Murica, y u do dis?

[Austrian]

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[AntiBlitz]

"The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced. The system came into official use across the British Empire."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States

needless to say, the attempt to go metric failed in the 80's.

[Molly]

Don't put the blame on the British!

They may have introduced it but you're still using that garbage.
Although, at least the scientific sector is already using metric, dunno about engineering.

[AntiBlitz]

Don't put the blame on the British!

They may have introduced it but you're still using that garbage.
Although, at least the scientific sector is already using metric, dunno about engineering.

lol, brits fault, fucking brits!  They should have let France and Spain colonize the americas, but nooooooo, they had to be greedy, take it all for themselves and start wars! dirty britmy old friends!

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yes, in most large scale engineering projects the metric system is used, however when you get away from those, and go to smaller projects like houses with small contractors, most use the imperial system.  Also, the official response from the white house was that we are "bilingual" and it is up to the persons choice on whether they want to use metric or imperial.

[Teeth]

The thing is, if you grow up using those units it all makes sense through sheer experience, while the metric system always makes sense. So it's basically just the metric raised people that have problems the imperial 'system'.

[Lt_Anders]

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mad cuz bad (system)

[Franke]

Emanzipate yourself of those British weirdos, don' tread on me!

[Osiris]

UK still uses many imperial units O.o

we still use miles,yards, pints, ounces, stone, pounds, Feet and inches for height, Acres,

we use the ton and tonne

The British ton (also used in other countries that have the Imperial system of weights and measures) is equal to 2,240 pounds or 1,016.047 kg. It is sometimes referred to as the “long ton”, “weight ton” or “gross ton”.

The North American ton (only used in the United States and Canada) is equal to 2,000 pounds or 907.1847 kg. It is sometimes referred to as the “short ton” or “net ton”.

we cheat like this and use both

our milk

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I work in the building industry and most things are supposed to be metric but most screws are in imperial and everyone just measures to whats closer our metalwork is often 2 inch or 6 inch etc

[Teeth]

Try building a house, or ANYTHING, and use metric units. Then do the same thing with Imperial Units. Much much easier.

That is a huge load of horseshit.

[Nightmare798]

Not only they still use horrible and outdated systems for defining lenght, temperature, weight and so on, But they are fucking PROUD of it.

Try building a house, or ANYTHING, and use metric units. Then do the same thing with Imperial Units. Much much easier.

PFFFFT BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Seriously dude? Who are you kidding? Metric units were invented so everything has uniformed and intuitive system.

[Xant]

. IE 80 degress versus 85 in Fahrenheit is a big difference. In Celsius that's a .2 difference.

? wat

80 degrees fahrenheit =26.6 celsius
85 fahrenheit =29.4 celsius

How is that any harder to read than 80/85

Certainly, all the Europeans manage it, considering 39 celsius is a huge fever whereas 36.6 is a normal temperature. Yet people somehow don't get confused nonstop about whether or not they have a fever.

[Artyem]

Anders and AntiBlitz are pretty much spot on.  However, both measurements are taught and used in the US, just with more emphasis on the imperial system.  So it's not like we're completely blind to the metric system, we just have a preference to the alternative.

[Chosen1]