Why not kilometers?

[Anonymous]

They tried to switch in the 70s and people lost their minds. I assume if they tried it today people would freak out.

The UK does use both, so if you're driving it's km but then when we're walking around we sometimes talk in miles. Weights include kg but also stone but they stick with Celsius for temperature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a vent: As a parent that just had to help my kid calculate distance (inches, yards, miles), WTF haven't we adopted the metric system?!

Why? Namely because of nitwits like this: “They’re not using gallons and miles in North Korea. They’re using the metric system—so are Iran and China. I can’t imagine why we’d want any of that in our country,” Tucker Carlson said in an interview. - WSJ

Same thing with all measurements (volume or capacity). Base 10 is just easier to calculate.

The Metric System was created for lower I.Q. lay-people to use.

Many kids and adults these days struggle to even learn how to use the Metric System, so it won't matter any even if we changed everything from Imperial to Metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a vent: As a parent that just had to help my kid calculate distance (inches, yards, miles), WTF haven't we adopted the metric system?!

Why? Namely because of nitwits like this: “They’re not using gallons and miles in North Korea. They’re using the metric system—so are Iran and China. I can’t imagine why we’d want any of that in our country,” Tucker Carlson said in an interview. - WSJ

Same thing with all measurements (volume or capacity). Base 10 is just easier to calculate.

The Metric System was created for lower I.Q. lay-people to use.

Many kids and adults these days struggle to even learn how to use the Metric System, so it won't matter any even if we changed everything from Imperial to Metric.

So kids and adults these days who use the Imperial system are too stupid to use a system created for lower IQ people?

How does that even make sense?

[Anonymous]

1. Cost of conversion is high.
2. At any point in time, more US people are comfortable with imperial measurements than with metric.

I am a scientist and the MD/DDS always comments about it when I answer their questions with “250 milliliters” or “163 centimeters”.

[Anonymous]

How many times has nasa lost a spacecraft because one team used metric and another used imperial?

[Anonymous]

Ever play a golf course with distances marked in meters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a vent: As a parent that just had to help my kid calculate distance (inches, yards, miles), WTF haven't we adopted the metric system?!

Why? Namely because of nitwits like this: “They’re not using gallons and miles in North Korea. They’re using the metric system—so are Iran and China. I can’t imagine why we’d want any of that in our country,” Tucker Carlson said in an interview. - WSJ

Same thing with all measurements (volume or capacity). Base 10 is just easier to calculate.

The Metric System was created for lower I.Q. lay-people to use.

Many kids and adults these days struggle to even learn how to use the Metric System, so it won't matter any even if we changed everything from Imperial to Metric.

So kids and adults these days who use the Imperial system are too stupid to use a system created for lower IQ people?

How does that even make sense?

For people who are stupid enough like that PP, it makes perfect sense

[Anonymous]

Why is boat speed still calculated in knots and distance in nautical miles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a vent: As a parent that just had to help my kid calculate distance (inches, yards, miles), WTF haven't we adopted the metric system?!

Why? Namely because of nitwits like this: “They’re not using gallons and miles in North Korea. They’re using the metric system—so are Iran and China. I can’t imagine why we’d want any of that in our country,” Tucker Carlson said in an interview. - WSJ

Same thing with all measurements (volume or capacity). Base 10 is just easier to calculate.

The Metric System was created for lower I.Q. lay-people to use.

Many kids and adults these days struggle to even learn how to use the Metric System, so it won't matter any even if we changed everything from Imperial to Metric.

So kids and adults these days who use the Imperial system are too stupid to use a system created for lower IQ people?

How does that even make sense?

They aren't. The "stupidity" is thinking as you do, that ignorance is the reason for resistance. You simply don't "get it".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Cost of conversion is high.
2. At any point in time, more US people are comfortable with imperial measurements than with metric.

I am a scientist and the MD/DDS always comments about it when I answer their questions with “250 milliliters” or “163 centimeters”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is boat speed still calculated in knots and distance in nautical miles?

Same reason we call it “the head” and “the galley” instead “the bathroom” and “the kitchen” - to remind you non-boaters that you’re an inferior life form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is boat speed still calculated in knots and distance in nautical miles?

Same reason we call it “the head” and “the galley” instead “the bathroom” and “the kitchen” - to remind you non-boaters that you’re an inferior life form.

That got me chuckling. I hope to be a schooner owner some day. Probably never will be.

[Anonymous]

Metric is already standard in scientific fields and academia. And kids already learn metric at school, and have been doing so for many years. The challenge is the building industry. It’s so much better to measure screws and things in mm but they insist on 3/8 of an inch because it’s the way they’ve done it for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Metric is already standard in scientific fields and academia. And kids already learn metric at school, and have been doing so for many years. The challenge is the building industry. It’s so much better to measure screws and things in mm but they insist on 3/8 of an inch because it’s the way they’ve done it for decades.

Not always, as it often is not as accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is too late now to switch to metric. And it has nothing to do with Tucker Carlson.

Not op. I disagree. Our english system is insane. I was forced to learn it back in the dark ages when we were going to switch and it was such a disappointment that we kept this crazy system.