Please tell me what is stupid about a furlong or an acre, or a mile? Furlong related to the length a of a field a man an ox team would plow 220 yards, or a mile as 8 furlongs.
Much more relatable than the tens, hundreds and thousands of a metric system.
Besides that, why do you revel in throwing off kings of yore, specifically those things that came to be commonplace and withstood the test of usage and time? For the system of another group of Europeans with whom we have little in common really, save for a massive influx of third worlder illegals and Muslims?
Finally, you can wish and hope all you want, it won’t change
How many rods you got on your car?
Franklin and Jefferson both advocated for the metric system.