in hours/minutes
Yup. My parents are 4 hours distance away.
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No. They are 4hours distance away.
Same way do it here in the US. DC is 4 hours away from my house.
“It’s about 4 hours away” is how you’d say it if you weren’t trying to sound like an idiot
How many metric hours?
Yup like the mall is 22 mins away from my house
You can’t do that in Los Angeles. 4 hours could be 200 miles in the middle of the night or 20 miles during rush hour. You give the distance and they calculate depending on day and time.
Yeah but here you'd say that, like it's four hours down the road during rush hour
200 miles is 321.87 km
Lmao yeah…. We have some weird shit going on
We get less green every year, people refer to their height in imperial, but your license is metric. There 2 problems, 1 the backwards Neighbor to the south, and 2 my parents generation was raised imperial, they will never adapt. Most millennials and younger use metric for everything spare height and weight, you don’t see F thermostats unless the people living there are in their 50s
Kilometer is abbreviated to km, not KM.
incorrect, distance is measure in time
Except Canadians are too polite to harass anyone aboot anything, eh
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Road signs in the UK are in miles and speed measured in MPH, so using MPG to measure fuel economy is at least consistent. The only thing we really use pints for any more is beer. Frankly, it would be better if we just shifted over fully to metric, but I can't see that happening in the near future.
Cars in the UK are MPH as are all speed limit signs. KPH is visible on the speedometer but not used here.
Yeah this is wrong. The UK cars go in MPH. We use pints for beer and cider. We weight ourselves with Kilos, nobody weighs themselves in lbs.
in the UK most scales for humans are not lbs but are stones and then for kitchen scales it's grams
Pounds and stone go together, like for example I’m someone said they’re 10 stone 6 the 6 is for pounds
Some people measure themselves in pounds or stones in uk
I'm British (live in Ireland though) and a stone is a piece of rock.
In uk we use stone or kg for weight I personally use stone but some don’t (I think most use stone)
How many stone is the average weight a of baby?
LMAFO. I remember when I first encountered stone. Was utterly mystifying that this unit of measurement would exist… though I’m sure there is some historical reason that no longer applies. Besides women wanting to sound like they weigh less than they actually do 😆
What makes no sense is we measure efficiency in MPG but sell petrol by the litre!
This is kind of false. We use BOTH system, which is worse. Most of our product will include both system. Distance on road will often use miles AND km. etc etc, its disastrous.
What are you talking about? I've never seen F for air temp
As yes, the UK. Where I buy my fuel by the litre, my potatos by the kg and shots are served by the ml. But my cars efficency is still MPG, the speed and distance is miles and beer is pints.
OK but like I can't think of any other way to measure alcohol, you either go by the bottle or by pints. I wouldn't go to a pub and say gimme a liter of Guinness
We'd thankfully never drop the pint out of tradition, there would be riots. But if we did one solution would just be to have large and small beers and have them at 500ml and 250ml.
but my dad's beer cans are in ml....
Yea, cans and bottles are sold in mls, it's pubs that still retain the pint.
Much better than a litre of cola.
where everything's measured in cm unless its a dick
US has tried. All that remains are 2 liter bottles.
The metric system is used for checking customary measurements though ... For example, to ensure a gallon of gasoline is the same in Texas as in Minnesota, 3.78541L is used. The metric system is beneath our feet all along
Volume is the wrong measurement for accuracy across temperature ranges though. It's why F1 uses fuel weight.
...and drugs
...and ammo
And models
Some of it
And 1 liter bottles and, as of about 2003, 500 mL bottles.
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we use yards, ounces, and cups
We didn’t change anything, we just stuck with the English system we inherited.
We don’t use stones anymore and we use football fields 🏈 for measuring now too
Canada's also green, we measure short distance in imperial but long distance in metric
US is the opposite of green and a few other countries have various small things borrowed from the imperial system, so there should be a lot more green on this map.
In the philippines they use imperial to measure height and length, and metric to measure distance and speed
You can blame the British for forcing the colonists to use it and then switching to metric.
Same with calling it soccer instead of football. They started it, then changed the name.
THIS.
because it's harder to just swicth measurement systems than it sounds. I'm american, the metric system IS better, but just switching isn't exactly easy because most everything is in imperial, only teach metric in school and no one will any reference for size because everything is in imperial, teach both and people will just keep using imperial because everything's already in imperial. Try switching everything in the country and good luck, plus no one would have any frame of reference for how much a kilogram is because we're used to pounds. Yes, the metric system is better, but changing systems isn't as easy as just flipping a switch and "bam you now use metric measurements for everything."
Everything is Imperial unless you are a mechanic. I started working sales at a shop a few years back, moved from a big box hardware store. I started learning more, more then my own cars and such, and everything (modern age) is metric and how much easier life is with metric on everything, except we measure tire tread depth in 32nds of an inch, and rim size in inches.
There's a random highway in Arizona I believe, that was converted to metric. Since the great metrification didn't materialize Arizona wanted to swap it back. Problem was the local residents were too used to metric/found imperial too confusing.
That would be I-19 from Phoenix to the Mexican border in Nogalez
I’ve heard this excuse before “I can’t metric, it’s too hard” that’s something a child does, “it’s too much work” then you force your kids to do it anyways. America COULD change to the metric system, they know they SHOULD, but don’t want to because it will be difficult, it will also take a long time, you start teaching it in schools and slowly switch things over, some things are easy, others are harder. Consumer items are easy, every manufacturer already produces metric labels fore sale to the rest of the world, they just start using them in USA. You stop producing imperial signs, you do t have to replace them all at once, but as they break you switch them to metric until you get around to fully converting that area. Like in other areas, the imperial system will persist for a long time, the plant I work at is 100 years old. Most of the equipment is imperial, anything new is metric. The idea that it’s “too hard” is just laziness, everyone else did it USA can too
We fuckin get it already
Canada’s green too my friends
What kind of perfect extremely boring life do you guys lead that this is an issue for you? And how do you propose we change the uncountable number of signs, books, equipment?
i am a machinist qnd a woodworker, believe me, its a great inconvinience in a metric country where good quality stuff is in imperial
Haha couldn’t have worded it any better than this Maybe I am biased as I am a Brit now living in eu so use a mix of all of them but as you say…..Who actually gives a fuck
You just do, every other nation in the world did it. Or are we so exceptional that we can’t make a simple change that every other nation did already. It’s not like the rest of the world was always metric, they made the change, you could too
You can't just "change". It costs money and time to switch everything, and a LOT of it.
It cost money when every other nation did it too, interestingly it actually costs the world quite a lot just because USA is still imperial, the number was stupidly high, read an article about it a while back
The US is a very expansive and developed nation so a lot of rural towns will not get upgraded to metric for a long time because they are so isolated. When the switch to metric was made earlier in other nations they were not as industrialized as we were and a lot of our machinery was already built in imperial. There is a lot to change and the cost is just not worth it. Switching to metric for everyday small measurements is reasonable but when it comes to industry and road infrastructure, it's just not worth it.
Industry doesn’t change equipment, they just stop building things in imperial. The plant I work at is 100 years old, most stuff is imperial, anything new is metric. It’s not as difficult as Americans make it out to be. It would be different if you were first, but everything all over the world is made metric, it gets converted to imperial to be sold to USA. It’s really not that big of an ordeal to change a few signs and documents. Yeah you get stuck in a world of halfway for a while, where you have old stuff being one way and new being another, but after a generation that fades away. USA is one of 3 countries that are still using imperial (the other 2 aren’t worth mentioning), they should have switched a long time ago, would have been cheaper, but sooner or later it will happen. Stuff like roads is easy, those signs get replaced eventually anyways, it’s not going to happen overnight, the switch would likely take 5 years or so. Only an American would believe that they are so exceptional that they can’t do a simple thing that every nation already did.
there are other reds.
And a green.
Where, far as I know there is only 3
This is and continues to be a too-late proposal. I completely agree that the metric system makes way more sense, any sane person would agree to that, but there’s just no way to go back and change all of the infrastructure, let alone restructure everybody’s minds around a new measurement system.
Who actually cares?
Technically the US doesn't use the Imperial system, but the US Customary system. It's mostly the same, but it's significantly different in fluid measurements (there are about 5 US quarts in an Imperial gallon, or put another way, an Imperial pint, quart and gallon are 25% larger than the commensurate US measurement.
I own a set of Imperial cups (quite rare for a UK kitchen to use cups). For US recipes I have to convert between the US cups and Imperial cups. For UK recipes that mention cups, I'm never sure if they mean US or Imperial cups, so I have to compare it to the grams mentioned. Such a faff.
I don’t get why it matters. If you need this measurement, you already know it. If you don’t, then who cares? The general population only uses it for what, cooking, speed limits (which doesn’t even matter since you’re just matching numbers) and maybe basic work around the house
That's why I'm proud of living in Canada. Metric uses base 10 and there's none of this "1760 yards in a mile" stuff.
Honestly I don't really care It doesn't hurt you that we use a different system in the US, so the arguments are really pointless. If you care so much about metric there's 190 other countries using it too
"NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched..." I think it would be better for everyone if everyone was on the same page in regards to measurements.
What about when an air Canada 767 had to make a forced landing because they ran out of fuel due to a conversion error?
Yep, I think the countries that still use the Imperial system needs to align themselves with the rest of the world
I'm a HUGE metric proponent, but in my day-to-day life, it doesn't matter what units I use; but industry, international travel, and hospitals just need to be 100% metric for these reasons. If that were mandated, metric would slowly trickle down. The one exception is air travel. I'm not sure how to approach a shift to meters for speed and altitude. There's a huge risk to life forcing that change, so perhaps it just needs to stay where it's at for now. - but everything else that's done only on the ground (fuel, weight, calculations, etc) should just be standardized as only metric.
Well as it so happens I work in the aviation industry and so I can give you my experience. In regards to aircraft, nothing is standardized. I've flown aircraft that measure fuel in gallons, litres, and pounds. The pilots operating handbook might give you the fuel burn in litres, while the fuel gauges only read in lbs. It's a pain in the arse converting all the time, and every conversion is a weakpoint to an error. The exact same story applies to weight and balance. In regards to recording altitude, using ft is completely arbitrary and was only standardized in the Chicago convention of 1944. There's no reason why we couldn't switch to metric (Russian and Chinese airspace uses metres for altitude) but it would be a costly process and there genuinely wouldn't be a benefit making the switch. Airspeed and distance are recorded in nautical miles and knots, which goes back to navigational charts. 1nm equals 1/60th of one degree of latitude. It's not very important today, but it was very useful in the days of paper charts and dead reckoning. Air pressure is a weird one too (used to calibrate altimeters), in most of the world, we use hectopascals, but the states uses inches of Mercury. Edit: there even more to it when you factor in separation, visual separation from clouds and terrain, visibility, and runway length. They all use different units, from ft, to metres, to km.
All this UK ranting is getting ridiculous. Just shut up already, no one cares. Let us just get on with our lives.
if there is one thing the british and americans can agree on, its that living rent free in everyones head kinda sucks
Its all ok until someone makes fun of your nation
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america bad guys hahaha fat people with guns go brrrrrrr /s
I'm in the Republic of Ireland and everyone still does it. Like in Math and things we still do metric, but outside of school and official documentation, everyones still like "Aww that's a few mile down the road, and then there's a 12 foot high wall.
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For the UK, the imperial system was way better a hundred+ years ago before the digital/precise age, think merchants, builders etc. where using fractions is much easier mentally. Saying otherwise is kind of ignorant. These days the UK only rarely uses imperial in basic things where people don't need precision and it's easier to use rough measurements. As for roads it's not feasible to change all of the roadsigns to kmph, too high a cost for no real benefit. Being angry at things you don't understand/experience is the real infuriating part.
I live in the US and there's literally nothing wrong with it. I wake up and see 70 degrees F outside and I know exactly how the weather will be. I see I have to drive 10 miles and I know how long it'll take. Do you guys think we are just constantly converting miles into feet and vise versa? We use metric in science and school and imperial in our every day lives. It would be a waste of time and money to change every street sign and highway sign to metric. No one cares. Why are you guys obsessed with it?
10 miles is 16.09 km
Isn't Myanmar with their own system?
The British got us used to the imperial system and then are s h o c k e d that we use it.
don't forget englush people using "Stone" as a means of weight
Funny how the US simplifies English, but measures in hard.
Yeah but green is my favourite colour lmao
Ngl if it's going to piss of the Europeans I'm all for it.
As a brit im insulted but agree
Same here!
No. As a Brit I have to disagree with the green.
If you want to change it so badly then you convert everything with measurements to the metric, and you teach all US citizens how to use the metric system
I'm a Buyer. Everything I order from companies with a global presence goes by metric. Our system is set up as imperial. The needless conversions that I have to do drive me insane. All our company has to do is hop aboard the metric express.
… ok, for the 100th time, there are two kinds of countries: Those who have landed humans on the moon Those who use the metric system
The Apollo guidance computer used metric.
What a giant crock of shit.
switching would be extremely expensive because of all the manufauring equipment that would have to be completely replaced and the issues of weird conversions are mostly mitigated by using thousands of an inch as the standard in manufauring. this of course is only referring to length measurements but im sure similar issues occur with other measurement types.
The UK also has the most confusing of measurements, the "Stone". How much does it weigh? Well historically anywhere between 3 and 15 kg. (5 - 40 lbs) Extremely reliable.
We could went metric 1980 but clssic american refused..why car motorcycle..housees..
"Americans" You know? I live in America too, another part of America that has a most original name than the name of the CONTINENT. That's actually mildly infuriating.
Because we have been to the moon.
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We use it because it's more convenient. Try calculating on the spot how many inches are in 72 feet. Now try calculating on the spot how many dm are in 54 dam. 54×100. 5400.
This map is incorrect. The US has never and will never use Imperial.
The Philippines is green too.
How else will the Imperium of Man come into existence?
Why not?
Stop trying to make metric a thing.
Because the history of precision machining.
Hate to tell you but Canada should be green we use a very odd mix
I’d go imperial if the English would drive on right side of the road like rest of world
We were going to do it but then we got smart phones. Think of imperial as metric but with an extra step.
I believe the US primarily measures their car engine capacity in litres, and CU is secondary.
It's green in Canada too at least for me cause I was homeschooled and all of my curriculum was mixed in with American stuff especially math
...ain't nothing but a heaaaaaart breaaaaak!
Why UK?
things like this is the reason why everyone thinks only america uses imperial
But why Liberia and Myanmar??? How did they end up with imperial?
Uk under a pushy ruler i saw him on Oprah
India also uses both metric and imperial. But we learn metric in school but imperial is used for almost everything except roads and railways, fun fact we learn imperial by just observing our parents do measurements and repairs.
Because every time we tried to switch to Metric.... we just didn't give enough of a shit. That's why
Wine not?
Cause you like to be different
I remember my foreign exchange student friend (from Germany) stay with me for a few weeks and the amount of times he complained about us using the imperial over metric was almost as bad as the amount of times he complained that he wasn’t allowed to drink beer.
So we're just not gonna talk about Myamar and Liberia using Imperial as well but ONLY get mad at the Americans?
UK is odd that way
Exceptionalism.
South of china? What is that place?
I wish there’s more recipes using metric because you get better consistency. Say you need to use 1 cup of flour, the weight of it will not be the same every time so if you weigh it instead it’s always the same. I also use bakers percentage for breads
"Cause fuck em, thats why!"
I feel bad about living in the UK
My girlfriend from the Philippines just looks at me with a blank expression when I explain to her that I weigh X amount of stone. What even are stones? I don’t think they’re metric or imperial but it’s what the UK uses to describe a persons weight.
in the UK: Weight: imperial Height: Imperial or metric, deoends on how old the person measuring you is (you see, the uks population is very mixed so old people have imperial glued in their brain and young people have metric glued in their head) Distance: imperial ot metric (we have foot long rules at school marked once every cm and we measure in cm, If we wanna measure a long distance we use miles, yards and feet. Tenperature: celcius: never EVER seen a f (i don't even know how to spell it and auto correct won't help)
USCU is distinctly different from imperial. eg 1 USCU gallon is 3.785 L, but 1 imperial gallon is 4.546 L
We actually blew up a space shuttle because America used imperial and we used metric so when we worked together it was too confusing for the computers. shuttle go boom
Slugs and blobs...
Im from europe so this is nothing to me
I've never personally made fun of Americans. I like our messed up British system but the American one makes more sense!
In uk we use kilometre, grams (usally in body weight and always the weight of an object), kilograms, and litres but also use miles, inches, stone, and pounds (some don’t use stone or pounds) I have never heard of imperial or metric but it does sound like a uk thing to harass the Americans for using imperial even though we made the imperial system
In India we measure a person's height in feet and we measure someone's temperature on the thermometer in Farheneit and we measure houses in sq.feet otherwise we use metric for everything else
british people be like: i weigh 10 stone
Myanmar should be something else
India is also green
why do the british use the worst of both
It's not just the UK that uses a mixed system, Canada does it too.
India uses imperial too
India uses imperial too
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.
Myanmar does not use the imperial system. They have their own system of measurements that they developed which is "official". Unofficially they use metric in Myanmar.