How much do non-Americans know about the English measurement system? Do people know what a mile, inch, yard, and gallon are? Do they know how hot 80 degrees is?
>>58883912
Not much. Anything below 6ft is manlet status, anything below 7inches is dicklet status, rushing yards, GOMAD, 100ºF is hot etc.
not at all. i only have some grasp on ft due to manlet threads on 4chan
>tfw murrica won't switch to metric
>>58883912
>Inch = 2.5cm
>Mile 1.6km
>1 yard = about 90cm
>100 F = 30-ish C
That's about all I know.
>>58883912
I know how hot 80 degrees is but I cant even learn the rest even when I try to. They are practically useless in my country as well so I never really had much initiative to bother
people here still use feet and inches occasionally, most commonly regarding a person's height
most people know how to convert the rest of the measurements, but would never use them for anything. You will never get a distance in miles or a weight in pounds or ounces.
and as for Fahrenheit, nobody has any fucking idea how hot 80 degrees is
No. It's a stupid system.
>>58883912
hot as balls. 20 more and water boils
>>58884239
and if someone gives you an imperial measurement it doesn't mean anything to you until you convert it
eg 3 pounds or 2 gallons is meaningless to me, but 1.4kg or 7.5 litres are amounts i can visualise easily
>>58884363
Actually water boils at 212 degrees. 80 is pretty hot. 100 is fucking ridiculous but people live in 100+ weather in certain places.
>>58884469
>100 is fucking ridiculous but people live in 100+ weather in certain places
Isn't 100 F like 38 C? I live in the coldest part of Australia and I get 38 C in the summer.
>>58884612
we get over 40C+ during really hot summer days
I can forgive inches/yards/miles and pounds for use in everyday life. but F is just plain retarded.
>>58884612
It goes well over 100 in Texas. Air conditioning was made mandatory down there since so many people were dying from heat stroke. I don't even want to imagine what it must be like to have a car with leather seats there.
>>58883968
>tfw I realised GOMAD is 4 litres of milk
>>58885013
Fuck off, Fahrenheit is brilliant.
0 is when all water freezes, no matter how much salt is in it.
32 is when plain water freezes
100 is (was supposed to be) human body temp. It was slightly off, supposedly because Fahrenheit worked himself into a fever creating the measurments
212 is when water boils at sea level
wow so retarded.
>>58885407
>100 is (was supposed to be) human body temp. It was slightly off, supposedly because Fahrenheit worked himself into a fever creating the measurments [sic]
>>58885475
Real human body temp is 98.6. Fahreinheit measured his own body temperature to set 100. The problem is that he was slightly fevered. What's so hard to understand about this, Australia?
>>58883912
I forgot imperial system 90 years ago. Inch = 2.54 cm, right? We don't use them so we don't know.
>>58885533
>What's so hard to understand about this, Australia?
The fact that you think that this is acceptable to use as a basis for measurement.
>>58885584
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/LenaWong.shtml
>The current version of the Fahrenheit scale is, in my opinion, the best temperature scale for meteorology in temperate climates. If you think about it, most air temperatures in the mid latitudes are between 0 °F and 100 °F. It works so well that the average surface air temperature of the earth is very nearly in the middle of this range (something like 50 °F). That makes for a very efficient use of two digits.
>Editor's Supplement -- 2000
>>58885540
Inch is 2,54cm, mile is either 1500 or 1600 meters exact, or 1609m and 34cm, or 1852 meter if nautical, or 5660 if an Amsterdam Dutch mile, or 6280 if a Rhine Dutch mile, or 7157 meter for a geo mile, or exactly 10km for a Swedish mile.
Nobody ever says which mile.
I do not know Fahrenheit, only Kelvin and Celsius.
>>58885631
>meteorology
>>58885631
If you use Celsius, Earth's surface temperature will NEVER be outside of 2 digits. Meanwhile, F goes from -124 to +130 degrees. What a retarded argument.
