Americans and the stupid standard system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also lived in a metric country for a number of years. F is the winner in F vs C. I do prefer CMs to Inches, but probably lbs to kg.

False.

100 C water boils. 0 C water freezes. C>>>>F. It's based on actual science that makes sense.

Celsius doesn't work in some calculations because it doesn't have a zero. 0C doesn't mean no temperature. It's just as arbitrary as F. Kelvin makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Metric is used in medicine and science in the US. It's just everyday measures that we use the imperial system.

It makes sense in terms of ease of use. A foot is 12 inches. You can divide that evenly by 6,4,3, and 2, so you can easily take a third of a foot, or half of it, or a quarter of it. Those are easy to understand measures.

Same with temperature. We basically go by 10s

30s = winter jacket and gloves/hat
40s = winter jacket
50s= light jacket
60s = sweater
70s = awesome
80s = hot
90s = drink water

Compare that to celsius, where +8 vs +12 makes a big difference. All temperatures you will encounter _in daily life_ are roughly between 0 and 100 in F. No need for negatives, which people have trouble grasping.

Distance too -- most people drive 60 mph on the highway a mile a minute. So if something is 25 miles away, you'll get there in 25 minutes. This makes even more sense since our interstate highway exits are numbered based on miles, so exit 8 is 2 miles away from exit 10. Notice the benefit next time on 495 when you see the digital sign saying "I-95 15 miles, 15 minutes" and you'll know traffic is flowign smoothly since that's a mile a minute.

Oh, and it would cost over a trillion dollars to convert the US to metric, with little benefit.

Heck, ever looked at paper in Canada? They use metric yet their standard paper measures 8.5" x 11". Maybe we should be lecturing them to move to A4 sized paper in mm.

[Anonymous]

Because we don't want to, thanks. Bye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't we use metric already to be consistent with the rest of the world? Standard is stupid beyond belief while the metric system makes complete logical sense. Standard need to be banished to hell where it belongs.

OP, I'm honestly intrigued by all of your rage against the standard system. Where does it originate?

[Anonymous]

No one cares about brits driving on the left. It’s just such a minor thing for people to go back and forth. There’s no reason to change. Also, people like my Dh who work with labs easily use the metric system.

[Anonymous]

Military is metric... Except navy which still loves nautical miles and knots. 😁

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also lived in a metric country for a number of years. F is the winner in F vs C. I do prefer CMs to Inches, but probably lbs to kg.

False.

100 C water boils. 0 C water freezes. C>>>>F. It's based on actual science that makes sense.

Celsius doesn't work in some calculations because it doesn't have a zero. 0C doesn't mean no temperature. It's just as arbitrary as F. Kelvin makes sense.

Sorry, but Fahrenheit wins.

Fahrenheit:
0 degrees - very cold
100 degrees - very hot

Celsius
0 degrees - cold
100 degrees - dead

Kelvin
0 degrees - dead
100 degrees - dead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not forget medical professionals use kg for weight in medical records-- more universally consistent-- and base 10 is just more reasonable all around... who can contest that?

No one has ten hands. Base 2 for the win.

Are you a robot?

[Anonymous]

We're in the middle of a Pandemic, rapidly spreading to the EU from England.Don't you think we could be doing something more productive like helping out feeding the poor, assisting churches and the salvation army than arguing about stuff like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also lived in a metric country for a number of years. F is the winner in F vs C. I do prefer CMs to Inches, but probably lbs to kg.

False.

100 C water boils. 0 C water freezes. C>>>>F. It's based on actual science that makes sense.

Celsius doesn't work in some calculations because it doesn't have a zero. 0C doesn't mean no temperature. It's just as arbitrary as F. Kelvin makes sense.

Sorry, but Fahrenheit wins.

Fahrenheit:
0 degrees - very cold
100 degrees - very hot

Celsius
0 degrees - cold
100 degrees - dead

Kelvin
0 degrees - dead
100 degrees - dead

If I had a stick that I said was 0 meters long you would call me crazy. If I had a stick of 0C, you wouldn't think twice about it, despite the insanity of 0 representing a positive quantity of something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tried to bake a scottish biscuit recipe earlier this week, which provided metric measurements. I tried converting and the recipe did not turn out very well. I can't find metric measuring cups, though. Are there any around?

Otherwise, I tend to use metric as much as possible. My apps are set to Celsius, etc. My fitbit is on the metric system.

My husband comes from a country that uses the metric system, so it's come in handy.

Still can't bake, though.

You need a scale to bake with a metric based recipe, did you use one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Gen X kid and I remembered just after learning feet, inches, yards, etc. Jimmy Carter wanted schools to teach the metric system (which we probably should have switched to then) and teachers were like, okay, forget everything you just learned and let's do this instead. It just didn't stick. The only thing I can really remember is that a meter is about a yard. I do agree that having the U.S. as a holdout is just more evidence that our county is backward in many ways.

Yep, same here-I probably learned that from a SchoolHouse Rock episode!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also lived in a metric country for a number of years. F is the winner in F vs C. I do prefer CMs to Inches, but probably lbs to kg.

False.

100 C water boils. 0 C water freezes. C>>>>F. It's based on actual science that makes sense.

I agree with the first poster. The F scale makes intuitive sense. My cousins who live in a metric country like how the 50sF means you need a light jacket, the 40sF means you need a heavier jacket, etc. For everything else, I wish we’d switched to metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in the middle of a Pandemic, rapidly spreading to the EU from England.Don't you think we could be doing something more productive like helping out feeding the poor, assisting churches and the salvation army than arguing about stuff like this?

Why aren’t you doing this? No you’d rather just argue with others about what they post online in anonymous forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Gen X kid and I remembered just after learning feet, inches, yards, etc. Jimmy Carter wanted schools to teach the metric system (which we probably should have switched to then) and teachers were like, okay, forget everything you just learned and let's do this instead. It just didn't stick. The only thing I can really remember is that a meter is about a yard. I do agree that having the U.S. as a holdout is just more evidence that our county is backward in many ways.

Ha! I remember this too.