After engineering school, I prefer SI units.
I’m a big fan of Formula 1 and have watched for decades.
For years the British networks reporting the races on TV and radio always talk about the race in miles per hour, not kilometers per hour. When they do announce the speed in KPH they then mention the MPH equivalent but not the other way around.
So Wimpy’s can now sell a quarter-pounder?
I forget how many ounces are in a furlong.
Hoorah!
Ounces of liquid measure, for example, halve nicely:
128 oz. = 1 Gallon
64 oz. = 1 half Gallon
32 oz. =1 Quart
16 oz. = 1 Pint
8 oz. = 1 Cup (or half Pint)
4 oz. = 1 half Cup
2 oz. = 1 quarter Cup
1 oz. = 1 Ounce
.5 oz. = 1 Tablespoon
The Founding Fathers of the United States were wise to be the first to adopt the base 10 system with our money but wisely avoided it with other measurements.
USA-based Spacex broadcasts Spacecraft launches on the net to the general public in kilometers and kilograms.
Boy, are they stupoid or what?
Save the metric system for machines talking to machines or scientists exploring the very small or the very large.
It was a nice gimmick to help w the 70s gas pricing… going to liters. Works for ice cream to. Makes people think inflation is not as bad as it really is. When Uber leftists talk about how amazing European free healthcare is, I always ask them to tell me the price of a gallon of gas. They always get it wrong.
They outlawed Emperical when I lived there. Real PITA while shopping.
3.5 grams=1/8 ounce...
7 grams=1/4 ounce...
28 grams=1 ounce...
😁...
Can I still say I benchpress 355?
Australia went metric back in the 1960’s (before I was born). That said, while everything is metric, Imperial units are still understood and used in informal measurements, certain industries, and in common language.
Examples:
- It isn’t uncommon for new parents letting everyone know how big their baby was at birth will use both pounds/ounces and grams to describe weight.
- Men know that 6 inches is good, 9 inches gets attention, and 12 inches gets you a new potential career oppertunity.
- The aviation, maritime and Defence industries all use Imperial and Metric. As an ex Navy officer, I am comfortable with inches, feet, yards, cables, nautical miles, fathoms, and pounds.
- TV screen sizes are all advertised in inches and beer in pubs is sold in glasses based on imperial (ask for a pint of beer, you’ll get 20 fl oz of beer).
- Land sold in hectares will usually also list the size in acres as well.
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The metric system was always overhyped. There were many civilizations that didn't use a base-10 numbering system because they had found something else more practical. Which is why there's 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. So there's no foundation for the claim that base-10 is universally superior.
Can you imagine the stupidity of trying to convince the crew of an old whaling ship to stop calling it "a fathom" (which was the breadth of an average man's outstretched arms) and start calling it "182 centimeters" instead?