How long, do you think...

[Burtsplurt]

Eh, so the UK is metric?

Somebody really should have told us.

[licence]

Eh, so the UK is metric?

Somebody really should have told us.

I'm agreeing with that. I use imperial measurements for height, distance, weight, speed and a lot of other things. Metric is only ever used by me in like science.

[XxSephirothxX]

I sort of wish we'd switch over, but it would be really hard to switch over from miles and gallons and all the things that have been ingrained in our minds since childhood. I think the metric system is much smarter overall, though; 4 ounces in this, 4 cups in that, 8 of these in one of those, it's all needlessly complex.

[Resha]

Imperial system = most confusing thing ever.

Metric for life

[Strider]

God bless America.

[Renmiri]

US uses metric / SI system in science and the military. Engineering is mixed up, depending on the area they use SI or Imperial or both.

[Yamaneko]

lol Raistlin trying to argue the superiority of the Imperial system

[rubah]

The metric system will never catch on in the US. It's been tried before. (and failed because it sucks).

The metric system is the best system to use in a lab setting. Science in every country uses metric measurements. But for day-to-day lives, people here like using the imperial system, including me. Fahrenheit, feet, and pounds, especially, would be hard to do away with. What do you have equivalent to a foot in metric? You jump from a tiny centimeter to a huge meter, whereas in imperial you have inches, feet, and then yards. Decimeter I guess would be a bit better, but does anyone use that?

Also, being divisible by 5 and 10 is nice, but being divisible by 3 and 4 is also really nice. There's a reason our time system is based on 60 minutes, 24 hours and everyone accepts it. Just like 12 inches in a foot, it's easily divisible by a bunch of common numbers (2, 3, 4, especially). Who needs to measure a tenth of a meter?

Your words. I love them.

base ten really makes little sense to use as a society, at least since we stopped counting on our fingers en masse.
The Imperial system has some very logical things in it too; a pound of water takes 1 British Thermal Unit to raise it 1 degree Fahrenheit (my dad likes to drill this in my head so it's stuck xD)

The only real flaw I see is that you can't take it off our planet xD (what with the mass=gravitation pull it does)

[edit- How cute! I found a little site that explains latent heat of fusion and vaporization of water in btus! Latent Heat Explained ]

[Levian]

Huh, didn't know the imperial system was used in that few countries.

[Jebus]

The metric system will never catch on in the US. It's been tried before. (and failed because it sucks).

The metric system is the best system to use in a lab setting. Science in every country uses metric measurements. But for day-to-day lives, people here like using the imperial system, including me. Fahrenheit, feet, and pounds, especially, would be hard to do away with. What do you have equivalent to a foot in metric? You jump from a tiny centimeter to a huge meter, whereas in imperial you have inches, feet, and then yards. Decimeter I guess would be a bit better, but does anyone use that?

Also, being divisible by 5 and 10 is nice, but being divisible by 3 and 4 is also really nice. There's a reason our time system is based on 60 minutes, 24 hours and everyone accepts it. Just like 12 inches in a foot, it's easily divisible by a bunch of common numbers (2, 3, 4, especially). Who needs to measure a tenth of a meter?

Millimeter -> centimeter -> decimeter -> meter.

Decimeter = 10 centimeters, with a meter being 10 decimeters.

Metric ftw, although I have a lot of trouble switching to Celsius and Kg, especially since everyone around me still uses Fahrenheit and pounds.

[Nominus Experse]

What I really like about the metric system is the way it measures temperature:

100 C = Boiling
0 C = Freezing

I like having things in base ten

[Araciel]

yeah celsius is win, but that's probably because it's always been in effect here

[Rye]

What I really like about the metric system is the way it measures temperature:

100 C = Boiling
0 C = Freezing

I like having things in base ten

That's the only thing I really like about metric, tbh.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

My parents were raised on the Imperial system so they are more familiar with giving temperature in Fahrenheit, weighing in pounds and measuring in inches. For the most part, I can understand the Imperial system and use it for those three things mentioned, except for temperature. I cannot tell you how much a kilo is though, but I can easily tell you how big a centimetre or a metre is.

The only nice thing about a pound is that it can be used as a force and not mass, so when you have basic Classical physics question dealing with friction and such, it is a hell of a lot easier than converting from mass (Kg) to force (Newton), though that in itself is a simple thing.

[Shoeberto]

I think of all the things I'd miss would be farenheit for day-to-day measurements. Of course it doesn't make much logical sense in the lab to use, but I know that in the sense of how the environmental temperature feels on me, 0 is frigidly cold, and 100 is blazingly hot. Where in celcius, 0 isn't that bad, and 100 is OH GOD MY SKIN IS MELTING OFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

I'd be fine with metrics in every other sense.