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@lukeirot

5 жыл бұрын

I am ok with switching to metric in everything except temperature. Its just nicer to use than Celsius. Also yes the harder ass hats insult us for using it the more I'm against it because fuck you also I would say a not insignificant number of Americans are becoming more and more disillusioned with Europeans. I can't help but feel like it has something to do with Europeans non-stop insulting Americans. Our people will fight and die for our allys and protect smaller nations from being bullyed by big ones but with out fail people in Europe treat us like Nazis or Fascist. Hell I be an American could be stabed and bleeding out on a street in Europe and Europeans would just ignore them. I know that last statement isn't true, but the problem is it's feeling more and more likely that it would be true.

@Texnodias

5 жыл бұрын

you bad bad man, how many peoples google assistant did you trigger with the trigger phrase

@ianpage2509

5 жыл бұрын

Hi as an American I loved your videos. I use them to research for a number of things. I couldn't stop laughing, it honestly reminded me of one of the Top Tenz videos were you guys mentioned "American don't like being told what to do especially by there government." I toast you guys some home made Apple Pie, complete with whip cream.

@DiracComb.7585

5 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out ya know what’s convenient about all this, I have a paper due on May 3 on this exact topic.

@TheRealDarthRevan

5 жыл бұрын

we use use °of freedom ... °F

America is embracing the metric system an inch at a time.

@MAGGOT_VOMIT

5 жыл бұрын

*LOL!!!.............................not xD*

@NakedMkone

5 жыл бұрын

You won the internet

@Nuttertainment

5 жыл бұрын

Lol I laughed my "feet" off

@dorupero

5 жыл бұрын

Too accurate

@TheHorseOutside

5 жыл бұрын

GET OUT NOW

The real reason the U.S. doesn’t fully swap to metric is because if we replaced feet, it would be too difficult to walk.

@the_original_Bilb_Ono

5 жыл бұрын

That has to be the most unfunny thing I've heard all day and my dog was ran over today...

@bradenross4182

5 жыл бұрын

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono r/nocontext

@mightbedan3590

5 жыл бұрын

Private Jenkins r/Fortheloveofgodstopusingreddittagsinyoutubeitjustmakesyoulooklikeanidiot

@bradenross4182

5 жыл бұрын

@@mightbedan3590 r/ihavereddit

@2Manchester

5 жыл бұрын

It was just funny

As an engineer designing light fixtures in the United States I can tell you we use both systems of measurements, usually within the same products. We talk about components in terms of millimeters, and use inches when designing the outside features, largely because the building industry still uses imperial measurements. We also tend to use the imperial footcandle for unit of light measurement for interior spaces but we use the international metric lux when we talk about exterior spaces. So, we mix and match units of measurements in the same sentence and nobody really blinks an eye.

@theodoresmith5272

Жыл бұрын

Because we are smart and can use a system based in 12 or 10 and like you say, both.

@Zerch-gi9qr

10 ай бұрын

Outside the US no one uses the imperial system whatever the job

@nm2064

9 ай бұрын

Foot-candle for unit of light😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I guess cars still have horsepower

@Incandescentiron

9 ай бұрын

@@nm2064 yes, indeed. But we can always use the metric lux if that strikes our fancy. 10 lux is close to one footcandle. In the USA, we use both units depending on the application. Indoor applications usually use footcandles, exterior applications usually use lux. How is that for consistency?

@joshdelaughder3158

9 ай бұрын

@@Zerch-gi9qrEngland uses miles

The US Army uses a bastardization of both SI and Imperial. Km for landnav, Miles for running and mph for driving, lbs for weight, meters for shooting and artillery, liters for fluids, etc etc

@iLumberjack

2 жыл бұрын

When the NFL switches to a 100 meter field, the Army can finish metric migration. (Nobody wants to estimate distance by the number of soccer fields.) We already have warehouses overflowing with metric sh*t tons, ready to deploy.

@scottcarr3264

Жыл бұрын

And their sidearm is 9mm.

@brianwright9514

Жыл бұрын

@@scottcarr3264 and their main arm is 5.56mm

@GregBrownsWorldORacing

Жыл бұрын

No wonder they keep sending bills for$700 for a hammer to the pentagon, needed a metric system hammer :o

@mcinteer19

Жыл бұрын

@@brianwright9514 you mean .223 Remington?

My girlfriend asked me if I had a foot fetish, I said no I use the metric system.

@gwinyaiejchipunza7168

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Xamufam

5 жыл бұрын

XD

@sonicgauge1

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@robgoodsight6216

5 жыл бұрын

hahhahahahahahahaha

@Scynthius137

5 жыл бұрын

More of light-nanosecond fetish.

I'm from Canada, where Metric has been the standard since before I started school. I'm 6' 2" tall, about 175 lbs. I used to have a out a 12 mile drive into town for school, at a highway speed limit of 100 km/hr. I feel hot if the temperature is over 26 degrees, and feel sick if my fever hits 100. I like drinking a 1L drink while building a deck out of 8' 2x4s with 3.5" deck screws. I then inflate my bike tires to 45 PSI before going for a 5k ride. Yup...Metric Conversion 100% successful!

@peddler931

4 жыл бұрын

I am old enough to remember the conversion in Canada. A decade later, it was against the law to sell milk in quarts but the only way to get a metric bolt was to buy an imported car and take it apart.

@terrygrant2300

4 жыл бұрын

Over 26? It’s the middle of winter where I live and it’s currently 26 degrees at this moment.

@christiankalk4668

4 жыл бұрын

@@terrygrant2300 Our winters easily hit MINUS 26 :) Sometimes as the daily High...

@terrygrant2300

4 жыл бұрын

And that’s why if I ever visit Canada it will never be winter.

@TankR

4 жыл бұрын

The fun part is when people mix units to emphasize their point. like if its hot "gosh, it must be 95 out today" but if its cold "ooh, its -8!"

I love how he both genuinely looks into and answers the question, whilst simultaneously roasting the asker for the backhanded way they asked it.

My dad was working at a gas station in the 70s when they tried moving everybody to metric by selling gas in liters instead of gallons and customers got unreasonably angry thinking they were getting ripped off

@adamleviness1039

Жыл бұрын

Why? I went to Puerto Rico a while back and I didn't realize they sell gas in Litres and I was like "Wow! is gas REALLY that cheap here." My driver was so confused, she was like how cheap is where you are? 1 litre of gas is much cheaper than 1 gallon. I mean, it's also much smaller, but I doubt most Americans would know that, they would just see the cheaper price for one "unit" and be pumped. But, I wasn't there so I would have to take your dad's word for it.

@midwestweirdo666

Жыл бұрын

@@adamleviness1039 people didn't know the conversion rate of gallons to liters so they just assumed they were getting screwed. That's really all it was.

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

Your story reminds me of when we had the energy crisis of the late 1970s and gasoline prices started shooting up above $1 a gallon. The pumps of the day weren't able to handle three-digit prices, so they started selling gas by the liter. "That's interesting," I thought at the time, "after years of talk, we're finally going to make a big, concrete step toward using the metric system." But alas, within a few months, new pumps arrived and we went right back to gallons! 😆

@jamesb.9155

Жыл бұрын

Thus the continued use of 'Idiot' units.

@fbksfrank4

Жыл бұрын

Some British war show that is recent, saw a clip. They were heading across the dessert and stopped, guy got out,went to the leader car. Getting low on petro, bring up the fuel trucks! Guy doesn’t speak, makes claim again. Guy taking a sip from a flask. You brought fuel right?! Long story short, fuel tanks could hold enough for kilometers, except the destination was in miles.

Most of my life, I didn't mind using imperial units, then I got to 2nd year thermodynamics and had to deal with crap like (ft^2 * lbf) / (in^3 * lbm) * (BTU) / (lbm * ºR) * (lbm * mol * ºR) / (ft * lbf). That's when I learned imperial units were actually hell. No one should ever have to tape pages together so they can write 600 mm long equations to keep track of unit conversions. Thermodynamics and inch-pounds are like alcohol and fentanyl, a combination that will lead to an untimely death.

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3 жыл бұрын

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@justinrogers1807

3 жыл бұрын

English man!!! Are you an Alien

@FrodoOne1

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinrogers1807 Could you please explain what you meant by your comment of "English man!!! Are you an Alien" ?

@Thesupremeone34

3 жыл бұрын

man my thermo teacher at uni was like "we're supposed to teach this in imperial and metric, but like... fuck that shit" and it never came up again

@FrodoOne1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thesupremeone34 What "never came up again."? Was it the "Imperial"/US Customary or the SI? Please Explain?

"America is inching towards metric" 😂😂 I almost missed that pun!

@jtrenoweth

5 жыл бұрын

I did thanks for pointing it out

@thisisaname5589

5 жыл бұрын

AMERICA WILL NEVER FALL TO COMMUNIST INVASION

@danielscully3952

5 жыл бұрын

@@thisisaname5589 I hope you're right, but what the hell is the relevance here?

@aussieevonne7857

5 жыл бұрын

As soon as I heard it. I scrolled down. I came here to make this comment, but you are the hero who made it first. :-)

@melkiorwiseman5234

5 жыл бұрын

Let's face it, "centimetreing" just doesn't have the same ring to it. :)

As a tradesman in a metric country, we're always using the imperial system, especially when it comes to pipework, hoses and fittings. NPT and BSP, 1/4", 5/8", 1/2", etc. are the norm, rather than the exception. My toolbox has both metric and imperial tools. So even if the US officially adopt the metric system, if Australia's anything to go by, they'll still be using Imperial sizes in 50years.

@brianwright9514

Жыл бұрын

Forever, by that standard. The ISO standard for pipe (tapered) threads is based on BSP.

@drakevaliance3536

Жыл бұрын

here as well. Tradesmen use both metric and imperial. Being in America though its mostly Imperial wierdly.

@davidmiller9485

Жыл бұрын

@@drakevaliance3536 As a lathe worker we use thousandths of an inch for everything. I might use a 2 meter long steel rod of 1 meter diameter but all cuts are done in thousandths of an inch for tolerances.

@patrickjorda5523

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think those building trades tend to be why Americans don't change..all our tape measures have inches and rarely metric

@brianwright9514

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickjorda5523 constantly having to convert from inch to metric while building things is what keeps me from buying a metric tape.

Simon made a lot of US friends with this one. Truly a balanced bit of reporting.

@MaryamofShomal

7 ай бұрын

YEA! But now it got me thinking, why as an American do I always prefer to hear our history relayed to me by an Englishman?? 😆

@cluistube

7 ай бұрын

@@MaryamofShomal Sugar makes the medicine go down after all!

@Karlach_

Ай бұрын

As an American I 100% agree. He's one of the few rational and fair British people I see online.

Australia changed all their road signs overnight in 1974. In a lot of cases instead of changing the whole sign, the simply put a sticker over the distances with the new values.

@DKoldies_CEO_Drew_Scumbag

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, but how did that help with anything? Didn't make things better so only time, money and resources were wasted.

@jennymisteqq5399

2 жыл бұрын

@@DKoldies_CEO_Drew_Scumbag How do you figure that? The exact opposite is true; Australia saved time, money and resources.

@Humpelstilzchen

2 жыл бұрын

@@jennymisteqq5399 Yes. It costs money, time and resources short term but long term you save tons of money, time and resources.

@emmettoflynn

2 жыл бұрын

Always easier to spend other people's money.

@ericrodano7951

2 жыл бұрын

Not stupid at all but you also have to think about regions with difficult climates.

US: Updating the sign means replacing the sign. Germany: Updating a sign means putting a reflective* sticker in it. * retroreflective

@RoscoesRiffs

3 жыл бұрын

Rural Texas: Updating the sign means backing off a couple-hunnert yards and shooting it full of .30-30 holes. 😁

@RoscoesRiffs

3 жыл бұрын

@Hal Davis I'm pretty sure Texans have been doing that ever since some city slicker decided to erect a sign at a crossroads.

@t0nito

3 жыл бұрын

This, I found the sign replacement argument rediculous.

@SteelskinDMC

3 жыл бұрын

Problem is, switching between miles and kilometers where the signs currently are placed, they would now be in meaningless incomprehensible increments. The sign that once read EXIT 253 3 MILES would be 4.83 KM.. nobody wants that.

@mpldr_

3 жыл бұрын

@@SteelskinDMC Yeah, but you could just approximate to 5. Noone will notice a difference of 200 metres.

I remember a teacher telling us back in the 1960's that I would see road signs first with both units and then only SI units. I've been waiting all my life, but no change. Like you said after university I forgot almost all I ever learned about SI units.

@marcellocolona4980

11 ай бұрын

Metric road signs were shot full of holes.

@DrDeuteron

4 ай бұрын

@@marcellocolona4980 9mm or 0.45 inches?

You're currently batting a thousand. Every one of your videos I've watched has been both entertaining and scholarly. A winning combo and greatly appreciated. Thank you.

American: "whats heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? Britishman: "depends on where you buy them from."

@naughtscrossstitches

3 жыл бұрын

try cooking from my grandma's old english christmas pudding recipe and converting to metric... we finally got smart and wrote the metric on the recipe!

@jeromebiggs7846

3 жыл бұрын

Well if you can do basic math and conversions then it's no problem 🙄

@LuisMiguelCunhaRibeiro

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeromebiggs7846 Say that to NASA and the lost spacecraft in 1999 due to errors in conversions...

@jeromebiggs7846

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuisMiguelCunhaRibeiro so their shortcomings are my fault that they can't do what every high schoolers obligated to do to graduate is my fault and I'm supposed to justify their stupidity? LMAO ok good point dude u got me.... Lmao

@kenpanderz672

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeromebiggs7846 tbf, doing conversions every time you need to do them introduces more situations where something can go wrong and ruin everything else down the line. if you have to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius every time you do a calculation, it means you get an opportunity to get the conversion wrong every time you do it, which is not a problem if you stick to just a single system of temperature measurement. doing conversions is inherently worse than just using a universal system, even if only marginally. the real problem is managing the adoption of that universal system globally.

Here in the us we love the metric system. 9mm is a great example

@mvb88

2 жыл бұрын

9mm is nothing. Wait till you lose the 10mm.

@canadiandrvway

2 жыл бұрын

Or .45...

@alpacamale2909

2 жыл бұрын

They have to adopt it for smaller shit. Maybe make everything tiny LOL

@ryanbradleyrankin

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer Caliber designations like .308 and .357. Its a lot more accurate.

@ryanbradleyrankin

2 жыл бұрын

@Hypercube Jones Calm down man jeez.

As a first generation American who grew up with European parents, I've learned to use and convert both of the systems. This came in handy when i finally moved to Europe. Now when i watch an American technical video for creating something, it's easy for me to translate it into centimeter. Although i'm familiar with the feet, inches and etc , i find that the metric system it's more easy to use. But i will not try to make someone who wants to use the Imperial system to change into the Metric system if he doesn't want. Instead of that i will suggest if he wants to learn both of them. This way i won't fight with him and he might learn something more.

@avishekpdsyouthoob9083

2 жыл бұрын

You sir, a genius!

@infledermaus

Жыл бұрын

I'm nearing 70 years old and I regularly convert Inches to centimeter and vice versa, miles to kilometers and back, and yards to meters amd tge reverse in my little old brain. And trust me, I am no math genius. The only thing that bugs me and it's insignificant is that I'd rather drive 100 miles than app. 150 km, however, I'd rather drive at 150 kph than 100 mph. You know. Americans like things bigger! That's strictly perception issue. 😊

Canada uses both. Even though we're officially metric, you will most likely have a Canadian tell you their height in feet/inches and their weight in pounds

@AlaskaErik

Жыл бұрын

I understand that feet and inches are still used for lumber and building houses.

@dovid916

Жыл бұрын

@@AlaskaErik Yep, Canadian construction worker here. Build mostly decks and whatnot, all in ft/in

@Justowner

10 ай бұрын

@@AlaskaErik A lot of more scientifically or engineering minded people don't realize that the reason why the imperial system lasted so long was because it was really good for working men. Even in the UK and other former commonwealth nations, there are many trades that still prefer imperial, but tend to need both.

@davidbroman8391

9 ай бұрын

Canada adopted the metric system April 1, 1975. A year before I graduated. For a while road signs were in both metric and imperial. It was an easy transition although I hated the metric sticker you place over the imperial numbers on your speedometer LOL. I immediately adopted the metric system and found it far easier and more accurate. 3mm is a lot easier to add, subtract or count than 3/32nds. Many older people didn’t change so it’s still good to know both. The construction industry seems to be a hold out for imperial measurements. I think it’s because they don’t want to buy new tape measures.

Kudos for mentioning the flame war aspect and how that is human, not country specific.

@AndrewBlucher

5 жыл бұрын

I think this is an idiotic point to make. . . Seriously though. Americans involved in an international space mission and specifing a velocity change in fps ... sheesh!

@coryjohnson7025

5 жыл бұрын

@@catwaterboy Get an economy as powerful as ours and we will, you Metric douche. ;)

@wyndhamcoffman8961

5 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBlucher Not to mention NASA specifying a Martian weather satellite to measure thrust in Newtons; then not catching when their contractor provided hardware designed for pound-feet. Then failing to claim damages, because of this contractor's failure.

@catwaterboy

5 жыл бұрын

Can't boast a big economy if none of it is in your pocket in the form of money and or services. Bottom feeder.

@rustyfox2794

5 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewBlucher All aviation specifies altitudes in feet, and rate of climb or rate of descent in feet. Horizontal distances are in metres or kilometres for visibility etc. but navigation is by nautical mile, as it is one minute of latitude, or one minute of angle on a great circle. But overall I see this more as an American problem - they ARE different. The only country I know of where road rage shootings are not even news!

"Slowly but surely, America is inching towards metric." Not everyone noticed what you did there, Simon. I noticed. I noticed.

@jezeski2011

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed too; was checking the comments to see if anyone else did.

@Tinhead426

5 жыл бұрын

Lol yup well played

@jacksmith3189

5 жыл бұрын

Creepmobile Slowly but surely??? Pass around what you’re smoking and don’t bogart that joint The only instance of using metric measurements is when I buy motor oil. A quart is APPROXIMATELY .950 of a liter

@jezeski2011

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacksmith3189 You clearly missed the point of this comment; *inching* toward *metric* was kind of ironic. Simon said it in the video around 21:40 or so.

@sybillestahl8646

4 жыл бұрын

Creepmobile I particularly liked how he said it while betraying absolutely nothing in his expression.

Canada didn't switch signs, they applied stickers to the existing signs to change the "5" to an "8" and adding KP/h. As they needed changed due to wear, they replaced the stickered signs.

I was born in 1962 (in NZ) and started my schooling in Imp, including the currency, then went through the conversion period learning both. Later on, I was in the RNZN as a engineering apprentice, where our tech training for Trade cert was in Metric and all the fittings on the ships were old Imperial. We also had to frequently convert SAE to Whitworth and BS depending on where the machinery upgrades had been sourced from over the life of the ships. I'm out of practice now but the majority of our branch used to do these conversions on the fly. There are a lot of other conversions in engineering that are not so commonly encountered such as units of energy that we had to deal with as well. To add more confusion to the issue, a lot of our tools were issued with descriptions in decimal inches, so a 3/4" SAE/AF double hex 1/2" drive socket would be 0.75 x 0.5Dr 12pt socket head! 🤔

Tried using a UK size chart and it asked how many stones I weigh. First thought was, well what size stones are we talking about here? 😆

@gerardmontgomery280

5 жыл бұрын

One Stone (I think) is 14 Pounds, but British Pounds which are different to American Pounds.

@herbiehusker1889

5 жыл бұрын

@@gerardmontgomery280 British lbs are the same as US lbs. Their gallons are bigger though.

@joncarter3761

5 жыл бұрын

​@@herbiehusker1889 UK lbs are different to US lbs, here in the UK we standardised the weight in 1824 because we had been using different weights for the pound. Basically the UK provided ALL the weights and scales for the US and purposely made those weights heavier so we would get more produce per lb when buying from the US and made a lot of money as a result. We also used to use lighter weights while selling to the US so that we could sell less produce for the same amount of money... In 1824 this exploitation of colonies was becoming a problem as it was causing various economies serious problems as the imports were far more expensive than the exports and raising taxes wasn't really possible without further damaging their economies so a law was passed re-standardising the pound accross the British Empire and it has stayed the same ever since, the USA had been independent for 70ish years by this point so used the previous incorrect weights.

@DogWalkerBill

5 жыл бұрын

Google says 1 Stone = 14 pounds =~ 6.350293 Kg. Always throws me when UK people talk about how many stones they lost on a diet program. Stones must be some ancient Celtic thing.

@johndii2194

5 жыл бұрын

@@gerardmontgomery280 14 Pounds? That sounds more like a Rock to me. Ha Ha!

There’s also 3 increasing sizes for quantity: Plethora, Shitload, and Fuckton.

@leonardgebbia2615

5 жыл бұрын

In the south its mess, ass, and shit ton

@ShawnRavenfire

5 жыл бұрын

Would you say I have a plethora if piñatas?

@Eastmarch2

5 жыл бұрын

The metric fuckton is made of 1000 fuckograms, each if which is 1000 millifucks.

@Eastmarch2

5 жыл бұрын

The metric fuckton is made of 1000 fuckograms, each of which is 1000 millifucks.

@relite25

5 жыл бұрын

Never forget butt load!

As a European using the metric system in my daily life, makes USC and Imperial units confusing as hell. Mostly because when someone mentions 'a gallon' and it's fractions gets confusing because I'd need to know if they're speaking English or American. For recipes it's also confusing because English language recipes use volumetric measurements rather than weight, which makes conversion more difficult as density suddenly becomes a factor. As for Nautical units used in aircraft and ships, they do make sense in a different way. 1 nautical mile is close enough to 6000 feet as makes no difference at that scale, which is convenient when you need to quickly estimate a glide slope. This works much less well when using statutory miles of 5280ft. And I also think that it helped USC units that it was effectively the only system of measurement used in the country at the time. Compared to Europe where even within a single (modern day) country units with the same name would be a different measurement. In my own country the term "mile" has had vastly different meanings over the course of history. So when something is X miles away according to a historic text, you'd need to know not only when that text was written, but also where. It might be as short as 5555 metres, or as much as 7404 metres. A mile would be defined as either "an hours walk" or about 5km, or it could be 20000 feet, or 22800 feet, and although I say feet those feet are from different regions and thus are not the same length. Then the metric system came around and people started to refer to a kilometer as a metric mile. Adding yet another meaning to the word. Add to the fact that people couldn't agree on how many "feet" constituted a "mile" and then add in the fact that in the area that today makes up the Benelux, there were more than 30 different kinds of "foot" which each divided up into 10, 11, 12, or 13 "inches" and the system as a whole becomes incredibly unwieldy. Also none of those historical measurements of a "foot" or the accompanying "inch" is the same as what people in modern times refer to as a foot or an inch. Standardising everything to the metric system and the SI makes much more sense in that context. In the US, where there only really ever was a single definition for those units, it makes much less sense to switch over. There already is a standard with a single, clear definition.

@mromutt

Жыл бұрын

This makes me understand your guys confusion and seemingly violent hatred of our prefered system lol god that sounds awful! This also makes more sense why our friends to the north do not hate it as much and even indulge in using both depending on the situation. Also just to clarify, we learn both in school here in the states as well as almost all our stuff says both.

@Kevin-jb2pv

Жыл бұрын

Nobody in the US knows how many feet are in a mile, either. Anyone who says they do is a dirt fucking commie spy.

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

@ Fermitu Poupon : *THANK YOU!* This is what I've been saying for years! Excellent comment....Fermitu Poupon! 😄 (But seriously, you *did* get it 100% right.)

Thank goodness for the conversion app on my phone. In my younger years I needed half the tools than today and a lot less aggravation determining correct size to use. That's when all the best stuff was made in U.S.A.

I've just noticed America is just one tea short of "A me(t)ric A" Maybe it was chucked out in Boston in 1773.

@sciathoir

2 жыл бұрын

Not bad, you have this 👍

@bishoukun

2 жыл бұрын

nah we went right back to sipping that good ol leaf juice

As an automotive mechanic, you have to be fluent in both systems to avoid rounding the head off of bolts, or worse.

@AriManPad8gi

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, at work we don't use metric at all. It took some getting used to, as I was used to working on bicycles, which almost exclusively (99.8% I'd guess) use metric for parts, measurements, etc.

@unknow318

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't happen if there was just one

@beautifuldreamer3991

5 жыл бұрын

Nurses use metric.

@beautifuldreamer3991

5 жыл бұрын

Why does anyone care? People can do whatever they want. No one has any right to cram their ideas forcibly on others. Besides,it will cost too much to change now. We're fluent in both. As a nurse,I have to know the metric system. As to my European friends,they are so jealous how fast I can go back and forth between the 2 systems,showing THEM,how stupid they are😂😂😂😂😂

@dn2ze

5 жыл бұрын

BC Nation urgh. I hate that we have to learn things like that in Canada. Learning both system sucks at times

I draft sewing patterns using a system that uses a specialy adapted metric tape measure. (Lutterloh System for those who may have heard of it.) After I have the pattern drafted, I add seam allowances of 5/8 inch which is standard on most patterns in US and what I am accustomed to. I can swith easily back and forth, depending on whatever is called for.

Another consideration about highway signs is in most the US ( I think all the states west of Pennsylvania) the exit numbers are matched to the mile markers. This is very convenient as you can look at the next mile marker sign and tell how far it is to the exit you want. And the distance to the eastern border Switching to kilometers would involve almost every sign and render every road map useless. Not to mention renaming about 90% of the exits.

Customer: I would like one pound of pork chops, please. Butcher: Its called kilo, now a days. Customer: Alright, then give me one pound of kilo, please.

@pq5005

5 жыл бұрын

John Johansen haha

@slickstretch6391

5 жыл бұрын

"I don't want a large Farva, I want a litre of Cola!"

@AtomicReverend

5 жыл бұрын

A pound would be closer to 7/16 of a kilo of pork chops... Good joke, I just had to fractionalize the metric system to make it feel a little more like home.

@remcovanvliet3018

5 жыл бұрын

If you ask a European butcher for a pound of beef, you just get a half kilo. Close enough.

@kkfoto

5 жыл бұрын

£ 1 or 1 lb?

Biggest problem in the 1970's is they tried to teach it to us as "here is the conversion factor" and tests on it were always converting from imperial to metric and back. If they had just done things in metric, we would have learned what a meter was, rather than how many feet are in a meter.

@davidwise1302

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Just work within the system. It's like learning a foreign language. It's too exhausting to have to translate everything all the time, so just start thinking in that language (which is a lot easier than most monoglots would think).

@MKahn84

3 жыл бұрын

I did grade school in Germany where I learned metric. I can do the conversions in my head most of the time, including between Fahrenheit and Celsius, as long as it doesn't have to be precise. When I was told the restaurant level at the Galata Tower in Istanbul was 60 meters above the ground, I immediately knew that meant 200 feet. Yet I hate metric. Can't help it.

@Chris-hx3om

3 жыл бұрын

A 'meter' is a device to measure something (Think 'voltmeter', 'ammeter', 'multimeter', 'interferometer'). A 'metre' is the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 of a second.

@Ryan.......

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chris-hx3om In Commonwealth English, not universally.

@Chris-hx3om

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan....... 🤦‍♂English IS Commonwealth. Again, yanks messing with the language because they can't be bother to learn how to spell properly.

As an American there are only 4 situations in which I use non metric units 1) air temperature 2) travel distances (and other car related things) 3) the hight of people 4) the weight of people. I’m slowly trying to be able to use metric for height and weight of people. But it’s difficult as those around me don’t use them. Also I’m not sure if using meters or centimeters is customary for height

@DaneInTheUS

Жыл бұрын

Height is usually measured in cm - 185 cm for instance

@o0alessandro0o

Жыл бұрын

It's... Exactly the same, at least in general parlance. "One meter seventy-five" can be shortened to "one seventy-five", and since it's exactly the same as "one hundred and seventy-five centimeters", which can *also* be shortened to "one seventy-five", there is no difference. Depending on the language, you may or may not want add "meter" after the "one", but even then, you don't really need to. It's like saying you are "five ten", without specifying the unit. You know what the unit is, you don't really have to come out and say it, and "one" for "one hundred" is a perfectly acceptable shorthand when you put it before a two-digit number.

@ChiggaChiggaBruh

Жыл бұрын

In Canada, a metric country, we also generally use lbs and feet for body measurements

@dovid916

Жыл бұрын

@@ChiggaChiggaBruh Not to mention Fahrenheit for cooking. Also weirdly enough, long distances are referred to in hours-to-drive haha

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

_"I’m slowly trying to be able to use metric for height and weight of people. But it’s difficult as those around me don’t use them."_ And that's the reason the USA has not switched over to the metric system in everyday use. For a measurement system to work, everybody has to use it. It's like a language. And everybody in the U.S. uses Customary units. If you start talking about ordinary things in terms of metric units, nobody's going to understand you. Just as if you started talking in French. So even if I wanted to switch to metric, I couldn't, because everyone else uses Customary. But that's okay, because Customary units work just fine for ordinary everyday measurements. Which is another reason why people in the U.S. don't switch over to the metric system. It's a major change, requiring people to use units they're not familiar with, and there's no practical benefit to doing so. Under those circumstances, it would be shocking if Americans *_did_* switch! But note, of course, that in the fields of science and technology, including medicine, the military, and automotibile manufacturing, we DO use the metric system. So really it just boils down to using whichever system works best for the particular purpose. And there's nothing wrong with that. 😊

Watching Simon’s videos back then vs now is CRAAZZZYYYY ❤️

@andersenzheng

11 ай бұрын

i know right?! i was like whos this weirdo with no beard? (and seemingly smaller head? might be a camera thing)

metric system is simple, 1 meter = 1 minecraft block

@broderperdurabo

3 жыл бұрын

One gigaflopp is one us opsidasy.

@vulpes7079

3 жыл бұрын

That's one cubic meter

@master74200

2 жыл бұрын

@@vulpes7079 one cubic meter is indeed the volume of a minecraft block, but one meter is also the length of one minecraft block. both are valid measures in that regard.

@KlausJepps

2 жыл бұрын

1 minecraft block meter of length is then parted in 16pixels which sadly kills the metric part of this. They should change the block to have 100pixels for the sake of the metric system alone.

@KlausJepps

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 oh, that's decipixels. Anyone knows that.

I am a retired soldier and was stationed and lived in Germany for 10 years of my career and I can use both metric and SAE (Standard American Equivalent) with aplomb. Currently working as a millwright in an iron foundry, I sometimes use metric just to mess with the Apprentices and the production people. I have found that what really messes with them is writing down time in the military 24hr format. "WTH does 2243hrs mean?! Is that some kind of German crap?!" Coming from a guy whose family name is, Schmidt.

@Xogroroth666

4 жыл бұрын

Having a German name does not necessarily mean having the German intellect... :P

@Xogroroth666

4 жыл бұрын

@Harold Potsdamer I'm Belgian... What made you think I am German/have a German name?

@popuptarget7386

4 жыл бұрын

SAE is society of automotive engineers which is a US based standards governing body.

@davidwise1302

4 жыл бұрын

I am a Chief, son of a Chief. Ie, my father was a WWII CPO in the Seabees and I am a retired CPO, USNR. In Jr High, I found his 1944 Bluejackets Manual and studied it. From that point on (a bit over half a century), I've been on the 24-hour clock. So wonderfully unambiguous, no messing around with meridians -- midnight is the only problem which nearly affected me. Our company had a few German engineers (BTW, just about everybody else post schedules in 24-hour time, but not the US). One day one of them approached me with a question about his plane ticket. 12:30 PM. Just what time of day is that supposed to be? Similarly, at another company a PC provider would set up the XT clones for our customers and notoriously the system clocks would be off by 12 hours -- they'd set them up in the afternoon but use 12-hour time. My son is a cop and has learned 24-hour time. When he reported the birth of my first grandchild, he reported as being at 2005. I had to translate real time to faux time for all the civilians present. Midnight. On active duty, I was in a 24-hour office. Upon my separation, the office was short-staffed and had to go to 12-hour shifts. The supervising NCO (I started out active duty USAF) wrote the duty roster ambiguously, assigning midnight apparently to the wrong day. At the end of my last 8-hour shift, my relief thought he didn't have to come in until 24 hours later. We got it straightened out and my relief was royally pissed, but there was no way I was going to end my active duty career with no 20-hour shift (which violated Strategic Air Command's regs anyway).

@BryTee

4 жыл бұрын

I live in the US, I use the 24 hour clock (even at home, although I translate for the family). But I work supporting computers all around the world, and we use UTC on them, which means in my head I find I adding my timezone offset to know what the time is in UTC - even when I look at a local clock. Who else uses UTC? A few countries in West Africa, the USGS, Antarctia, and the International Space Station. But I'm sure many more companies use it internally (because it makes life SO much easier).

I went to visit my little brother a few years ago. 50°c or 128°f I drove there said hi, bye, and drove back home. 4 1\2 hrs

You had me laughing during your summary statements at the conclusion of this video. I applaud your straight-faced and humorous delivery. Thanks!

Thanks for pointing out that the tendency to resist forced change is not limited to Americans... It seems most people don't consider this.

@sarahhuse9709

Жыл бұрын

Honduras tried Daylight Savings Time, and everyone hated it so much they switched back. Americans who hate DST still have to deal with it

@rivermcratt3683

Жыл бұрын

The imperial system has been used for millennia. This metric shit is new, but that doesn't mean it's better. Plus, and I don't know if it was addressed in this video, the metric system was invented in New York, it's an American system of measurement, yes it was developed by a Frenchman but that Frenchman was in the United States.

@YaakovEzraAmiChi

Жыл бұрын

@@rivermcratt3683 yeah and the metric system is uniform and easy. Much better than the system we have

@rivermcratt3683

Жыл бұрын

@@YaakovEzraAmiChi the imperial system was invented by the ancient Arabs, so I guess that means if you like the metric system you hate Islam.

@ryleighs9575

Жыл бұрын

@@rivermcratt3683 "The imperial system has been used for millennia. This metric shit is new, but that doesn't mean it's better." Nor does it mean it isn't better. So whether or not it's better is not answered by that... but is it better? That's still a question right? "Plus, and I don't know if it was addressed in this video, the metric system was invented in New York, it's an American system of measurement, yes it was developed by a Frenchman but that Frenchman was in the United States." In the context of this topic, what is your argument here? Individuals are exceptions to rules all the time... America does, in fact, NOT use the Metric system, regardless which individual invented it.... so what's your point? Since you never gave a justification for whether Imperial or Metric is, in fact, more useful, whom invented which is, at this point in your argument, an irrelevant fact. It's not "An American measurement system", it's a system invented by one American... and not used by Americans in general.... so it's NOT an "American measurement system". It's a measurement system of that guy who invented it, and now most of the world outside of America. What makes it "American" beyond that one specific man? Talk about taking undue credit.

I grew up in Canada, born in 74. I was only ever taught metric in school. Then in high school in the early 90s, I went to work for my uncle in his tool and die shop for a summer and was really confused when I discovered the company used Imperial and all the old machines the shop had that were manufactured in the USA had all of the measurements in Imperial instead of metric. My uncle was surprised that I had never learned about inches, etc., in school and had to teach me about how to measure using them. In the late 90s I worked as an intern for a couple of summers for an Engineering firm that made plastic (High Density Polyethelene) gas tanks for motor vehicles (the HDPE was stronger than steel) and we had international customers. I would make blueprints along with gas tank volume measurements in metric, USA Imperial or British Imperial depending upon which country the blueprints were for. Most of the world wanted metric, but the USA still wanted things to be in USA Imperial units and England wanted things to be in British Imperial. I had to be careful because USA gallons were different than British Gallons, etc.. It was really a mess to deal with the countries and companies that weren't dealing with metric.

@MKahn84

3 жыл бұрын

I asked my roommate (who is from England) how much a gallon of water weighed and he said 10 pounds. I disagreed and insisted it was 8.34 pounds. Then I thought for a moment and looked up the weight of an Imperial gallon of water online. Sure enough, it's 10 pounds.

@josoffat7649

3 жыл бұрын

First car I had in the late 90's was a '68 skylark that was sold in Canada and stayed here it's entire life, shocked me to see it was in miles. Sure made me learned that 60mph was 100kph when I got pulled over for speeding 🤣

@unclejoeoakland

3 жыл бұрын

@@MKahn84 yeah but for some reason the British measure a gallon as being five quarters of a gallon.

@andrewdking

3 жыл бұрын

@@unclejoeoakland more the other way around. Why did the USA choose to deliberately deviate away from the English gallon you already had. Your smaller gallon is a major factor with your cars giving bad MPG fuel economy figures. A smaller gallon goes less miles obviously. You also get conned on your beer measures, because this automatically relates to a smaller pint glass.

@TheJeremyHolloway

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewdking that happened after the Revolution. That was also around the time that British English started adding "u" to a lot of words just to fancy it up because of the perception amongst the aristocracy that [court] French was more sophisticated.

In Australia, beer glasses are mostly in fluid ounces measurements. In reality, with the exception of the 7oz glass and a Pint (simply called 'a seven' or a Pint) most beer glass are given nicknames like Pot, Handle, Pony, Midi, Scooner etc and the millilitres measurement is now moulded into the base, despite being the metric equivalent of the original fluid ounce standard size.

@VecheslavNovikov

Жыл бұрын

There's a metric pint too, exactly half a litre. Standard beer bottle is like 330mL, not sure what that is in US units.

@gregwyatt6534

Жыл бұрын

And to make it worse, the names of beer glasses vary from state to state in Australia. I am old enough to remember metrication in Australia. My education was science based and I work in health - all metric. Woodworking is my hobby and I can flick back and forwards between metric and imperial but measure in metric. My 30-something son can also use both to some extent, despite only ever being educated in metric. I know my height in metric and imperial but my weight in kg only, I could convert to pounds but forget stones.

@grandcrowdadforde6127

Жыл бұрын

>> well ya BUT the beer still tastes the same eh?

@dsxa918

8 ай бұрын

The pint in Canada "at 500 ml" is kind of a thing, too - I have associated it with either English custom or perhaps older Canadians (somewhat interchangeable concepts) because I'm in my 30's and only discovered the "375 ml" pint when I started drinking store-bought, sealed liquor

As a Joiner, I've always referred to wood sizes in inches and feet (2"x2", 2"x4", 4'x8' sheets, etc) but when I measure a cut, I use millimetres. It's a crazy world.

Now if we could just fix the international hodgepodge of clothing sizes?

@mvb88

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. You have Europe, Asian and American size. A size 1 America is a 3 in England and a size 50 in Asia

@1madeintheimage

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding! Shoes sizes piss me off!

@yosefmacgruber1920

2 жыл бұрын

@@1madeintheimage Whatever happened to getting a shoe in our proper width?

@ericbarlow6772

2 жыл бұрын

@@mvb88 It's more complicated than that. I've found each factory fudges the sizes ever so slightly so at this point they're just vague guidelines.

@rjtimmerman2861

2 жыл бұрын

You basically just always have to try clothes on, because sizes don't even align across brands or even different clothes of the same brand Kid sizes in cm (like 146-152 and 158-164) did work fairly well though in being consistent

Okay, once the image of the school boy was shown with the caption "I forgot how to speak Kilogram." I totally misread this at first as: I forgot how to speak klingon.

@balduran

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone reads what he/she wants to read. Trekki spotted! ;-)

@SimuLord

4 жыл бұрын

What a filthy p'tahg.

@1701spacecadet

4 жыл бұрын

Q'plaH!

@hunglikeahorse120

4 жыл бұрын

Fox D *pushes up glasses* uhm it’s actually spelled petaQ or P’takh.

@hunglikeahorse120

4 жыл бұрын

Fox D *pushes up glasses* uhm it’s actually spelled petaQ or P’takh.

21:41 "The US is slowly *inching* towards the metric system" 👍

@ADEpoch

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Although I'm very pro metric, the term "centimetering along" woudln't sound as good :-)

The U.S won't switch to the metric system because saying, _"I'm 6 foot tall"_ sounds cooler than saying, _"I'm 182 centimeters tall"_

@jceberle2724

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I’ve noticed that people in countries long on the metric system still give their height in feet, since 6 ft loses something in metrically.

@ice9tom

2 жыл бұрын

Does it?

@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462

2 жыл бұрын

@@jceberle2724 That and people can just look at their actual feet for rough size comparison.

@KeitieKalopsia

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Not exactly how foot measurements work, but close enough.

@armandbiro2954

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen this argument before and I don't understand. I'm pretty sure it's either been invented by americans who don't actually know how metric-country-people say their height, or my country is unique in some way. Because it's not like we say "I'm one-hundred-and-eighty-two centimetres tall". That is long and weird. We say "I'm one-eighty-two" for example. Almost as fast as saying "I'm six feet tall".

I was complaining about it being hot at 44 degrees a few years ago on Facebook. I was asked “since when was 44 degrees hot?”. My response was “September 1972”, which was when Australia started only using Celsius for temperature.

@summitlb123

Жыл бұрын

Celsius is for measuring the temperature of water. Fahrenheit is for measuring temperature in relation to people, and the normal outside temps.

@shonaguthrie848

Жыл бұрын

@@summitlb123 not here in Australia

@o0alessandro0o

Жыл бұрын

@@summitlb123 Eeenope. F is objectively stupid. The other units of measurement in the imperial system are not stupid, they are simply inconvenient. They don't conveniently scale to "drop or add a zero", which makes them inconvenient. F is actually stupid - as in, poorly thought-out as a scale. Here are the reasons. Reason the first, the zero point for the F scale is... The freezing point of a (very specific) brine of salt and water. Do you know how much salt, off the top of your head? Or which salt? I can tell you that the Celsius scale specifies "water", which, to a chemist, means pure water. No strange salts, just, water. Reason the second, the one-hundred point is defined as "the temperature of a healthy human body". Which is stupid for three whole reasons of its own: The first and most important one is that it requires a second reference. Why not use the boiling point of the *same goddamn brine* of *bloody ammonium salts* and water and ice and the tears of an orphan child that you used for your zero point? Nobody knows. Daniel just though it a good idea. Good on you Daniel. I know you are a world-famous scientist and I am not, but I still think that was a very dumb decision. The second reason is that the human body does not have the same temperature on every surface. So. Which orifice are you using to measure the temperature of a healthy human body, Daniel? Inquiring minds need to know - the inquiring minds being the international scientific community at large. The third reason... Is that Daniel got it wrong. If your body temperature is 100F, you are running a fever. Which is probably because humans are inherently variable, and therefore there is no way to define "the" temperature of a healthy human: Daniel ran a little hotter than most people, and he though it perfectly normal. He was probably quite surprised when most people turned out to have "unhealthy" temperatures. Now, Anders, aside from having a much easier-to-write family name, decided to make his scale much simpler (though he did kind of fuck up by reversing the 0 and 100 point, but that was long before the concept of absolute zero, so it behooves us to forgive him). First of all, he used a single source for his measurements. You don't need a strange brine for the zero point and a (possibly) healthy human for the 100 point. Your endpoints are both based on the same source. Second of all, he used distilled water as that single source. No need to faff around with ammonium chloride: you take water, evaporate it, condense it, and you are done. Why Daniel though we should faff around with ammonium chloride (as opposed to any other chloride, or no chlorides at all), I will never know. The upshot is that the Celsius scale is much less arbitrary in its endpoints than the F scale (sorry, I'm not German, I'm not looking it up every time I have to write it), and therefore easier to understand: 0 is freezing cold, 100 is scorching hot. Now, what is "comfortably warm"? Well, the thing is, "comfortably warm" in C is exactly as arbitrary-looking as "comfortably warm" in F. 20° C is 68° F. Maybe you feel better at 70° F, which is approximately 21° C, but the difference is relatively minor. So, really, why is the F scale any more sensible than the C scale? Why it 70 better than 20? After all, neither of them is 50.

@infledermaus

Жыл бұрын

I was in Germany in summer a few years ago. I can attest to 44° being hot as hell! They get horrid heat waves that come up from the Sahara. It was as hot in Leipzig as I remembered it being in the Southern Arizona desert where I grew up. It was 106° F, and Germans rarely have air conditioning except in businesses. I'm no longer used to that sort of heat and was miserable.

@fredhughes4115

Жыл бұрын

@@shonaguthrie848 Also not here in Canada. We often are told temperatures in both units, but I personally find Celsius to be much more useful - for normal, and abnormal, outside, and inside, temps. I don't know what "measuring temperature in relation to people" means, so I'm not sure about that one. On the other hand I will tell you my height in feet and inches, and the depth of a new snowfall in feet or inches, and my weight in pounds, as I find those units more intuitive.

Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Don't know, don't care.

@dr.velious5411

4 жыл бұрын

Meh.

@VArsovski10

4 жыл бұрын

How's this even a debate to have at all ? There's nothing worse (nor dangerous) than ignorance for sure..

@blackshogun272

4 жыл бұрын

VArsovski10 mass ignorance or neglect to semi to full serious matters will lead to history repeating itself.

@QuixoteX

4 жыл бұрын

obviously apathy.

@VArsovski10

4 жыл бұрын

@@QuixoteX Apathy leads to self-destruction, ignorance leads to outer aggression. Apathic people tend to not reproduce (mainly cause they're in depression), ignorant ones DO (in masses even) A very important notion - apathic people don't think universe started to exist the day they were born and dies when they do, ignorant ones DO Individuals that are better than the apathic person aren't in danger of showing off their skills (nor practising in front of them), individuals that are in near-existence of an ignorant ones ARE in danger for sure Its simply put too much religious-originating BS lying around that self-destruction is the biggest sin of all (alas, it is NOT true) That being said = apathy's biggest danger and consequence is cutting-out/isolating self from the society, ignorance's biggest danger is = getting into conflict with everyone/everything and still not self-taking a/the blame Here's a simple example = Anatoly Dyatlov (you know the profile from the series) = was he apathic or ignorant ?? (hint = THE second) All you really need to do with apathic people is to not put them on important positions (which is good news since they probably don't even want it anyway nor fight for a one), the solution to ignorant ones is ? = there's none (maybe execution) Now, HOW on Earth is that even a debate at all ?

What gets me the most is tyre sizes. Width of the tyre in millimetres and the percentage of that for the sidewall/profile and then the internal rim size in inches...

I work in a Engineering workshop here in Australia, we make Railway equipment, the Rail guage is measured in both Imperial and Metric all our drawings have the Imperial converted to Metric, If we buy honed tube to Make Hydraulic Cylinders it is in Imperial, our bolts are in Whitworth U.N.C, U.N F, B.S.P, Metric standard and Metric fine and we also make specialized threads, our welding mig and Tig wire is in Metric, Plate, flatbar and angle iron is all metric but pipe sizes still tend to be Imperial, even though we classify 1-1/4" pipe as 32mm, 1"pipe as 25mm etc. AND then converting back and forwards to make it sit right in your head.

As a helicopter mechanic/crew chief in the US Army, I would like to point out that the Army is not using the metric system for anything besides weapon range and land navigation. In fact, my issued toolbox (which has hundreds of tools, and roughly is ~$5,000 new) doesn’t have a single metric tool. For any mechanics out there: I think the reason for this is to avoid the cost of lost 10mm sockets lol

@wcurtin1962

5 жыл бұрын

10mm sockets tend to float away!

@davidtee5367

5 жыл бұрын

@@wcurtin1962 No kidding? my 13mm socket is lost to the aether, but i've got several 1/2 inch sockets in return... somehow

@cme2cau

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidtee5367 was your 13mm socket 3/8 or 1/2 inch drive?

@toker6664

5 жыл бұрын

Haha they were raptured to a better place

@Monsieur405

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shitballs, it's nice to know everyone else loses their bloody 10mm sockets/spanners. Glad I'm not alone!

As a Life long Washingtonian let me tell you our DOT will find the most expensive way to do anything

@miketenny5201

4 жыл бұрын

In Asotin County our back raods have KM markers.

@coolhandluke1503

3 жыл бұрын

I'll clean the brush away for $5000

@lostnumbr

3 жыл бұрын

because every single sign will require new posts and brackets to be dug and installed right? better buy some new equipment to install them too, and make sure everyone is well into overtime hours to get it done.

@AvroBellow

3 жыл бұрын

As a lifelong Canadian living near the US border, I believe you.

@michaelcutler5538

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure alot of the dollars on that price tag won't have anything to do with putting the sign in the ground

In Canada we converted in the 1970’s. Just up the street there is a speed limit sign that still has the sticker on it that changed it from MPH to Km/h. 50 years later The town got their money out of that sign.

This reminded me of when I Eire changed from driving on the left to driving on the right. They wanted to make it as easy as possible for all. So they phased it in gradually...

I recently moved to the US. The miles are ok to use, it is mentally easy to change. I also like to buy liquids in gallons. For me the main problem is the temperature, it is really strange to see think 30 is a low temperature but 100 is not dangerous.

@randyhager2054

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah..........Celsius to Fahrenheit is more of mental gymnastics to me too. 212F is boiling of water and 32F is freezing..........or 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling of water. What is in between is what messes my mind up.

@ZlothZloth

2 жыл бұрын

@@randyhager2054 It's not so hard! 0F translates to "it's too damn cold, I'm staying inside" while 100F translates to "it's too damn hot, I'm staying inside." You may be forced to go without HVAC outside of that range, but it will be annoying.

@randyhager2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZlothZloth I'm American so I grew up with the Fahrenheit. The mental gymnastics is trying to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. I've been to Europe a couple of times and that take some brain power to make it into something I'm more familiar with.

@Bnsbeaver

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZlothZloth The same could be said about Celsius it all depends on your climate, I'm Australian 0C is to cold 50C is to hot.

@werewolfnar

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bnsbeaver That's pretty much the exact same for the central valley of California (0 to 45 typical).

Even here in England (the home of imperial units) we use imperial for rough measurements (miles, stones, pints etc) but switch to metric for fine measurements.

@Enforcer_WJDE

5 жыл бұрын

But 15/16 of an inch makes you sound more intelligent. Did you see that video from those US chopper guys where they were trying to calculate fractions of an inch and everybody was like uh uh uuuh uuuuuuuh uh uh u h u h

@wakey87

5 жыл бұрын

England, where you buy your fuel in metric and measure your speed in Imperial.

@1701spacecadet

5 жыл бұрын

@@wakey87 And fuel economy in miles per gallon. Coz we are smart enough to work it out and we like it.

@samreid6010

5 жыл бұрын

1701spacecadet at least it’s not miles per liter or kilometers per gallon because that would really be painful

@1701spacecadet

5 жыл бұрын

@@samreid6010 hey, we aren't THAT crazy.

It’s pretty common for both many Americans and foreigners (those unfamiliar with marathons/running) to not know that a 10k refers specifically a 10km race.

11:20 Six million signs all over the US seems a rather low estimate. In addition to signs that show "Albuquerque 140 miles, Santa Fe 88 miles, we also have small mileage markers along our interstate freeways on either side of the road as well as Interstate exit signs that reflect the mileage markers. And that's switching the interstate system from miles to kilometers.

Why the hell does it cost $2,000 to produce 1 road sign? That's more absurd than Apple's pricing scheme!

@johnrupesh4535

3 жыл бұрын

Coz government. Duhh

@CAP198462

3 жыл бұрын

Because companies assume that government can afford it.

@WillWhite

3 жыл бұрын

Because the signs they're talking about are the large signs over highways, hence the reason it costs $8,000 for steel posts and concrete and $15K in labor. They even talk about programming signs, which you wouldn't need even for an electronic speed limit sign on the side of a highway, but you would for the multi-line signs over your lane you see as you drive under it. If you keep watching they talk about the steel structure that has to span the freeway, the break away poles, and the sign bridge. They're not talking about the small "30 MPH School Zone" signs that can be pounded into the ground. $2000 for a large sign that sits over a highway and tells you "10 miles to NYC" isn't too bad of a price when you think about that size.

@marekstanek112

3 жыл бұрын

Because legal liability in case of a traffic accident. Someone is responsible for proper behavior of the road sign in an accident, and if you get unnecessarily impaled by the sign post, its producer will find itself in a world of shit being sued by your family. For exactly the same reason you pay about 5~10 times the actual production cost for a vehicle. It isn't expensive to manufacture one; developing it in the safest possible way and testing and proving it hundreds of times under various contitions is what makes it that insanely expensive.

@user-ky6vw5up9m

3 жыл бұрын

Free Market forces. Get some quotes from industry and see how well you do. Don’t forget there is the cost of installation on-site and some signs also require an electricity supply for illumination.

Britain: The US is so dumb, just use the metric system lol also Britain: Brian weighed in at 7 stone today

@MrUltravolcano

3 жыл бұрын

every stone has the same weight, you need to wake up sheeple

@jonb4155

3 жыл бұрын

And our road signs are in miles. Beer is served in pints. Shoe sizes are in barleycorns. Most Brits still use feet and inches to measure a person's height. We're a fickle people.

@drivebye2709

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO. Good one, this.

@pricey0986ify

3 жыл бұрын

7 stone, jesus he needs to eat something Depending on his age....... I've just answered my own comment 👍

@ducovanderwoude6971

3 жыл бұрын

But is that stone like the size of gravel or a big boulder, in other words what does a stone mean?

I like the way Mr.ballen (the KZreadr) will speak in terms of the locale of the story and include the conversion otherwise in a little caption.

Wow this is much more balanced than I expected. Thank you.

During the Labour Day weekend in 1977, every speed limit sign in Canada was changed from mph to km/h. This was accomplished by applying large stickers to the signs. Over the years, in the course of normal wear and maintenance, all the stickered signs have been replaced.

@hughmungus1767

3 жыл бұрын

John Lammers - I was going to dispute the date with you and suggest that it was May 1, 1979 because that was the date I bought my first car and all the signs on the gas stations changed to liters from gallons on that day but I think you're right: speed limit signs changed before the gas station signage did.

@MoltenMetalCasting

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering why the issue is the cost of replacing signs when stickers can be used.

@Damoinion

Жыл бұрын

Here in NZ, we had conversion stickers for kph speeds in steps of 10 from 10 to 80 that we could apply to the face of our speedos. (80k was the max because we still had a 50mph open road limit at the time)

@eternalsmiley9181

Жыл бұрын

@@MoltenMetalCasting stickers wear out and eventually they will still have to replace the signs regardless...so one could say, additional cost by having thousands upon thousands of stickers all over the cities xD

@stormycatmink

Жыл бұрын

@@MoltenMetalCasting because of precisely the human nature part. They don't actually *want* to fix it, so of course they're not going to spend any energy to think of good solutions to do so quickly and cheaply. It's just human nature to resist change and resist being told what to do, so you make it as absolutely as inconvenient as possible, even going so far as to throw out some causal falsehoods and misdirecting information. The only way to get them to change is to get them to *want* to change and truly think the change is the best.

21:43: "Slowly but surely America is inching toward metric..." Well said.

@sonycans

4 жыл бұрын

There is irony in the statement.

@newstar346

4 жыл бұрын

"Slowly but surely America is microning towards metric..."

A company I worked for ordered all their machines in metric causing us Employees to convert from mm to fractions of inches constantly throughout day. This was the case for multiple machines and for other areas I've worked. Was quite a bit of a headache

@gdheib0430

2 жыл бұрын

Just gotta post a conversion board on the machine for visual reference...might save some time, but yeah doing it non stop would suck.

I remember in the 1970's they started teaching the metric system in grade school. That lasted one year Carter ebbed that. As for tape measures including metric measurement is rare, despite what he said. Also if mixed in it makes reading a tape measure more difficult. I know I'm a handy man. Use them everyday.

Britain: * invents system of measurement * US: * Adopts that system * Britain: * Switches to the metric system and makes fun of the US for using imperial measurements for 250 years * America: "Wait, this was your idea."

@1pcfred

5 жыл бұрын

The USA does not use Imperial. We use US Customary measures developed by Thomas Jefferson. The more you know.

@Marshallld

5 жыл бұрын

actually as Simon noted the Imperial is a different system, pints are larger, gallons are large, tonnes are heaver than tons, and this side of the big water we don't use stones, hundredweigh (cwt - which oddly are 8 stone)or Troy ounce (except in weight of precious metals) Furlong (except in horse racing) as far a I know length is them

@Markle2k

5 жыл бұрын

Imperial didn't come along until the 1820s.

@shaunw9270

5 жыл бұрын

Literally sat here 🇬🇧 , lmfao 😂😂🤣

@IoEstasCedonta

5 жыл бұрын

...the Brits aren't much better, though, are they?

By far, the best explanation of this topic I have ever seen.

@Goldenkitten1

4 жыл бұрын

The sad part is the comments section is STILL filled to the brim with people harassing Americans for not using metric. It's almost like they didn't watch the video...or people are assholes and just enjoy antagonizing people.

@bookmouse2719

4 жыл бұрын

@@Goldenkitten1 It's too expensive and who cares.

@Goldenkitten1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bookmouse2719 It's already happening so clearly it isn't too expensive and apparantely the rest of the world and most scientific and industrial institutions care.

@Ceece20

4 жыл бұрын

Goldenkitten1 it’s extremely expensive wtf are you talking about. You want to change every road sign, mile marker, exit number, bottling units, advertisement, historical markers, and so on just for some unit of measurement? Science and industry can adapt quickly, but it makes no sense in the public aspect except for snobby puritans.

@Goldenkitten1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ceece20 I wasn't talking about the layman, even the video goes into the expenses that would need to change every road sign. I was referencing the fact that the scientific, industrial and architectural industries already use metric. So it's not like America only uses the imperial system like every foreigner seems to believe.

I'm a cnc machinist in America and commonly use both. Blue prints have been changed from factional to decemel long ago .

Nice description of the topic. Very thorough.

Drug dealers taught me the metric system back in the 80's

@reggiep75

5 жыл бұрын

A solid education if there ever was one... :-D

@The818carlos

5 жыл бұрын

These streets be teaching kids measurements, commerce, and law

@kirk2767

5 жыл бұрын

The 80's, back when Miami Vice ruled....

@reggiep75

5 жыл бұрын

Kirk T - I bet there are people who can remember buying 25g of weed or 2g of coke and the soundtrack to their 'shopping' is anything from Jan Hammer or Phil Collins.. haha

@kirk2767

5 жыл бұрын

@@reggiep75 I had to look up 25g. It's not even an ounce!

I was born and raised in California. When I was in elementary school, I had to learn both Imperial and Metric. When I got to High School, science class was ALWAYS Metric. It was drilled into us that you do not ever use Imperial measurements in Science.

@peterpain6625

5 жыл бұрын

In California maybe ... I don't think the inbred-states are quite there yet ;)

@fuhrerskwirl

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterpain6625 I am from Oklahoma (arguably an inbred state), and had similar experiences during my public education. SI units in math and science, and Imperial measurements in day to day life.

@giantred

5 жыл бұрын

*puffs pipe* Imperialism and Imperial measure for life!

@gonecoastal4

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry.

@FPV-wi8fw

5 жыл бұрын

@@mississippirebel1409 which inbred state are you from then?

A few years ago I worked at a lumber company. I was only 3 weeks but i literally had no idea what was smaller but if they used the metric system, it would have been a brize

Canada adopted the metric system April 1, 1975. A year before I graduated. For a while road signs were in both metric and imperial. It was an easy transition although I hated the metric sticker you place over the imperial numbers on your speedometer LOL. I immediately adopted the metric system and found it far easier and more accurate. 3mm is a lot easier to add, subtract or count than 3/32nds. Many older people didn’t change so it’s still good to know both. The construction industry seems to be a hold out for imperial measurements. I think it’s because they don’t want to buy new tape measures.

Great video... And your spot on. I use metric all the time.. with tools, working on cars... Tell me you need a 14mm socket..and I have no issues. But at the same time.. if someone says it's.. 48 kilometers away.. .. I don't instinctively know what that distance is.. in my mind. I have to do the conversion.

@zerotheliger

5 жыл бұрын

thats about 3.5million 14mm sockets away. also have you lost your 10mm socket yet?

@kens97sto171

5 жыл бұрын

@@zerotheliger Many times... It's ALWAYS the 10mm. Lolz.

@TiE23

5 жыл бұрын

kens97sto171 One thing I’ve found in research is to simply think in the new unit system. Converting is the death of any attempt to switch. I believe that if magically over night all thermometers, tape measures, speedometers, road signs, bathroom scales, cooking utensils, and gas stations switched to metric Americans would be used to it within a year. I switched my Apple watch’s weather temperature to Celsius the last month. Now I know when to put a hoodie or a coat before walking out the door.

@kens97sto171

5 жыл бұрын

@@TiE23 Agree, but as he said in the video.. why. In daily life it doesn't effect anyone. And in all the things where it's important it's already done. Untill you change the road signs.. something everyone sees every day. People won't change... And they don't really need to.

@Obscurai

5 жыл бұрын

48 km is about half an hour away at highway speeds. This is because 100 km/hr is roughly equal to 60 mph, and 48 km is almost 50 km. Similarly every 10 km is about 6 minutes of travel at highway speeds. Of course, if you speed then your travel times will be less.

Second language everywhere outside of the US: English Second language inside the US: Metric It all balances out in the end.

@changwanyu4231

4 жыл бұрын

UK, Ireland, Jamaica: Are we a Joke to you?

@anhedonianepiphany5588

4 жыл бұрын

@@changwanyu4231 It appears this moron doesn't comprehend that _English_ originates in _England!_ English _is_ a second language in the USA, since virtually all of them speak and write it so poorly. Also, don't forget Australia and New Zealand (there are plenty of others).

@naverilllang

4 жыл бұрын

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 We speak American English, which is a different dialect. But if you want to be really nitpicky, English comes from old Germanic. So German is our first language. I could continue going back, turtles all the way down. But that isn't a very helpful representation of modern language, is it?

@fredsmith9714

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Lang I mean we could go back to proto-indo European but what's the point. I think the inflammatory comment was meant to suggest Americans are simply stupid which is rather disappointing. The reason many Americans don't speak a second language is because they don't need it. US states, while varying in size, are mostly the size of European countries with Alaska being essentially subcontinental. America's neighbor Canada does have some French only speakers, however virtually everyone north does speak English. The states bordering Mexico have a very high number of Spanish as a second language speakers. In all other subjects, America is also at or above global standards. This is clear by the top universities in the world and the largest number of foreign students attending American colleges. If simply commenting on the US falling to the teens or twenties in math and science, it's a misunderstanding of how the US measures its students. Even the mentally retarded are required to take secondary school exams, everyone must attend school until age 16 in most of the country. If every nation included their bottom 20% in the average how would they fair? The education system can definitely be improved but it's hardly broken, and public school is free for those who can't pay through grade 12 - in many places, especially suburban, the public schools perform as well as expensive private schools.

@carlosmarte3154

4 жыл бұрын

Midnight Tornado The only reason is because English is the international language...there really is no reason to learn another language. I’ve been to Germany, Hungary, China, Brazil, and Indonesia; I’ve never needed anything other than English.

Very well put Simon! Great video!

For the military though to communicate between other countries it makes more sense to use the metric system and reduces errors.

@allejandrodavid5222

8 ай бұрын

​@@scottsledgister18771 vs 200

Amazing!! You actually got it right that we use the US Customary System, not the similar but different Imperial system! No one gets that right... Hats off to you sir.

@flimsyfox

5 жыл бұрын

Um...I freaking *live* in the U.S. and didn’t know that.

@ke6gwf

5 жыл бұрын

@@flimsyfox thus why I was surprised that he got it right, because no one seems to know this lol

@stuarthancock571

5 жыл бұрын

I'm Australian and yep we've had to learn that US gallons is different than UK gallons

@ke6gwf

5 жыл бұрын

@@stuarthancock571 do you know why they are different? Lol The Gallon had been defined in the British Empire as the Queen Anne's Wine Gallon, but then in 1820 they decided to act all sciencey, and redefined the British Empire official Gallon as 10 pounds of water at 62f, and redefined the Imperial ounce to be a fraction of this new gallon. America had no issues with the our gallon, so we kept it lol

@ColtaineCrows

5 жыл бұрын

I know, but I almost always forget that it's named "US Customary System" so I use the colloquial term "imperial" instead in those cases.

Me buying tools in Europe: "I need a set of metric sockets." Dealer: "Do you want the 3/8 inch or 1/2 inch drive? "

@unclejoeoakland

3 жыл бұрын

Really? That isn't just here?

@dbergerac9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@unclejoeoakland Nope

@naughtscrossstitches

3 жыл бұрын

and don't hope too far! Depending on the vehicle you can have both metric and imperial bolts!

@rong1924

3 жыл бұрын

What is a 2X4 in Europe?

@dbergerac9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@rong1924 A really thin timber less than 300 years old?

I loved the sarcasm! Very well explained, and true.

Another nice one Simon. Just one of hundreds of yours, stuff that I didn't know I needed to know - - until I knew it! I grew up in Canada - imperial units - and like most - disliked the forced switch, back in the 70's... So I'm fairly fluent in both but the SI system just makes so much more sense; I am amazed that the yanks haven't adopted it. Especially given what you present - is all valid. Not to be a troll or 'one of those who hates change' but to offer 'thoroughness'... in the USA (and even adopted in Canada) the US DOT is usually pronounced as the De Oh Tee (or is that D.O.T.). I believe in text DOT is correct but it's spoken the way I tried to write it, not 'Dot'. :)

Canada switched to the metric system 50 years ago, but, routinely, both systems are used depending on the context.

@AlaskaErik

Жыл бұрын

Ask a Canadian how tall he is and he'll more than likely state it in inches or feet and inches. Same with weight, he'll state it in pounds.

@martinschulz9381

Жыл бұрын

The US is more metric than most think. Much of the industry in the US switched to metric long ago. The engines are all metric, Farm implements. Pharmaceutical, military uses metric, government uses metric, construction equipment, weights and measures on packaging is both standard and metric, jet planes, NASA...the list goes on and on. The government should have mandated a full switch to metric long ago though.

@GUSCRAWF0RD

Жыл бұрын

@@martinschulz9381 that is not the American way it’s about freedom and shillings

@lancelange9377

Жыл бұрын

@@AlaskaErik This is very true. I've yet to encounter another Canadian that uses kilograms for weight or centimeters for height.

@tomfrazier1103

Жыл бұрын

J.J. McCullough, a Canadian You Tuber discusses Metric v Imperial in a good video.

10:09 8k for two steel tubes and 5k to mow the lawn... I need to get into ripping off tax payers.

@walkermott1750

3 жыл бұрын

It costs that much because companies know the government has deep pockets. Its pretty hard to bargain when the seller knows you can literally buy another country and still have change to spare

@ivyrose5153

3 жыл бұрын

Insurance too. On the property and the people working on the road.

@peterbelanger4094

3 жыл бұрын

@@walkermott1750 It's not just companies ripping off with lucrative contracts, it's also public worker unions and insurance companies.

@danielmann6772

3 жыл бұрын

It is actually the Unions the US workers are required to be members of. Over half of any infrastructure contract goes to the Union coffers.

@cho4d

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielmann6772 i could believe this

As someone who spends a great fun time in an international discord servers where whole conversations can be sidelined by converting units, discussing temperature is great fun when your the only American in the chat telling people its 70 degrees outside leads to some hilarious double takes by my Celsius thinking friends thinking we are outright on fire here lol. for reference 70 in C is around 158 in F.... Where as the actual temp 70F is 21C I promise while I am uncomfortably warm we are not in fact on fire while just chatting it up on a discord server ;)

The ONLY problem I really have with the Metric system, and I think why my fellow USAers don't switch to it(completely we actually use it for a lot of stuff) is when trying to figure out height. Because you could be anywhere from 4ft to 6ft5 inches and you would still just be one meter and some decimal points. Other than that, I'd have no problem switching over.

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, a lot of what goes into a measurement system is intuitive, by which I mean people get used to how tall or how big or how far away something is in their familiar units, and when faced with using different units, they have no idea. That's perfectly normal and understandable. But it is a major reason why people don't want to switch over to a new system of measurement, and I can't blame them. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with using Customary units for ordinary everyday measurements like people's height and weight, and the distance to the next town, and how much gas you put in your car, etc.

@CM-dx6xu

Жыл бұрын

You just need to get used to it. I am used to measuring heights in centimeters (0.01 meters), 6 ft tall is about 180cm, 5 ft tall is about 150cm, we get way more variation and accuracy if we measure with cm, because the scale is smaller. It is also more graspable in your mind because we only use cm, whereas imperial uses both ft and inches which is less practical. For example, 171 cm is 7 cm taller than 164 cm, just needs subtraction. 6'3 is how much taller than 5'9? 6 inches? I don't even know.

@ghz24

Жыл бұрын

​@@CM-dx6xu By your logic Fahrenheit is better than Celsius, the units are almost twice as precise and the scale matches the human comfort zone better. The idea we just need to get used to it is nonsense, I've worked with the metric system for over forty years and can convert between the two in my head (except negative Celsius values) with enough accuracy to visualize the amount or get a feel for the temp, but I still have to convert almost every time. Most people I know can't even convert if you give them a calculator. I would hate to try and do science using the imperial system but not as much as trying to use Celsius everyday for my weather forcast. You will think in metric the rest of your life like it or not because you developed a feel for it from early life just like we can't just start thinking in metric. I'd adjust better than most but not intrinsically. How many people do you know that can think in imperial units that weren't raised using it? I'm not trying to start an argument just pointing out it's not that simple.

@TVVENCH

Жыл бұрын

Fair point but as someone who uses metric, if you tell me 156cm or 185cm, I know what height that is, intuitively

@ahleena

10 ай бұрын

@@CM-dx6xuisn't there a measurement between centimeters and meters though? Why not measure a man by that?

I love the metric system. I'd give it a 10 out of 10.

@jkelsh

4 жыл бұрын

Aw, imperial's not that bad though. I'd rate it at least nine sixteenths ;-)

@BensMiniToons

4 жыл бұрын

@@jkelsh I give it atleast 1-1&1/16ths. That is 27mm out of 28.59mm Or equates to 93.75‬ out of 100. I'm an idiot imperial user too. lol

@AvroBellow

3 жыл бұрын

@@BensMiniToons How about 3/4" (19mm) or 13/16" (21mm)?

@BensMiniToons

3 жыл бұрын

​@@AvroBellow 3/4"-19mm = +50 Microns 13/16"-21mm= -363 Microns. lol They are Extremely close. 😁

@MrsShocoTaco

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer it myself if for no other reason than I'm too lazy to keep converting one to the other for various reasons lol

Bonus Fact: The astronauts who went to the moon fuelled their cars by the gallon, but the engineers who sent them there used the metric system. Additional Bonus Fact: We in the UK are like our cousins across the pond in as much as we use both systems of measurement depending on the circumstance. For instance, in the UK we measure a car engine's output in horsepower, but the same engine's capacity in litres. I fill my car with litres of petrol, but drive 20 miles to work where I, a 6-foot tall man build systems measured by the meter. To cope with the stresses of the day, I take medication prescribed in milligrams and the devil's lettuce purchased in eighths of an ounce.

@sabremarky15

5 жыл бұрын

how much do you weigh in stone?

@aitchpea6011

5 жыл бұрын

@@sabremarky15 Twelve. That's actually a good one. Both the UK and US commonly use the same standard, but different aspects of it. I don't know my weight in pounds without using a calculator, any more than an American knows their weight in stones, even though they're the same system of measurement. Also, though I weight twelve stones, I am required by law to buy meat by the kilogram. Edit: Additionally, Doctors always use metric, and my height and weight are in my medical records in centimetres and kilograms.

@robdubz1510

5 жыл бұрын

And the stone for weight

@mdh6977

5 жыл бұрын

Canada is much the same

@B3Band

5 жыл бұрын

We literally do everything you mentioned except for the petrol/gasoline, which we always measure in gallons. We also check our fuel economy in mpg rather than...km/L?

The prices you give for the road sign replacement seems so inflated but that's probably right on!

I work on automation... drives me nuts, it uses both standard and metric fasteners. Have to carry twice the tools.

I'll walk 200 metres to the supermarket, where I'll buy 250g of cheese, 4 pints of milk, a litre of ice cream, 4 quarter pounders, and 2 litres of Coke! I'll then drive 2 miles to the hardware store, at 30mph, where I'll pick up a 1" and 4" paint brush, and 5 litres of emulsion to paint my wall. I'll top my fuel tank off at 60 litres, and then work out my MPG! Gotta love the UK's metric system! 🤣🤣🤣

@entropyzero5588

4 жыл бұрын

The UK also measures fuel efficiency in distance per volume? That is even more confusing than the imperial system… (And actually conveys less direct meaning, no matter what you grew up with - see e.g. https : // wheels . blogs . nytimes . com / 2008 / 06 / 20 / the-illusion-of-miles-per-gallon / )

@Citizen-of-theworld

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, yes I immediately thought that must be the U.K.! 🇬🇧 hurrah!

@Citizen-of-theworld

4 жыл бұрын

And if the temperature drops below 0 Celsius I’ll usually have to top up my tyre pressure to 35psi.

@abe-danger

4 жыл бұрын

Best part is: you used pounds to buy the 250g of cheese ;)

@anhedonianepiphany5588

4 жыл бұрын

@@entropyzero5588 I'm pretty sure the British measure fuel consumption the same way we do in Australia, which is _volume per distance,_ e.g. 7 litres per 100 km. It's no more or less meaningful than your miles per gallon (distance per volume), but far easier to comprehend in everyday terms (i.e. _less_ confusing). Once you lot decide to bury the antiquated, redundant, and impractical, former system of your former British overlords, your world will make a lot more sense.

“Give him a centimeter and he’ll take a kilometer” doesn’t really have the same ring to it.

@shaneg9081

5 жыл бұрын

Because you grew up with an idiom doesn't mean an archaic measurement system isn't inferior.

@andrewnibbi

5 жыл бұрын

Shane G lol I grew up with an idiom, the metric system, and a sense of humor. No need to get salty.

@vicbelwerty

5 жыл бұрын

Well... in Spanish we say "Give him a finger and he'll take an arm" there you go

@LupinoArts

5 жыл бұрын

That's why we Europeans say "Give him a hand and he'll take the arm" instead...

@swrennie

5 жыл бұрын

In Canada we have the metric system, so up here we would say, " He/she is a greedy fuck", or alternately, "Give him a Timbit, he takes the box."

My crochet hook is in mm. I live in the US but I don't use the US numbering system. Mm are less confusing. When I buy yarn I want to know the weight and yards more than anything because that tells me how much yarn I need for the project I'm doing. The label usually has yards and mm listed.

I wonder how many tickets are given out on the Canadian us boarder when the sign changes from 60 mph to 100km/h

From my experience as a general contractor, the most annoying use is when it comes to fractions of an inch. Using millimeters allow for more accurate finish carpentry work than fractions of inches.

@genewitch

3 жыл бұрын

micrometers vs thous, go.

@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522

3 жыл бұрын

Could always use decimal inches, but at that point you might as well be using metric.

@raypitts4880

2 жыл бұрын

metric you have one choice 10 with inches you have a fast choice.

@ericday3538

2 жыл бұрын

@@redsev2023 Because it's quicker and easier to work with 30mm than 1 and 3/16" when doing projects that require precise measuring. This is why NASA, the military, etc switched to metric decades ago.

@ericday3538

2 жыл бұрын

@@redsev2023 In theory yes, in practice, no.

I've used both systems my entire life in the US, just depends on what your talking about.

@nathanwahl9224

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@sertank735

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@brucecharlie8613

4 жыл бұрын

In my experience inch feet thou and tenths work better than cm mm and microns less of a jump between unit sizes

@strange-universe

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, all of these baseless, what? accusations? In regards to measurements, are false. In fact, most Americans use or are at least exposed to both systems constantly, with many being adept at both. (my own introduction was learning metric in grade school in the 60s)

@KimberRose16

4 жыл бұрын

xZotic Blight same, we all have to learn both. I personally think the imperial system is easier though

While the metric system with base 10 numbers makes better use of decimals, imperial measures such as Feet/inches and Pounds/ounces use base 12 or base 16 numbers which are more convenient to use with fractions since 12 and 16 are more divisible than 10.