It was an international group that met in France that created the metric system.
The British didn’t even begin to adopt the metric system until in the last third of the 20th century or so, and even then thr transition was not immediate.
Or complete
The English measure weights in stone.
Actually we use both. For example, body weight is (traditionally) stone and lbs, but parcel weight is usually kg.
The same is true for length; height in feet, but stuff like room measurements in cm.
I think the only area where we’re actually consistent is traveling distance? All signs and gauges are in Mph rather than Km/h. In fact the only time I can think of someone talking about distance in kilometres, is to do with sports (IE a 5k/10k running event).
Brits should never lecture someone on having a sane measurement system when even Americans are more consistent.
Like say what you want but a pound is a pound whether it’s at the grocery store or on my bathroom scale.
In Canada, which transitioned to metric in the 70s and 80s, people’s height are still measured in feet in casual conversation. Weights for groceries still often have lbs and kgs with them.
Yeah but the 800 hamburgers are including bones, how many legit venison burgers could you make out of a average deer?
To be fair it does help put into perspective how much of an animal (in this case deer) would make up as a burger
I prefer measuring in football field turf rolls though
37 degree commie = 98.6 degrees freedom.
People like you are the reason that they invented the guillotine on the very same occasion.
Shout-out to horses. They’re measured in hands (4 inches) but ONLY up to their shoulder. The neck, head, and ears don’t count towards their height.
French created the metric system.
But isn’t it very British to take everyone else’s shit and claim it as their own?
Very true. It’s also a very French thing too though, to be fair
Only if it’s something really old and they can put it in a museum.
Or words from another language.
But they don’t do that with the metric system.
The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…
Except I don’t hear british people actually say that.
Not when it’s French… spit
American recipes are the worst. Two fingers of milk, a cup of sugar, one box of pre-packed cake mix, a glass of corn syrup…
They’re allergic to actual measurements.
Sugar, cake mix, and corn syrup!? Better add a pinch of salt (to taste) to balance out all that sweetness!
One problem metric solved was that each country had their own value for inch, mile, pound etcetera. This is partially fixed by everyone but the US going to metric. But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans. Similar for inches, feet, and so on.
He jokes on you i only use kilofeet when talking about long distance. Now everyone is confused by saying 318 kft.
But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans.
I find it tedious when someone pretends not to understand a conversation just to make some academic point, don’t you?
The British have a stupid mix of Imperial and metric. We usually measure distance in meters/centimeters but feet and inches are still used fairly regularly especially if you’re measuring the height of a person. Large distances are usually measured in miles unless you’re going for a run in which case you probably use km. Then you go for a drive and measure your speed in miles per hour, and your fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Except you now need to fill up so you go to the petrol station where the prices are listed in pence per litre. Most other liquids are also measured in litres unless you’re buying milk or beer.
Then if you’re weighing things you probably use metric, unless you’re weighing a person or you’re an old person cooking. Temperature is also measured in celcius unless you’re old.
Beer depends on where you get it. Bottle/can? ml. Glass at the pub? Pint.
We even measure the same thing using different standards. The three tyre measurements are taken in mm, mm, and inches.
I put it down to us being smarter than everyone else.
I guess the silver lining for the British is they have more familiarity with both types of measurements than the purests.
Don’t forget to give your weight in stones and a horses height in hands…
And the size of your land in acres/hectares. And a lot of ingredients in cups (which has never been a set amount in the UK since its beginning). And distance sometimes in yards
Don’t forget that distance is somehow different on water, though.
This is useful information that tells you how many hamberders a deer corpse can make
Minus the bones and skin
The ironic thing is that the imperial system comes from Britain. It’s just that US decided to keep it.
The imperial system and the US customary system are different for volume and weight
Also, the metric system is french.
Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.
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So same as soccer
Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
You Malaysian?
nah i just know a good time when i see it. played soccer (as I’m statesian) for ten or so years, but my team started absolutely dominating the local rec league when we’d start and end every practice with 15 minutes of sepak takraw.
Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
This is offensively incorrect.
Deer are closer to 1.75 bicycles tall.
Yeah, most deer are taller than bicycles
Unless it’s a muntjac deer. Then it’s more like 0.4 bicycles.
Maybe they’re as tall as bicycles are long?
One Imperial deer is 1.74832 bicycles. If you’re going to use a retarded system, you must also use retarded significant figures.
It’s 1 3/4 bicycles. Not the weird ass decriminalized number you seem to think it is. We do fractions in daily life not decimals.
I saw a yearling buck eating grass along the driveway yesterday afternoon that had only one antler. I wondered if he was 1/2 a buck or a .50 buck since he had just the one spindly fork horn antler. Will all the does think he’s ugly and not breed with him? Will the other bucks laugh at him and refuse his challenges? He will probably end up in someone’s freezer later this fall anyway, so perhaps my story doesn’t really matter.
But the story isn’t about changing anyone’s views on what is the “best” measuring system to use. It’s about the foolishness of it all. G20/G21 the machines no longer care, why do you?
Did Donald Trump just reply to me? That rambling story intertwining word salad, along with the misreading of DECIMALIZED has me convinced.
Although I’m enjoying the thought of decriminalized numbers now.
OK, more directly.
Worrying about about which measurements systems are best and making fun of them is for fools. Use the units that best fits that task at hand. And shockingly enough, it ain’t always Millimeters, centimeters, kilometers or degrees Celsius. Maybe it’s pounds, feet, miles, or AU’s and Light years.
The US is a metric country. The federal government passed a law in the early 1970’s to make it so. They just didn’t pass a law forcing the change at a set time and date. They decided, for better or worse, to let the change happen organically. And change it has. Go in any grocery store and look at the food on the shelf, it’s all clearly marked in US customary and grams/kilos. I know every pound of butter I buy is 454grams. My whisk(e)y/wine, (choose the spelling you prefer), comes in 750ml bottles. A bottle of soda comes in 2 liter bottles.My FDM printers use 1 kilo spools of filament. We are all looking for that same missing 10mm socket just like the rest of the world. And no one gives a rat’s arse about how many feet are in a mile. Except surveyor’s and civil engineers, a very small and specialized subset.
Did you know there is a error in what the meter actually is? And it’s been there from the very beginning. One of the guys sent to make the original measurements decided that drinking wine in sunny Spain was better than climbing mountains and dealing with bad weather just to measure some silly distance. So he fudged it. The error has been known for quite a while and never corrected. It’s still there even after the switch from using a physical item to define a meter to how far light travels in a set time, (now THERE’S a silly random looking string of numbers). Not very scientific or accurate to ignore the error now is that? I thought the metric system was better than that.
Again for the slow learners, G20/G21 the machines don’t care and no one else should care anymore either.
Hamburgers is probably not the worst measurement for a cow, it removes all conversion.
