How many hands long do they get?
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American recipes are the worst. Two fingers of milk, a cup of sugar, one box of pre-packed cake mix, a glass of corn syrup…
They’re allergic to actual measurements.
Sugar, cake mix, and corn syrup!? Better add a pinch of salt (to taste) to balance out all that sweetness!
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French created the metric system.
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It’s 1 3/4 bicycles. Not the weird ass decriminalized number you seem to think it is. We do fractions in daily life not decimals.
I saw a yearling buck eating grass along the driveway yesterday afternoon that had only one antler. I wondered if he was 1/2 a buck or a .50 buck since he had just the one spindly fork horn antler. Will all the does think he’s ugly and not breed with him? Will the other bucks laugh at him and refuse his challenges? He will probably end up in someone’s freezer later this fall anyway, so perhaps my story doesn’t really matter.
But the story isn’t about changing anyone’s views on what is the “best” measuring system to use. It’s about the foolishness of it all. G20/G21 the machines no longer care, why do you?
Did Donald Trump just reply to me? That rambling story intertwining word salad, along with the misreading of DECIMALIZED has me convinced.
Although I’m enjoying the thought of decriminalized numbers now.
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And the size of your land in acres/hectares. And a lot of ingredients in cups (which has never been a set amount in the UK since its beginning). And distance sometimes in yards
Don’t forget that distance is somehow different on water, though.
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Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.
In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.
So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.
I think it technically suggest the use of the metric system but doesn’t mandate its use. And so practically speaking its not used much outside of science fields.
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Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…
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French created the metric system.
But isn’t it very British to take everyone else’s shit and claim it as their own?
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Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
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If I might make an argument for the imperial system? I’ll acknowledge that it is bad, particularly from a scientific perspective, but one advantage that imperial has over metric is its use case for human related issues. Most of the stuff you interact with daily is much more easily measured in feet and inches vs meters and centimeters (this ignores decimeters, but I’ve literally never seen anyone use decimeters in my entire life). Another good example is temperature. Celsius is more objective, but when dealing with the standard sorts of temperatures humans are generally concerned with, Fahrenheit gives you more granularity within that range.
All that is to say: If I’m at work and someone uses imperial for an official measurement, I’m putting my fist through the drywall, but from a day to day perspective, I actually prefer imperial.
Also, the mile is fucking indefensible. I’ll happily leave all 5280 of its feet out to rot.
It is not best for “human related” issues at all, imperial is pretty bad for those as well, but because you have grown up with it it seems so to you.
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But isn’t it very British to take everyone else’s shit and claim it as their own?
But they don’t do that with the metric system.
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But they don’t do that with the metric system.
The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…
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One problem metric solved was that each country had their own value for inch, mile, pound etcetera. This is partially fixed by everyone but the US going to metric. But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans. Similar for inches, feet, and so on.
But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans.
I find it tedious when someone pretends not to understand a conversation just to make some academic point, don’t you?
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Shout-out to horses. They’re measured in hands (4 inches) but ONLY up to their shoulder. The neck, head, and ears don’t count towards their height.
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Did Donald Trump just reply to me? That rambling story intertwining word salad, along with the misreading of DECIMALIZED has me convinced.
Although I’m enjoying the thought of decriminalized numbers now.
OK, more directly.
Worrying about about which measurements systems are best and making fun of them is for fools. Use the units that best fits that task at hand. And shockingly enough, it ain’t always Millimeters, centimeters, kilometers or degrees Celsius. Maybe it’s pounds, feet, miles, or AU’s and Light years.
The US is a metric country. The federal government passed a law in the early 1970’s to make it so. They just didn’t pass a law forcing the change at a set time and date. They decided, for better or worse, to let the change happen organically. And change it has. Go in any grocery store and look at the food on the shelf, it’s all clearly marked in US customary and grams/kilos. I know every pound of butter I buy is 454grams. My whisk(e)y/wine, (choose the spelling you prefer), comes in 750ml bottles. A bottle of soda comes in 2 liter bottles.My FDM printers use 1 kilo spools of filament. We are all looking for that same missing 10mm socket just like the rest of the world. And no one gives a rat’s arse about how many feet are in a mile. Except surveyor’s and civil engineers, a very small and specialized subset.
Did you know there is a error in what the meter actually is? And it’s been there from the very beginning. One of the guys sent to make the original measurements decided that drinking wine in sunny Spain was better than climbing mountains and dealing with bad weather just to measure some silly distance. So he fudged it. The error has been known for quite a while and never corrected. It’s still there even after the switch from using a physical item to define a meter to how far light travels in a set time, (now THERE’S a silly random looking string of numbers). Not very scientific or accurate to ignore the error now is that? I thought the metric system was better than that.
Again for the slow learners, G20/G21 the machines don’t care and no one else should care anymore either.
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People like you are the reason that they invented the guillotine on the very same occasion.
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37 degree commie = 98.6 degrees freedom.
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The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…
Except I don’t hear british people actually say that.
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i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
You Malaysian?
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And the worst part is, they didn’t even adopt it completely. They were not even going the complete mile.
Whatever happened to going the whole nine yards?
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To be fair it does help put into perspective how much of an animal (in this case deer) would make up as a burger
I prefer measuring in football field turf rolls though
