French invented metric system…
yeah this is imperial washing. they setup a colony and left it with an antiquated system of measures, then cheated off their neighbor for a better one.
And the worst part is, they didn’t even adopt it completely. They were not even going the complete mile.
Oh, you!
And at least Americans use a consistent system of measures. Not the weird half breed that the UK uses.
the more metric the better. in that regard, the UK is better than the US. of course, both are inferior to any other country which only uses the metric system
Are there any? E.g. here in Germany we use kcal instead of kJ for food energy density. Also horsepower is used instead of W for engines. But for the most part we use only metric.
I’m wondering if there are countries where they completely conform to the metric system.
At least when you use calories and kilocalories you don’t have to multiply by 12 or 3 or 5820 when you want to compare a big and a small number.
Of all the terrible non-metric things Americans use the Fahrenheit is the most defensible. It’s just idiotic when the rest of the world uses metric.
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.
Most of the stuff you interact with daily is much more easily measured in feet and inches vs meters and centimeters
Hard disagree. The centimeter is the best measurement there is for everyday stuff, you can easily express both round values or weird ones, and don’t need to switch between two scales as you do with feet and inches (and the stupid fact that there’s 12 inches in a feet, wtf). Meters are for distances.
(this ignores decimeters, but I’ve literally never seen anyone use decimeters in my entire life)
BECAUSE THE METRIC SYSTEM IS DECIMAL AND YOU DON’T NEED STUPID CHANGES BETWEEN UNITS, MOST PEOPLE JUST SAY TEN CENTIMETERS!
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.
If you’re measuring ambient temperature, 99% of the time being more precise than 1°C is pointless, in a room you may have more variance than that from a corner to another, same goes for outside. For things where you need better precision you sure as hell wouldn’t be using the imperial system, and you could instead take advantage of this neat trick called DECIMALS.
Edit: addendum for everyday convenience: buying shit at the supermarket. The label expresses price per kilo but the packaging is in grams? You don’t even need to think about it. Drinks? They can even mix litres and kilos, no problem, the difference would be below negligible.
Here in Italy we usually ask for meat cuts in “etti”, aka hecto grams aka 100grams, so I look at a cut, I see it’s 35€/kg, I ask for 3 etti, immediately know it’ll be 10.5€ (ALSO BECAUSE SALES TAX IS INCLUDED ON THE LABEL FFS)
Why do you guys have so much identity tied up in the metric system
misses the point completely
it’s not about identity, it’s just fucking weird to meassure length in bananas, volume in how much water the puddle on your street contains, or temperature in how hot the inside of your asshole is on two different days
Says I miss the point and then straw mans an entire system of measurement. Seems like you’re just a little too invested in the metric system.
I merely compared the idiotic randomness behind the imperial system to those behind my made up measurement system, showing that both are similarly stupid
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fucking stones.
they measure thing in stones, still. the uk acts all uppity about metric shit and still uses imperial garbage variably all over.
And legally America does use the metric system…
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.
This meme wasn’t created to ridicule Americans, it was created to enrage the French, and to a lesser extent the Germans.
The ironic thing is that the imperial system comes from Britain. It’s just that US decided to keep it.
The imperial system and the US customary system are different for volume and weight
Also, the metric system is french.
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Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.
So same as soccer
Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
This is offensively incorrect.
Deer are closer to 1.75 bicycles tall.
One Imperial deer is 1.74832 bicycles. If you’re going to use a retarded system, you must also use retarded significant figures.
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?
Maybe they’re as tall as bicycles are long?
Yeah, most deer are taller than bicycles
Unless it’s a muntjac deer. Then it’s more like 0.4 bicycles.
Hamburgers is probably not the worst measurement for a cow, it removes all conversion.
That second phrase can be useful information…
How many double-sized hamburgers is it? 600?
- But don’t be fooled. Between brain, bones, and waste you’ll only get get 200 double quarter pounders out of them. A little more if you add beef or pork fat to make them juicy.
ETA: I have no fucking clue what is going on with the formatting.
X. is what Lemmy uses for numbered lists. So
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To avoid that you could write 400\. rather than 400.
Ha, yeah. I wasn’t thinking about it. It’ll just stay as a list starting with 400 then.
You’re awesome for letting me know for next time.
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Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:
12345\. Blah blah...This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.
Do the hamburgers include lettuce, tomato, onion, or any condiments?
French created the metric system.
This is useful information that tells you how many hamberders a deer corpse can make
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.
The British have a stupid mix of Imperial and metric. We usually measure distance in meters/centimeters but feet and inches are still used fairly regularly especially if you’re measuring the height of a person. Large distances are usually measured in miles unless you’re going for a run in which case you probably use km. Then you go for a drive and measure your speed in miles per hour, and your fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Except you now need to fill up so you go to the petrol station where the prices are listed in pence per litre. Most other liquids are also measured in litres unless you’re buying milk or beer.
Then if you’re weighing things you probably use metric, unless you’re weighing a person or you’re an old person cooking. Temperature is also measured in celcius unless you’re old.
Don’t forget to give your weight in stones and a horses height in hands…
We even measure the same thing using different standards. The three tyre measurements are taken in mm, mm, and inches.
I put it down to us being smarter than everyone else.
I guess the silver lining for the British is they have more familiarity with both types of measurements than the purests.
