when will imperial become the standard measurement?

[Ghostile]

im serious. not trolling. why cant we use imperial? what is so wrong with imperial?

Illogical
really really small minority
large adoption much harder than changing from imperial to metric

[Silverblade Paladin]

Yeah..okay...except in America. And all over the world for TV screens we still like to count them in inches.

Actually I work in a warehouse, Most TV's these days have their Measurements in Cm in large print and then in inches inside of small parentheses next to it, for you know, the retards that come to look at TV's that still use imperial.

[breadisfunny]

that doesnt answer my question. why is our system backwards? i believe the burden of proof is on you.

[Puupi]

im serious. not trolling. why cant we use imperial? what is so wrong with imperial?

Because it's completely illogical and a mix of various weird measures?

[Azalis]

Looking at that map surprised me. I thought the UK used the imperial system. Whenever I've watched Top Gear they always use miles and gallons as measurements. Is that just the show or are some things in the UK imperial and some metric?

[Ghostile]

that doesnt answer my question. why is our system backwards? i believe the burden of proof is on you.

[Silverblade Paladin]

that doesnt answer my question. why is our system backwards? i believe the burden of proof is on you.

Because once size gets to a small enough measurement it is illogical to use Imperial, when using Metric and a power of 10 system is far more accurate.

[obdigore]

Looking at that map surprised me. I thought the UK used the imperial system. Whenever I've watched Top Gear they always use miles and gallons as measurements. Is that just the show or are some things in the UK imperial and some metric?

The vast Majority of the UK, especially in reference to distance, is still imperial.

[Ghostile]

Looking at that map surprised me. I thought the UK used the imperial system. Whenever I've watched Top Gear they always use miles and gallons as measurements. Is that just the show or are some things in the UK imperial and some metric?

They use both in a mix

[breadisfunny]

i think these charts seem to be biased.

[Puupi]

Looking at that map surprised me. I thought the UK used the imperial system. Whenever I've watched Top Gear they always use miles and gallons as measurements. Is that just the show or are some things in the UK imperial and some metric?

They use a mixture of those two, in addition to their own weird measurements as well. Like stones.

[mercutiouk]

"I know lets measure in rat testicles, horse legs, as far I can throw this ball and the furthest I can walk in 20 minutes" or something.

"We'll say 16.6 rat testicles to a horse leg, 78 horse legs to the ball throw and 11 ball throws to the 20 minute walk, that seems sensible"

This is why imperial is pointless.
Yes, the English invented it (probably at least helped) and your fore fathers took it with you when they sailed to the new world as risking death by disease/starvation was better than the shitty life/facing the rap sheet they had in Europe compared to the smarter folks but we had the good sense to ditch it for something that worked nicely in 10's.

Now if this isn't a fantasy-creature-vulnerable-to-fire-regenerates-health thread I'll be amazed.

[obdigore]

They use a mixture of those two, in addition to their own weird measurements as well. Like stones.

Stones is apparently 'Imperial' that none of the other imperial using countries ever adopted. Apparently 14 lbs is 1 stone.

[Silverblade Paladin]

Pictures like this lead me to believe Americans are purposefully retarded just so they can remain special snowflakes to the rest of the world.

[mercutiouk]

i think these charts seem to be biased.

I think "obviously contentious, baseless, illogical counter argument" now reply MOAR, MOAR!

[obdigore]

Pictures like this lead me to believe Americans are purposefully retarded just so they can remain special snowflakes to the rest of the world.

Comments like this make it clear just how jealous you are.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Troll? Why do you guys cling to this utterly arbitrary conversion system anyway? I could understand if you guys had your own "base meter" in some vault and everything after that were a sensible linear scaling of it, but you just use random shit to measure stuff.

[lockblock]

Personally I wish we would swap to metric. Sure there would be lots of bitching after the change but I think we would get over it eventually.

[Sunseeker]

Imperial is a stupid measurement system. Metric's base 10 system is so, so so much simpler.

[Ghostile]

Comments like this make it clear just how jealous you are.

I doupt the rest of the world is too jealous of that extra chromosome

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