The American Measurement system is fucking retarded.

Deleted · May 08, 2016, 02:43:35 PM

I mean seriously. The metric system is perfect.
You have meters and grams as the basics and then you have kilo and mili (proper fucking prefixes) and so on to describe larger and smaller increments. Perfectly intuitive and makes complete sense.

Now what the fuck do we have here? Feet and yards. Literally what? I'm pretty sure the average person's foot aint no 12 inches long, and Iv'e never seen a 36inch long yard anywhere. What do any of these names even have to do with each other. What retarded kind of standardization pulls names form random shit for their random ass intervals, speaking of which why are the increments so fucking random?

Metric makes sense with thousandths (mili), hundredths (centi) a single unit and than a thousand times (killo)
Meanwhile in lolMurica we go by the most random bullshit. First increments of 12 (Inches to feet) then 3 (Feet to Yards)
and then 1760 (Yards to miles) out of fucking nowhere. Who the hell came up with this shit?

Mattie G Indahouse · May 08, 2016, 02:48:12 PM

When I was in school I had to re-learn our system each year due to forgetting about it. The only parts of it I remember are inches and millimeters and the rest I have no idea how to read.

May 08, 2016, 02:53:34 PM

trees need carbon dioxide to survive

Naru · May 08, 2016, 02:56:58 PM

countries that use the metric system havent gone to the moon. USA! USA! USA!

Coomer · May 08, 2016, 03:00:25 PM

Everyone is wrong except for us

Casper · May 08, 2016, 03:08:25 PM

I like it. A foot seems more relative to our sizes rather than meters and centimeters

Turkey · May 08, 2016, 03:18:22 PM

All units of measurement are arbitrary. Imperial is a more natural system that is useful when relating measurements to human features, especially useful in cooking, and metric provides scalar precision that is useful in science.

DAS B00T x2 · May 08, 2016, 03:36:13 PM

Fuck that. I like that standard height of a room, floor to ceiling, to be 8ft, not 2.4384 meters.

May 08, 2016, 04:39:01 PM

I use both systems.

When saying someone's height and weight, I go by feet/inches and pounds.

Otherwise, the metric is more precise. Using kilos for weight seems kind of pointless until you reach larger numbers.

Ian · May 08, 2016, 04:49:51 PM

"How long is this GPU?"

I'm not going to answer: "Well, it's precisely 2.54 centimeters."

No, it's a fucking foot long, holy shit this is not a difficult concept.

Aether · May 08, 2016, 05:19:57 PM

The inconsistencies between the systems have ended lives and cost millions, but hey, 'murica!

Luciana · May 08, 2016, 05:28:12 PM

We know

big sponge · May 08, 2016, 07:02:51 PM

At least we don't weigh shit in stones.

challengerX · May 08, 2016, 07:05:05 PM

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snee0rp · May 08, 2016, 07:19:44 PM

Imperial shouldn't exist. The volume units are especially stupid. Seriously, who the fuck thought that naming a unit of volume as "hogshead" was a good idea? And how do you even start converting barrels to hogsheads?

Kiwicake · May 08, 2016, 09:12:56 PM

Quote from: Ian on May 08, 2016, 04:49:51 PM

"How long is this GPU?"

I'm not going to answer: "Well, it's precisely 2.54 centimeters."

No, it's a fucking foot long, holy shit this is not a difficult concept.

Tsk tsk

Can't even get your own system right

Super Irish · May 08, 2016, 09:17:35 PM

Being in the UK has given me a sort of hybrid Imperi-metric measurements.

Speed is in miles, people's height and weight is in feet and stones, but inanimate objects are in metres and kilograms. Only conversion I know is an inch is 2.5cm, approx. the tip of a thumb to the upper joint.

Food is by mugs, because fuck am I buying a scales and doing maths just to cook food.

Verbatim · May 08, 2016, 09:18:27 PM

i like saying 5'11'' more than i like saying 180 cm

Verbatim · May 08, 2016, 09:20:45 PM

but yeah, we all know

but it's not changing, ever

Zonda · May 09, 2016, 08:56:56 AM

Hybrid of both systems when? I like using Meters and Grams as a measuring unit for height/weight, etc but fuck measuring car power by Wattage lmao Horsepower all the way.

nͫiͤcͫeͤ · May 09, 2016, 10:50:32 AM

just learn both you simpleton

the bare nuckle bandit · May 09, 2016, 12:29:29 PM

I know like who made the abbreviation for pounds lbs. it makes no sense!

the bare nuckle bandit · May 09, 2016, 12:35:24 PM

Also I think it would take to long to make the transformation from the costmary system witch we use in America to the metric system witch they use in the rest of the world...

Jester · May 09, 2016, 12:41:10 PM

The hotter something is, the larger the number is.

What doesn't make sense

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🍁 Aria 🔮 · May 09, 2016, 02:50:29 PM

Quote from: the bare nuckle bandit on May 09, 2016, 12:29:29 PM

I know like who made the abbreviation for pounds lbs. it makes no sense!

lbs is short for libras, the Roman measurement equal to 12oz. That's where we got it from.