why does usa still use non metric measurements

The metric system sucks, if you are not taught it as a child and someone says it's 30 degrees out, you're like FUCK it's cold! Oh you mean 30 x 2 + 32 = 92 degrees, now it's hot.

no metric is very easy .you just go over and look at your metric thermometer and yes it says 30deg c,,and yes its hot .but there is no need for conversion,just read the metric temp

I shouldn't have to relearn a measuring system...they should just stick to the standard...people change shit too much, the old way is just fine.

Metric is for morons who can only divide by 10.

one litre of water also weighs one kilo,,so if you have a thousand litres you also have a metric tonn,,which also equals one cubic or one square meter of water,,prety kool hey? and very easy to learn

I only recently found out that a metre is a metre because it is one ten millionth of the exact distance between the equator and the north pole. I always figured that it was because a metre itself is divisible by ten and that was a good place to start.

lol,,

Because the USA suck ass.

australia once had pounds,shillings and pence.now we have decimal currency just like usa,,decimal is so easy compared to calculating three rows of figures. i wonder why they never converted to metric like most of the modern world ?

I don't know which are dumber.

You don't say, 'it's 30 degrees, wow that's cold, no wait. blah blah blah..'

You say, wow it's how, I wonder what the temperature is. Oh, it's 30. And they say it will be 32 tomorrow. that means it will be hotter.



????? everything is divisible by 10. even pi, or pies, or your piehole.

Grandpa Simpson: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it.

I heard that back in the seventies, when the U.S. tried to teach students to measure and make the government mandated change to metric they made a simple mistake.

They tried to teach children both systems at once.

But the one adults still used was standard. Which meant all the kids learned to think of measurements that way instinctively at the time.

That's why the attempt failed int he U.S. It isn't about difficulty or lack of intelligence but social conditioning.

I knowwithout thinking about it how tall a person is if their five-three.

Give that to me in meters and I'm way fuzzier.

I do all right with the measurements of distance, but that kilo thing is a pain and a half.

Try converting liters to gallons in your head.

That's why most Americans hate the metric system, because we have another system that works already and our society reinforces that pattern.

So I've heard.

ok how do they do that?

It is called the Imperial system for a reason.....duh.

Canada uses both, strangely enough!

you dont have to convertfrom one to the other,,you just read your thermometer,,the metric one on your wall. you dont convert from inches to centimeters,,you just pickup your metric ruler,,wtf?

all the roads in the US, particularly in rural areas, were built in mile squares, replacing all the signs at once would be expensive and mess everything up since the roads are in mile sections already. In conclusion, no reason to change.

because america can fuck the world up if it had a war

you know what I mean you pedant.

ameritard. metric system is the standard, and it's used like money is used throughout the world, or like gold as money. It's the same,

there were lots of systems in place and lots of various measurements. the old 'standard' you are so fond of included feet, inches, yards, spans, fathoms, miles etc.

And it worked fine for primitive systems and ameritards.

then people realized that different measurements were needed both bigger, smaller and a standard that all can use.

For instance, the foot of my wife is about 7" long, whereas the foot of your partner is 14", so what is a foot.

As for bigger and smaller, imperial works fine for your day to day activities. eg. this hog pen is 8 feet by 8 feet.

But how would you compare.....

nanometer picometer millimeter centimeter meter hectometer kilometer megameter gigameter

what is it in imperial????

how many nano inches in pico inch? how many inches in a gigamile?

nano, pico giga are all factors of 10.

hey! our number system is based on..... 10.

now that makes a lot of sense.

the imperial system is retarded and only used for basic measurements. The rest is all metric. Unless you buy 4 inchwatt bulbs, or have a power station that generates 40 megafeetwatts.

now go eat a taco.

I just got bad karma for liking the standard system...metric-tards! LOL

dude... metric system is the standard system. yours is the imperial system.

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so the answer is,,,usa is a country of recalcitrants,,wtf

man, you get dumber and dumber. you post a lot, but yer dumb.

you don't quote some dumbass from some website on how they 'see' things. Best to quote your self.

If ALLLLLLLLLLL the countries in the world use the metric system except the US and 2 small countries, which one is the standard system????

hint: stand·ard   [stan-derd] Show IPA
noun
1.
something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
2.
an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind: We stock the deluxe models as well as the standards.


the US standard system, may have BEEN the standard system and to Amerkins may be the standard but to everybody else, the standard system of measurement is the metric system.

Just like you may have one FIRST in your race at sportsday, but it doesn't make you FIRST now.

Wow, that was a knowledge fueled beat down.

haha

Metrics was the worst thing we ever tried to do....

We aren't the worlds only super power because of metrics...

I've seen threads like this before and what always amazes me is how upset and worked up you guys get that the US doesn't use the metric system. I mean... do you just get raging mad knowing that I'm here pumping Gallons of gas in my car? Do you clench your fist and grit your teeth thinking about someone buying a pound of ground beef at the market? LOL relax, bro.

I would love it if we switched over to the metric system just to get you guys to STFU!

Last Edited by HI.Lander on 09/07/2011 09:09 AM

Having been one of those kids - I don't know that I agree with the dual thing being the reason. It was more of a case of knowledge with no use. Nothing in the US was in metric - so what we learned just faded away. There are plenty of places that have both systems and people don't even have to think that hard to go between them.

The fun part was being told that by the time we graduated high school - everything would be metric. Pop bottles were - but that's it. My much younger sister was taught metric in the 80's and also told within 10 years - we'd all be metric. At some point - it's time to give it up. The only reason we have anything metric is because so many companies do business in the US and Canada - and rather than bother with separate packaging - they just squish all the info on the one label.

According to my friends in England - even though they've been metric for years, there is slow move back to imperial because people just seem to prefer it.

I like imperial only because it sounds more warm and fuzzy. Metric is so...clinical. I mean, can you 1.8288 meters reading "111,120 kilometers under the sea"?

Because we're stupid and arrogant. And probably recalcitrant, whatever that is, gotta go look it up, you jerk