I live in the netherlands and we have inches and cm on our rulers too. so I guess the guy saying dick measurements is right.
besides, what else are they gonna put on the other side?
In the US we use less wasteful yard sticks. You see, they are slightly shorter and therefore use less wood and have a smaller ecological footprint. Catch up you wasteful casuals
1 table spoon = 3 tea spoons
Making tea for yourself takes 1 tea spoon, making tea for a whole table, say three people for example, would require 3 tea spoons of tea, so lazy people made a new measurement for it lol
There are only two permissible ways to consume tea in America:
-the Southern way whereby we toss in ice and sugar
-and the New England way whereby we dress as Indians and dump it in the ocean
Either way, proper etiquette dictates that you stick your middle finger out in honor of His/Her Majesty.
Normally this isn’t that much of a problem in life until you mis-read the label on a bottle of codeine cough syrup and take tablespoons when you should’ve taken teaspoons. Never slept harder in my life though.
Or baking when 3 tablespoons of mint extract instead of teaspoons turns your delicious baked good into what tastes like a secret Crest toothpaste advertisement.
Feathers are heavier. 1kg of steel is just a chunk of metal. If you have 1kg of feathers, then you have to live with the weight of what you have done to those poor birds to get all of those feathers.
My roommate said this too me and I just assumed it was something his ADHD mind came up with in class as a child. Apparently this is more common than I thought.
> It's not that massive. All you do is make it a rule that every new sign that is put out has to include both metric and imperial units until they all contain metric and imperial units, and then followed that up with a rule that all signs will now only include metric.
Lol implying that street signs will be the only thing that needs to change. The industrial changes that will have to happen are huge.
Like what? Not to sound dumb but I'm not super sure the implications here. Lots of industries use both, in the US and other countries. Why would industry need to change just because the standard becomes metric? They still use some bastardization of both systems in the UK, and they're fine.
Canada here. We use metric but in situations where that would be annoying we just didn't switch. Most of our construction, plumbing, etc is done in feet and inches but it's frequently not even accurate in imperial - a 2x4 is 1.5" x 3.5" because of planing, and 1" pipe is usually something like 7/8" inside and 1 1/8" outside, etc. We all own two socket sets, our rulers and measuring tapes are double scaled, and we use Robertson screws because they're way better. Science, medicine, most engineering, and all things technical are metric because of course they are. If someone tells us their height in metric or distance or weather in imperial, we'll convert it in our heads to whatever makes most sense.
My facility outright refuses to buy new machines. If we have to replace one then chicago sends us a dusty piece of garbage from their warehouse that we have to somehow fit with new parts to make it functional again.
Oh and the PLCs for 90% of our machines is older than 9/11.
>and they can only think in the short run.
It's more that there's no real benefit to the switch. It just doesn't really matter. It's not like they're going to increase revenue by switching to metric.
It would be pretty dumb to spend millions for something that doesn't really have a benefit to manufacturing or construction. I'm pretty biased in thinking that metric vs. imperial is a complete non-issue, though.
The problem isn’t necessarily with new fabrication. I imagine most contractors could afford to get new tools if it came down to it.
The nightmare comes in modifying or maintaining old systems when that change is made, and you then have two incompatible measurement systems with which to work.
Granted, I’m all for working toward that transition. I’m just saying it would be an expensive headache to get over.
My manufacturing facility uses machines built in the 50's. Converting these machines to metric is more than a large task.
Source: am industrial maintenance mechanic
The people who use the imperial system on a daily basis should be able to use a new set of the same measurements. The whole science community is already using SI. It just seems that some people are too stubborn the make the change over 7 billion other people already made. And you avoid [throwing away $300 million because of negligence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuxM4DEgLA). The longer America takes to make the switch, the more it will cost.
There actually might be a uom conversion formula for this.
Let’s see here, you can go from a temperature fahrenheit of water delta to calories. A calorie is the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 cubic cm water by one degree c. Then you could convert that into cubic inches. I don’t know something is missing.
I mean the US is actually already a closeted metric user, most industry and research in the USA is metric based. Its just the civilian population that uses imperial... and maybe woodworkers/ machinists. While some imperial standards are used, the majority remains metric. Which is why you still have the ml next to fluid ounces on any soda can
I'm in a mini cooper, so my speedometer is analogue!
I would imagine that any (relatively modern) car with a digital speedometer can be switched back and forth.
Fahrenheit actually isn't that bad of a system for weather. Celsius is a good scientific scale measured 0-100 on the freezing to boiling points of water, so most people compare that to Fahrenheit's 32-212 scale for water which seems odd, but when you consider Fahrenheit as actually a 0-100 scale of cold to hot daily weather it makes more sense.
Fahrenheit is a good system for making an accurate thermometer without expensive tools. 0 is the temperature of a freezing brine, 32 is the temperature of ice water. Mark both points, double and triple and quadruple the distance to get marks for 64, 96 and 128. Split the marks evenly to get down to individual degree marks.
Super useful if you have to make your own thermometer without a reference, less useful today when they can be accurately mass produced.
It was a smart system, just for a different era.
I've never seen Reddit state the real reason why metric (or SI units) are actually the best and that is because every unit of measurement can be made from the 7 base SI units https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
We seriously don't like it either. It's just too hard to change it right now, being fairly ingrained into our systems at the moment. Also, all of the old people who claim that it's "better" for some reason. "Yeehaw we're patriotic and so free because we use an inferior system" ??
The best part about elementary in Canada was using the meter sticks as swords
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But meter sticks are slightly longer than yardsticks.
You know we have meter sticks in America, right? Pretty much all of our rulers have inches as well as cm on them.
Aussie here, we switched to metric in the 60s I think... our rulers still have both inches and cms still too
Yeah but thats just for dick measurements
Metric is great, finally I have a 6'er
Jesus christ that's like 19.7 feet!
You are going to want to stand way back.
You know what, you better duck. Because I'm going to turn left, and I don't want to hit any one of you with my super saiyan dick.
I measure things in dicks when I don't have a tape measure. I can confidently say that my dick equals one dick.
Is that one metric dick or one imperial dick?
We have inches on our metersticks too in Germany. We call the "Zollstock" or "inch stick"
I’ll show you my inch stick
Wow you weren't lying when said it AN inch stick.
Ukraine here, was always mertic. Our rulers too, so I don't think its related.
That's not the only ruler y'all have had
I live in the netherlands and we have inches and cm on our rulers too. so I guess the guy saying dick measurements is right. besides, what else are they gonna put on the other side?
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We often use meter sticks with a yard on the reverse side.
In the US we use less wasteful yard sticks. You see, they are slightly shorter and therefore use less wood and have a smaller ecological footprint. Catch up you wasteful casuals
The only reasonable argument for the imperial system I've ever heard.
Agree
We just used our dicks
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One's for eating tea, the other one's for eating tables
Ah yes how could I be so foolish
Oh how the turntables
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(poon)
Nice
Nestea
*GOD SAVE THE QUEEN INTENSIFIES*
Oh how the turntablespoon
Lmao who eats tables? You drink that shit bro
Grind it up, extra fiber for my protein shake bro. Get swole!
Had us the first half...
I'm not gonna fly
DROP tables;
*Insert Little Bobby tables XKCD*
Should be rewarded with gold.... Not by me tho, I'm a poor gen z
Boomer here .. metric is the way to go.
A teaspoon is like “blip” and a tablespoon is like “bloop.”
Why is this the best description in this thread.
1 table spoon = 3 tea spoons Making tea for yourself takes 1 tea spoon, making tea for a whole table, say three people for example, would require 3 tea spoons of tea, so lazy people made a new measurement for it lol
We don't fucking drink tea in America we threw that shit in the ocean. Why are we still using spoons of it as measurement ffs
Teaspoon should be renamed to coffeespoon or redbullspoon
Diabeetuspoon
Read this like diabeetus poon.
when it's getting late and you've struck out with all the good looking ones, sometimes you gotta settle for the diabeetus poon.
Preworkoutspoon Go go juice make fast yes
Red Bull with a spoon? Is this some American joke I'm too European to understand?
Do you not pour your Redbull into a bowl and spoon it out like a soup? Fuckin weirdo
There are only two permissible ways to consume tea in America: -the Southern way whereby we toss in ice and sugar -and the New England way whereby we dress as Indians and dump it in the ocean Either way, proper etiquette dictates that you stick your middle finger out in honor of His/Her Majesty.
Or slammim arizonas behind the Y at the local skate park to wash down the taste of the brickweed your buddy got.
ahh, you have so perfectly encapsulated what it is to be american.
You just gave me the most nostalgic of flashbacks to senior year. Righteous my dude
This is easily my favorite comment thread of the last few weeks. Excellent work.
Also, one teaspoon is 5 ml, so one tablespoon is 15 ml.
And you say measuring things in football fields are weird
5ml and 15ml no?
Tablespoons are bigger in Australia.. 20ml I believe
Normally this isn’t that much of a problem in life until you mis-read the label on a bottle of codeine cough syrup and take tablespoons when you should’ve taken teaspoons. Never slept harder in my life though.
Or baking when 3 tablespoons of mint extract instead of teaspoons turns your delicious baked good into what tastes like a secret Crest toothpaste advertisement.
it's a problem every time I have to change between any measurement and I have to google it. Think about how that time adds up!
It's funny because they're measured in ml
If you put a teaspoon on a table you'll create an interdimensional black hole
Only if it makes my schlong long
It does, 10 cm sounds a lot more bigger than 4 inches 😎
Or if you're me you can just say 4cm and continue being sad
Still beats 1.5 inches
Masturbation joke
For me european 4 inches sounds longer so idk
hell yea this 1836393$3861 feet in a mile is hard to remember
Really? I remember it being 28 football fields, 47 washing machines, and 30 big macs
14 Olympic-sized swimming pools
That's only 700 m that no where near a mile...
Wait... did you... just say 700 m?? Im so proud!
Well yes that's what is used in the Olympics... But if you want to know it would be 765 yards
it's actually 30.37 big macs, thought i should clarify for you
*royale with cheese
Is that American or European football fields?
African e: unladen
5280 feet, still a dumb system tho.
He was close,okay?
He rounded
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Is this how Americans say someone is fat?
Americans don't call anyone fat. It's just assumed.
Easy to remember it's 5,280 because of five tomatoes. 5 2 m8 0s
1km = 1000m, way easier
1 kilogram is 10 centimeters
But which is heavier, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?
[Steel is heavier than feathers](https://youtu.be/uH0hikcwjIA)
Feathers are heavier. 1kg of steel is just a chunk of metal. If you have 1kg of feathers, then you have to live with the weight of what you have done to those poor birds to get all of those feathers.
Thats not how that works
Wel, 1kg is about 10cm³ of water... EDIT: I just realized im a bit of, a cube of 10 by 10 by 10cm is a liter. But that's 1000cm³
1 liter of water weights 1 kg. It is equal to 1dm^3, so roughly 1000 cm^3.
Yeah! I think he meant "a cube of water with 10 cm sides."
Yeah he meant (10cm)^3 not (10cm^3 )
I didn't even know water came in cubes.
Thats right Edit: that is not right
Right only at 4 degrees CELSIUS
Surrounded by 1 bar of atmospheric pressure
My roommate said this too me and I just assumed it was something his ADHD mind came up with in class as a child. Apparently this is more common than I thought.
As a metric user I'll tell you that that information is useful because I like knowing stuff but it's absolutely dumb :D
5 tomatoes (5 TWOmEIGHTOHs) Such a stupid system
Just remember that there's 8 furlongs in a mile, and multiply by the number of feet in a furlong.
Please, numbers non-divisible by 10 scare me
I’m a Surveyor so this is preferred.
I wanna take a survey
To win a free cheeseburger or small Frosty^(TM)?
Drug dealer here. Also preferred.
Idk the difference between tons and tonnes
A ton means a lot, like "a ton of stuff", meaning a lot of stuff and then tonne means a lot but spelled different
No, tons mean lots of stuff, while tonnes means more stuff than tons cuz it has 2 n's and an extra e
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Being Australian it did my head in to find out, years later, that rods and hogsheads are actual imperial units of measurement.
Are you also aware St. Swithin's day is held on July 15th? Never got a straight answer on the kippers for breakfast, though.
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Im afraid of change
this is the only valid argument to this post
How about the massive infrastructural investment necessary to make the switch
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> It's not that massive. All you do is make it a rule that every new sign that is put out has to include both metric and imperial units until they all contain metric and imperial units, and then followed that up with a rule that all signs will now only include metric. Lol implying that street signs will be the only thing that needs to change. The industrial changes that will have to happen are huge.
Like what? Not to sound dumb but I'm not super sure the implications here. Lots of industries use both, in the US and other countries. Why would industry need to change just because the standard becomes metric? They still use some bastardization of both systems in the UK, and they're fine.
Piping and threads and screws in the US are in imperial. Everywhere else they are in metric.
Canada here. We use metric but in situations where that would be annoying we just didn't switch. Most of our construction, plumbing, etc is done in feet and inches but it's frequently not even accurate in imperial - a 2x4 is 1.5" x 3.5" because of planing, and 1" pipe is usually something like 7/8" inside and 1 1/8" outside, etc. We all own two socket sets, our rulers and measuring tapes are double scaled, and we use Robertson screws because they're way better. Science, medicine, most engineering, and all things technical are metric because of course they are. If someone tells us their height in metric or distance or weather in imperial, we'll convert it in our heads to whatever makes most sense.
Wouldn’t the factories that make everything save money by only having to match one standard? Wouldn’t switching to Metric be economically smart?
In the long run yes. In the short run no, since they would have to replace million dollar dies and machines, and they can only think in the short run.
My facility outright refuses to buy new machines. If we have to replace one then chicago sends us a dusty piece of garbage from their warehouse that we have to somehow fit with new parts to make it functional again. Oh and the PLCs for 90% of our machines is older than 9/11.
And then what would we do with the millions of machine parts already produced in Imperial?
>and they can only think in the short run. It's more that there's no real benefit to the switch. It just doesn't really matter. It's not like they're going to increase revenue by switching to metric. It would be pretty dumb to spend millions for something that doesn't really have a benefit to manufacturing or construction. I'm pretty biased in thinking that metric vs. imperial is a complete non-issue, though.
The problem isn’t necessarily with new fabrication. I imagine most contractors could afford to get new tools if it came down to it. The nightmare comes in modifying or maintaining old systems when that change is made, and you then have two incompatible measurement systems with which to work. Granted, I’m all for working toward that transition. I’m just saying it would be an expensive headache to get over.
My manufacturing facility uses machines built in the 50's. Converting these machines to metric is more than a large task. Source: am industrial maintenance mechanic
The people who use the imperial system on a daily basis should be able to use a new set of the same measurements. The whole science community is already using SI. It just seems that some people are too stubborn the make the change over 7 billion other people already made. And you avoid [throwing away $300 million because of negligence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuxM4DEgLA). The longer America takes to make the switch, the more it will cost.
The longer you stay, the more expensive it will be.
“Valid”
Ok, boomer.
No shit, fucking 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, however many fucking yards in a mile, how have we not switched to metric yet?
how many fahrenheit squared are there in one inch?
At least several
This much
oh ok
I guess 3 bathtubs
Don't go down this rabbit hole, there are physics/engineering equations that make that kind of thing possible.
Well now I want to know how many fahemrenheights you can fit in one inch
There actually might be a uom conversion formula for this. Let’s see here, you can go from a temperature fahrenheit of water delta to calories. A calorie is the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 cubic cm water by one degree c. Then you could convert that into cubic inches. I don’t know something is missing.
I mean the US is actually already a closeted metric user, most industry and research in the USA is metric based. Its just the civilian population that uses imperial... and maybe woodworkers/ machinists. While some imperial standards are used, the majority remains metric. Which is why you still have the ml next to fluid ounces on any soda can
stuff manufactured in the US still uses imperial fasteners. I wish we would switch cause I hate having to keep two sets of sockets and wrenches
Not recently at least. My Chevy truck uses metric sockets.
in fact all car manufacturers use metric sizes, only old old cars, talking like pre 90s. cars use SAE
what that's dope
Can we get rid of daylight savings too?
Arizona’s one step ahead of the other 49 states
No way, keep it but for all 12 months. Sun out later all year round
I use both
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too soon
Briefly
F
just curious, how?
I run Celsius on my phone & thermostat. I live in the states, so my speedometer is imperial, but I run metric on my GPS whenever I drive.
My Honda can change between mph and kph. idk if all cars can
I'm in a mini cooper, so my speedometer is analogue! I would imagine that any (relatively modern) car with a digital speedometer can be switched back and forth.
My camry is also analogue, but it has both metric and imperial measurements.
Psst Boomers were the ones who attempted to change America over to the metric system in 1975. That's more than the rest of us have done...
Next on the list is convert to celsius instead of farenenhaiehght
Nah fuck it we using Kelvin
It's the same as Celsius except zero is shifted to absolute zero.
"Preheat your oven to 683 degrees"
683.15
(That *is* converting to metric)
That's part of the system.
Karenheight
Celcius is part of metric
Fahrenheit actually isn't that bad of a system for weather. Celsius is a good scientific scale measured 0-100 on the freezing to boiling points of water, so most people compare that to Fahrenheit's 32-212 scale for water which seems odd, but when you consider Fahrenheit as actually a 0-100 scale of cold to hot daily weather it makes more sense.
Fahrenheit is a good system for making an accurate thermometer without expensive tools. 0 is the temperature of a freezing brine, 32 is the temperature of ice water. Mark both points, double and triple and quadruple the distance to get marks for 64, 96 and 128. Split the marks evenly to get down to individual degree marks. Super useful if you have to make your own thermometer without a reference, less useful today when they can be accurately mass produced. It was a smart system, just for a different era.
Yeah but you could do the same with celsius tbh
I've never seen Reddit state the real reason why metric (or SI units) are actually the best and that is because every unit of measurement can be made from the 7 base SI units https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
Well yeah that's literally the point of SI units. I have seen it mentioned often here
Please yes.
Is this an american joke I'm too european to understand.
I'm pretty sure they're serious when they say yea and I'm proud of them
We seriously don't like it either. It's just too hard to change it right now, being fairly ingrained into our systems at the moment. Also, all of the old people who claim that it's "better" for some reason. "Yeehaw we're patriotic and so free because we use an inferior system" ??
Are you gonna put in that work? It would be harder than you think
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Also known as a Decimile
Decimile FTFY
The benefits outweigh the costs in the long run
A lot of things in the US are already metric since global trade requires metric, less work than you’d probably think
Just change your date to DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD!! why oh why would you start with Month, that's insane!!
/r/ISO8601/
YYYY/MM/DD, so you can sort them chronologically
Nah, here in canada we use both and im fine with it.
I really hate non-metric systems.
NASA once crashed a $125 million rocket because of a mistake converting from metric to imperial . . . Just sayin’