Lets be honest, measuring your freedom in number of guns devided by bald eagles per square hamburger is so much easier for the Americans

Myanmar , Malaria , whatever Congratulations , US citizenship approved!

Imagine becoming independent and still using the British “IMPERIAL” system.

I don't buy the 'too complicated/expensive' to change now. Australia only converted to metric in the 1970s...

Americans have a pretty good understanding of what constitutes 9mm, 5.56mm and 7.62mm.

Me as a child thinking how the america is still alive at 90 degree.

So how long is your car? American: ''About 3 wheelbarrows''

The fact even the news anchor said "...along with Liberia and Malaysia" while Malaysia uses the metric system and the map clearly shows Myanmar

Nothing is as annoying as working with datasets in the mm/dd/yyyy format

That super American guy at the end: "I can't imagine changing" sums it all up.

Yeah, Malasia... Good to know the U.S. is still number 1 in Geography.

Even us medicine uses metric. Just imagine hearing on ER or something, give me 0.405 teaspoons of adrenaline, STAT! (2cc)

Can you imagine them trying to learn something new - half of the population think Europe is a country ...

Swear to god when I grew up in Canada we were essentially taught that the us uses the idiot system because that can’t comprehend the change

Rest of World: “It’s a perfectly sensible idea!” America: “NEVER!”

America has its own system Area: Football field/Manhattan Altitude: Empire state buildings Weight: Elephants Volume: Olympic size swimming pool Intensity: As fck

1: It's Myanmar and not Malaysia 2: Scientists use the Metric system in America also. They had to covert it in their own country on public addresses. 3: Many countries used the Imperial system in the past and decided to change it into metric because Metric made more sense. In countries like India, people (especially old people) still say the old system like feet, cents, acers etc. But in official documents, it's all meter, sqm, sqkm, Hectare etc. Change is gradual and the newer generation is more used to Metric than Imperial.

A similarity regarding metric and imperial: both are incompatible with imperial.

Imagine how stupid it would be to divide a Dollar into 212 Cents, where 32 Cents are worth nothing and 0 Cents are worth negative money.

“It would cost a ton or tonne (metric or Imperial) of money” - Then stop spending trillions on failed wars.

No, they're perfectly fine with being stupid, not different.

2:09 it's not Malaysia, it's Myanmar.

Americans be like: i walked at 6,24 Eagles per burgers to get here

"scientist use the non-metric system and have to convert when working with other" except they don't. they just use the metric system

When you're trying to introduce the US public to something progressive and stumble on geography...

In the 1980's, A&W tried to sell a third pounder burger to rival McDonald's quarter pounder. They sold it for the same price, but nobody wanted to buy it because the majority of people thought they were getting less meat. They did focus groups and found that half the people thought it was smaller. And this is America.

I want to thank the yt Algorithm for recommending this video to me. Now I noticed I'm not the only one roasting the imperial system

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ - Grace Murray Hopper

LoL not Malaysia

"Changing would cost a ton of money," right after talking about how a bungle with the different measuring systems cost NASA a multi-million dollar satellite. That sounds like a tonne of money to me.

"we found something that works" Lady, the imperial system doesn't fucking work

I wonder how many Americans know that the absolute definition of every imperial unit is defined by metric units? An example is one inch is defined exactly as 2.54cm.

Most Americans: "The metric system must be a communist plot"

Reporter : It will cost us a lot of money *Hundreds of millions of dollars lost by NASA because of the imperial system* Seems logical to me

“BuT wE wEnT tO tHe MoOn” yeah, you went to the moon and even after that NASA switched to the metric system because it recognized that it was better.

the fact they call it imperial "system" while its not a system

2:38 No. No they don't. Nor do engineers or Doctors, The pharmaceutical industry or medical industry. Not to mention computer and technology related industries and finance.

She said Malaysia instead of Myanmar lmao

I actually saw an article claiming going metric= “communism” and “taking away our freedoms”. WTF?! As for “costing too much money”: we already use metric in manufacturing because it would actually cost MORE to have two sets of tools and fasteners, one for the US, and one for the export market. That’s why when you go to fix your car, the bolts are usually in mm, not fractions of an inch (a non-metric socket or wrench might fit, but it’s not quite the right size.) Metric is what the world uses, we look backwards using imperial.

We once had a Lieutenant of the US Navy on board our ship in my time in the German Navy as part of a NATO officer exchange program. And it happened that he and I one night sitting in the mess and had a long discussion, because he wanted me to see how the USA is the greatest country in the world. After hours of discussing - besides many more topics - I explained to him the beauty of the metric system. I said that if I just have a folding rule I could make a 10 by 10 by 10 cm box. If I fill that box up with plain simple water I will have 1 liter and that liter would be exactly 1kg in weight. That completly blows his mind and I dared him to do the same in imperial system. The fact that only the three most advanced states in regards to economy, science, education and democracy in the world - Liberia, Myanmar (or was it Malaysia?) and the USA - still use the imperial system should give any American enough stuff to think. I just can not imagine to go through school for 12 years and have to calculate with 12 inches are 1 foot, 3 feet are 1 yard and 1.760 yards are 1 mile. Even the fact that the rest of the world makes fun of the US for using an outdated medieval measurement system should bring them to think. The lost of the mars probe is just one of the best examples for the whole problem. And I can not understand why so much KZfaq videos with scientific topics still tell me things like the Mount Everest is 29.031,7 feet high or that the Oregon Trail was 2.170 miles long or that in the antartic winter temperatures can fall to -85° F and so on. I know they produce their content for a mostly American audience but still. And I simply do not buy that the change would cost more money than it would spare or that the Americans would not adept to the "new" system. Just use both of them side by side for ten years and no one would have a problem with it. On side note in Germany we use the metric system since 1872 and people still use traditional measurement units from time to time in their daylie life. Heck, even our folding rule is named Zollstock which literally translates to inch stick. So just join the rest of the world and march into the future USA.

Love this commentary section.

The imperial system seems si inconvenient. When you are doing some measurements in math or physics that involve conversion of units you use the metrics system of order of magnitude where it scales by 10. If you grow up in the us and decide to go into a career of math you have to learn a system of measurement the rest of the world already uses because your country is lagging behind.

It's interesting how usually Americans don't know 24 hour system, but we know their. 😔I always have convert to 12hours system

The fact you need a riddle to rember how many feet a mile is makes it a stupid system

Malaysia: Wait, what?

"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!" - Grandpa Simpson on "The Simpsons"

Well, America doesn't use non-metric, but only United States of America

Australia was a British colony and used Imperial Mearurements also, but in the 1970’s we converted to Metric, it wasn’t that hard.

Americans just likes to use feet, elbows and fingers to measure things. These "items" are always with them.

I have been making a point to use metric whenever I can. Once you start using it, you quickly get used to it. There are several aspects of it that are much simpler to use than our Imperial system. People are just reluctant to change, simple human nature.

Fun fact: the definition of the imperial system is in Metric "I can't imagine changing" that is why the world has highspeed train system while the US uses the bus

You are already using it. With your money. So understating the metric system would take 10 minutes. Add 20 more to remember basic units (meters, grams, liter, etc...). And you are good to go with a system that will make your life simpler. So, if you are against it, then you are either plain stupid or stubborn. Or both. Choose wisely!

”Non-metric” isn’t a system. E.g. Sweden had its own system before going metric that had absolutely nothing to do with whatever Americans use, and the same goes for practically every country in the world. Even the British imperial and American imperial systems have diverted and are not the same

My God, I hate how much we use the imperial system. Its so illogical. Also, month/day/year instead of day/moth/year.

Canada change no so long ago. It was done gradually starting with simple things like temperature. But I guess even that is beyond the average american understanding

In the end when she said: "if we would change it now it would cost a ton of money" I was like, so the time engineers spend on transferring the numbers back and forth doesn't cost you anything? After all the company pays the engineer for the time he could use more useful. If someone would take those hours and multiply them with the wages for the engineer i bet they are in the millions.

Merica and Grandpa Simpson :"The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."

Celsius are connected to metric system, they are not used in science's calculations, that would be Kelvins.

There's literally a joke that talks about how the imperial system is so stupid even drug dealers in the states jumped to the metric system.

When you realise unit conversions in metric is so much easier lol.

The 15% undecided: "What in tarnation is a celsius?"

Anyone else wondering why the Russian part next to Alaska was shaded in red in the map? Do they use the imperial system?

"We have always done it this way" - the most stupid sentence a human could ever say

An interesting fact about Fahrenheit. To define 100 degrees Fahrenheit, Daniel used a thermometer under the arm of his wife, and whatever it showed there he would define as 100 degrees, and so he did. 0 Degrees is the 3 states of water and 100 the temperates of his wife's armpit. The rest, 32 and 212, are consequences of that. I wish I was joking, I really did.

This reminds me of that episode of King of the Hill where Hank is explaining what a 5K run is to Bobby by calling "500 trips to the refrigerator"

The fact that 64% of people said no shows that American citizens aren't entitled to my respect.

MPH isn't patriotic enough, switch back to confederate flags per assault rifles.

Here’s my french point of view. Almost every country in the world chose the metric system at a time in its history and every people managed to adapt to this change without any drama or economic catastrophe… I will always be fascinated by the hability for american people to feel pride in not being able to do what everyone else manage to do. Proud not to be able to use the metric system. Proud not to be able to regulate weapons. Proud not to be able to have a public healthcare system. No wonder that extra terrestrial always land in the USA for first contact… No one in the Universe is able to understand how such a dysfunctional civilization is possible. Me : suddenly feel the need to listen NOFX.

I think Anders Celsius temperature system is much easier to understand. 0 = water freezing and 100 = water boiling!

2:24 Amercians be like: No we want to have converting problems!

Finnish people: 100 °F: "Ahh why's it so HOT" 100 °C: *Perfect*

lol...im from Malaysia...we dont use at all the weird fahreinheit lol

2021 here and we are still stubborn as a mule.

USA: I can't imagine improving.

When I was in drafting classes I loved using the metric system. It’s so much easier and straight forward.

The beauty of the Imperial system is that its units are defined based on the metric standards. One inch is 2.54 cm, one pound is 0.454 kg. In fact Americans love converting simple decimal units in complicated ones.

I always thought I was the only one who uses metric. Glad to see other people actually use it too. Imperial sucks!

2:28 NO! scientist don't use imperial and then convert if they have to work with non us scientist they use metric and convert only if they need to show the result to the US population

You can't expect a country, where approximately 10% of the population thinks the Earth is flat to even consider changing to metric

Well, why use an easy system based on tens, when you can use feet, yards, barleycorns, hogsheads, rods and interesting measurements like 4&3/8 inch… Americans must love math with all these crazy conversions…

My American friends told me that when he first came to China, every time he had to measure things for somebody, it was like hell to them because they couldn't understand the metric system and neither do the person they were helping with could understand their measurements in imperial system. Soon they got used to it and realized just how much easier it would be to measure in metric system than to utilize the imperial one. When they returned to the US, apparently their family and friends thought that they were being weird for using the metric system instead of the one they widely used in their own country. And no matter how they explained, their family and friends were just too short-sighted to even consider the benefits of using the metric system.

Military uses metric! Hospitals use metric! If you are scientist you are using metric! All the definitions of our medieval measurement systems are in metric:)

I once had a conversation/argument with an American who believed that Greenwich mean time could not be the same as the time in the UK, long story but I just gave up!

2:50 "CourteRy of NASA" It's like you dare the rest of the world to make fun of you...

The metric system is so simple. 1liter = 1000 cm3 = 1 kilogram. 1000 meters = 1km. It's so simple.

Stupidity is part of their culture. They are very patriotic about it.

America, the biggest running joke

My school district is maybe is teaching us both impreal and metric systems. It’s not a requirement but my school aslo how to calculate the metric systems.

"america is one of the few countries not to use the metric system" Well the United States, not the whole continents

Many Americans use the phrase "there are two types of countries, the ones using the metric system, and the ones putting a man on the moon". I have a better quote: "there are two types of Americans, the ones using the imperial system and the ones putting a man on the moon".

America: WE WANT THE BRITS OUT Imperial system: *about to leave Americans: no no… you stay

3:39 "Then they said we are just stubborn!" No ,no, she's got a point!

I can't imagine changing is pretty much symptomatic for the whole US of A. Because why would the best country in the world, with no systemic problems at all, need to change anything? I'm sure there a lot of nice Americans out there but the country as a whole is just a joke.

Officially the USA is on the metric system!. In 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act, which declared metric as the preferred system of the United States, and the U.S. Metric Board was created to implement the conversion.

In England, we use miles and yards for distance (on the roadsigns), feet and inches for personal height, stone (14lb) and pounds for personal weight. However, Fahrenheit is now no longer used here, everyone is familiar with kilometres and km/h if they have driven in Europe; and everyone under 50 is more comfortable with metres than yards. Architects and engineers have worked in mm since the 60s, schoolkids have learnt cm since the 70s.

Dang, I’m American and I 100% agree that we should switch to Metric, cause Imperial is very redundant, but I get the feeling a lot of people in these comments have more issues with the US than just using the Imperial System…

It is really stupid to ask regular people if they want to change to metric. It's like you would ask old people if they want smartphone, they never say they do, but when you give it to them you know they were just stubborn

>"Malaysia" >Spots Myanmar Ok now I see where the real problem with the us is

2:38 that isn't true, most higher up scientists use the metric system

The fact that she said Malaysia when she meant Myanmar and that Myanmar actually does officially use Celsius in their weather forecasts makes it even funnier