Why doesn't metric make sense?

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

I use US Customary units but Metric makes perfect sense, not sure what you are talking about. Most people with an IQ above 95 can use both.

Oh, it's perfectly usable, but I don't understand why there's only one base unit per unit of measure and rely in prefixes rather than common names. Centimeters, meters, and kilometers aren't really different units, they're all really just the same unit (meters). You're never technically convert between units because they didn't don't have any different base units to represent length other than meters. I'm probably being pedantic, but they need to call them something else for it to be an actual conversion. I think weight is the only thing in metric that does this, and that's grams and metric tons.

Bullet point every way and tell why it's better.

• It's very human centric (ex: the precise proportion of inch/foot/yard/mile have evolved over thousands of years, Fahrenheit better reflects the enviromental temperature range of Earth)
• Adding on above, it is flexible enough to allow specialized domain specific base units like knots, acres, furlongs, etc.
• Fractions are better than decimals—they both contain more information and they are easier to say. Did I walk 1/2 a mile or 1/3 a mile? The decimal version would be did I walk 0.5 miles or 0.33 miles. (fractions also prevent unnecessary conversion, like in this instance)
• The Earth is spherical, and this causes so much headaches with the metric system they use nautical miles in SI. US Customary is a clear win here.
• Metric, despite the insistence of its advocates, is arbitrary and not based on science. The basis definitions of things are revised to justify their present existence rather than to (ex: water in Nevada does not boil at 100°C, A meter was redefined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second in 2019)
• It has cool names for all its units rather than relying on prefixes. This makes the system more approachable because you don't sound like you're teaching a math class when you're talking.

 

[Shig O'nella]

... people with an IQ above 95 can use both.

Close the thread. Answer found.

Nice work, team.

 

[Preacher ✝]

The Europeans have always gone about marketing metric the wrong way for us Americans to get on board.

They use an elitist approach, talking about how they think metric is better and why, which is off putting.

Instead they should focus on the real positives of the metric system like how much better it sounds to say "I have a 20cm dick" instead of listing it in inches.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

"The metric system" is very precious to people who rarely (or poorly) physically or verbally interact with the world.

Customary units evolved for purpose. Metricfags are the young-earth creationists of measurement.

Exception: A real nigga might insist on Kelvin, but never on celsius.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

At least with the metric system, it's easy to visualize distances and other quantities. Like if a meter is shrunk to a milimeter, a person would be ant-sized and a kilometer is a meter. Also, different measurements of the metric system can relate to each other, like 1 gram to 1 cc to 1 milliliter of water. Yet, on the downside, it is a globalist system and it's more or less replaced a myriad of older measuring systems around the world. Like the 尺 (shaku) of Japan, or the Wegstunde of Germany. That's all metric now.

this is mainly meant to be a shitpost

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit to measure atmospheric temperature is retarded.

 

[monk]

Fractions are better than decimals—they both contain more information and they are easier to say. Did I walk 1/2 a mile or 1/3 a mile? The decimal version would be did I walk 0.5 miles or 0.33 miles. (fractions also prevent unnecessary conversion, like in this instance)

Alright son, now pass me the socket the next size up from 5/16 cause this one is just slightly too small. The sockets are all laying in the bottom of the toolbox. Be quick cause my hand is starting to hurt from holding up the exhaust.

Using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit to measure atmospheric temperature is retarded.

Water freezes at 0, boils at 100. In fahrenheit it freezes at 32 and boils at idk what.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Alright son, now pass me the socket the next size up from 5/16 cause this one is just slightly too small. The sockets are all laying in the bottom of the toolbox. Be quick cause my hand is starting to hurt from holding up the exhaust.


Water freezes at 0, boils at 100. In fahrenheit it freezes at 32 and boils at idk what.

Celsius:
0 degrees (very cold)
100 degrees (death)

Fahrenheit:
0 degree (very cold)
100 degrees (very hot)

It is simply more practical when speaking about the weather to use Fahrenheit on account of it having a much bigger range where most readings (usually) conveniently fall between 0 and 100 degrees. You only really have 40 numbers maximim to work with in Celsius. It's perfect for measuring water temperature, alright.

 

[monk]

Celsius:
0 degrees (very cold)
100 degrees (death)

Fahrenheit:
0 degree (very cold)
100 degrees (very hot)

It is simply more practical when speaking about the weather to use Fahrenheit on account of it having a much bigger range where most readings (usually) conveniently fall between 0 and 100 degrees. You only really have 40 numbers maximim to work with in Celsius. It's perfect for measuring water temperature, alright.

Nobody but limp wristed pussies really cares about a 0.5 degree celsius difference in temperature. I maybe notice a 2 degree C difference at most.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Nobody but limp wristed pussies really cares about a 0.5 degree celsius difference in temperature. I maybe notice a 2 degree C difference at most.

You uneducated dog, keep talking to me like that and by Allah I will hit you with my shoe

 

[Jacknife]

degrees for convenience
rads for ego (because writing down values as multiples of pi makes you look big brain gigasmart to normies who can't math)

If you talk about any shape that you can see you always use degrees.

Rads are much easier to calculate with though

 

[Fat Camp Intern]

I refuse to use Metric not because it's mathematically unsound... but because I'm not a fag

Seriously though, Metric has one good use and that is calculating volume of water. A cubic centimeter is one milliliter. A cubic decimeter (10 times the length of a cm) is 1000x that amount or one liter (because 10, when cubed, is 1000). A cubic meter is 1000x that amount or one kiloliter. And since we know 4 liters is roughly a gallon, we can quickly defaggify such a quantity into gallons. A cubic meter is 250 gallons.

Really useful for calculating total volume from rainfall for, say, a rooftop water catchment system. Find out square footage of the roof and inches of rain fallen. Quickly faggify to get a volume. Defaggify into an amount that makes sense. Voila!

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

I'm sorry to say this to the Amerimutts, but the time will come for you to eat ze b- I mean, use the metric system eventually.
It's gonna happen in about 50 years. I've said this about a thousand times but the amount of money lost, wasted time, and lives killed by converting metric and the imperial system is frankly earth shittening.

-327$ million lost from Lockheed Martin mutts using imperial system for baby faggots when the Mars Climate Orbiter was adjusted for NASA's preference for MBC (Metric Big Cock)

-Koreans were flying their MD planes when they misheard dirty mutt feet (disgusting) instead of Metric God-King meters and crashed the fuck out

-You, right now, wasting your time not submitting to the One World Government and giving your C&B (Cock and balls) to the metric system

 

[Montalbane]

The inability to use both system should classify you as a spiritual nigger.
Also the main issues in the interactions between metric and imperial arise from the utter retardation of engineers and scientists who refuse to write down what they measured and in what unit.
God knows I have a briefcase full of projects where a nigger brained vantablack engineer spent three days in autocad to name and draw every shitty little tree close to a substation but forgot all the measurements for the electrical cabins.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

When I become world emperor I will force the world to use the poundal system.

You will measure things in SLUGS and you will like it.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Water freezes at 0, boils at 100

You are on the moon, and want to use water to turn the regolith into concrete to build things. Can you do it? No, because even though it's 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the water immediately boils. This is easy to fix in Fahrenheit, all you have to do calculate what the boiling point of water is on the moon based on its pressure. In Celsius, you either need so say wave you hand for the sake of universal consistency of the system by saying water boils at below 0 degrees or update the scale to maintain that everything revolves around water boiling so that inhospitable cold is now 100°.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Amerimutts, but shittening baby faggots MBC (Metric Big Cock) dirty mutt feet (disgusting) submitting to the One World Government and giving your C&B (Cock and balls)

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[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

You are on the moon, and want to use water to turn the regolith into concrete to build things.

Celsius doesn't account for that because only Americans were on the Moon.

 

[Steel Billet]

imperial just makes perfect sense to me while metric looks like a weird mess.

>makes perfect sense is when uhh twelve inches in a foot and uhh how many feet in a yard? How many feet in a mile? Idunno man, but muh units iz bettah!
>metric looks like a weird mess because... uhhh... I can't multiply and divide by 10 or something along those greaselines

To remind every amerimutt of the metric superiority, the inch itself is based on the cemtimeter. And, when the smartest of amerimutts, the machinists, wanted more precision with their measurements, what did they do? That's right, they divided the inch by 1000! Not by 428, 563, no, by a multiple of TEN because TEN is easy to work with.

 

[Fat Camp Intern]

To remind every amerimutt of the metric superiority, the inch itself is based on the cemtimeter.

You might want to learn how to spell "centi" before representing the metric system, eurofaggot.