I wouldn't exactly call this a "system" ... its more like a pile. The imperial pile of measurements.

@StefanGruber

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody knows, that 1/12 of a system is a pile. 3 piles is a mess. 8 messes is a jumble. 9 jumbles ...

@SH19922x

4 жыл бұрын

"Can i please buy half a goats worth of cheese and a 3 quarters of an adult deer". Thats the kind of stupid shit that i think of when forced to use imperial at work, fuck imperial

@danielasampaio1076

3 жыл бұрын

I laughted really loud

@Anvilshock

3 жыл бұрын

One imperial pile is precisely one metric crapton. Plus about 10 %.

@lonlonjptheking5845

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bunch of mumbo Jumbo's what it is

what

@whitherwhence

6 жыл бұрын

Ever

@icanbanter527

6 жыл бұрын

ever

@draconiclucard3738

5 жыл бұрын

the

@Panice111

5 жыл бұрын

Ohyesyesyes, i want to say it too: Ever!

@eidolor

5 жыл бұрын

Am I too late to be part of the moment? Everr

And this was just for the distance measurements 😂

@yoshilovesyoshi

5 жыл бұрын

Wait till you hear weight

@rosiefay7283

5 жыл бұрын

@@yoshilovesyoshi Or volume -- with fl oz, pints and gallons which have no useful relation to cubic inches or cubic feet.

@patricktho6546

4 жыл бұрын

At least the time is the same

@aPenguinWarrior

4 жыл бұрын

@@rosiefay7283 Just found this video after searching "why is the imperial system so bad" because I just read that a gallon is 231 cu in. What in the fuck kind of conversion is that? Who thought this would simplify anything? I'm irrationally upset by this.

@axellea1592

4 жыл бұрын

@@aPenguinWarrior since it has in the name "imperial" it might be some about imperials,like feet could be the measure of the feet of an emperor,I dunno.

How to make a measurement system: Step 1: Define 1 base unit (doesn't have to be very precise) Step 2: Pick a random noun from a dictionary Step 3: Throw a dice Step 4: Connect the number from the dice with the base unit to get a new unit which has the name from the dictionary Repeat Steps 2-4 as many times as you like.

@Anonymous-df8it

3 жыл бұрын

So metric is lucky because the random nouns just so happened to form a pattern and the dice always rolled a ten. What were the chances! Compare this with the Imperial system which is disgusting filth!

@lagg1e

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-df8it I think the europeans cheated on this one. They pretended to throw dice but then got 10 for every single measurement, and used latin and greek words that mean 10, hundred and thousand.

@dargus1718

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-df8it You displayed your IQ twice in this comment section - especially with your second comment: "It was only a joke .. trust me .. I AM NOT STUPID. :-("

@arcioko2142

2 жыл бұрын

@@dargus1718 it was pretty obvious he was joking, but i didnt laugh

@dargus1718

2 жыл бұрын

@@arcioko2142 Your feelings don't change facts.

I will always use metric. Every inch of the way.

@J00rcek

8 жыл бұрын

+Kishore Shenoy I agree. You could say the metric system wins by a country mile

@alexandriariley5209

8 жыл бұрын

+J00rcek Metric works especially well with vertical length. It Fahrenheit well.

@ardenvarley-twyman8352

8 жыл бұрын

Centimeter. You mean centimeter.

@JimFortune

8 жыл бұрын

+Kishore Shenoy The whole nine yards? Well, in for a penny, in for a pound.

@alexandriariley5209

8 жыл бұрын

Jim Fortune Like for 1343r sp33k.

Nothing like the accuracy of barley corns. 1 barley corn has the exact length of a barley corn plus minus 60% of the length of a barley corn. Splendid.

@wolfsokaya

4 жыл бұрын

Just like asking how big fish one caught or how big his penis is. :D

@chnacr2

3 жыл бұрын

The Planck length must be redefined based on barleycorn units

@sasdagreat8052

2 жыл бұрын

@@chnacr21.9e-33 barleycorns ± 60% uncertainty

@chnacr2

2 жыл бұрын

@@sasdagreat8052 You deserve a Nobel Prize for your work

@daisy3702

2 жыл бұрын

My teacher showed us this video so I went and found it yes I thought how accurate can barley corns be. However, the imperil system was made while Britain was mostly agricultural which meant that most barley corns were in fact exactly the same length

And the SI equivalents for all these measurements: Twips: 0.02 mm Point: 0.35 mm Line: 2.11 cm Picas: 4.23 mm Barleycorn: 8.47 mm Digit: 1.91 cm Inch: 2.54 cm Stick: 5.08 cm Nail: 5.72 cm Palm: 7.62 cm Hand: 10.16 cm Shatments: 15.24 cm Span: 22.86 cm Foot: 30.48 cm Cubit: 45.72 cm Pace: 76.2 cm Yard: 91.44 cm Step: 1.52 m Fathom: 1.83 m Rope: 6.1 m Shackles: 27.43 m Gunter’s Chain: 20.12 m Ramsden’s chain: 30.48 m Cable: 182.88 m Furlong: 201.17 m Roman mile: 1.52 km Mile: 1.6 km Nautical mile: 1.83 km League: 5.49 km

@happygimp0

3 жыл бұрын

This are only approximation except the inch. They all have an exact fraction or whole number in metre.

@vulpes7079

2 жыл бұрын

Some of these could be such great units if only they were actually consistent

@ngcastronerd4791

Жыл бұрын

@@vulpes7079 Notice how all of them are described using one thing... the meter. Why have all these "great" units, when you could just have the one...the better one in this case.

@vulpes7079

Жыл бұрын

@@ngcastronerd4791 the problem is the meter itself. It's not convenient to use when dividing by thirds, but it was accepted because it 1) conforms to most language's base 10 counting system, and 2) it is completely internally consistent, unlike imperial units which have never made any sense or attempted to. I could find some great resources from the Dozenal Society of America if you're interested in seeing what an alternative could be

@MrProthall

Жыл бұрын

@@vulpes7079 For most practical applications dividing a meter by 3 is not a relevant issue. Guess that's why it was adopted. It's also a distance set by laws of physics and not some guy with a stick anymore, so it's extremely precise and universal. Like any other unit of measurement in the system, which are ALL (by now) defined by laws of physics.

1:37 - At this point I was beginning to suspect that Matt had simply started making stuff up.

@l1nkestwix706

3 жыл бұрын

wait, he isn't?

@thomasjohnson4987

3 жыл бұрын

@@l1nkestwix706 nope

@IsmailofeRegime

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasjohnson4987 Reminds me of instances where someone tries buying something using a two dollar bill, only for other people to assume it's fake.

@Coen80

4 ай бұрын

It isn't?? 😂​@@IsmailofeRegime

OK new mission in life. Learn all of these off by heart, and then use them in general conversation!

@stumbling

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Coulson Would be great to walk into a hardware store and order a long list of things in these weird measures!

@UFBMusic

8 жыл бұрын

+CowLunch That'd be some serious Fork Andlin'!

@merkain6019

8 жыл бұрын

+UFBMusic four candles

@AAA-bo1uo

8 жыл бұрын

i still can't work with the fractions part of the inch system :( good luck

@SamuelBoshier

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Coulson My mum and dad learnt them all at school, but I'm not sure if they still remember them.

As someone who actually has to measure things every day, I absolutely hate the Imperial system. I have to do things like 4' 7 3/8" + 1' 2 11/16" which I either need to do on paper or get a calculator when I could be doing something like 104.6cm + 37.3cm which I can do in my head

@PieMaster2425

8 жыл бұрын

+Bruce O'Brien Hey some people struggle with fractions

@iamlalala1995

8 жыл бұрын

+Bruce O'Brien are you even decimal ?

@Alex_Off-Beat

8 жыл бұрын

***** except metric is way easier, no fractions, no converting feet to inches

@rdoetjes

8 жыл бұрын

+Bruce O'Brien and thats easy? And more important legible? Naaah decimals are far far easier.

@rdoetjes

8 жыл бұрын

+Bruce O'Brien are you trolling? I can't imagine where the imperial system is easier.

You forgot the most important of all imperial units: one pound times one second equals one destroyed $327.6M space probe.

@arkwend4090

5 жыл бұрын

Haha When I got the reference, I immediately realized how brutally true it is.

@BeastinlosersHD

5 жыл бұрын

You forgot that the system was supposed to use the Imperial system, and some twats used their communist form of measurements in their code. Which would return the main software the wrong numbers

@SadaEKE

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit! That was gloriously brutal man!

@Abhinav-tk1bt

5 жыл бұрын

@@BeastinlosersHD haha you know they now use metric at NASA (also the military uses metric and the entire scientific community)

@BeastinlosersHD

5 жыл бұрын

@@Abhinav-tk1bt Yeah, they use both. Deadass, look it up, lots of engineering systems were made with imperial. Aerospace is just a sector in science and engineering that didn't ever fully switch.

shaftment

@tostitossssss

2 жыл бұрын

shatments

@quinn9045

2 жыл бұрын

@@tostitossssss shatments

@HotSauceBear

2 жыл бұрын

@@quinn9045 shatments

@thenatron6136

3 күн бұрын

Shartment

Seems like every word in the dictionary has a corresponding unit in the imperial system.

@alexwang982

5 жыл бұрын

what about pneumonoultramicroscopiconiosis don't knw if that's right or not

@jannicklumme9298

5 жыл бұрын

@@luelou8464 bit late, but it is Et CeTera. Tetera isn't latin cetera is.

@TheJudge064

5 жыл бұрын

@@jannicklumme9298 he was making a joke

@emin86

5 жыл бұрын

@@jannicklumme9298 You idiot, can't even speak "pig latin".... tztztz

@iProgramInCpp

5 жыл бұрын

@@luelou8464 or et cetera in proper Latin

Dont you just hate it when youre driving in america and you get a speeding ticket because the speed limit was 50 roman miles per hour but you were only driving 50 nautical miles per hour

@lesliefranklin1870

7 жыл бұрын

If you're driving and using nautical miles per hour, you're all wet. :-)The road signs refer to "statute" miles per hour.BTW, Rome burned. :-( - Nero

@corwintipper7317

3 жыл бұрын

Or you've taken an airplane on the freeway

@magnateplays

3 жыл бұрын

do you mean in usa? that's only 1 country , America has 35 countries

@Bitrey

3 жыл бұрын

yeah that feeling when you're going 20 burgers per freedom over the speed limit

@jackjohnson4524

3 жыл бұрын

Happens more than you think. I once got pulled over for driving 3fry mph in a 30touchdown endzone. Also got me for the window tins being 50 shades of hay too dark.

UK: Where did you learn all this? US: *YOU OKAY! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!*

@wolfjunk5415

4 жыл бұрын

? We took common methods of measurement, until inter-cultural collaboration became in vogue England used the Imperial system too. Why do you think it's called the IMPERIAL system? Britain collected and normalized these measurements... A Brit has no right to diss the Imperial System, they're the ones who made it in the first place.

@Apis4

4 жыл бұрын

@GLA POSTAL SERVICE They still do, kind of....they use...Imperetric? Miles, still show up in the UK, Ounces too. Their entire currency system is Imperial, though adjust and rounded to fit a metric value.

@Fummy007

4 жыл бұрын

Parents who use outdated systems measure have children who use outdated systems of measure.

@ElZamo92

3 жыл бұрын

Ah... I think I get the reference...

@lucasljs1545

3 жыл бұрын

@@Apis4 so, they are too shy to say "we were wrong" and they changed the values of their system to match metric system. Classic british.

I love how he doesn't even talk about how nice the metric system is. All he needs to do is show how terrible the imperial system is!

@EnterJustice

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Europe used to a LOT worse with measurements changing nearly every village. Which is why the French eventually said "fuck this" and invented metric, changing measurements forever.

@thomastakesatollforthedark2231

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnterJustice which makes Metric even better

@helmut666kohl

3 жыл бұрын

Here is you text for metric: "Learn how to move a comma and multiply/divide by 10. The End."

@sodkijezu8748

3 жыл бұрын

@@helmut666kohl Yeah, metric rocks.

@Canonfudder

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnterJustice Which is exactly why britain could only take over the metric system, if they themselves would re-invent it. The imperial-metric system. So much better the the mainlander metric system. Barbarians, all of them. ;)

You are missing the obvious reason one system is better than the other.. 15 cm sounds bigger than 6 inches.

@Horny_Fruit_Flies

7 жыл бұрын

Outside of the US no one would be impressed with 9 inches. But 23 cm, holy shit!

@lloydshaw6534

7 жыл бұрын

***** It was a joke you moron.

@lloydshaw6534

7 жыл бұрын

I just did....... ?

@paddan426

7 жыл бұрын

prospectus If u really want to impress them... say that its 230 mm ;)

@Horny_Fruit_Flies

7 жыл бұрын

Paddan It sound really funny if you say that it's 0.00023 of a km.

the best passive aggressive attack on the imperial system ever!

@DreamyAbaddon

6 жыл бұрын

I don't even know the Imperial system and I was born and raised in America... lol I use Metric all the way =P

@Alpha-kt4yl

6 жыл бұрын

Dreamy Abaddon how did you not hear about the imperial system at least once if you were born and raised in America???

@helmut666kohl

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that sounds strange. Unless he lives in some sort of enclave or near the Canadian border maybe? I wonder if they sell metric screws over there too? :D

@nater9178

6 жыл бұрын

So, the maths guy is upset we don’t use base 10? I thought he was all about math problems, so here’s a question: what Base are imperial units?

@AnbuAssasine

6 жыл бұрын

Nate R: stupidity #triggered xD

I'd like to point out that nautical mile is actually defined as exactly 1852 m, and it's a good approximation of 1 angular minute along a meridian (or any big circle, even though the Earth isn't exactly spherical it's still good enough). So nautical mile (and knot, i.e. nautical miles per hour) actually makes nautical navigation easier.

@EnormousPurpleGarden

2 жыл бұрын

The fathom was originally 1/1,000 of a nautical mile back when the nautical mile was defined as one minute of latitude.

@JohnyG29

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this presenter is a bit of a plonker tbh.

@MrProthall

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnyG29 Eh. Having specialized units in some cases is fine, but if you're using the same word for wildly different units your system of measurement failed and you should throw it out with at least 500 pounds. Pounds force, that is, not pounds mass, obviously.

@tiov3001

9 ай бұрын

I feel like lots of these units have to do with something natural, that they, in their own context make the most sense, that base 60, 12 and 4 make math easy. I feel like each unit probably has a profound story behind it, and that trying to force everything to decimals and base ten kind of misses something fundamental. Probably why most construction refuses to change.

@aleksanderlenart8919

9 ай бұрын

@@tiov3001while having a natural system is useful in its own context (and romantic for sure), the problem is standardisation across industries in which using dozens of unique measurements just won’t fly 🤷‍♂️

Fun fact: Imperial units have been re-define to be based on metric units with a conversion factor (and an offset in case of temperature).

@wolfjunk5415

4 жыл бұрын

Operating Phrase: *redefined* When the metric system was invented they would have had to have been given some previously known unit of measurement to define them. What was around? oh right, the old barleycorn based system.

@lizardon9990

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfjunk5415 no the meter was defined in relation to the size of the earth and the kg was defined in relation to a few Steel cylinders made to weigh exactly the same, the kg is now however defined using the planks constant.

@wolfjunk5415

4 жыл бұрын

@@lizardon9990 you don't get it. You're basing the metric system off of another thing, and in neither of the cases you mentioned is the thing you based your measurement off of the same, as I'm fairly sure it's common knowledge both that the earth is not a perfect sphere nor are all steels of equal density (Massive difference between medieval steel, Wulfbert steel, Modern Steel or any of the different kinds of steel used in Asian swordmaking). Considering when the Metric system was invented I'm going to assume it was based off of standard european steel which isn't even uniform across it's own class. In France steel could have had any number of densities at the time, based off of factors like original resource purity, furnace temperature, pressure, etc. What's funny is that you're dissing a system with measurements dating back to thousands of years BC that, with all it's imprecise standards, was used to create world wonders that still baffle scientists today. All the while you're toting a system made not 250 years ago that falls prey to the same errors. So, why are we supposed to like metric again?

@lizardon9990

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfjunk5415 Also the metric system has been improved and is now based on constants and exact isotopes.

@RR-uc1wb

4 жыл бұрын

Wolfjunk In 1793, the metre is defined as “one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris”. (Wikipedia) Later in 1799, the metre is defined by a physical metre bar. Now the metre is defined by the speed of light. Of course at first the metre has to be visualized using older measurements, but that’s for the sake of setting a standard and to remove inconsistencies.

If you take two hands and place them exactly 1 twip from your nose you get a double face palm.

@SquashBox

10 жыл бұрын

Ahahaha! That's funny

@divassubedi4668

6 жыл бұрын

Best comment I've ever seen.

@cirantait

6 жыл бұрын

Funny!!

seriously it sounds like a kid made the imperial system

@Mutantcy1992

7 жыл бұрын

It's just a much older system. That's why the obscure units in this video are things like barleycorns. People used objects that were typically around the same length in order to have "standards" to develop other units off of.

@SaintMarneusCalgar

7 жыл бұрын

barleycorns must be some kinde of unicorn :D

@Mutantcy1992

7 жыл бұрын

SaintMarneusCalgar Nah they're part of the plant that whiskey and beer come from!

@ecyor0

7 жыл бұрын

the imperial system is to measurement what English is to language - a jumbled, semi-consistent web of disparate systems bolted onto each other because they were what worked best at the time.

@Mutantcy1992

7 жыл бұрын

Wandering Bishop If you think that's a good comparison then you have no real knowledge of the history of the English language.

God bless the metric system

@Zidern

3 жыл бұрын

Imaginary fairy tale characters are entirely irrelevant, just like the imperial system.

@Zidern

3 жыл бұрын

@Sai Sasank not when it affect others.

@boRegah

3 жыл бұрын

Hallelujah! Man said: "Let there be a reasonable way to measure stuff." And so there was a reasonable way to measure stuff. And most of them saw that it was good.

@Davidthegreat93

Жыл бұрын

@@Zidern Can't even see someone use a common idiom without having your little kneejerk reaction about something completely unrelated to units of measurement. I wonder if you do that in real life, like someone says "oh my God!" and you have to stop the conversation to go on some little tangential tirade. You're extremely funny

Hey, buddy. You owe me a new sarcastonometer, my current one just melted, it could only handle 1 kiloreddit worth of sarcasm.

@yijianmou1325

6 жыл бұрын

Dawid, your "square potato" thing just made my day.

@hubbletrubble7875

3 жыл бұрын

Imperial: What the fuck does Kilo mean? I only know of nice, round numbers like 5280 and 1760

The worst part of Imperial: working in a lumber yard and cutting wood. Having to figure out 13 & 5/32's minus 5 & 7/8's is a sure way to get a headache and wish you were using metric

@bcubed72

8 жыл бұрын

Hey AirHead...why do your posts keep showing up in my e-mail but not here?

@DarDarBinks1986

8 жыл бұрын

bcubed72 Dunno, have you checked your KZread settings? Might be that or maybe a glitch.

@999Tutorialz

7 жыл бұрын

Sign my online petition to change the road signs in the UK to display metric readings only and help to eradicate the imperial system for good! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/165871

@ashtarbalynestjar8000

7 жыл бұрын

Which is why I do all my inch calculations in hexadecimal. D.28 - 5.E = 7.48, which is 7" 9/32, but I don't really care about that, I just see it's half a mark after 7" 1/4 on my ruler.

@davidjames4915

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you cutting anything in a lumber yard to a precision of a 32nd of an inch anyway? But if that's your problem, just pick the level of precision you need (a 16th or an eight or whatever) and work with that solely as your base: it's just as easy to measure off 1/2" as 4/8ths or 8/16ths. And at least Imperial measuring tapes are designed to be used by people trying to get something done as they use different length marks for each doubling of the precision. With Metric you're staring at 4 equal height lines in the fading light going bleary-eyed while shifting the decimal place because the idiots designing Metric tape measures increment them in cm and not mm. Not to mention that for most wood-related cutting, 5 mm is too imprecise and 1 mm is too precise anyway. I once used a Metric roofer's square that had obviously been designed by someone used to Imperial as it was in mm only (not stupid cm) and the gradations were in 2 mm increments. If you actually needed to get down to 1 mm precision you just marked off at the halfway point between adjacent 2 mm increments. It was the only time a Metric measuring tape approached the ease of use of an Imperial measuring tape.

Best apology ever.

@RKBock

6 жыл бұрын

close, but not the best. the best is the public apology about "that image, from this video" by matt and tom. (tom from tom scott)

@asitas

6 жыл бұрын

RKBock which video??

@RKBock

6 жыл бұрын

/watch?v=BnzN3zDKFEI is the apology to this video: /watch?v=D1WqlRx2siQ

"A cubit divided into thirds gives you a shatments. [pause for effect] Why wouldn't you call something a shatments?"

Wish my Grandpa was still alive...He would LOVE this episode Matt! He took Engineering via a correspondence post WW2...He tried to explain all that and what a headache it was to me by using the farm’s deed descriptions. The original was in rods & chains among other highly inconsistent forms of measure used over time...!

The official length of an inch is 25.4mm. So, when they want to make a model foot or yard to use as a standard, they have to buy a ruler in mm to make one.

@user-ec8cg1nx8x

6 жыл бұрын

or they could use AN INCH RULER knowing that TWELVE INCHES IS A MODEL FOOT are your brains falling out

@AtypicalADultHooD

6 жыл бұрын

What he means is that the inch per se is defined in metric units.

@LordZeebee

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-ec8cg1nx8x Why twelve???

@romulusnr

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, every US imperial measure is defined in metric terms since like 1780 or something.

@Talon3000

4 жыл бұрын

@@LordZeebee Because going 10-100-1000 is too easy and convenient. It needs to be 12-36-63360 apparently

Stop using inches for TV sizes.

@Xerdoz

8 жыл бұрын

Doesn't really matter that much in that situation. It's merely used as a comparative tool. There's generally no need for exact measurements for TVs. You just need to know that a 52 inch TV is bigger than a 46 inch one. The same goes for car tyres. If your cars has 15 inch wheels then you know 18 inch wheels are bigger and might not work for your car. This is for the general public. Of course in some situations you might need to know the exact measurements but generally speaking you don't.

@MariusVerbavicius

8 жыл бұрын

Bullsh*t :D. Only for idiots u only need know that little. I just multiply inches by *2.5 to get it in cms

@frealms

7 жыл бұрын

+Xerdoz So you are saying if say you had a 100cm TV and a 80cm TV people would be baffled and lost which would be the bigger? =p

@Xerdoz

7 жыл бұрын

No. I'm just saying a TV sizes could be 15 broxlors and 16 broxlors where 16 broxlors would be bigger. It doesn't matter if it's cms, inches or broxlors. It's just a scale. And in every day life you don't need to know if the TV is 1217 mms wide.

@frealms

7 жыл бұрын

Xerdoz Everyday life, no. When buying, yes. That is very important to know so you can be sure it fits where you plan on putting it or if it will be a disaster waiting to happen. That's why you'll usually see the height, width and length of the product in something reasonable, like centimeters. But the screen just got stuck with inches for some reason or another =p

“Unwarranted” attacks on imperial system? Any attack on imperial is VERY warranted. I’m American and I am jealous as heck of pretty much every other county with metrics. Celsius is also so much better than Fahrenheit.

@InsideMyHouse

4 жыл бұрын

I live in America as well and I agree that the metric system is better but I do like Fahrenheit better because Fahrenheit is it how it feels to you. Think of it as a percentage. ranging from 0f to 100f.

@MathNerd1729

4 жыл бұрын

Inside My House Did you mix up Fahrenheit and Celsius? 0 to 100 Degrees is the range of liquid water only in Celsius

@InsideMyHouse

4 жыл бұрын

Your Conscience we use both systems depending on the industry but the country as a whole will never convert.

@AlagomSwede

4 жыл бұрын

@@InsideMyHouse I fail to see how 100°F is more 100% than 100°C. In fact, I would argue Celsius fits that description better as 100°C is around the hottest temperature you can safely endure in a sauna.

@Schindlabua

4 жыл бұрын

I think as far as °F/°C goes both scales are equally arbitrary. A °F person will have to memorize that 32°F is the water freezing temp and a °C person will have to memorize that 32°C is like, hella hot outside. The benefits of SI are easy conversion between units and deriving more units from SI base units but if you never have to convert out of your temperature scale then it doesn't *really* matter. °C more easily converts to Kelvin but °F more easily converts to Rankine and there is no inherent reason to prefer one over the other in that regard either.

Guide to imperial system Don't use it. End of the guide.

@yingo4098

4 жыл бұрын

Me: why not? Teacher: because ...just don't use it. Me: why not use it? Teacher: No reason. Me: why no reason......

@coolguyx14

4 жыл бұрын

Guide to the Metric System Don't use it. End of the guide.

@yingo4098

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolguyx14 you don't have the copyright to do that

@dantesilva6894

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolguyx14 Guide to KZread commenting. shut the fuck up End of the guide.

@Autogenification

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolguyx14 if we didn't use the metric system, science and engineering would still be dragging it's knuckles across the floor

geez, and i tought quantum mechanics was difficult

@jhkk1269

6 жыл бұрын

Well dumb it down enough and quantum mechanics is actually quite simple. In VERY VERY simple terms quantum mechanics is the probability that one particle will move from one place to another.

@HelgaCavoli

6 жыл бұрын

Quantum is more logical than this.

@johncharles.5087

5 жыл бұрын

Jack 'o Bong imagine having to do quantum mechanics with the imperial system

@wolfviking9063

5 жыл бұрын

@@johncharles.5087 i would kill myself

@victorselve8349

5 жыл бұрын

And now imagine doing quantum mechanics in reduced imperial units...

Literally my physical science teacher links the class this video. I'm dying laughing, this is not what I expected. I just transferred schools, and I'm used to those boring math videos. This was hilarious.

@Lycan_the_deerdog

7 жыл бұрын

Hey! My physics teacher did too!

@comedicbeans6361

7 жыл бұрын

Shine Bright Like A Doitsu awesome haha

@mennoltvanalten7260

7 жыл бұрын

Ours would probably do so too, if we didn't just use metric in Holland

@allanrichardson1468

7 жыл бұрын

One reason for the odd assortment is that in the past, different trades (i.e. occupations) had their own systems, partly to help keep their trade secrets, partly as a "hazing" for apprentices, having to learn new words, and partly because they fit the needs of the occupation. Horse breeders, for example, measure a horse's height in hands (from ground to shoulder, usually), sailors used "knots" as units of speed at sea (by dropping a heavy log with a knotted rope attached overboard and counting the knots in a specific number of seconds), and when converting to units of distance traveled in an hour, they came up with a slightly longer mile than the landlubbers did, hence the nautical mile, which was standardized eventually to one minute of latitude, or of longitude at the equator. And (probably because a good deal of flying is done over water) nautical miles per hour (knots) were later adopted for airspeed of a plane, and thus wind speed, which transferred over into meteorology. And during the ascent into orbit, even for spacecraft. Horse racing led to the adoption of the furlong (1/8 of a STATUTE mile, or 220 yards) as a measurement of the length of a race; but its original definition was how LONG a FURrow could be plowed in one day. Surveyors used a chain to measure baseline distances, so that (by trigonometry) other distances could be computed; apparently, according to the video, there were two competing surveyors' guilds back in the day, each one using its own chain. Similarly, other specialties developed their own combinations of the basic units, so the combination of all those units became very complicated. But if length and distance units were bad, think about weight, mass (not the same thing, but the same units are often used for both), and volume. There are two different ounces (the larger Troy ounce used for precious metals in the jewelry and coinage fields, and the avoirdupois ounce used for everything else), two different pounds (the SMALLER Troy pound and the LARGER avoirdupois pound), and two different pounds per ounce (12 Troy ounces in a Troy pound, the same ratio as shillings per pound in the old British monetary system, vs 16 av. ounces in an av. pound), which accounts for the apparent paradox above. So a pound (av.) of feathers DOES weigh more than a pound (Troy) of gold! But the av. ounce is ALSO used as a unit of VOLUME, which for water (at a specific temperature and air pressure) represents the same amount, and is the basis for TWO systems of liquid volume and one of DRY volume (i.e. for powders, grains of cereal, etc). Thus two cups, two pints (US and Imperial), two quarts and two gallons of liquid. And for some exotic liquids, even more units. Traditionally, larger sizes of wine bottles have been defined as Biblical figures, from Jeroboam (first king of Northern Israel after the post-Solomonic split) up to Nebuchadnezzar (the Babylonian king who took the Jews into exile). And in agriculture, dry volume is measured in pecks and bushels; I remember a Snuffy Smith comic strip in which Snuffy brags about his corn crop, saying he got 400. His friend asks if he means bushels (of ears of corn), and Smith replies no, gallons (of moonshine whisky). Just be grateful you never have to compute the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight (14 x 24 hours)!

@Egilhelmson

7 жыл бұрын

+Allan Richardson > Just be grateful you never have to compute the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight (14 x 24 hours)! Well, you obviously didn't take Physics I from MY professor!

jan Misali be like "time to subtweet"

I watched this video 5 years ago and decided to name my son Shatments. He turns 4 on Monday.

@MansMan42069

5 жыл бұрын

Next year, will you change his name to Pace?

@SuperWigMaker

5 жыл бұрын

So he now is 4 Shatments, imperial must have a name for this.

@BillyViBritannia

4 жыл бұрын

Don't keep guns at home when he starts going to school

@UriahD85

4 жыл бұрын

Shat up Shat or I'll shat on you.

@simonilisei1311

3 жыл бұрын

Why

Americans: You're not the whole world. You're not even the whole America. The metric system isn't only "something that scientists use". And "I don't want to be a scientist" isn't a valid reason not to switch. The Imperial System isn't better for daily use. You're used to it, because it's what you've been taught, and I respect that. If you had been taught the Metric System, you'd find it just as easy to use in day-to-day situations, with the advantage of being able to convert units much more easily, intuitively and without having to memorize anything but the naming of the units itself (which, in my opinion, is more logical too). I know how much a meter is in real life situations, just like you know how much a yard is.Only that I can know, instantly, that 3400 meters equals 3.4 kilometers, while for you to know 3400 yards equals 1.931 miles, you'd need conversion factors. I'm not saying you should be forced to use the Metric System, but maybe introducing it slightly isn't a bad idea. Putting KM/h below the MPH speed limit signs could be a good start. Teaching it at schools wouldn't be a bad idea. It takes maybe two classes to learn it. Using it in official documents, along with the Imperial, perhaps. Just little changes in the society that will not affect you, but will familiarize you with the Metric system. Just by seeing it everyday, you'd end up knowing 80 miles equals 128 kilometers (aprox). You'd be more ready for the inevitable change to Metric. It could take twenty years or it could take a hundred, but it will surely happen.

@tes-uu9sf

9 жыл бұрын

As far as English grammar goes, one can not be made "more" ready. It's just "ready"

@l.u.c.a.s.

9 жыл бұрын

No. Any (comparable) adjective that has a positive form can be made into comparative and superlative.

@tes-uu9sf

9 жыл бұрын

Lucas Trugeda Hey, I'm no grammar whiz so I'm going to conclude you are correct; however, it still doesn't sound right? More readier, perhaps?!

@l.u.c.a.s.

9 жыл бұрын

It could be readier, but both forms are admitted. PS: Never ever add "more" when the adjective is already in a comparative form.

@tes-uu9sf

9 жыл бұрын

I thought I was just kidding with that?

I dont even use the Imperial System, I just came here to laugh at its crazyness XD

@dmaster254

7 жыл бұрын

I'm American and I'm not high enough to understand this shit

@dmaster254

7 жыл бұрын

H. M. Sohan​ I use both. Most of the time, I'm an accountant, but if I'm doing or teaching science, I use metric because the math is simpler and I'm lazy. Only time I use the imperial system is when I'm driving or talking to doctors because it's what they use on the signs or in the office. I honestly wish we used the metric system because it would have prevented several really stupid mistakes

@sageslarres

7 жыл бұрын

The thing is you do use the metric system all day every day. Todays imperial measurements are based on the K20 aka one of the original kilograms. You just use a converted set of numbers but the basis is still metric :D

@dmaster254

7 жыл бұрын

Joakim järvinen that's about to change everything, too, because the original kilogram has changed.

@WhiteGinger10000

6 жыл бұрын

H. M. Sohan Well, in America, we were just raised to use it so it's idiotic to call someone stupid for using a system that they grew up with and were told to use. But, I wish that the U.S. would convert over to the Metric system since it is a lot more efficient, in my opinion, to use.

This needs to be extended to cover imperial weight and capacity measurements.

@thatcherbuck

2 жыл бұрын

Imperial weight is really simple. Pounds and ounces (16 ounces in a pound). Pounds in weigh measurements generally around paired with ounces so if you had someone weight 100 pounds and 8 ounces, it would actually be written as 100.5 pounds or 173.9 pounds. decimals are just easier for weights. Pounds and ounces are only used together when doing food measurements because integer values are easier to work with.

@ChrisPollitt

Жыл бұрын

@@thatcherbuck You forgot Stones. and Tons. And all the different kinds of ounces (avoirdupois, troy , Apothecaries, etc.)

@vikeshbubbles205

Жыл бұрын

Rest of the system sucks but Imperial capacity measurements are wonderful and I will die on this hill.

@TassieLorenzo

Жыл бұрын

@@thatcherbuck Where is stone and tons?

4 points = a line go home america, youre drunk

@oracuda

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@rosiefay7283

5 жыл бұрын

3 hands = 1 foot; 1 finger = 7/6 digit...

@Deusstyles

4 жыл бұрын

You know how you use 12 point times new roman font on all of your papers, that's imperial. so there's that.

@Your_username_

4 жыл бұрын

Deus Rex what?

@Deusstyles

4 жыл бұрын

@@Your_username_ Points are based on inch. 72 points to an inch.

All perfectly sensible and logical to me.

@reprimand33

10 жыл бұрын

4 poppi seeds and we will have a good harvest next season

More than 4 poppy seeds and you get arrested

@taisetsumono

10 жыл бұрын

Isn't one line already illegal?

@Barrenge

10 жыл бұрын

Hmm what's that in metric?

@Rikard_Nilsson

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody knows because nobody knows what it is in Imperial either

And in american "precision" engineering (e.g aviation) you use thousanths of an inch, and 1/8ths, 1/16ths, 1/32nds etc... everyone else uses decimal mm...

@oscarwehmanen6885

5 жыл бұрын

When I was in the aircraft business the going unit was fiftieths of a foot!

@nickkempel6540

4 жыл бұрын

Last I heard the only unit they can use in 2019 is called scallops and it's made of 27 furlongs

@prosec2

4 жыл бұрын

@k1w1fly Nope, only if you are manufacturing for US. If the aviation company is not American it is metric. But most of the aviation companies are American, so you are a bit true.

@peanuts2105

4 жыл бұрын

@@prosec2 incorrect. Airbus use imperial fasteners with some metric conversions in the AMM

@c0nct3d

4 жыл бұрын

And in canada you have to use both lol (often on the same plan) +- 10 mil or +-0.01mm does not take the same time lol

And fractions! Why the hell can't America at least use the decimal system? Instead it's 1/16", 27/64", 11/128"... When you're forced to use decimals, such as in a CAD program, those translate to 0.0625", 0.421875", and 0.0859375", respectively.

@enddy123456

3 жыл бұрын

For jobs where you are working in the field, like construction rather than engineering, it is very nice to use fractions. Rather than busting out a calculator if you take any US imperial measurement in fractions of an inch and divide by 2, which tends to come up a lot, you get another fractional result pretty easily. For example 1 7/8" = 15/8" -> 15/16" or for a longer chain: 1' -> 6" -> 3" -> 1 1/2" -> 3/4" -> 3/8". If you're doing math at a desk and have plenty of resources it's less convenient, but when you're doing something in practice it is much easier, especially once you've done it for a while. Per reference I'm an American mechanical engineering student who once worked for a fencing company. There's a video on KZread somewhere by a British carpenter who moved to America and prefers working in imperial for his work for this reason. In engineering however, when we're not using metric we're likely using inches with decimal.

@Jer_Schmidt

3 жыл бұрын

@@enddy123456 The problem is there’s a lot of overlap between engineering and construction. So a lot of hardware and materials are standardized with fractional dimensions and machinists have to use those, so I’m stuck entering 0.21875” as the radius of the head of a 1/4” bolt, every time I have to draw one in CAD.

@ryancooper4381

3 жыл бұрын

@@enddy123456, couldn't disagree with you more. For example, which of the following is easier: Cut a board in half that's 7 ft 9-11/16" long -or- Cut a board in half that's 2380mm long Per reference I'm an American electromechanical engineer who has built numerous buildings in the past. Fractions, inches, feet, can suck it, lol.

@AVJHalonen

3 жыл бұрын

@@EarlOSandwich Decimals are just as exact mr engineer

@AVJHalonen

3 жыл бұрын

@@EarlOSandwich We were talking about splitting a board in half, dude, 1/2 of a board is what you want but it just doesn't cut it (pun intended). Yeah, I'm bad at math but you said you have to round when you use decimals but isn't a fraction rounding too? Does it really matter if you say 1/3 or 0.333... in terms of accuracy?

But how many shatments go in a furlong?

@divassubedi4668

6 жыл бұрын

1 furlong = 1320 SHATMENTS!

@HelgaCavoli

6 жыл бұрын

1 shitload of it.

@drmontorsi7498

5 жыл бұрын

Asking the real questions here

@arthurg.machado6803

5 жыл бұрын

@@HelgaCavoli that would be a Nice unit. "The distance between The Earth and the Sun is 4.32 shitloads of meters

@michaeldavis2531

5 жыл бұрын

Well, 660 feet in a Furlong (1/8 Mile) and a Shatments is exactly 1/3 of a Cubit (18 inches) or 1/2 Foot (12 Inches) so, a Furlong is 660 feet x 2 = 1,320 Shatments in 1 Furlong. And just for further referance, if you multiply 1,320 shatments in a Furlong by 8 (number of Furlongs in a Mile), then you get exactly 10,560 Shatments. You're Welcome :)

Measuring things by feet would be a good idea......... if everyone's feet were the same size.

@Gekkibi

8 жыл бұрын

+Sheppy99 Your argument is valid as long as you don't have a clue what a measuring tape is...

@zoranhacker

8 жыл бұрын

+Gekkibi yeah ok, but why feet? It isn't uniform, you could also pick any other thing and put it on a measuring tape and there you have it, a brand new measuring system

@Gekkibi

8 жыл бұрын

zoranhacker FYI: I'm against imperial units. The margin of error is huge if we measure things using our body parts (or "stones"). Because we don't do that any longer then we might as well use a lot more logical SI units. 154 cm -> 1,54 m. 154" -> ? ft.

@drednaught608

8 жыл бұрын

+Gekkibi Wait, a measuring tape is based on feet, and feet are what they're talking about. How does your comment change anything about that?

@Gekkibi

8 жыл бұрын

Drednaught "a measuring tape is based on feet" Measuring tapes are not based on feet (nor are they based on metric system. They are based on the idea that you can measure distances with relatively small margin of errors). It's just that most likely you happen to live on the wrong side of Atlantis and have used to measuring tapes with imperial units. The idea behind my comment was that thanks to the measuring tape we don't have to use body parts to measure distances any longer (or stones to measure masses). This leads to the conclusion that imperial units are obsolete and have no place in the 21st century (or even in the 20th century...).

i just wanna mention that yeah, theres some dumb units of measurement in the imperial system but the problem with criticizing them is that they weren't designed with other sections in mind. they were made seperately. even the most common conversions, such as feet to miles, weren't designed in relation to each other. miles is a completely different measurement type than feet, and people treat is as such we convert from feet to miles in our day to day life about as much as we convert from imperial to metric

@thomasjohnson4987

2 жыл бұрын

well if u used metric u wouls never have to convert from imperial to metric, and u would be able to convert distances easier

@capwashere6165

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasjohnson4987 boo

@FajreroCintilo

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasjohnson4987 well if you used Imperial you wouldn't have to convert units from Metric to Imperial

When I started my first engineering job, I was told I had to work with imperial units. I quickly found a new job. Nobody wants to work in slugs.

@SaitekFreak999

3 жыл бұрын

I just had a really bad flashback to a trauma I got in an engineering class (in Germany) where we had to use imperial because it is "industry standard"... I wanted to jump off a bridge when the book started to use pounds as a force instead of mass measurement or well, even worse, slugs.

I know that for Americans, the Standard System is much mure intuitive, but you should know that for the rest of the world it's extremely hard to understand, let alone to calculate with. Also I find it really convenient that 0° Celsius is the freezing point of water and 100° C is the boiling point.

@sonofmenoetius

7 ай бұрын

0°C: Water melts. 100°C: Water boils. 0°F: The random lowest temperature of a *specific* town in Poland during the winter of 1708-1709 100°F: The average temperature of the blood of a *specific* sweating horse in a *specific* location in Germany You tell me.

When I was in Junior High, I got all excited because President Jimmy Carter said we were going to join the rest of the world and go metric. We started getting math and science textbooks with metric units, and English Metric conversion charts were all over the place. That's when product packages started including metric units (in smaller type) along with the English units. Then Ronald Reagan was elected, and that was the end of that. (He also tore out the solar panels Carter had installed at the White House, just to make clear what he was about.)

@apburner1

10 жыл бұрын

Neither Carter or Reagan had any control at concerning the textbooks and curriculum in your school district. Trying to turn it into political rant just shows what phucktard you are.

@taylorrusso1426

10 жыл бұрын

I was told the same in Elementary when Clinton was in office. We had textbooks with imperial to metric charts. I think it was probably just teachers spouting what they heard when they were kids.

@taylorrusso1426

10 жыл бұрын

apburner1 Actually, Carter's main platform was educational and the Supreme Courts have control and final ruling over school curriculum. The President assigns justices and makes suggestions for cases in the Supreme court. Carter is on the record speaking about switching to metric. The fact that you didn't know that makes you the Fucktard.

@apburner1

10 жыл бұрын

Taylor Russo What are you smoking? SCOTUS has nothing to do with school curriculum, the President does not assign Justices and most definitely does not tell or even suggest what cases SCOTUS should review. You are either not an American or are the product of US public schools you ignorant cokgobbler.

@taylorrusso1426

10 жыл бұрын

apburner1 Sweety, I'm a product of one of the US's best private schools. Parts of the United States educational curriculum are dictated by Federal Law. Evolution, for example. Most of it is State dictated, but larger scale issues (such as nationwide measurement systems) are federally dictated. You're the only one who looks silly here. Just admit your mistake and move on.

"Let me throw a bunch of units that have nothing to do with each other but have some similar historic origin, ignore any new definitions of those measurements, reference units that are used by literally no one, into a single system and you'll see why this system I've completely fabricated in almost 3 minutes is completely ridiculous."

I can't wait for all the comments talking about some Misali guy

My car can go only 1 barley corn per nanosecond :(

@SamJNE122

9 жыл бұрын

HowkeyLL That's about 8.5 million metres per second.

@3506Dodge

8 жыл бұрын

+SamJNE My many miles per hour is that?

@SamJNE122

8 жыл бұрын

+3506Dodge 19.125 million.

@fizzicist7678

8 жыл бұрын

+SamJNE still not quite close to the speed of light. I assume his car is made out of electrons.

@SamJNE122

8 жыл бұрын

DarkBabyIon It's still fast enough to break global speed records. And to get fined for speeding.

Of course, here in the UK we're so much more consistent about our measurements. The metric system all the way! Except in roads. They're miles. Or carpentry. That's inches. Or people's heights, those are feet. Or people's weight. Stones. And of course, sugar is measured in Oz.

POV: you came from jan Misali's video

I detected some sarcasm there

I need a diagram of all of the units lined up.

@Rikard_Nilsson

6 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#/media/File:English_length_units_graph.png

@joekennedy4093

6 жыл бұрын

It's... It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!

@zkace

5 жыл бұрын

cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/metric.png

@elkraftaren245

5 жыл бұрын

If you lool at point-line-finger-inch it doesnt add up..

@elkraftaren245

5 жыл бұрын

@ ooohh missar the direktion of the arrow...

i am an american and i was raised using inches and miles and pounds. but once i started using the international units in college, i fell in love. it really sucks that my government is so stupid. the rest of the entire world measures things differently yet we are too stubborn to change

@jbird4478

Жыл бұрын

It's not the government. The government uses mostly metric internally. They've even tried many times to get people to switch, but were met with resistance and unwillingness every time.

@Williamatics

Жыл бұрын

What does the government have to do with anything?

@sporepics

8 ай бұрын

It's cause you are dumb too. You are american after all.

In 2019 America is still inching towards the metrical system.

@paganphil100

5 жыл бұрын

IlRompiscatole : One foot at a time (or should that be 0.3048 metres at a time) :-)

after all these years...still one of the best videos on YT =)

And why do people still use this?! Metric system is 10x more easy

@danshadrack6398

8 жыл бұрын

+Elias Ervelä you got my 10^0 likes

@Super_Syrian

6 жыл бұрын

are you crazy, it's 10^10!x more easy

@myrus5722

6 жыл бұрын

You got by 3/4 of a palm in nails likes

@divassubedi4668

6 жыл бұрын

People following Imperial System didn't get the reference.

@alancurran5306

6 жыл бұрын

Elias Ervelä only 10

Poor americans who deal with this shit every day.

@Zargonis

7 жыл бұрын

I really want metric to become the standard here. :(

@Pining_for_the_fjords

7 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure 99% of Americans only use inches, feet, yards and miles, and I guess sailors use nautical miles. I'm not American so I can't be sure though. Please tell me if you've ever encountered any of these other obscure measurements in day-to-day life.

@zerg539

7 жыл бұрын

We deal with Inches, Feet, Yards, and Miles, the rest of it is obscure or only used in naval situations.

@pleasedontwatchthese9593

7 жыл бұрын

We also use customary units for temperature, area and volume.

@andro7862

7 жыл бұрын

PleaseDontWatchThese Oh God xD

So, Imperial System is Parker Square of unit systems. Parker Units!

@vampyricon7026

6 жыл бұрын

+

Many countries use their own system alongside metric. In Japan they still measure rooms in 畳 and sake comes in 1升 bottles, and students still eat 1 合 of rice. So, just like many other countries in the world, America uses a mix (2Ls of soda are sold everywhere) but has preferences to imperial.

@GODAXEN

Жыл бұрын

​@@lizexi7115 Don't try to interpret the japanese using chinese as some character can have different meaning and are used differently, in this case 合 read as gō is a traditional unit of volume equivalent to aprox 180ml.

And still sometimes I see people commenting on videos that give the units in the metric system "Why do you say it in metric system? say it in a normal system that everyone uses like imperial system"

@Elegance741

7 жыл бұрын

victor durzo lol yeah, that pisses me off

@allanrichardson1468

7 жыл бұрын

"Everyone uses?" As an American, I do appreciate when they give a measurement in both systems, but the metric is used in almost all of the rest of the word, and although we may forget sometimes, this is the WORLD WIDE web. Oh, another specialized unit in US mesures: 10 yards is a "first down" in American "football." Each team is given 4 plays or "downs" to move the ball 10 yards or to a score, whichever comes first, or the other team gets the ball where it is (hence, 4th down plays are usually field goal attempts if close enough, or punts to the other team if not). But once 10 yards or more are made, the team "earns a first down," and the count starts over, with the same team keeping the ball. I explained that for the benefit of people in countries that do not play this game. And even if the US went TOTALLY to metric, I suspect that yards and first downs would stay the same to avoid having to convert the statistics of past games and players. And the same would happen in baseball; the infield would be a 90 foot square with the pitcher's mound in the centroid (63.6 feet from each of the vertices), and distances of hits would still be recorded in feet.

@carpedorio9691

6 жыл бұрын

I always saw it as irony, a joke...

@burdy2959

6 жыл бұрын

I usually see the opposite

@GeorgelPassione

6 жыл бұрын

victor durzo 300m people use the illogical imperial and on this planet are living more than 7 billions. Yeah ,,almost everyone uses imperial''. Stop taking drugs. is better

The fact America kept the BRITISH Imperial System after gaining independence is one of the most puzzling things in all of history IMHO. The US took great pains in distancing themselves from the old Empire, even taking a carving knife to the English language itself. The American enlightenment was exactly the kind of atmosphere you'd expect for the adoption of a more modern and logical system of measurement like metric, so why didn't they ditch the Imperial system like the French did after their revolution?

@natfailsyoutube8163

8 жыл бұрын

+CowLunch Oh don't worry they did the same language tricks with the Metric system despite not adopting it, the US has to have their own unique spellings of units like metre (which they spell as "meter")

@stensoft

8 жыл бұрын

+CowLunch Well, the American mile used to be different from the British mile until the establishment of the International mile

@duo1666

8 жыл бұрын

+CowLunch The changes to the language was to make the words more intuitive with the dialect of the time.

@oO_ox_O

8 жыл бұрын

CowLunch Actually there were early plans: _"During the First Congress of the United States in 1789, Thomas Jefferson was detailed to draw up a plan for the currency and weights of measures that would be used in the new republic. In his response in 1790 he noted that the existing system of measure was sound but that control of the base artefact was not under the control of the United States. His report suggested a means of manufacturing a local standard and also left the way open for an adoption of a decimal-based system should this be appropriate.[29] In the event, the existing standards were retained."_ (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems#United_States_customary_units)

@axelasdf

8 жыл бұрын

Ironically, the US English is closer to the 1776 version than British English.

Who else is just a person from a civilised country that just wanted to understand the imperial system so it is less frustrating to watch educational videos made in 'Murica

Beautifully cleared that up Matt, thanks!

Wish I could upvote this twice.

@splodinatekabloominate846

6 жыл бұрын

NINOOOOOOoooo

@vasanthsreeram

5 жыл бұрын

Readit user

@pergrinepi3130

5 жыл бұрын

Wish I could dislike this twice

@anodyneliniment2326

4 жыл бұрын

NiNo

@lilhades9484

3 жыл бұрын

@@pergrinepi3130 bruh

A moment of silence for the people who still use the Imperial system..

@ruusG

10 жыл бұрын

Pints and gallons are still common place. Think about how milk and beer are measured. Also a lot of people weight themselves in stone and pounds. Enjoy your moment of silence ;)

@iAmReallyMorganFreeman

10 жыл бұрын

rdotgreenz You're correct, but the metric system is much more logical and easy to use and understand than the Imperial system. So I see no point in people using it. But hey, that's what opinions are for ;)

@pumbar

10 жыл бұрын

I still use feet, inches and miles.

@Ascaron1337

10 жыл бұрын

ahmed mubarek What a rebel you are, Sir!

@l33tnobody1337

10 жыл бұрын

rdotgreenz even though they also don't make any sense. 1000ml=1L, In Germany, Beer is measured in litres or maß. One maß= 1litre. It's not that difficult to understand is it? I weigh myself in Kilograms. As with litres it also makes a lot more sense. 1000mg=1g, 1000g=1kg

notes for me: twip ≅ 17um point ≅ 0.3mm line = poppy seed ≅ 2mm pica ≅ 4mm barley corn ≅ 8.5mm digit ≅ 2cm inch ≅ 2.5cm stick ≅ 5cm nail ≅ 5.8cm palm ≅ 7.5cm hand ≅ 10cm shatments ≅ 15cm span ≅ 23cm foot ≅ 30cm cubit ≅ 46cm pace ≅ 75cm yard ≅ 90cm step ≅ 1.5m fathom ≅ 1.8m rope ≅ 6m gunter's chain ≅ 20m shackles ≅ 27m ramsden's chain ≅ 30m cable ≅ 185m furlong ≅ 200m roman mile ≅ 1.5km mile ≅ 1.6km nautical mile ≅ 1.85km league ≅ 4.8km

Many decades ago, I went to a presentation by one of the large American integrated circuit manufacturers, who were introducing their latest microprocessor chip. At the end of the presentation it was question time: Audience: How big is this chip? Presenter: About 6.3 pico-acres Audience: ???

@FajreroCintilo

Жыл бұрын

As an American, I have no idea how big a pico-acre is

@chrisengland5523

Жыл бұрын

@@FajreroCintilo I meant to say nano-acres. (It was a very long time ago.) But an acre is 43560 sq. feet. That's 6272640 square inches. So 6.3 nano-acres is 0.039517632 square inches. Or in other words, quite small.🤣

@FajreroCintilo

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisengland5523 I just Googled it. Wikipedia says it's "Used humorously by microchip designers" Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of obscure Imperial Units.

Why don't use the metric system all over the world?

@rrrripbing

8 жыл бұрын

+lillemeg power We do. Only the US and a couple of random countries don't.

@szymongorczynski7621

8 жыл бұрын

+Tan Gerine We do for official shit*** Other than that pretty much everyone uses imperial.

@Kaerulans

8 жыл бұрын

+Szymon Gorczynski That's just a lie. Don't talk about everyone based on yourself. I never use imperial, and we are not even taught it at all. The only thing I use inches for is for the diagonals of screens, and I wouldn't even do that if It weren't the thing every store does

@szymongorczynski7621

8 жыл бұрын

Ilia Boitsov *Sigh* That's cause you're Russian. I'm talking about the UK.

@Kaerulans

8 жыл бұрын

+Szymon Gorczynski Well the world doesn't consist of the US and the UK only. We're talking about the rest of the world other than the US

T. Pratchett, Good Omens: Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and one Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea. The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated."

@HuslWusl

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't complain until 1 Florin. Then it looked like you started throwing some of these words randomly together

@josephteller9715

5 жыл бұрын

No they avoided it because it was French.

@michaeldavis2531

5 жыл бұрын

Funny, America was one of the first countries to actually invent a decriminalized monetary currency, Yes, all the way back in 1790... e.g. 100 c = $1.00 And 180 years later, or 1.8 centuries later, The U.K. followed suit and made the Pound Sterling into a decimal pound, with 100 pence.

@mentalrectangle

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldavis2531 Glad to here we've decriminalized currency in America. I was worried all these dollars I spent might be illegal!

@michaeldavis2531

4 жыл бұрын

@@mentalrectangle Yep I realize that.

A nautical mile is actually very sensible, I believe it's a degree of latitude or longitude which is useful for global travel

@ponchietto

5 жыл бұрын

Actually 60 miles makes 1 degree, but the reason for the length of the mile stands. Did you know the meter was defined in the metric system as 1/10.000 of the distance from equator to the poles? The idea was to replace the 360degrees circle with a 400 hundred decimal degrees, so that you could apply the same logic to the angle computations. Try working with 60 division of degrees (minutes, seconds etc.)...

@stellarfirefly

5 жыл бұрын

Personally, I would also like to do away with non-10-based increments for all measurements, including angular. Degrees, minutes, seconds are just so arbitrary. But if we were to also do that for time, i.e. clocks and calendars, then I think the world would lose its collective mind.

@5ch4cht3l7

5 жыл бұрын

@@stellarfirefly That's hard. For time, you can't change days and years. Seconds are also good to keep basic measurement. The only thing you could change there is minutes and hours. As for angles, you can use radians which are much better than degrees. Also, why do you want to use a system with base 10 if you're starting over anyways? A system based on 12 would make numbers easier to divide by 3,4 and 6 (harder for 5 but who cares). A system based in 16 would make digitalisation much easier (easy conversion to binary). Both would reduce the amount of digits needed to display a number.

@lhaviland8602

5 жыл бұрын

@@stellarfirefly They actually tried to introduce decimal time in France in the early 1800's. It didn't stick.

@stevenvanhulle7242

5 жыл бұрын

Not longitude, since their distances vary with latitude.

jan Misali sent me

I was doing some vague research into grains and the densities of the grains were given in POUNDS PER BUSHEL! Good grief.

@magellanicraincloud

4 жыл бұрын

@Scott Porter 3 years on and I'm still complaining that grain data from the US is in bushels, I'm just closer to graduating. :)

@Fabiandur

3 жыл бұрын

@@magellanicraincloud Be the change you want to see in the world. Please...

@Efical

3 жыл бұрын

@@magellanicraincloud I like Bushels sounds funny as hell. PLS NEVER CHANGE MURICA! lol

@lagg1e

3 жыл бұрын

What the hell is a bushel?

@Efical

3 жыл бұрын

@@lagg1e probably originated from the German word Büschel? Just a guess tho

This brings us to another confusion in Imperial measurements: Parts of something. When you say someone is 5'3" everyone knows you're talking about 5 foot 3 inches, but many people write it as 5.3 feet. Is that 5 feet plus 3/10 of a foot or 5 feet plus 3 of another measurement, like inches? In Metric you don't have that problem, because everything is divisible in 10's. 1.1m is the same, whether you see it as 1m + 1dm or 1m + 1/10 of a m.

@kevinelmore1484

10 жыл бұрын

I've never seen anyone write decimal when measuring feet, but if I saw "5.3," I would in fact treat it as 5 and 3/10.

@dyld921

10 жыл бұрын

exactly. 5 feet 3 inches is not the same as 5.3 feet because 1 inch = 1/12 feet. It's also not the same as 53 inches because it's actually 63 inches. That makes conversion between units much harder. On the other hand, 1 m 60 cm is exactly the same as 1.60 m and 160 cm. Less confusion.

@oblivionguard2286

7 жыл бұрын

morphman86 Never in my life have I seen people write something such as "5.3 feet"

Every time there is a debate between US customary unit and metric, some bonehead will inevitably brought up the first moon landing to demonstrate how superior the US customary unit is (despite both of which has nothing to do with each other). Let's see, who made the US rockets? German scientists! What measurement system did they used? Metric systems! What system did the Apollo capsule, its crew and basically the entirety of NASA used from its establishment until this day? Metric systems! Let's see some of the things that the US did not do first, and how convenient that they were accomplished by the US's dearest rival who dearly loved the "commie" (like some old asses had said) metric system: - The Soviets landed artefacts and plaques on the the moon first (the Luna series, notably Luna 2). - The Soviets had orbiting probes around the moon first (Luna series). - The Soviets had the first successful Venus lander to land and take pictures of Venus surface, which also coincidentally was the first successful landing of a human object on another planet (Venera 7). - The Soviets had the first satellite in space (Sputnik 1), first man in space (Yuri Gagarin), the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova) and first animal in space (Laika). - The Soviets also had the first SPACE STATION in orbit (Salyut 1), the longest record of space station operation and by far the most experienced nation in operating (and even rescuing, no country had ever done this period) space stations with 15 years of operational record on Salyut/Almaz series, 25 years on Mir. And if you know anything about space stations, they are responsible for some of the most important scientific work in modern history (fire alarms, human's bodily adaptation in microgravity, protein crystallography of molecules that are otherwise extremely hard to research on earth, etc.). - Oh, and the head of the Soviet space program who was responsible for most of these feats was a Ukrainian-Russian with Ukrainian and Russian education who spent a good chunk of his time in the Gulag, and not relying solely on some imported Germans like, I don't know, "that" another country. And that guy, Sergei Korolev, also happened to be the father of practical astronautics and the most reliable rocket family in the history of mankind thus far. Oh, and if you remember the last time a Mars orbiter crashed, it was due to misconvertion (edit: or if honestly speaking, the lack thereof) between the US customary unit and the metric system. Meaningful science runs on the metric system lads, get used to it.

@huckthatdish

5 жыл бұрын

Meatball Snacker - Sit Regald shh. Americans don’t like to be reminded that a man who worked slaves to death in his rocket factories in Nazi Germany was the man who got America to the moon.

@matheusribeiro8523

5 жыл бұрын

daaaaaammnnnnn

@minhtrungle9117

5 жыл бұрын

And the US also had to ride on Russian's Soyuz to the ISS after the retirement of the Space Shuttle, due to the Soyuz having an undisputed safety record and far cheaper as well. I don't remember a superpower having to rely on someone else's vehicle to get to the space station they jointly built.

@ashgreninja7521

5 жыл бұрын

I don't mean to be rude to any space age country (for me it means a country that has a working space program) But India made it to Mars in 1st try while also being the cheapest mission by far..... (I am looking at you NASA,with your expensive programme)

@Mostlyharmless1985

5 жыл бұрын

Ash Greninja The US did it first nearly 45 years ago. Viking 1. As for “expensive” NASA takes .49 percent of the US budget. Dollar per science output it is by far and away one of the most productive and inexpensive programs. Compare to R&D grants given to individual interests totally 3.5 percent of the budget. See any SUVs put on Mars by MIT? India, put a satellite in orbit. That’s comparatively easy. The US did that back in 71, after the fly-by in 69. Have some pride, but don’t be arrogant. You learned by those who did it before you.

As someone who lives in the UK I have to say this video was absolutely hilarious 😂

"Half a hand is a stick." ... A stick. ... A STICK.

@thejurassicwarewolf3300

6 жыл бұрын

we don't use hands or sticks before

@thejurassicwarewolf3300

6 жыл бұрын

*anymore

@joao.nuno.valente_

6 жыл бұрын

Still...

@StillRooneyStarcraft

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you imperial, for telling me that my stick is longer than the average.

@MurasakiFTW

6 жыл бұрын

ever been around a horse?

While the metric system is extremely more efficient then the Imperial system, one key point you are forgetting is that no one uses cubits, points, roman miles, etc. anymore.

@ThisIsOurtubeComrade

10 жыл бұрын

You're right. Instead we're stuck using fractions of an inch. I love trying to figure out 7/64" / 13/16.

@dunedinsound

10 жыл бұрын

And yet people still use inches, feet, miles and yards for some reason...

@HendrikHenderson

10 жыл бұрын

fraseyboy The only way to explain why people still use Imperial, however impractical it may be, is because of habit. Humans hate change, and changing things. Over a human's lifetime this becomes even stronger, and our specie's Achilles' Heel is change. When you grow up with inches, and your parents grew up with inches, and in school they taught you inches, guess what system you will most likely use? Inches. And so will your children use inches, as you taught them that. It would be very difficult for America (1 of 2 nations who actually use inches) to get off of inches, and using centimeters.

@tkandme3

10 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

@HendrikHenderson

10 жыл бұрын

Sandy Larouche And I am sure that in America, within 50 or so years, we will start to fade from the Imperial System due to more and more ties with other nations. I just hope it could've happened sooner. Centigrade looks so much easier, but I just can't relate to it somehow.

I live in the U.S. We use just inches, feet, and miles for distances. Anything else that was mentioned for distance is completely irrelevant. If you asked anyone who lived in the U.S. what most of these were and tried to use them in everyday language, you would be treated like a crazy person.

2:18 points are actually how font size is measured

This is a joke, right? All these arbitrary units don't really exist...right??

@Ginkoman2

6 жыл бұрын

they do. --> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#/media/File:English_length_units_graph.png

@E--Drop

5 жыл бұрын

Cheif's use a lot of the smaller ones on a daily basis, _well at least I and everyone I know who cooks does._

@EmTreasure88

5 жыл бұрын

Inches on foot long rulers. Oh, and yards for American football stadiums. A yard is about a meter. I’m five foot three. That means I’m five feet plus three inches tall.

@dinomuhic

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldavis2531 no one says that. We just say you are 180cm or 1,8m

@alextygesen3101

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldavis2531 Saying 1,80 meters is basically the same as saying whatever the hell you're saying

This video is silly. Everyone knows only Inches, Feet, Yards, and Miles get used in the countries where we do use Imperial measurements. That's like saying since Metric is the better system, we should get rid of our standard time that we use and use Metric time. Metric time still does exist, but I don't believe too many people seriously use it. If you want the three or so nations that still use Imperial measurements to switch... (Yeah, it's not just the United States) The way I think of it is 1 yard is close enough to a meter, a meter is about .09 off from a yard. It's always funny hearing international students complain to us about our system of measurements. Though I still think the US should use Metric, I also think that it'd just take a lot of time to go through and change all the signs on the road since all our cars have the Kilometers Per Hour on the dial as well for speed... (Not to mention that the US is fairly large and spread out, so it would take a considerable amount of time to change everything over to metric) The digital ones that just display miles on the other hand... I'm not sure if they have a metric mode or if they can just change it through software. Though honestly I can't picture measurements in my head. If someone says that they've gone 1000 miles or 1609.34 Kilometers I can't logically think to myself "oh, that's an easily comparable distance that I can easily picture in my head" it's just "oh, that's pretty far." When people talk about the colossal size of things in Science fields and use thousands of Kilometers to refer to the measured size it's just as useless to me as you telling me how big it is in Miles because the only take away message I get from it is "oh, that's really big."

I was hoping for an eloquent attack on the precision of imperial measurements, all I got was this hilarious proof of logical consistency.

@kemcolian2001

2 жыл бұрын

consistent, yes. logical? not at all

I loved this. Well presented and well done on it.

Lol did I smell irony and sarcasm from his voice?

@froll1999

10 жыл бұрын

Nah ... :D

@erikb3309

6 жыл бұрын

you forgot to mention douchebaggery

Seriously the imperial system has caused us a lot of trouble at work. I live in a country that uses metric. We deal with conversion frequently for lengths, weights and volumes. For example, some US companies like to sell stuff in a 1 oz jar. So my colleagues would ask me how much material is this. I would say I'm not sure. I got to check with them. They either mean 1 oz (28.34 gram) or 1 fl oz (29.57 ml). This has huge implication for materials with different densities. Once, there were 4 oz (weight) of material in a 2 oz (volume) jar, causing a lot of confusion and my colleagues were like !?!!??! Adding to the party are pints, quarts, gallons, mils, inches, feet, yard, miles, pounds etc. We got to be extra careful when we deal with US companies so that we don't mess things up. Metric would have resolved all the ambiguities once and for all.

Every now and then i will come back to this video to brighten up my day.

1:02 not even halfway in and he's already lost me

Stones, nails, slugs, steps, chains, feet, palms, hands, ropes, sticks. Seems like cavemen invented the imperial system.

@skepticmoderate5790

6 жыл бұрын

Because cavemen used advanced technologies like nails and ropes.

@joshandrews8913

6 жыл бұрын

You must be a caveman if you think nails and ropes are advanced.

@lucasriddle5538

6 жыл бұрын

But to a Caveman they would be advanced, and if cavemen invented the imperial system, how did they know what nails were?

@themrfj

6 жыл бұрын

_finger_ nails :D

@drmontorsi7498

5 жыл бұрын

leonardo h Oh wait a moment, they did.

Quick but comprehensive explanation of the imperial system

@javiercamara605

10 жыл бұрын

Easy as pie...

At school we used the metric system exclusively. My friend lost his science book and, at assembly, there was an appeal for anyone finding it to return it. The main distinguishing feature, "Save the British Thermal Unit" in big letters on the front!

From all the videos the internet has to offer, I think this is my personal favourite

This guy can teach things and roast the USA at the same time

As an American, I'd like to say we don't know most of these

@user-tw5ek1gg8j

5 жыл бұрын

as an american you don't know most things!

@michaeldavis2531

5 жыл бұрын

@Evy! I agree with you as well buddy. Most of these units lines and barley corns are very old English/Imperial units used back in Imperial England and are not Part of U.S. Customary Units, only part of British Imperial Units.

@MochiMac17

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-tw5ek1gg8j haha nice edgy attack on whole country bud give yourself a pat on the back cause that must have taken a long time to think of :)

1:42 spans and cubits are not standard measurements. A span is the distance from the little finger to the thumb when the fingers are spread out. A cubit is the distance between the tip of the middle finger to the elbow.

my fav imperial unit is the pound because you need context to figure out if someones talking about weight or money

@TheSunriseAnimation

5 жыл бұрын

Mine ist stone, which rock do you mean? That mountain over there or one of the pebbels we are standing on?

@Garfie489

5 жыл бұрын

Better one is the ounce. Because you need the context of what your actually weighing before you can actually weigh it. An ounce of Gold quite literally weighs more on metric scales than an ounce of feathers.

@oscarwehmanen6885

5 жыл бұрын

Is that Troy or Avoirdupois?