Being British I use some weird combo of both metric and imperial. I know my height in feet and inches and my weight in kilograms

Talk to drug dealers they know the conversions from gram and kilogram to ounces and pounds better than anybody here

I agree with the need for us (in the U.S.) to go metric, but PLEASE, PLEASE STOP CALLING US STUPID! It's no wonder nations can't seem to get along if this type of pettiness is readily practiced by others.

Why is it stupid? It works for us. Why does it bother you? Does affect your life so much that it matters?

Don't forget the banana scale

I heard the americans going over to the metric system... Inch by inch

Unless you're sorting any kind of data....and then it's absolutely useless. Calendrer is divided into months (that's why it's at the top of the page) then, you have the days of the month, all of it grouped together by year. Have any type of files, sales, receipts, appointments, orders, shipments, all of it organized into 12 files, grouped by MONTH. At the end of the year, those 12 files are grouped by YEAR. It's about organization. Fully on board about metric though. Anyone who's ever tried to bake or build anything with any consistency will be hard pressed to argue against metric.

The people who need metric, know metric

Admittedly, in the UK, both are used, to a certain degree. Not on most food labels, though. It can also depend on the (older) age of a person. We still use Stones and Pounds (as a choice between that and g/kg) on weighing scales, and many use Feet and Inches re: height, as well as inches still used in bras (and on numerous clothes) sizes. I suppose it will eventually fade out completely. BTW, was I downvoted for saying 'Stones'? Since when do facts get downvoted??

So, 100 second in a minute. 100 minutes in an hour. 10 hours per day. And is the current month Frimaire or Germinal?

The Americans also use meters, only they first work it to a foot standard. The official definition of a foot in the US is in meters (0,3048 meters).

I'm American. The Imperial (I know it as "traditional ") system of weights and measures are no longer defined by their own standards in the Bureau of Weights and Measures. They are defined by their metric equivalents. There is no reason to mess with success. The conversion promised in 1976 died on the vine and there is no incentive to enforce global standardization just for the sake of a foreign bureaucracy.

The older generation is still trying to cling to the revolution. If Europe wants us to, it must be bad.

Nothing imperial about dates. I’m American and use the mm/did/yyyy format. But when I lived overseas, I used the Dd/mm/yyyy format. For me personally, mm/did/yyyy is comfortable as I have spent the majority of my life stateside. However, outside of critical concerns (think Y2K, if you’re old enough), what does it matter? There are plenty of people out there who don’t use the Gregorian calendar, so who’s right?

Liberia and Burma are still on the English system

I do agree…completely!

I watch so many people from different countries and read so many fanfics about them that I'm actually getting really used to the metric system. Football fields are still a really good way to make me understand long distances though. Which I find funny since I don't even like football (rugby 🏉, not soccer)

We don't really care about the rest of the world. Only our government does. They like to send our tax money everywhere but here.

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This is a largely pointless argument, but boredom prevails. I wholly agree with the metric system and the logic behind it despite being raised with the imperial. However, I do disagree with the measurement of temperature, only in the case of weather. The logic behind the measurement makes sense, boiling/freezing point of water, though with weather, fahrenheit is much more practical for temperature given the difference 10°F makes to how people experience weather. 81°F = 27.222°C, 91°F = 32.778°C. The low end is often considered comfortable, but the high end frequently is not. In this case, the round numbers as opposed to repeating decimals is a more practical measurement. With 90°F = 32.222°C, that 1°F of change becomes impractical in terms of people relating to how it feels outside, despite the atmosphere and human body being mostly comprised of water.

Well, it would be really hard to convert because that means we would have to convert all of our regulations that associate either measurements, and other things. Ergo, it would be too much of a hassle to switch to the metric system.

Sectors of the US use metric, but most, not so much.

12ths put a man on the moon. 12ths also won its own independence and two world wars

My hot take: we should use Metric to talk about what things are and imperialism for how things feel. Ppl are so caught up on the fact that imperial is mathematically bs that they forget it communicates intuition better. Like in F, 0 is rlly cold, 100 is rlly hot, celcius can't do that. Metric is better for communicating things objectively, and imperial is better for communicating things subjectively

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It's completely backwards! YYYY-MM-DD is the way to go

UK is on Imperial too. The more I see about the US the more it feels like they never got fully independent....😬

Yeah. It's just the US, Myanmar and Liberia using the imperial system now. It's f*****g embarrassing.

Not just the US, also those great powerhouses Liberia and Myanmar.

I'm not even in imperial for size measurements. I like comparisons to everyday objects because I have a hard time with size estimates

It's not stupid. It's ornery and cranky. If everyone would quit climbing up our backside about it, we might change.

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Well all the other nations don't have freedom of speech so we really dgaf about their backward thinking. Meters and kilometers have their use but the rest is extremely subjective.

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Metric was invented by micro managing commies. Most Americans are highly resistant to being micro managed. The US measuring is much less confusing.

Ha! Excel and its obsession with dates is so annoying.

I like it. Sounds like a story opening... "it was the fourth of October, year 2023"....

For some bizarre reason, cars dimensions are always reported in inches in the US. I have no idea how long "186 inches" is, so I always have to convert to feet. Everywhere else seems to report them in mm, which is even less logical.