Why don't Americans use the metric system
So we can buy two socket sets.
>>73821259
Why would we
>>73821259
Because FUCK YOU
>>73821259
Imperial has more practical use. I care about what temperatures to take shelter in every moment of my life. I'll only care about boiling and freezing water for recipes.
>>73821259
Don't need to. Same reason I don't learn a second language.
>not being able to use multiple systems of measurement
>using Celsius but not Kelvin
>>73821259
>>73821587
>>73821882
>Same reason I don't learn a second language
You fucking plebe.
I do
>>73821259
Because when our ancestors were trying to flee the Brits and discover our freedoms we wanted to be different.
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>>73821259
Furthermore, how does metric keep track of mass if you measure it by weight?
Shouldn't metric need a difference scale for each measurable gravitational pull?
>>73821259
You know, people here in the U.S. understand and use both metric and American standard. You can use both, just saying.
we use both but understand imperial better
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. They will never learn
>>73822386
>a different scale for each mesurable gravitational pull
>implying mass is relative to gravity
now this is one retarded idea
>>73821259
the cost to convert everything is astronomical and goes up every year
>>73821259
We do.
>>73822657
I know right
I guess I'll just kill myself, I'll never remember what 0 or 100C were or how far a meter is.
Fellow Americans come join me, this solitary German has us beat.
>huehuehue
>>73821259
Our Congress tried implementing it once, but it didn't write-in any consequences for people who didn't switch, thus, nobody put in the effort to do it. It's really just a matter of people not caring enough to get the entire country to change systems. I won't defend it.
>>73821259
Good question!
>>73821259
Reagan.
>>73822808
>this is hell of an argument in favor of the metric system , thank you dumb anon
>>73821259
The imperial system is proportioned to the human body.
A 'foot' is a human foot.
A 'yard' is a leg.
An 'inch' is a finger segment.
A 'mile' is the distance of a good walk.
In any given instance, it always makes sense to use the system of measurement that best fits the scenario. For example, sailors used to use "fathoms" for vertical distances and "miles" for horizonal distances. A fathom is much less than a mile, but this made sense because their world was a pancake.
The effort to force the entire society to use the metric system (which is very arbitrary in actuality) was a communist idea. Where society would be scientifically planned, and thus the entire society should use the same system of measurement as scientists do off in their ivory towers.
They also tried to change clocks to make them base 10 (100 seconds to an hour), but that was one step too far. The people outright refused it.
>>73821259
USA wants to be different from Europe, and the rest never had a choice.
>>73823012
He's talking about changing all the signs and everything else that has the current systems measurements. It would cost a lot to replace everything, so our Congress doesn't want to do it.
>>73823071
*Correction
100 minutes to an hour, 100 seconds to a minute
Funny it came my attention by an Euro friend that we measure distance with time.
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>>73823071
>The imperial system is proportioned to the human body.
>A 'foot' is a human foot.
>A 'yard' is a leg.
>An 'inch' is a finger segment.
>A 'mile' is the distance of a good walk.
Lol, do you believe this makes it somehow less retarded? Metric system sticks to logic, not some random units with different ratios of units and sub-units
>>73823588
The reason it matters is that they are very natural to work with. You intuitively know about what a "yard" is.
You know what an "inch" is, in fact lacking a ruler you can estimate with your finger
It's very natural and convenient, which is why it developed over the years.
Why is it so necessary to engineer the entire society to use a system of measurement that is only useful to a few scientists off in a lab somewhere?
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>>73823804
It didn't develop over years. In fact the opposite is the case. It was an easy method for the uneducated to measure with simple ways and eventually became obsolete due to education and access to math by a more logical 10th base system.
It's ok for you to not change it due to habit and costs, but stop defending this shit. And btw, in science it isn't used at all for obvious reasons
>>73824659
Are conversion factors really too difficult for you Hans?
This is easy shit
>>73825103
Nice ad hominem.
I don't retard myself if there is a more efficient and logical method available.
>>73821259
To encourage independence from other countries.
>>73825398
The metric system isn't the most efficient for every single scenario
Different scenarios have different systems of measurement that work better.
For example, to measure volume we use "decibles", which is a logorithmic scale.
When you're cutting wood, nailing together a house, or stringing some pipe. Inches, yards, feet....etc. are very advantageous because of how intuitive they are.
