Metric vs the other one

[911^NEmeSis]

Well a bit of both really. The UK is strange like that.

[Hyp0xia]

I understand both metric and imperial. I Iearnt the metric system from having spent so much time abroad and I rebel against my American roots by using the metric system at all times.

[Vaiels]

What are you trying to say about England :)

Just saying because England invented the system and they have moved on.

 

Please don't hurt me!

[ConfusedDolphin]

Just saying because England invented the system and they have moved on.

 

Please don't hurt me!

we still use miles and mph :) but otherwise metric 

[Vaiels]

we still use miles and mph :) but otherwise metric 

Yeah i think miles is a good measure of distance unless you go interstellar deep space and use MEGAMETRES! What do you folks use going down? I feel that centimetres and millimetres are much better than the imperial counterparts.

[ConfusedDolphin]

Yeah i think miles is a good measure of distance unless you go interstellar deep space and use MEGAMETRES! What do you folks use going down? I feel that centimetres and millimetres are much better than the imperial counterparts.

It really depends, there are some things which I will always think about in inches but generally I use mm an cm for smaller things.  Luckily "most" people understand you regardless of whether you give a length in centimetres or inches. 

 

Saying that there was a girl in my AS physics class who was asked to measure something in centimetres but did not know how to do this because her ruler was in millimetres ...

[Vaiels]

It really depends, there are some things which I will always think about in inches but generally I use mm an cm for smaller things.  Luckily "most" people understand you regardless of whether you give a length in centimetres or inches. 

 

Saying that there was a girl in my AS physics class who was asked to measure something in centimetres but did not know how to do this because her ruler was in millimetres ...

Ha! That was the one thing i didn't understand growing up. Centi- was only used in distances and i couldn't wrap my 6y.o. head around why 1000cm didn't equal a metre.

For the Americans, milli is latin for 1000 and centi for 100.

[ConfusedDolphin]

Ha! That was the one thing i didn't understand growing up. Centi- was only used in distances and i couldn't wrap my 6y.o. head around why 1000cm didn't equal a metre.

For the Americans, milli is latin for 1000 and centi for 100.

That's okay when you are 6 years old, this girl was 18 

[XiaoPigs]

I live in Asia where everyone uses the metric system. So yea metric. Besides there are only a few counties left using the imperial units for measurement unfortunately America being one of them so it'll take a long time before they switch over to Metric as well

[Minjon]

Metric ofcourse i only use inches for Monitor & TV measurments.

[OneGun]

I have dealt with some kilos before... :P

[JaeDee884]

the only time i use imperial is for tools, aka 3/8ths drive 1/4 inch drive, and height, 6'1' sounds heaps nicer then metric 185 :P 

[SSOB]

Metric , except for cars rims and screen size

[ACK]

metric is much better for smaller things, or where calculations are key, but imperial is still the best standard for things like height, weight, and all that. more just out of tradition than anything else. you're a lot more likely to hear someone say they're 6 foot other than 1.8m if you get me. 

Yes but at the same time it's better to say that a specific body part is 15 centimetres than 6 inches, if you get me  ;) .

[Woodypc]

Both, it depends on what you are doing. You should learn both.

[lolasianboylol]

I commonly use metric, but as a machinist, its so much easier using imperial. Any machinist in the house?

[Aphexx]

I voted metric

[nishank93]

The Imperial system should have died ages ago. I know most of the conversions between both off the top of my head, but still. Die Imperial scum!

[Borgodoc]

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[Sovereign]

I use Imperials, but I was taught in school how to convert to SI.

 

 

Australian here. Imperial system seems like a lot of work to me. The metric base 10 system seems so much simpler and more accurate I just don't see why the Yanks are still stuck on the old way. Even England has moved over. I though Canada used metric anyway?

Congress tried for metrication back in the 70s, but most people were either indifferent or disdainful towards their efforts, so the funding for it was cut in the 80s by the Reagan administration. Nothing has really been done since then.

[FireFox]

I'm working with the Metric system everyday. But since the Institute I work at, has a partnership with Nasa, I have to use the Imperial system quite a bit too, and honestly ? It sucks balls

 

 

They can't even spell 'Metric' correctly lol

[Night]

I think one of the only reasons we still have imperial is because America: World Police. - "Nope!, We wont conform to do things your way even though its clearly much simpler, because we are the best so every one else must change to our stupid ass way of measuring".

[Andi]

Congress tried for metrication back in the 70s, but most people were either indifferent or disdainful towards their efforts, so the funding for it was cut in the 80s by the Reagan administration. Nothing has really been done since then.

 

I would just change it, the next 5 years every label, street sighn, speed indicator, book has imperial and metric on it than the following 10 years imperial is only very small on it. than is just disappears and then nobody will ever miss it again.

 

 

it's pure laziness. 1Liter water = 1kg weight = 1dm³ volume. its just so nice...try that with gallon, pound and cup :D

[Guest]

Canadian here. Not sure if this applies to everyone here like it did to me, but I'm using a complete mashup of things. I think it had something to do with my parents teaching me certain things that they learned when they were young while being also taught metric in school (I think Canada only switched to metric starting in the mid 70s).

 

For example, I know my own height in feet and inches, but distances (and speeds), little measurements and such in Metric. But then again, I know screen, car wheel and bike sizes in inches...

Air temperature is in Celcius, but water temperature is in Fahrenheit!

Weight in pounds, but volumes in metric units. 

It doesn't make any sense!

 

Does anyone else use a non-sensical combination of both systems? Also when did your country adopt the metric system?

[Calavera]

Shows like Vsauce already went on and displayed both systems... - sure gets you a lot more people that actually understand what you're talking about. If Linus for example says a cable is 3 feet long, I have no clue how long that is... 

 

Just an annotation put in by the editing would just be fine :)