Finally, a simple way to understand the Imperial measure! UNFORTUNATELY, I live in Australia - so I have to deal with METRIC! So hard remembering Powers of Ten.

At 4000 gallons of bald eagles per mile, you can get 8200 freedoms per horse.

For part 2: Weights.

Today I finally learned how the imperial system works, and I'm an American, who needed an Australian to explain it to me

Neil Armstrong was talking to the evening news from orbit. He reported his speed in meters per second. The reporter asked if he could put that in units people could relate to. He then said he was traveling at however many Furlongs per Fortnight!

"THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TOOL OF THE DEVIL! My car gets 10 rods to a hog's head and that's the way I like it!" -Abe Simpson

I had an argument years a go with some old guys on a heritage railway (I live in the UK) where I was volunteering. Our Railways are measured in Miles and Chains, even now. These old guys were telling me how Yards, Feet, Inches and Miles were perfect and Metric is a joke etc... Finally I asked "Ok 22 Yards is a Chain, how many Chains are there in a Mile?" They couldn't work it out. Surely it's simple guys... 1760/22 gives you an easy answer... Anyways, they all voted for the man who's now planning to return the UK back to this nonsense to distract from his law breaking. Wish I was Irish.

I saw an article about a sink hole that opened up in the U.S and they described it as 12 washing machines wide. WTAF???

Tennis scores always confused me. There is no correlation between one score to the next figure. Perhaps 'this guy' was the one who decided how they go.

Imperial: When I need to remember the number of feet in a mile I think "five tomatoes" and I remember it's 5,280. Metric: When I need to remember how many metres in a kilometre, I think 1,000 because our measuring system wasn't invented by drunk mathematicians playing with dice

I remember Australia changing to metric in 1973. Had to relearn everything. Had conversions printed on the back of every exercise book

Ok, now do the guy who decides women's clothing size.

As a draftsman in a metric country I feel sympathy for my draftsman colleagues in America.

Jason, Jason, Jason! What a lot of research you had to do for that one! Even better than I thought it would be!

The guy who decides which KZfaq ad you'll see

Nautical Miles have a reason for existing, guys! I wouldn't lump them in the same boat as imperial measurements, they're still used world-wide by countries under the metric system for navigation. Navigation, in most cases, simplifies the Earth as being a perfect sphere (which isn't true, but it's close enough). This gives rise to the concepts of Latitude and Longitude, which are measured North/South of the Equator, and East/West of Greenwich Observatory, respectively. Lat&Long are represented by circles passing through the Earth, which allows us to measure distances as an angle - for example, let's say you are at the Equator and you move ten degrees West without changing your latitude - you multiply 10 by 60 and you have travelled 600 Nautical Miles. This is because 1 nautical mile is one minute at the Equator, and there are 60 minutes in one degree. This gets more complicated at different latitudes, especially if you're trying to find the shortest route between two points. P.S. Minutes can be further divided by 60 into seconds, but nowadays, it's accepted that it's difficult and impractical to be more accurate than 0.1 nautical miles in most cases, which is why I didn't mention this earlier I felt I'd have to put it here in case a deckie like myself decides to correct me :)

Actually, this shows the original use of imperial units. People didn't have standard units of measure before interchangeable parts so we made do with things that were relatively consistent and related to how the unit was employed.

"What kind of stupid country would ever use that" I completely understand and I'm stuck living there

At this point I'm convinced that people who use the imperial system are victims of sunk cost fallacy cause it's so fucking hard to learn it

God I need to lie down after that, well done Jason, Jason, Jason 🤣

This video would make a great maths lesson at school.

There is a reason that there are only 2 countries in the world that haven't started officially converting to the Metric system (Myanmar and USA. For those that don't know Liberia is in the process of officially changing to the Metric system )

The sad thing about this comedy sketch is that it’s true.

I'm so lucky to live in a country with the metric system!

Great video as usual. I'm old enough to remember learning the imperials system, but young enough to remember it being replaced by the metric system before we got too far!. .... Oh, and gotta get me one of those "Jason, Jason, Jason" hoodies!

Haha, love the shameless promo of merch ;-)

Fun fact, the imperial system was not in fact one unified measurement system, it was in fact a complex combination of a hunch of different measurements for different things used at different times codified into a single group of measurements. The system was also created by the English, which isn't relevant but it is very funny.

How yanks hold onto this system is incredible..it's as though it's a gun

Hahaha! :) Nautical miles and knots is the only thing in this that makes any sense. As far as I know one NM is the length of one arc minute of one degree at the equator and knots is just NM/h. Nautical mile = 40,000km / 360 / 60 = 1.85km (ish). I mean, initially the meter was just defined as the length from the north pole to the equator divided by 10,000,000.

Oh it gets worse. In rural areas we have "over yonder" "up/down the way" "up/down the road a spell" & "as the crow flies" to name a few. The exact measurements of those very from person & situation. It's a wonder we're not all lost.

I may be a bit late. But an interesting reference for an inch by the "National Institute of Standards and Technnology. U.S. Dept of commerce" is 25.4mm. LOL

we HAVE to see Jason take over the guy who decides

Love it, Jason Jason Jason 😂😂

Jason Jason Jason, cant wait for part 2 all about cups and tablespoons

For all of you people with a reasonable meausring system, the only ones of these we actually use (or that people usually know) are inches, feet, yards, miles, and (maybe for people who spend time on the water) nautical miles (maybe fathoms, I’m not sure).

Yeaahhhh I'm just gonna remember the number 10 and call it a day thanks :')

#RespectForTheMetricSystem

A grandma here, no wonder my eyes use to glaze over in arithmetic. Yes I’m with you Jason, and yes Jason, it was called arithmetic. The young uns don’t know how easy they have got it! Metric, sooo much easier!

The US thought about converting around 1980. By the time the teachers wrapped our heads around the prefixes (milli, centi, deci, etc.) someone powerful noped out and I never heard it again until high school science.

Nothing more confusing than watching an American read tyre depths. "Twelve thirty seconds here, eleven thirty-four here".

How am I meant to fathom all of that?!? Under water Jason.

literally every single European power: yeah, we'll do something like that BUT adapted the shoe size of our current ruler

As odd as many imperial measures may seem now, most(basically all) make sense in their historical context, for instance barley corn where primarily use to measure small lengths, like for fitting shoes, and made sense as they where a readily available object of appropriate number and size. So while yes no two where exactly the same, nothing really was at the time, they where consistent enough to more readily allow something to tell any cobbler the measure the their last cobbler gave them and get shoes fitted close enough, which was the standard at the time, then the alternatives. This also plays a role in why shoe sizes vary from nation to nation Ps; on the use of decimal scaling, we need to remember decimals are (key word)relatively(key word) new in math with fractions being the older and more wide spread option. Thus the value of an easily divisible base was more pronounced, and even now some question if base 10 is the best option for similar reasons Edit added the post script

A centimeter - 10 millimeters A decimeter - 10 centimeters A meter - 10 decimeters A kilometer - 1000 meters ... You can't really get simpler, the most complex it gets is when you convert back to a mile, a kilometre is 0.621 of a mile, because imperial measurements are only a step above measuring in cubits for everything.

I find it a little funny how we still measure a newborn baby's weight in pounds and ounces before kilos and grams, even on the birth announcements in the paper. Imperial measurements still pop up here and there, depending on what it's for and how we're taught (as in, with work, etc), but the metric system is definitely easier to get more accurate measurements and conversions to larger or smaller units are a lot simpler, too.

Being a surveyor I can really appreciate this.

As an engineer I utterly despise the imperial system. Screwthreads gave me so much headache over the years. Insane how some people think the imperial is better.

Jason Jason Jason The new "not happy jan" 😂

Best part is that this is just for length😂

As an American I'm a little worried that I could follow along. Makes sense to me! 😁😱

Girth, length, quality...action! You're fantastic!!!!

Jason is very well adjusted considering his parents and his boss😋🤣👍👍

Hahaha, this is hilariously true!!! Such a confusing measurement system! Whoever created it definitely was drunk! LOL

See how easy it is? Everything is based on common bodyparts and things people use around the kitchen. 3 barley corns is about as wide as a thumb. A closed hand is 1/3 a foot. Super easy!

It's not that other countries didn't have units like that as well. The difference is that other countries at some point realized that those units are nonsense and just gave up on them. E.g. an Ell was a very common unit in central Europe, however it was not truly standardized. Instead every town would have an official reference Ell, usually found at a major church or town hall of that city. When exchange of goods between towns became more common, thanks to the railroad, people quickly realized that they need a common definition that works across the entire country, otherwise how can you order something from your town in another town?

When the people who actually live in a country with the imperial system are getting confused....then you know something's not right lol

I'm slowly converting my older family recipes to grams. I have a great kitchen scale for weighing ingredients, but sometimes a recipe will call for THIRDS OF AN OUNCE. My scale doesn't measure in thirds, nor is it easy to divide a recipe in half or quarters or less when the flour is measured in cups! (Have fun with the math when you want to make a half batch of something that calls for 3/4 of a cup of an ingredient!) Baking is more vulnerable to failure due to imprecise measurements so I just don't bother working with the wacky US volume based measurements... convert to metric for the win! No one will pack a cup of brown sugar to exactly the same amount as someone else so if I measure by weight instead of volume I can be sure I've measured accurately EVERY TIME! I'm not quite ready for mL liquid conversions yet, but I DEFINITELY find grams vastly more useful in cooking/baking measurements. mL are written on the same liquid measuring cup, so there's less pressure to adopt mL.

I really like imperial system because it's exotic, a relic of the past, funny because excessively complicated and confusing (as trying to understand a foreign language). I like it as long as it's not in my backyard, only when in holiday in foreign countries. For all day life I use metric system of course, let's be serious.

As long as plywood in Canada is still 4 x 8 feet and framing lumber is still 38 x 89 mm, (or 1.5 x 3.5 inches), I'm gonna keep building my houses in barleycorns.

These video's are to make Jason's drinking a tax right off?

This reminds me of an episode of Horrible histories, where Elizabeth 1 got fed up after asking one of the people she was travelling with how far it was to the next town. And they all asked in which feet and in which miles, which she literally told them to pick a number between 1 and 10 and that would be the new standard mile.

All of this was very cleverly invented so that our children would need to learn mathematics.

As a fully matured American for over two decades, I endorse this message.

oh my god, SO GOOD to hear all the older ones

How about... The Guy who decides countries? The Guy who decides social rules and norms? The Guy who decides the school systems? The Guy who decides the human body? The Guy who decides diseases?

Inch is a pouse in French which is a thumb. That's the length.

“carry the 1…”😂 I’m South African, we use the metric system. My brain was short circuiting trying to follow an American recipe (was in the US at the time) with imperial measurements. I needed a drink after all of that mental gymnastics.

Hahahaha!!!! I always wondered how the hell the imperial system came together. I remember when we learned about the metric system in school and I was like thats so easy. I asked my teacher why we don’t use that system. Lol she just rolled her eyes and shook her head while she said I don’t know

I learnt more here than I did at school 🏫👨‍⚕️😧 📏 LOL 😝

I was waiting for the "grab me a pint" at the end there... 😅

I read an article about the diameter of space shuttle's booster. The author went through some interesting mental gymnastics to prove how genius the imperial system is. He ended up literally by the horse butt.

Jason, Jason, Jason. Love it

I love how an inch is now officially defined in mm

If you think that's confusing, try defining a metre: "Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium."

O....M......G...... I'M SO CONFUSED MY HEAD IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE.🤯 OR GET A HEADACHE 😵 LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 but gotta love the "JASON JASON JASON" - "The Guy Who Decides" videos ......... perfect giggles for a Monday thanks mate 👍

Too funny! You lost me at barley corn :P

And this is why the metric system is better.,..all straight forward🇦🇺

I laughed so hard on my way home I don't think I'm allowed to ride the bus anymore 😅

By 11 😂 Now I want to make a measurement system where every step is a different prime number.

Oh yes. Next please weights. And then volumes. And don't forget areas. Ther are a few of those too. How many barns in an acre? I forget.

Before the decimal system was invented it was important that things could be easily divisible without remainders. That's how we ended up with weird numbers like 12 and 1760, they had the most factors compared to other numbers their size.

Apparently, the reason us Yanks don't use the metric system is because a French representative that was bringing the weights of the newly developed metric system got raided by pirates, and the ship, with all of the weights still in it, sunk to the bottom of either the Atlantic or Caribbean (I don't remember which body of water it was off the top of my head).

😅🤣😂 This totally reflects my personal experience of trying to figure out WTF imperial was all about...

I still say a bees-doodle, and a poofteenth are reasonable measurements....

To be honest was already saying it (Jason, Jason, Jason) before the merch came out!

Imperial is easy to use. The key is the chain. Which is 22 yards. The length of a cricket pitch.

It took me way too long to realise you were jimmy giggle

This is gold!! And to think, so many people still use it to this day, and still don't know metric!

Showed my American friend this. She thought it was hilarious

As a (non British) european, I always imagined it exactly like this! 😅👍

Fun fact: The US customary system is based on the metric system. 1 yard = 0.9144 meters

"What kind of stupid country would ever use that" 😂😂😂 Had me rolling

One person measures their rage in inches.

Thank you. You’re just brightened covid lockdown for me. Love it. And very very well done. 😅

If you think that Imperial is bad - you should check out what Europe was using before the French revolution and SI. And by the way - x10 might be easier on the brain, but x12 is far more flexible for the numerate and dates back to Bronze age Babylon.

No mention of the rod (or pole or perch)? Maybe a measure equal to 5 1/2 yards is too strange for even Jason!

Is that merch??? I need it!

And horse sizes are measured in hands, not feet. To my knowledge, they are the only object measured in hands.

This comes to mind when my wife explains her clothing sizes to me.

Good point about the variation of units though, I mean if we were asked how many decimetres from home to the shop it would be straight out easy. Kind of like how many centilitres does my car use per hectometre and how many micrometers equates to the height of my door.