That meant the us is not civilized

@@GamingKing-jo9py yes.. that's the point.

@@turdsalami : I'm so glad that GamingKing explained that for us! I never would've figured it out otherwise.

@@turdsalami Except for the fact that the US already adopted the metric system in the 1970s

Jaffa Cakes finally someone who spoke up

That summs up the whole revolution actually... They just didn't want to pay taxes.

@@jacobguillerey4476 >be a colonial american >don't want to pay taxes >revolt >pay more tax for defence against previously allied native tribes

@@jacobguillerey4476 It was more than that. Forcible housing of British soldiers, a lack of Parliamentary representation, and over reaction by Britain to events like the Boston Tea Party led to calls for independence.

@@obligatoryusername7239 True... But I'm just annoyed that it's most often represented as "the right thing to do" when in medias. That's all ^^

the empire strikes back!

lmao

@Rohan like you

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@King Noice!

LOL, I visualized this in my mind and it's hilarious..

Phineas and Ferb. Lol

Liberia and myammar:

We know the metric system, we are taught it in science, since it makes the math easier. Check any food product, the nutrition facts on the back is in Metric.

America and UK...

Well, we use it in science

Fun fact -- the US has already fully embraced the metric system. It's just that it's relegated to subtitles in most areas. If you don't believe me, go drive a sports car with a 5.7 liter V8 engine to buy a 2 liter bottle of Coke and a 1.75 liter bottle of whiskey. And when you get home, play Kerbal Space Program or World of Warships. But do refrain from buying or selling a kilogram of coke. Also, 1 inch is exactly 25.4 millimeters Not roughly 25.4mm, not 25.400000000...001mm, not 25.3999.....mm, but *EXACTLY* 25.4mm . Good for converting lengths, areas, volumes and speeds between US and Metric.

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You mean "Centimeter by Centimeter"

well, acctually 25.3999...=25.4 (exactly). there's a way to prove this, but i do not remember how to prove it.

But they don't even play football.

Sobanya best comment ever! They play American Football, football is a game with a normally round ball and not with something where you think wether the machine producing the "ball" is still ok

Its funny because that's the reason yards are so intuitive to most of us is because of football practice. How many sports are that repetitive and distance centered where everyone that's ever played knows exactly what 10 yards is for the rest of their life lol.

and also empire state building

So true! Hahahahaha

This measurement has to be calculated in the ideal condition of a school

As an Australian, this is actually how we see Americans.

That's about three freedom eagles and a Budweiser

I was told once that the Finnish word for a mile, whatever that word was, translates as "a dog's bark". Meaning that a mile is the distance a dog barking could be heard. Here in Sweden we have "a stone throw", or "ett stenkast", which is a much shorter distance. Not an official measurement, but everyone will understand what you mean.

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Not just precise. Easier. Not to mention the simplicity of working with different magnitudes in metric.

Halving and then halving again and so on is much easier to do. That's why the other systems evolved. They are all powers of two not 10.

@@sharonjuniorchess well no. Sure for doubling or halving it will be useful, but that's it. I've studied numeric calculus (that's how computers make calculations) and powers-of-two system is way more difficult than decimal.

@@LautaroTessi actually there is a good argument for teaching arithmetic to young children using base 2 as they can handle larger numbers much more easily and it has very long and sound history of being used to measure and count things. I teach this approach to young children (primary level) and it improves their number sense.

@@LautaroTessi SI units also provide benefit when you work with multiple dimensions. For example with mass, length, time, energy, and power: Good luck on trying to calculate power in horse power, with length of one thing is in feet, length of another thing in mile, mass in pounds. On the other hand, in SI units: 1 N = 1 kg * 1 m * (1 s)^(-2) 1 J = 1 N * 1 m 1 W = 1 J / (1 s)

A day is 86.4 kiloseconds. No thanks, metric system.

Americans are so happy you still use Imperial time measurements..

Luke Wunderlin ? You also dont say the gas station 316.800.000 thou away, or do you? You should just regard the units you use everyday, and that arent kiloseconds or thou.

@Nidhogg There is actually a metric time with decaseconds, kiloseconds etc.

Luke Wunderlin u can use megaseconds then it would be 8.64 megaseconds per day

ikr it's infuriating. whenever i see a documentary that only uses imperial units i have to use my phone to convert them to metric units so i can understand.

+Allison Koester I think you are getting the wrong point here. Seeing people use imperial units in a science paper or documentary is frustrating largely because the metric system is what people SHOULD use for all science and hardcore math related materials, not just because they are hard to convert for some.

+Allison Koester In other words, just because you have memorized how to roughly convert units (big praises to you by the way. I tried but some units are still way too different) doesn't mean that it isn't wrong and moreover, unprofessional, to use imperial units under these contexts. I do get that the director of a documentary or something like that intended for an American audience might decide to use imperial units because it makes it easier to understand for the audience though.

+Xiran Wang That's like saying english should be spoken when talking about science because that's what everyone uses. As an American, we can't just switch over to the metric system, although you're correct in the matter that all science and math related measurements should be metric, it's not that easy. Especially when no one in America uses the Metric System.

+Kaneki I'm very sorry to inform you that I can't just fuck off because I'm one of your very fellow Americans living in the States. I knew someone would be stupid enough to assume that I live in China just because of my name and be so racist about it, so I didn't state that to give you a slap in the face. Besides, the metric system is the international system of units, even in the states where we don't use it, it is the official measurement for any science related material, so there's nothing wrong with the word "should". Anyone who goes to SCHOOL would understand that. But obviously you don't because you are an uneducated, racist bitch. Oh by the way, I muted you, so there's no need to reply. HAVE A NICE DAY.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

"Whateva, I do what I want!"

@@NesrocksGamingVideos Yes, obviously. But that doesn't change that it's weird, does it. ;-)

they also kept the guns~

If you watched the video, you would have noted that, at the time of American Independence, the French had not spread the Metric system, so it makes perfect sense actually.

Jefferson was also wrong about the French.

wow had to use the f word there but did u really have to ROLF

Fun fact - US does use metric. The US goverment define imperial units using metric (f. eg. the deffinition of inch is "distance equal to 25,4mm")

No, that's not a valid reason

@@Goursome a valid reason for what?

they are metres not meters - you record things using meters.

Dont forget Scoville

@@ianmontgomery7213 I've been writing it wrong for 16 years

@@ianmontgomery7213 both are correct

@@davidyadav2503 No, they're not. The unit is officially defined as "metre" by the BIPM. Similarly for the "litre". And for "deca-".

The full answer actually is, "Go fuck yourself, I know to throw the spaghetti in the pot when it starts boiling." Seriously, unless you're a scientist who needs to heat one cubic centimeter of water one degree centigrade, the argument is moot. Imperial measurements are much more useful in everyday life.

By 'Imperial measurements are more useful in everyday life' I think you mean that's what you are used to. You can make the same argument about Metric if that's what you are familiar with. Metric has the advantage that behind the superficial weights and measurements you can calculate some amazing things because of the way the system has been built.

I'm sorry, but in everyday life, would you say the amount in joules or calories and measure out the fire to exactly boil water? there is no real life application of that (unless you're some extreme scientist). everything else in the metric system is fucking genius compared to the idiotic imperial

James Caldwell the metric system is better simply because it scales the same way our numbering system does: in base ten. (Not even considering the coherence of the system that is supper useful when you cook)

+Meirstein That's cute. For a start - centigrade isn't actually a metric SI unit. Kelvin is. You may convert between them. However, the main point is, at no point have imperial units ever been more useful in everyday life. So you wanna bake. Sure 2 cups of flour seem easier but in reality baking has to be far more precise than, a specific size cup of flour. So I have to have a bunch of randomly sized cups in my kitchen to make american recipes. Why not just use weight? Use grams? I don't have a measuring jug for water? That's fine. 100ml of water is 100g of water . Simple. I can measure water with a scale. Trying to convert american cups in a recipe to weight? Tough. Can't be done half the time. 1 cup of rice will not weigh the same as 1 cup of water. Or flour. 1 cup of bread flour won't even be the same as 1 cup of self-raising flour. Why the ambiguity? Why not just, 250 grams of this flour. Easy. And this makes substitutions simple. Don't have self-raising flour? Measure 240 grams of plain flour, and add 10 grams of baking powder. Or so on. Never in my entire life have I looked at a recipe that has used imperial units and gone, oh, this will be easier. Oh, scooping a perfect level cup of sugar is so much easier than just pouring it into a bowl till the number tells me to stop.

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@@thetoadoftheturf7516 I agree

@@thetoadoftheturf7516 Actually I would say the second one. The first one may sound normal in english but it sounds really weird in my language. It's the same as writing the address, we write : building, street, city... not : street, building, city...

@@thetoadoftheturf7516 no you say 27th of January which is why the day is first

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Pretty much yeah

*cries in actually living in america*

As an American, there's no excuse for our stubbornness and it's leading to the US falling behind in math and the sciences globally.

@Saber Fox This isn't about global leadership, this is about science lmao

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I don’t get it

@@indevious9659 9mm is a type of bullet.

Kurt Jensen lol .47 litres Our cans are usually 250, 355 or 440 ml

He can convert his household, but he can't convert the grocery store nor the breweries.

@*A Google Account In Brazil we have normally 273 ml, 350 ml aaand 473 ml cans of beer. Weird. Where u from?

In Nordic countries it is 330ml, 0.5l and 1.5l, with a sprinkle of other sizes for thing's like energy drinks. The common sizes change quite a bit from area to area, but at least the units stay the same.

I guess we should trust you cus you are an engineer. :o

If someone told that to me I'd assume he's talking about an angle

@@jesusalbertodelorenzosanta9711 like that one joke when Americans say if your cold go to a corner it’s always 90 degrees and when I was younger I’m thinking ??? I also hate how I’m British and we use metric system yet people still say I’m five foot 5 or whatever, I only understand cm and meters. Just say you’re 160 or something, it’s more accurate and we use cm ok our rulers anyway so you should know how to visualise it but you don’t.

95 is armaggedon outside

Hey guys sorry for the scare but that’s around in the 20s for you, like 25? I’m not good at Celsius but I know most of your temperatures stop at the 30s and than after that it’s unlivable

@@jessicao-o165 well yeah but we need to be different so no, we won’t change.

but which great grandma? on your fathers father side fathers mother side, mothers mother side, or mothers father side?

@@Helleuw123 And even if we define that person, her height would still not be stable during her life.

what about the almighty smoot?

Oh my gosh, yesterday I was about to miss the bus and had to sprint the last 150 arms to the stop to get in time.

​@@abstractn7819Next time, try to get to the bus stop 3 thumb-suns earlier

Or football fields per gunshot

Or pizzas per yee-haw

@@endermax195 I'm sure thats schools per gun shots

burgers*

Nukes per world war

But 'henry' is already a unit ( for electromagnetic inductance)😄

Genius but " Henry" is already taken

Henry is already taken, try Henry_69420 instead?

@@mohamedameri360 or XxHenryxX

using my *OUR* name?

*Americans, Liberians, and Myammese.

​@no name You dont make any sense.

@no name A measurement system has to be efficient and quick... What is faster, "converting" 38654 yards into miles, or 38654 meters into kilometers?

It makes sense when you’re taught it

Is 5,280 too big of a number for you to comprehend?

@@TheMjollnir67 38654 meters into kilometers , me as a European: Immediately: 38.654 (00) km..... wow magic. :D ( I can even physically imagine the distance, based on my experience).... it would take 38.654 km/h for me to make this way in an hour. I can immediately calculate even how long it will take me to get to a location that is 38.654 kms away from me by walking.... But with the 38654 yards into miles ... I had to look it up on google, and I was laughing hard on seeing how hard it is to convert... 1 yard = 0.000568181818 miles HAHAHAHAHA lol :D .... 1 miles is 1760 yards (facepalm)

And do you collect stones?

His foot.

Your gallon or my gallon? Your inch or my inch?

And how many pounds as well?

Nido Hime but is it ur right foot or left foot

multiplying in 10s 100s and 1000s is sooo much more easier... shift decimals right or left... add zeroes... and then theres 1760yards, 12 inches :|

I agree that it's only "intuitive" to those who grew up with it. At least the inches/feet/yards part. Once we reach a mile I've forgotten how many feet there are. I won't disagree with metric being superior, however as I don't use it in day to day life I often forget the names for the different units and will commonly read something in put in meters as "oh, roughly # feet." Luckily we have the internet and readily available conversion sources.

+Furthea2 still the advantages of universal measurements are too great to put down in words. I would fully support the US switching to the metric system. This is coming from a US citizen.

3 ft to the yard so 5,280 ft

As you can clearly see all of those are numbers and most include a "1".

Shouldn't it be 2 meters?

Are these people not normal people?

Are we talking a baby croc or a full grown croc? Do Alligators count?

@@jerrardbeasley4247 Uh.. bigger than a regular croc but smaller than a really big alligator.

Works for the 'florida man'

Yeah. Who says conversion isn't happening?

*Litre

@@kuniosaiki - the American spelling is liter the British spelling is litre

This Is My Real Name I know but liter looks like litter spelt wrong, very odd. Practically everyone except Americans spell it as litre, just another thing for them to be special at. (I think my Pseudo passive-aggressiveness was lost on people lmao)

@@kuniosaiki - you should read about Noah Webster and how he changed the spelling of words and why. Just an interesting part of American history. It explains why certain words are spelled so differently. English and "American" English changed because of him.

My first time to England: You lost a stone? Why would i care for you losing a stone? Do you collect stones?

My, you've grown a whole foot! What? I haven't grown any more feet! I have two feet and have grown 0.3048 metres!

I believe things like speed limit signs will never be changed from MPH. I remember reading about a study that said the cost just to change the speed limit signs would bankrupt the country, or something like that.

Sycops lol! You’re talking about the US. They can’t go bankrupt they own the global banks. And btw Canada converted in the 70s and we don’t have any mph signs. It takes time to convert but it must be done at some point

The measurements in the UK which are still defined on the imperial system are ones which don't matter. You only encounter the imperial system when you're travelling, or drinking.

Yep. Myanmar and Liberia are converting to metric. Just isn't adopted as their official system yet.

Brain deficit.

Because, for almost all applications a person can expect to routinely encounter, insisting upon units only in Base 10 is arbitrary and counterproductive to how humans actually use things.

@@8stormy5 well on that basis all measurements are arbitrary to a degree. I'm curious as to the applications you refer to as well.

Because it was developed by scientists!

​@aussiefaradayWhat kind of psycopath keep track of numbers using their fingers? /s I can't really think of a scenario where I personally would need to use my fingers over a piece of paper, phone, or any other number tracking device.

+Khalil Santana I eventually figured out that a quart (1/4 gallon) is about equal to a liter, making a gallon a little less than 4 liters. If you were to convert a gallon to liters, it'd be 3.785, making this conversion suitable for everyday life.

+Jeffy Samuel US can have an idealism just like North Korea and you'd still be proud of that because you're used to worshipping the president. That's beyond retarded.

Jeffy Samuel idk if you're being sarcastic or just stupid lol. i wish it's the first one

if you learn the imperial system first like I did you would know that there is a reason for every part of the measuring system. I personally find fraction really easy and simple. I can see where others would struggle coming off of the back of mm and cm but trust me, it makes sense if you learned it before the metric system, personally I think it's easier but that's just me

Zombie Jesus Lord of Grass I was only ever taught that a foot was around the length as a foot, which I'll admit, is decently intuitive. But, I was never told the reasoning behind any of the other ones. One of my math teachers mentioned an inch being the length of part of a King's foot or something, but that's about it. The number 16, as nice of a number as it is, does not fair well with decimals. I'm assuming the creators of the smidget (I'm going to call it that, because it doesn't have an official name) made it 1/16 of an inch because it made fractions pretty easy, but in a world where we prefer decimals over fractions, it's no longer as intuitive. Personally, I find metric to be much, much more intuitive and logical. Base 10 just works, and it's so easy to create big and small unit words from a base unit. For example, let's say we come up with a new unit to measure, let's say, happiness (not going to happen, but let's say it does), we'll call it a feliz. If I want to represent bigger amounts of feliz, I can represent it with kilofelizes, dekafelizes, megafelizes, or even terrafelizes. If I want to be more precise about my feliz measuring, then I can use decifelizes, millifelizes, or even nanofelizes. It's very intuitive.

Preach!

One of the reasons why lots of American kids are complaining about math.

@@madensmith7014 Honestly, when you grow up with the weirdness, you're just used to it. Most Americans will find it surprising how easily you can do those conversions because the convolutedness is just a fact of life for us. The big reason kids hate math so much now is the ridiculous way it's being taught. 10×10=100 no matter what measurement system you use, but my kids can't do double digit equations without drawing boxes because they aren't *allowed* to do it any other way at school. They aren't made to memorize basic math tables so they just know them.

I guess? But also, most people aren’t trying to figure out how many ounces are in 1.3 tons. In fact, that information is completely irrelevant. Kids in the US learn the metric system in science classes and we use the metric system when doing anything stem related. We use our system when navigating everyday things, like driving a certain amount of miles, how many cups of flour this recipe needs, what’s the temperature outside, etc etc. Nobody is thinking “okay so I got a gallon of water but I need 657 ounces so how many more gallons of water do I need??” That’s just not something anybody would ever deal with.... and if they did, the Internet is there for them to utilize and they could get their answer in a couple of seconds.

@poruatokin What you just said is extremely arbitrary. No one how cares how much energy is required to increase the temperature of water which weighs one gram, That is useful in chemistry, but we aren't going to use that in every day life seriously and frankly, no one cares. "How many ounces are in 1.3 tons" Who cares, SERIOUSLY!? Who cares. Ounces and Tons have completely different relations to each other. You wanna measure the weight of something small use ounces, the weight of a car, use tons

America is happy on imperial until it is time for guns.

Tore Bolhoej : :-) In american / imperial units it's equivalent to 1 and 7/16 th of a football field .

Where you got that info from? And please tell me it's not imaginary, because it's sounds just too funny for being false.

Nitro2416 It's 100% historically accurate. They measured speed using the same basic element: The number of Hølpråtts a viking could cover in an hour, when hauling his drunk friend around in a wheelbarrow... looking for a better tavern.

Tore: The precursor of the imperial system !! Only better ... :-)

This is absolute baloney obviously.

We measure large volumes with Olympic size swimming pools for some reason as well.

There is nothing wrong with making comparisons to better help visualize extremely large numbers.

then why use texas or american football field? i believe most people living on this planet doesn't know and doesn't care on how big texas or american football field are! most of us believe in universal metric system! please accept that, americans!

Jim Frans I'm just guessing here, but since the Discovery Channel and Science Channel are both America-based networks, the shows in question that mikedrz was talking about were probably made in America. So they are likely doing measurements and comparisons to cater specifically to their American audience. Texas and football fields are easy comparisons for Americans to visualize. Many American know how long a regulation NFL football field is without the need to look it up (120 yards including the endzones). It is a good, easy thing to use as a comparison. And before anybody says anything: I live in Japan and I'm well aware that content from the Discovery Channel and Science Channel are shown outside of America. Discovery content is fairly popular in Japan. Often the audio is just dubbed into Japanese and the units are all changed into metric. If it isn't dubbed into Japanese, it will be subtitled into Japanese (and will use metric in the subtitles). And sometimes the visuals are changed as well with comparisons that are easier to understand for a Japanese audience. (Maybe use Hokkaido instead of Texas or what have you.)

In Brazil a Texas-sized farm is a medium one. We measure things in Argentinas.

indeed, everyone is pretty much kindly (or not so much) bullying you

Truth be told, you are a North American. (: The rest of the America knows how to use metric system 😂😂

@@vincecomuna I was using it as the demonym for the USA. I would imagine people from other parts of the two continents would use their respective demonyms (e.g. Honduran, Chilean, Bahamian, etc.). And Canadians are North American, but they use the metric system :) I wish our schools either dropped the Imperial system, or at least taught the metric system. But America like do go rogue on a lot of things the world is mostly doing collectively :/

@@reedr7142 Not really, we call ourselves americans as well. The point here is that if you compare the strenght of the voice of ppl who claim to be americans but belong to tiny countries spread across central and south america vs USA, it will always look like you guys are the ones who have to right to claim to be americans. And that's what you see on the media. But we are just as americans as you are. We live on this continent as well, after all.

I wont switch. It was built off the imperial system which makes switching geologically impossible or at least way too much to even be worth the effort and money.

@@deadeyed2454 Other countries used their clusterfuck of measurements but had no problem switching. Last country to switch to metric was Ireland, and it had no problem switching. America attempted to switch in 1975 and if they did, it would be like other countries with no large problems.

Welcome to Britain. We still haven't. As much as people like to say we have.

@@scootergrant8683 Ugh, don't remind me.

Technically speaking, the US did convert. USC units are now based on their metric counterparts, the definition of an inch is officially 25.4 millimeter. And the metric system is used in so many places in the US already, some units have also already made it into consumer goods, especially the liter if I'm not mistaken. But the moment you step into the scientific world in the US, it is metric all the way. And also some industries are making the switch because converting between units is so much easier.

We do.

Levithan Be Gaming Not in NY or CA ... I went through the NY public school system and have worked in the CA public school system

Well, down here in NC, we do. We may not use it anything but science classes, we still learn and use them.

Levithan Be Gaming oh cool

Here in Holland we were taught the Imperial measurement conversions and even the formula for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa. I agree that this needs to come from both sides.

Imperial System: So yeah, there is that thing called football field.

"So how long is a football field" "Oh about (XX XX XX) yards" "How long is 1 yard?" "Oh about (X X X) feet" "How long is 1 foot?" "Oh 12 inches" "How long is 1 inch?" "About your thumb length" *"So basically you want me to measure the football field using my thumb about a few thousand times?"*

@@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 *Y E S*

Not if your thumb is by any chance slightly different from the official size used to measure how long an inch is. You wanna use your thumb to calculate how big something is in metric ? just measure the size of your thumb with a ruler, if it's let's say roughly 2cm wide you can do the measuring based on that. You have an idea of how much a meter is ? measure your leg, depending on your height it will be about it. You will still have the same variations from the imperial system but if you don't care about precision it is still all good. In conclusion, imperial system has a few downsides and is not intuitive at all, especially if we are talking about converting from one unit to another, while the metric system can be used in the same way if needed and is way easier to convert to another unit (i'm saying conversion as in mile to feet, kilometer to meter, not from one system to another).

@@cowboylee9457 how many yards are in 500 inches ?

Your comment made me laugh so hard! Thank you for the good laugh =D

xD Oh... great

I didn't even notice lol :D:D Brilliant!

You made me laugh…. here i give you consideration

Nobody noticed in EU haha, (though they did not have to take out ireland)

That's why no good mathmeticians come from the US? Here's a number for you. #1 country in the world. Deal with it.

No. 1 country in what? In crime? In rapes? In wars?

U didn't even mention guns, homophobic, shitty politics, dumb Christians and many, many more

+ZealousX7 You see it's comments like this that I don't like. Its exactly why people think we're all jerking off to our own country and nationalistic freaks. I love my country, but we are FAR from the #1 country in the world and if you actually think that, you're extremely naive about the world.

+ZealousX7 Jesus Christ you Americans are brain washed. If nothing else that kind of attitude will only encourage you to rest on your laurels.

That only applies to the original meter. Meter was redefined to be the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299.792.458 of a second. This way it's universal measurable.

@@renem.5852 True. But how many people will be able to compute that and understand it? It is so much easier when you work with a decimal system.

The metric units are all good except for Celsius because there are only three degrees between freezing weather and a hot summer day.

@@drabberfrog You are mistaken, you probably never used it. In the Celsius scale water freezes at -1 degrees, and a hot summer day may start at 30 degrees, by no means at 3.

I had the same reaction when I found out they still use 1 cent coins. I was at an airport McDonalds and the cashier asked for $4.76 and I gave her $4.75 and we both just stared at each other blankly for like two minutes until I worked out she was waiting for the extra cent.

Well, it's known governments are greedy and corrupt. If your total was $4.76 today (because of sales tax), and they got rid of pennies, do you think the gov't would VOLUNTEER to "round down" to $4.75, like they should? Of course not! Getting rid of pennies would increase sales tax, because of the games gov'ts love to play.

bcubed72 That's another thing - advertised prices should include all taxes like they do everywhere else in the world.

+bcubed72 In Canada, if the price is .01 or .02, the cashier rounds down. If the price is .03, .04, or .05, the cashier rounds up. And if you pay with debit or credit, you pay to the exact penny. Since most people pay with debit or credit these days, it rarely affects the purchase price at all. So unless you're one of those people who still insists on paying with cash for every purchase, it makes very little difference.

+lancer D, +bcubed72: Actually, the advertised prices around the world should NOT include taxes. That way the people can see how much tax their government is taking from them when it is added on separately. The European countries have an income tax (like we do in the US), a ~20% VAT and some countries have an annual wealth tax (France, above €790,000: 0.55% up to 1.8%). People should know how much is being taken from them. Instead, the government has gotten you used to being taxed at far too high a rate AND you are not questioning them. You are basically arguing for making it easier to collect hidden taxes from you.

Yeah because 147 centimeters is so much more accurate. Hold on let me line the width of my thumbnail up 147 times...

Lebron Traveled this man gets it

1 meter is equals to 3.25 feet

Lebron Traveled 6ft is not 147cm?

Lebron Traveled first of all, you’re wrong it’s not 147 cm..

That is a situation I would imagine happening to the US since its first decades of independence, but strangely, the Americans remain more British than the British themselves as far as units of measure are concerned. 😉

Came here to say this. Road speed and distance still use miles; humans are measured in feet and inches or stone and pounds. Products are all sold in metric with, I believe, only 2 legal exceptions: milk delivered by the milkman and draft drinks at a bar may be sold in pints. (You will also see milk and beer in the supermarket that calls itself a pint, but officially is 568ml [which is the same thing].) Also gotta love the fact way, even with how important we are to the video's thesis, the British Isles are completely missing from the globe images at 1:44 and 4:40!

Try converting the units of measure and using for your own purposes the metric system! And maybe more people will follow you and you will create a revolution and in a few decades the us will use the metric system (Highly improbable)

We do.

Well, the metric system is just another memeplex, so like other memes and memeplexes you can vote by acting just like everyone else. Of course that's exclusively your own vote, so you might want to campaign for the merits of that vote too to.

A lot of people (me and most of the people I know) use the metric system and celsius anyways. It's used in scientific endeavors as well. I've traveled a bit all over the US, and even people who don't use it in everyday life have an alright grasp on the concept. So we aren't completely hopeless, but most can't wait for it to be made official.

+rose g: And what exactly is going to get better if the US switched over completely to the metric system?

Scream in football fields*

"intellectual"

Reminder that the US doesn't use imperial measurements, they use "US Customary Units". This is particularly noticeable when it comes to volumes and large masses (an imperial pint is ~568 ml, a US dry pint is ~551 ml, and a US liquid pint is ~473 ml. An imperial ton is ~1016 kg, a US ton is ~910 kg).

Distance are measured, specially by real American dads, by time. 10 km will be like 4-3 minutes away, depending on traffic and other issues.

​@@eruantien9932 : THANK YOU! *_Nobody_* gets that right. For what it's worth (for the benefit of others reading this), an imperial gallon is 1.2 U.S. gallons, an imperial fluid ounce is 0.961 U.S. fluid ounces*, and an imperial ton is 2240 pounds (1.12 U.S. tons). _________________________ * (Imperial gallons are larger than U.S. gallons, but imperial fluid ounces are slightly smaller, because there are 160 imperial fluid ounces to the imperial gallon, while there are only 128 U.S. fluid ounces to the U.S. gallon.)

@@CaptainDangeax To be fair, a lot of people in the past were that.

a drunk guy with foot feetish

Conversion from cubic inches to liters is 60.4. 302 cubic inches divided by 60.4 = 5.0 liters. Simple yes but If you didn't know it you would have to do a quick calculation.

Twerk generation might find this difficult

The question was to convert cubic inches to *quarts,* using a method that is as simple as cubic centimeters to liters. There isn't one. So why are we still using the English system of measure?

Just multiply or divide it by 12...... base ten isn't inherently better than base 12

Just multiply or divide it by 12...... base ten isn't inherently better than base 12

Now you'll tell me that a superiority starfighter has a wingspan of X meters...

@@mariosebastiani3214 Only when it has aggroed. Otherwise its wingspan would be X + (----- - X)

I understand the second one perfectly though

Is the 2nd one a Star Wars reference?

So you think that 1.6 meters would be the size of a star destroyer? Genius

...And this is exactly why the world needs global units (Metric being the most sensible choice). The accumulated waste of time must be staggering.

​@@fastertove dont worry. We in bangladesh use metric like breathing. We are perfectly at ease with its use.

@@catman4859 Great to hear that, but people are also at ease using Imperial - that doesn't mean, that it shouldn't be seen as a waste of time.

@@fastertove oh i meant that the people in bangladesh can use multiple units(Though metric is most common in large cases like kilometers, tons etc). And yes, metric units are the best suited to be global units.

It’s not that complicated. I foot is 12 inches. I yard is 3 feet. I mike is 1760 yards. No one knows why but we Americans grew up with it and have these things memorized.

It's still overcomplicated and not at all logical. Metric uses powers of 10, and ye olde seems to just flip a coin 89414786 times to decide what random number to pick. Is it better to memorize every single value in a system, or just the principles that it works by and convert on the go, without having to google if you forgot?

Konrod the imperial system uses base 12, which supposedly is superior to base 10 according to math lovers out there.

Barry Spaggot i gotta agree it probably is mathematically superior in that sense, but try teaching 12-es to a kid, or memorizing them. How you gonna imagine it? Ain't got twelve fingers, ain't even got simpler symbols to write it down. It's all about the ease of use, just like arabic vs roman numeration.

Actually it doesn't use the base 12 :/ ok 1 foot is 12 inches But why 3 feet for a yard ? Or 1760 yards for a mile ?

'r you sure about that? Why not from 1.48km away? Or 2.1km? Or 1,52km? Or 6,17km? Or 1.81km? Btw, appreciate your joke😂

@@AnaRxistBoD because 1.61km= 1 mile. Durrrr

@@rj7250a he could have been talking about nautical miles, or talmudic miles, or London mile, or (statute) mile, or geographic mile or alte Landmeile or any of the tens of different miles that exist and have existed over time

@@joaomelogago110 the guy was saying " 1.61km" which is 1 Us mile. And this is the most used mile.

@@rj7250a you call it the US mile when it was decided in Parliament in the UK to make the mile that length

Same ridiculous mess in British Columbia. As somebody not from North America, I find this chaos frustrating beyond words :')

In my area, bridge clearance heights on highways are measured in metres, yet local businesses measure theirs in feet.

We changed, in Australia. first to decimal currency in 1966. Then came the change from avoirdupois (Lbs and Oz) and fluid measure from Imperial gallons to litres and finally the linear measurement from yards to metres and area measures from acres to hectares. This was done over a period of, I think, no more than fifteen years and it went smoothly. The biggest confusion, to me, was the change from fahrenheit to celsius temperature measurement. You become "bi-lingual' in the way you think and speak; you can translate the two systems in your mind. To chnge the whole country seems daunting,but it isn't and within a short time it becomes natural

You know what they say about the metric system. Give them 2.54cm, and they'll take 1.6km.

+Robert King I remember learning imperial in first term in 4th class, and then the next term, Australia went metric, so I had to relearn weights & measures all over, so I get the 'bi-lingual' bit. I swap in and out every day almost effortlessly from one to another. I think I subconsciously use imperial if I am talking to people older than me, or Americans, and metric for everyone else.

Debi Taylor wow so cool

Nekogami-Crystal more like inch by 2.2 centimeters :D

This is not a TED talk.

I wouldn’t call it sad

The title should be "Why the Imperial System doesn't matter''

It's rife with inaccuracies though. The metric system is extremely arbitrary through most of it's units and the unit that was most in need of reform, time, never got fixed. We could have had 10 or 20 hour days with 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. We could have had the even months have 30 days and the odd ones, except November with 31 days and put the leap year day at the end of November. But, that never happened. The rest of the measures are incredibly arbitrary, why 10 000 000 meters to the North Pole? They could have made it any number they liked, 30 000 000 would have given us a meter that's actually convenient, instead of the poor man's yard equivalent. Similarly, Celsius is really bad, it's only valid at sea level under specific conditions. It places the start and end points in weird places where they may not really apply to the location that you're at. Meanwhile, the KG was based off of a physical artifact that had a variable mass. It's not much in terms of variation, but enough to be a problem. The Imperial measures aren't perfect, but once you learn the conversion from the lengths of your personal body to the official ones, it's very easy to estimate things without a measuring device at all. And because temperature is roughly based upon body temperature, it's far more natural to estimate Fahrenheit temperatures than Celsius ones. People get brainwashed into thinking that metric is logical, but from an objective stand point, it isn't. It's incredibly arbitrary and makes mental math really hard. Probably the best example is all the people claiming that metric measures are better, but they don't even understand how to work with Imperial measures. Sure, there's a bit of investment, but there are so many factors that working with it without a calculator in the real world is a treat.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade So you don't use seconds in murrica?

steve b Ikr haha

any real conversion is going to require a calculator anyway. how often to you convert within units?

erowidoz with metric you dont need a calculator.

you only move the comma. For example 98733,4 m is equal 98,7334 km and 987334 cm (I know those are some wierd numbers but you have to sometimes work with those ) and now try doing it with your units on physics lesons. And it makes buing and laa that stuff way easier. The same comes for volume.

Vanderpsen I meant to say any real calculation is going to require a calculator.( e.g. how many amps is 12 volts across 447 ohms?) The systems are a scale, whether metric or standard, it's completely arbitrary and doesn't matter one bit.

Agreed, but i wont if i get called rotten crumpets, and spoiled maple syrup! I'm still glad my school converted to metric.

Tea and crumpets, anyone? No

I’ll stick to my boi English,he’s getting lonely.

Just use it and see the confused faces of your equals

Ok will y'all fuck off with that? At least we're consistent. There are tons of countries that write the date differently, and some countries that regularly use multiple different ones which can cause confusion. Stop acting like the US is the only one with a different system.

+JazzyNym But it's the "most important/powerful nation in the world'.

+JazzyNym But it's the "most important/powerful nation in the world'.

Yosyp Barring whether that statement is true or not, what does that matter?

I know, they just love making life impossible for everyone

We've officially adopted the metric system, both measurements are taught in schools across the country, we just prefer one over another during some situations, or use both to avoid confusion, just fyi

+Brad T no it's ridiculous just like your pennies, please stop it's a huge problem for all of us outside

Xiao'sChannel​ Yeah you complaing about it isn't going to help, but I agree that pennies are a problem, but I don't know how that's hurting you .

+Brad T they both stayed because people's attachment to them rather than practicality, and longer they stay, more suffering

Didn't you get photoshop trolled?

Man, it sounds so illogical... Like you stayed in the transition. BTW, the bake "system" of cups and stuff is widely used everywhere. Buuut, in bakery you have to be very exact, so many use a regulated vase or a balance for cooking.

@@LautaroTessi so you're saying we don't make bread? We don't bake cookies or any other baked goods? Lmfao! Look, guy, it's fun to joke around about the measuring systems but to honestly believe that people can't bake unless they use metric is so fundamentally flawed. How exactly did the sumerians bake bread 8000 years ago? You're hilarious.

@@-Subtle- I think you misunderstood what I said. Clearly what I said was another thing.

there is none.

It's cultural mainly. Imperial was developed.in the UK, and it is still used there along with metric to some extent, as a measurement that used divisions of the fingers and the hand as some of the basic units. This was done so you don't need a ruler and could measure by hand.

except that each hand has different size.

+Fearofthemonster Everyone knows that, but you can estimate using only your hand. On average about half of your thumb should be inch, sometimes more sometimes less. This works for when you don't need measurement s to be exact. So basically for normal everyday life. Metric ia great for when the measurements do need to be exact like in science and building. America actually does use both metric and imperial btw, we just use imperial for everyday life.

But I do the same with the metric system. I know my thumb is 2.5cm wide, my forearm is about 50cm, my step is about 1m etc

He's American, they talk like they are alone in the universe!

Metric is already widely accepted in the US.

Considering we're the only country that's actually been to another stellar object, it's interesting you'd say "in the universe."

And you are the only country that used nuclear weapons!

If we hadn't bit the bullet and used those horrible things, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been lost. So... you're welcome.

Metric Is already taught in school, its just only taught for certain things, as metric is used by usa in engineering and science for most part as to avoid conversion problems with allies. Imperial won't be removed it will just be incorporated into metric system for usa, and have both taught for most part at least for numerous years to come. I mean go to a store we already have weird ways of measuring things some in liters and some in gallons and other measurements.

we have 24hr clocks. We call it "military time" here since its most common in the military. but 12 hour clocks arent uncommon throughout the world either. A lot of places have both.

Agreed except the international standard date format is yyyy-mm-dd following ISO 8601 from the international organization for standardization

Hawaii is trying to pass a bill that would make metric official. Hopefully they'd succeed.

@@SimplyMartin I wouldnt be surprised if it did given hawaii does a lot of international trade. So being more accustomed to metric would help a lot.

@@thatguy7802 but it still makes sense. why is it mm-dd-yyyy. why do you start at month. it just is retarted

@Sir AZ i see what you did there

When I'm measuring things that need to have a precise result, I use metric, but when I guesstimate how much something weighs or how tall it is, without needing an exact result, I use imperial

@Kîng shot yes. Anything wrong with that word?

Jayden Bell This comment has no point.

Kîng shot Guesstimate is a word that is used commonly where I live.

Irl too it makes sense, since a feet is just an aproximation anyways because foot arent the same exact size, you can litteraly just take 6 feet which is about 180cm and divide by 6, aka about 30 cm. OR if you dont want to do math well good luck because its simple math its the whole point haha, but you can just mesure something and keep it as an aproximation in your mind to use it to mesure stuff, its unreliable yes, but in the end a feet, a step, a whatever the imperial can bring haha, is unreliable too due to differing size with differant people

1.2 US gals in 1 imperial.

How is volume a square anything. The density of water at optimal liquid density is 1g/ml. Btw 1ml = 1 CUBIC centimeter, not 10 square centimeters. Linear meters are lines, therefore meters, square meters are square, there are centares (a square dekameter is an are) cubic meter are in cubes, therefore are kiloliters. I'm am American, but I am "unit-systematically bilingual". Even construction workers in the US use non standard tape measures to more accurately read 1/64 inch units. If they weren't in construction, they'd use millimeters to measure who is away in mini golf (in one instance the 2 balls were tied to the nearest mm at over 80 cm distance away. I came up with a coin flip rule on the spot in that case.)

@@joelongo450 the name was changed to Myanmar

@@joelongo450 then what are you even correcting him/her for?

@@joelongo450 The official name is Myanmar, so I fail to see how Burma is the more "proper" version? Is it like with the Japanese who have a different name for their own country?

@@TheOggy1111 almost every country has a different name for their country in their native tongue, with exception of English speaking countries.

@@zoravar.k7904 Yeah, I know that. I wasn't sure about Myanmar, that's all.

but most of them are still using size of texas and american's football field as comparisons...i don't understand what's so great about texas?

@@jimfrans2547 Texas is horrible, honestly, but as an American I had to study our national geography in school. I know the proportion of Texas compared to the rest of the country. If you grew up in Europe, I imagine saying something was the size of Germany vs. the size of England would make similar sense.

It’s nice of them to at least acknowledge they have international viewers.

Ye yeller bellies best take that back about good ole Texas

purpleblake science channels should use only the metric system, so every non metric viewer is forced to learn it, if you show them the old system they won't change.

Here in Canada, Everyone I know measures height in feet and inches and weight in pounds. Construction materials and various household goods are also measured in Imperial.

RightWingRising _ but it’s Canada

Another american: can you tell me your height in feet and inches?

Karno Setyotomo your feet or my feet

@@nsa_2876 true, even in QC... But apart someone's height, everything is in the normal system. Thanks god our roads are not in miles, would be so confusing...

of course they do the one time they didnt they crashed an orbiter

The astronauts left footprints on the moon not meter prints

@@TimpossibleOne fair enough 😂😂

@@TimpossibleOne the greatest comeback since jesus

Bing Yi Lee I think there was a bother company using the other units and nasa used metric and they got confused and stuff

same

i think you don't need to finish your engineering study to find metric system more convinient and usufull.. You just need a brain and have to use it everyday...

No, it takes 4.184 joules to increase a GRAM of water by one degree.

i think you meean 1 "calorie" increase water at 14°C to 15 at constant atmosphere et 1 calorie = 4.18 joules

That, in my opinion, is the only valid reason for the metric system to be used over the imperial. The other argument often brought forth, that the metric is better defined is just wrong. Since the imperial is defined by metric units, and thus also by constants of nature

I don't think calorie is a metric unit though

Imperial measures are also sometimes linked, e.g. 1 fl.oz. of water weighs 1 oz... or at least it does here. That's another big advantage (that was touched on in the video) - 1 liter is 1 liter whether you're in Cambridge, England; Cambridge, MA; or Cambridge, New Zealand. 1 pint is 20 fl.oz. in England, but only 16 fl.oz. in the USA (although the fl.oz. is slightly larger there, so they lose the 1 oz. water weighs 1 oz. because they use the same dry ounce that we do). All this also reminds me of my favourite trick question. "Which is heavier, one ounce of steel or one ounce of gold?" It's the gold, because precious metals are typically weighed in troy ounces, which are slightly larger than averdupois ounces (= American customary ounces).

Liberia and Burma