I always enjoying teasing my American flat mate about the imperial system while he stayed with us in Berlin. Whenever weight or length came up in any conversation I would turn to him: "Oh let me translate that for you. In your system that is about 2 foxtails and a horse wagon wheel." "That weight equals around three fat cats in your system" and so on... Oh good fun :)
You know up here in Canada, we have to have signs right by the American Border telling American Taurus that the 60 on the speed sign is in kilometers not miles and that 60 miles is quite a bit faster then the actual speed limit. Often times you get people who just assume that the speed limit sign and the distance signs are in Imperial. Or ask you how many miles per hour 90 km/h is.
1000 liter = 1 m³ 1ft³ = 7.48052 US gallons = 6.22884 Imp. gallons. 1 meter of water of pressure = 1000 kg/m³* 9.81 N/kg* 1 m=9810 N/m²=9810 Pa =9,81 kPa 1 feet of water pressure= 1.938 slug/ft³*32.174 lb/slug*1 ft=62.353lb/ft² 62.353lb/ft²*1 ft²/144 in² = 0.433 lb/in²=0.433 PSI I work in water treatment in Canada and seriously I'm forced to work with some USA equipement. So, I calculate in metric and convert at the last moment in imperial. So. 1 inch =2,54 cm 1 gallons = 3.78541l 1 mgal (this one is weird because we use a metric prefix lol) = 378 541 m³ 1PSI = 6.895 kPa 1 US gpm = 5.450976 m³/d or 3.7854 l/min And I hate you USA.
So you admit to approximating force based on mass? You don't bother to actually measure the force? Those of us south of the border can't help your lazy ass.
My point is that this series of threads is dominated by how stupid U.S. standard measurements are and, by implication, how superior and perfect, "metric," measurements are. And yet people working in metric often don't understand units either. A kilogram is not a weight. If you are "weighing" out something on a kilogram scale, there is a basic fudge factor being used. A kilogram is a mass unit. A newton is a derived unit of force (that force required to accelerate 1 kg [exact] at 1 m/s [exact]). A 1 kilogram mass only exerts approximately 9.81 N in a static case near sea level. In other words, "metric" is fine for approximations, but so are U.S. standard measurements. The main problem with U.S. standard units is that they are not in as wide-spread use as "metric," and thus cause conversion headaches.
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade-which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” Wild Thing by Josh Bazell.
This is fun but unfortunately the proper official SI unit for energy is the joule (J), the calorie is not even considered an "acceptable" non-SI usage. And then it all doesn't work straight.
@@mike4ty4 - Actually, the Joule works just fine. Yes, it takes a different number to heat water one degree, but ALL natural numbers are subject to variation based on the substance and dimension type being measured. The underlying unites are easy to use.
Go live in Eurasia if U want metric so bad, then you can get a "kilometer length one" in your pooper, then you'll be saying " yaaasssss " for real and loving it too, I'm sure.
+Djordje Petrovic You wrote "22.86 cm to be exact" which is exact, and shows that 230 mm or 220 mm would have been a better "approximation"! After all, was the "9 inches" an exact measurement - or just an estimation in the first place?
Yes, Arabic Numerals were invented in India. They were later adopted in Arabia and spread to Europe via Arabia. Hence, we call them Arabic Numerals. Don't tell Trump that Muslims gave us our number system. We may end up going back to Roman Numerals.
Imperial is old system. In france people have continued to speak with old system during longtime. Mygrand mother said bread of 2 livers ... but a liver sant same value everywhere... Or for wood.. in west of france 1 stere of wood is 3 cubic meter ...but 2 in east ...
we have but we don't use it because centimeters and milimeters are used commercially, we also have a decameter and hectometer, 10 and 100 meters respectively.
The part I can never comprehend is that the USA uses a metric system for their money and have no problem using it in athletics but somehow can't understand it for anything else.
Me:how many feet are in a mile My friend: 5280 Me:is there any way i can remember that easily My friend: yes 5 tomatoes because it sounds like 5280 Me:oh ok if you want to remember how many meters there are in a kilo just remember 1000
How the fuck can someone fail at learning the metric system? You don't even have to learn anything for everyday life. Unless remembering three words qualifies as learning. Just look at all the units in the imperial system like right now, it's a clusterfuck.
If Americans are so stupid, then how come they understand a system that the world doesn't understand? And why is there nothing in between of centimeters and meters? What if I want less than a meter? Uh, tough shit, I guess I gotta remember to have a ruler with centimeters, which so fucking tiny that I gotta use a magnifying glass to see.
Nathan there is no need for anything between the centimetre and a metre. You just say something is 30, 60 or what ever centimetre. there is decimetre but no one uses it because it's not really needed. it's only useful to remember that a 10X10x10 cm (1x1x1dm) cube of water is a litre in volume and weights 1 kg. which is 1/1000 of a cubic metre, 1m^3 of water weighing a (metric) ton. Because all the units are base 10 to convert one unit to another you just move the decimal point around. the only stupid thing is that time is base 60, so speed conversions get stupid(scientific m/s to every day km/h), but i imagine converting ft/s to mil/h gets even more convoluted.
Nathan... all the world change to a functional system but the Users (All the country in America are americans, and so all the peole in the continent) not.... I think that is pretty easy understand that the one don´t change to a easier and universal system is the stupid. Not sorry: Is not "I think" is "ALL THE PLANET KNOW" And you, with the copy paste from yourself, are more than the rest. how can you put thats lot of dead-brain shit in so little space?
I scared the crap out of my mom last year when I drove her someplace after returning from a trip to Canada and forgot to reset my odometer back to MPH from km/h. “You’re going too fast!!!” “No I’m not.” “You’re going 46 in a 25 zone!! Slow down!!” “That’s kilometers per hour mom. I forgot to set it back.” I thought I was going to need the car interior deep cleaned for a minute.
I'm 20 years old European. I can easily tell you how imperial system sucks. I'm 158 cm in metric. Pretty short, right? But in imperial if I had to be absolutely correct I would be 5'2.2"! YES! FIVE FOOT TWO POINT TWO INCHES! Cause imperial system shortens me for about two centimeters! That's why imperial sucks.
Actually we don't usually use decimal points for inches. We use fractions! So you would have to say you're 5'2" and a quarter. Or 5'2" and a 1/6th. It's insane! Doing construction work involves so much unnecessary math because of all the damn fractions.
@@landonhill4914 I thought someone is taking piss of me when they were explaining this to me for the first time. I could not believe someone would do that to themselves.
The "Metric System" (SI) is alive and well. It is used by about 95% of the population of the world. There are but a few "outliers", representing only about 5% of the population of the world which do not use SI in their everyday activities. However, the corporations which manufacture the goods that they use, do use Si in their manufacturing processes. Then, they "translate" the dimensions concerned into US Customary measurements at the last minute to describe their products to their obdurate US Customers.
Please re-read my comment. SI is alive and well in US manufacturing corporations. While some "States" have tried to take the final step, your Federal Government has not taken this step of making SI the only system which is "Legal for Trade". (Grapes vary in size. Large ones could be about 30 mm in diameter, which would mean a volume of about 10.6 cc)
America uses miles to prevent enemy invasions. When an invading army reads a US milage sign and confuses it for kilometers, they end up stopping several miles (or kilometers) short of a town they're supposed to invade. This gives defending forces time to mobilize a counterattack.
They are the only industry allowed to do that AFAIK. For the oil companies, their accounts want to screw people out of every last 9/10th of a penny. And it's even a coin we don't need anymore!
Born and raised in the united states, and I love the metric system. The imperial system simply makes no sense. In imperial you have to convert through each step because in many cases the conversion is different for each step. In metric, you just move the decimal.
harshbarj. we really did try to switch over to the metric system many years ago, but we never finished the process. they had to change all of the machinery over to metric and so on. maybe we ran out of $$? gave up? said "fuck it", like how Wanda Sykes said in the video? I remember trying to learn metric system in school. it was hard. just not enough practice using it in real life, I think that was the problem.
The imperial system uses measurements that people actually want to use, as opposed to measurements arbitrarily made up by 18th century Frenchmen. The millimetre is not a practical measurement, the inch and the foot are. The milligram is not a practical measurement , the ounce is. Measurement is the quantification of matter, not mathematical games with the number 10.
People that are adjusted to more intellectually challenging systems have difficulty dumbing down to simplistic metric systems that work better on paper yet have no legitimacy in practical usage for real world applications.
Bradley R That is pure bullshit. The inch is in no way a practical measurement. What the hell is one inch long? What? An Inchworm? And I guarantee your foot isn’t 12 inches long, and even if it was, who gives a shit? You don’t walk with each foot directly in front of the last one, you walk with your feet extended. Therefore, what is the foot supposed to signify? Nothing. Nothing useful, anyway. Also, if you love the imperial system so much, answer these WITHOUT looking up the answers: How many teaspoons are in a cubic mile? How many square feet are in an acre? How many gallons are in a cubic yard? How many inches are in a rod? Don’t know what a rod is? Its 30.5 yards. 30.5. Not 30, not even 31, 30.5 yards. Use the metric system. Sincerely, -An American ( who uses the metric system )
The imperial system is derived from the metric system . Americans : the imperial system got us on the moon. Yeah after the computer converted metric data to display imperial numbers for the astronauts.
I'm American. I ride a 600cc motorcycle. My car engine is 3.7 liters. Once I figured out that all you need is 1 gram of weed to get you pretty high. I have a computer which runs at 3.2 Gigahertz speed and has a 500 Gigabyte hard drive. It also has a 2 Terabyte external storage. We use metric, alright.
Funny thing is, the USA actually joined the SI some time ago. All the imerial units are derived from the metric units. Wikipedia say: Since 1959, [the foot has] been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly.
the big problem when you teach someone the metric system that already knows the imperial one is that you keep trying to convert the numbers. Fuck the conversion just go straight back to basic.
A practical approach to the metric system would be of paramount importance in facilitating any change. For example, here in India were use kilometres per litre to measure fuel efficiency. My maid here who is illiterate uses the metric every hour of her life- she only doesn't know its called the "metric system". As a matter of fact, she doesn't even know it's English!! Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Kilometers are shorter than miles, so it would seem the Russians are further away from Amerika, because the number of kilometers is larger at the same distance compared with miles.
I still don't get it: There are 100 cents in a Dollar. There are 100 centimeters in a metre. What is so hard to understand???? Children are also afraid of changing things they know. Are all Americans children??????
We tried switching back in the 70's. Roads signs started appearing in kilometers and meters. Products started having metric measurements on them. I remember teachers saying "it's going to be so much better, you watch", and then suddenly the movement fizzled out. When gasoline started being sold in liters that created a lot of confusion, and then somewhere around 1979 or 1980 the whole movement fell by the wayside. Right to the point where by the mid 80's nobody was even talking about it anymore. There's still a few road signs in the Arizona desert that have the distances in kilometers and meters, but that's about it. We actually do use the metric system in many fields. Pharmacists use it to measure drugs. Alcohol is sold in milliliters. Cooking wear is measured in both metric and English standard system. The speedometer in your car is in both KPH and MPH. Soda is in one and two liter bottles. Doctors use it. Scientists use it. The military uses it. And there's a lot of hybrid measurements like "grams per ounce". So we're about half and half even though it's not officially recognized.
Metric System for most Canadians. Temperature - Celsius (if you are under 50) Distance, Speed and Measurement - Inches, Feet, Metres, Kilometres Cooking - Fahrenheit, Spoons, Cups, Pounds Drinking - Ounces, Millilitres, Litres Weight - Ounces, Pounds, Grams, Kilograms, Imperial Ton, Metric Ton. At least though born in the mid 70s to mid 80s it really is a hybrid of the two. I am 5'11" 178cm, 190lbs, The ceiling is 8 feet high, I want about an inch cut off my hair, I'm about 3 kilometres from the grocery store. The corner store is about 400 metres from the house. I prefer a beer in a 16oz cup I buy 500ml bottles most of the time sometimes they are no bigger than a 355ml can though. It is about 27C degrees outside but I usually set the Oven to 450F degrees when I'm baking.
Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures: Liberia. Myanmar (a.k.a. “the country formerly known as Burma”) United States of America
I'm Canadian... I remember when I started engineering school I was sooo confused because teachers talked to us about using 4/10 inches bolts and about rendering thing in inches and I was like wtf is this ish! Whyyyyy! I only learned the metric system at school! And we only use metric in physics! then I remembered that we work a lot with the USA and that most of our pieces probably come from the US. Sooo yeah, we have to learn a new system just to be able to use their parts. Also, as much as we like to pretend, lets be real! Everything here is in imperial. Like you will buy a 4x12 at reno depot and your apartment will be 300 square feet, and you will be 5'9" and your pool will be 98 degrees, and you will bake your cookies at 425 F... sooo yeah. The only place we use metric is for distances and velocity...
As an engineering student who went to univ in 1990 in the U.S., please understand that we did most of our learning with the metric system. As Wanda said, doctors in the U.S. use the metric system. The reason we have not converted is that there are a lot of machines that create imperial size parts (steel beams, bars, tubes, etc.) The people who make these machines are not eager to switch to metric because then they have to compete with the rest of the world. It would be worth it in a few years to switch, but the initial change would be extremely expensive. It will happen now that the new machine tools are CNC and units mean almost nothing.
Jesus this is funny. Why is Amy Schumer famous when this lady is out here doing standup? This is the funniest bit I've ever seen by a female comedian (not that their bad just not very many of them)
Science uses metric system in America. And SI is also recommended for industry by the government and is being applied on a voluntary basis to be competitive in the world. And all your non-SI units are defined through SI ! That's why the US has "translators", people who translate the SI units into customary units so that the stubborn American citizens can keep using the obsolete units in their daily lives. Exceptionalism gone wrong.
@@AI_Image_Master I was just making the joke that it has to be ‘Unamerican’ but my statement is far out vague😅 Please no offense man! Love the USA from India 😎
Perhaps you've never used/don't know metric system, hence your preference. To each his own. I find it people who know metric system learn imperial system much faster/easier than people who are used to the imperial system.
Get this - there have to be two defining points to define a scale. Do you know what points there are to define the Farenheit temperature scale? The 0 is just a random temperature Farenheit managed to achieve some 200 years ago and 100 is the cow's rectal temperature. So if you say "it is -12°F out there" it means "it is twelve degrees less than a temperature some dude 200 years ago managed to achieve" and "it is 200°F" it means "It is twice as hot as cow's ass"... Compare it to the celsius scale - 0°C is freezing of water, 100°C is boiling. So -12°C means "if you hang out out there without clothes, your ass will freeze to death" and "120°C" means "don't go/touch it, your ass will boil to death". I see that maybe the cow's ass can be for some cowfukers in the southern USA very practical defining point, but for the rest of us - isn't the celsius scale a little bit more practical? By the way, Farenheit never intended the 100°F to be the cow's ass temperature, it was meant to be a human body temperature, but he messed up. It leaves me to wonder... How stupid that guy had to be to mistake a cow's ass for a human body?! He had to have a very bad friends to hang out with... All of them cow's asses...
+Thrust vectoring While passing over most of your 'rant", it should be mentioned that 200°F is NOT twice as hot as 100°F 200°F is only 17.87% hotter/warmer/greater than 100°F This is because 200°F = 366.48°K and 100°F = 310.93°K 366.48 is 17.87% greater than 310.93
Cribble Horst Lol Kelvin and Celsius are essentially the same thing. To convert to Kelvin you just add 273.15 and you're done. The only difference is that Kelvin has only positive values for temperature, because it begins from the absolute zero. Otherwise, Kelvin has the same scaling with Celsius. E.g., 20°C - 5°C = 15°C and 293.15K - 278.15K = 15K. This is not true for Fahrenheit though.
This video is being suggested again in July 2023 because in the UK, government ministers are trying to prop up BREXIT by proposing a return to the Imperial measures system. Some stupid ideas never die.
Why they don't make a law that makes everyone shows both metric and imperial systems on their products (both have to be well showed and imperial can't be more emphasized then metric)? this way ppl can slowly get used to metric overtime.
They (we, actually, I am from USA but I'm 110% in favor of the metric system) DO have that - grams are on every foodstuff along with lbs and oz, and there are even thermometers marked up in Celsius alongside Fahrenheit. The trouble is the weathermen all show the forecasts in Fahrenheit and all the food weighing scales are in lbs and oz and not g and kg meaning a lot of the metric is already there; but people _refuse to use it_ .
Murica: -Let's no have king, we're not empire, we're united states, we're liberty? Also Murica: -There is a metric system. What? It was created logically instead of random references? BULLSHIT! Let's stick to the imperial one!
Sauzechn The metric system is inferior for building and construction. 12 is useful due to being perfectly able to be cut in halves, quarters, and thirds. This probably is a major contributing factor for why most major engineering disasters happen in metric nations. If you have no issues reading a clock as 24 hrs or using 7-day weeks or programming in 16-base hexadecimal, I see no reason to be limited by using only 10 scales for measures. Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe metric is so simple just so simpletons can grasp it easier and not be expected to learn math beyond their number of fingers?
I wonder what is more easy to learn..if you dont know any system and try both and make a choice. Im born metric and tried to understand imperial..after over a decade i still have to google. Feels like every imperial unit comes with a weird name and the prefix "About an"
That's because you aren't used to using the units but instead learning it through conversion. It's the same problem US people have with trying to learn the SI. They learn the units by relating them to units they already know, instead of to non-unit reference points. The rub though is you're probably not gonna find an Imperial ruler where you live at if you don't live in the US, Canada, or UK, whereas pretty much every American has a ruler with SI units on it. YES! Metric is alive in the US, it's just that it languishes unused in favor of the habit side of the instrument.
Actually I am from the metric world.... and my father is a doctor... and even here they still use the unit of different fruits for tumors because 9 cm diameter does not explain the volume of an irregular shaped 'tumor'. Fruit is pretty catchy!
I heard about a doctor who always gives measurements in metric. He once told a patient (American), that he had to insert a rod 600mm into him.(through the rear end". The patient was OK with that until someone told him that 600mm was "two feet".
Metric System is 10 times better...Pun intended
Lol
lmao...
I would stretch it to 1000 ;)
It's 10^n better.
Not exactly. I think it´s 10yd 2ft 9in times better :)
The metric system is so freaking easy though...
cgsoldier4196 I hate people that use the imperial system
+Flynn Hendry you a metric nazi..... "No soup for you!"
ason robert Id rather be a metric nazi then use the imperial system
+Flynn Hendry "No soup for you"
+ason robert you know why you don't like it because you all dumb
I always enjoying teasing my American flat mate about the imperial system while he stayed with us in Berlin. Whenever weight or length came up in any conversation I would turn to him: "Oh let me translate that for you. In your system that is about 2 foxtails and a horse wagon wheel." "That weight equals around three fat cats in your system" and so on... Oh good fun :)
You know up here in Canada, we have to have signs right by the American Border telling American Taurus that the 60 on the speed sign is in kilometers not miles and that 60 miles is quite a bit faster then the actual speed limit. Often times you get people who just assume that the speed limit sign and the distance signs are in Imperial. Or ask you how many miles per hour 90 km/h is.
Na, dann hattest du ja echt viel, viel Spass mit ihm *hust*
Daniel D Lol, that comment 🤣
Very funny indeed !
They measure their distances in burgers per freedom
Good.
1000 liter = 1 m³
1ft³ = 7.48052 US gallons = 6.22884 Imp. gallons.
1 meter of water of pressure = 1000 kg/m³* 9.81 N/kg* 1 m=9810 N/m²=9810 Pa =9,81 kPa
1 feet of water pressure= 1.938 slug/ft³*32.174 lb/slug*1 ft=62.353lb/ft²
62.353lb/ft²*1 ft²/144 in² = 0.433 lb/in²=0.433 PSI
I work in water treatment in Canada and seriously I'm forced to work with some USA equipement. So, I calculate in metric and convert at the last moment in imperial. So.
1 inch =2,54 cm
1 gallons = 3.78541l
1 mgal (this one is weird because we use a metric prefix lol) = 378 541 m³
1PSI = 6.895 kPa
1 US gpm = 5.450976 m³/d or 3.7854 l/min
And I hate you USA.
And the arbitrary retarded roller coaster is based on the metric system, so you actually convert twice, just for added "fun!".
So you admit to approximating force based on mass? You don't bother to actually measure the force? Those of us south of the border can't help your lazy ass.
I measure the pressure and try to convert measurements. Your point ? Pressure is a force divided by the surface of application.
My point is that this series of threads is dominated by how stupid U.S. standard measurements are and, by implication, how superior and perfect, "metric," measurements are. And yet people working in metric often don't understand units either. A kilogram is not a weight. If you are "weighing" out something on a kilogram scale, there is a basic fudge factor being used. A kilogram is a mass unit. A newton is a derived unit of force (that force required to accelerate 1 kg [exact] at 1 m/s [exact]). A 1 kilogram mass only exerts approximately 9.81 N in a static case near sea level.
In other words, "metric" is fine for approximations, but so are U.S. standard measurements. The main problem with U.S. standard units is that they are not in as wide-spread use as "metric," and thus cause conversion headaches.
Mark M Nice point Sir. I had this exact conversat with a colleague last week.
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade-which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount
of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in
it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does
it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck
yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” Wild Thing by Josh Bazell.
This is fun but unfortunately the proper official SI unit for energy is the joule (J), the calorie is not even considered an "acceptable" non-SI usage. And then it all doesn't work straight.
@@mike4ty4 - Actually, the Joule works just fine. Yes, it takes a different number to heat water one degree, but ALL natural numbers are subject to variation based on the substance and dimension type being measured. The underlying unites are easy to use.
Actually, we've been trying to convert to the metric system since The Metric Act of 1866
Still, no one is using it
Lol
Actually you already use the metric system, since all your measurements are legally defined with the metric system.
As a teacher, yaaasssss to that last part! We need reform (and as a math teacher, yes we need metric).
Go live in Eurasia if U want metric so bad, then you can get a "kilometer length one" in your pooper, then you'll be saying " yaaasssss " for real and loving it too, I'm sure.
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the same with football. who the hell play football with the hands?
Why do you play water polo with no horses? It's called "football" because most of the scoring was done by kicking the ball.
strontium73 snap.
I believe it was called football in America because the ball was a foot long.
I will say it once and I will say it again, It is nothing to do with kicking the ball, It is 12 inches (1 foot) in length.
I know right 😂
The best thing about metric, at least in my opinion is the easy conversion between volume, length and weight. cubic decimeter=1liter=1kg of water
I think you meant 1 cubic deciMETER :oP
Yes, thank you for correcting that mistake
It is so simplistic and easy.. Even frisian can't do it!
metre* litre*
@@jmlepunk They're both correct, I prefer liter and meter since it's the same spelling in Dutch
we measure speed by km/h instead of burger donut per bald eagle
lol the same applies to me, when I hear an american says something is 9inches long I stay like dafuq? how many CM is that you freak? lol
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22.86 cm to be exact
+Djordje Petrovic You wrote "22.86 cm to be exact" which is exact, and shows that 230 mm or 220 mm would have been a better "approximation"!
After all, was the "9 inches" an exact measurement - or just an estimation in the first place?
Actually the majority of Americans (you know, the whole continent) use the metric system. Like, most of the countries.
that's one and a half penises.
Well, look at the bright side - Americans have converted from using roman numerals.
Not those in Hollywood :-)
just don't tell them those are Arab numbers or they might throw a hissy fit.
Simone Pagnotta "Arab" numbers are from India
Oh yea? That's news to me. Could you link me a source of something? Because I enjoy learning new things.
Yes, Arabic Numerals were invented in India. They were later adopted in Arabia and spread to Europe via Arabia. Hence, we call them Arabic Numerals. Don't tell Trump that Muslims gave us our number system. We may end up going back to Roman Numerals.
How easy is imperial:
1cubic foot = 7.48gal
1gal of water weighs= 8.34lb
How hard is metric:
1cubic centimeter= 1milliliter of water= 1 gram
Imperial is old system. In france people have continued to speak with old system during longtime. Mygrand mother said bread of 2 livers ... but a liver sant same value everywhere...
Or for wood.. in west of france 1 stere of wood is 3 cubic meter ...but 2 in east ...
this table might explain it better
1meter=10decimeters(dm)
1meter=100centimeters(cm)
1meter=1000milimeters(mm)
.....
We are in the digital world now..change to Hexadecimal...or even better..to SI units
Seb In Spaace! We have decimeters but it isn't really used as much as others
we have but we don't use it because centimeters and milimeters are used commercially, we also have a decameter and hectometer, 10 and 100 meters respectively.
Milli = 0.001x
Centi = 0.01x
Deci = 0.1x
Deca = 10x
Hecto = 100x
Kilo = 1000x
The part I can never comprehend is that the USA uses a metric system for their money and have no problem using it in athletics but somehow can't understand it for anything else.
Stephen Hodgson ....we can understand it, we just don't give a shit about it
@@wren9463 yeah, cause this is murica. Freedom, freedom.
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Bunch of arrogant cunts, using a stupid ass system.
@@wren9463 Why ? Identity?
@@sergioroap No stubbornness
Imperial is easy : convert to metric, do your stuff, convert to imperial
Go Metric America!
We tried. It didn't take.
It didn't take because the switch was voluntary.
If it had been compulsory, then you'd be with everyone else by now.
hansfunkengruven4270 so everyone that is not an American is a communist... makes sense
America, you know the continent, mostly uses metric except a country called United States
@@TheN9nth you should be a dictator. You're probably good at it.
The US said "fuck the metric system", and then added "I'm just gonna define my imperial units by the metric standards, just to make sure" .
9 cm grapefruit? That's a small ass grapefruit!
It's "organic" :'D
that's what I thought. 9cm is more like an apple..
A small one at that.
Some grapefruits are much larger, but the average grapefruit is closer to 9 cm in diameter than the average apple or lemon.
It isn't that small. Assuming that it's the circumference.
Me:how many feet are in a mile
My friend: 5280
Me:is there any way i can remember that easily
My friend: yes 5 tomatoes because it sounds like 5280
Me:oh ok if you want to remember how many meters there are in a kilo just remember 1000
How the fuck can someone fail at learning the metric system? You don't even have to learn anything for everyday life. Unless remembering three words qualifies as learning. Just look at all the units in the imperial system like right now, it's a clusterfuck.
If Americans are so stupid, then how come they understand a system that the world doesn't understand? And why is there nothing in between of centimeters and meters? What if I want less than a meter? Uh, tough shit, I guess I gotta remember to have a ruler with centimeters, which so fucking tiny that I gotta use a magnifying glass to see.
Decimeter.
It is not one system, it is a lot of systems!
(How many cubic inches of airtanks do I need to keep a 1200 pound boat from sinking?)
Nathan there is no need for anything between the centimetre and a metre. You just say something is 30, 60 or what ever centimetre. there is decimetre but no one uses it because it's not really needed. it's only useful to remember that a 10X10x10 cm (1x1x1dm) cube of water is a litre in volume and weights 1 kg. which is 1/1000 of a cubic metre, 1m^3 of water weighing a (metric) ton.
Because all the units are base 10 to convert one unit to another you just move the decimal point around. the only stupid thing is that time is base 60, so speed conversions get stupid(scientific m/s to every day km/h), but i imagine converting ft/s to mil/h gets even more convoluted.
Nathan... all the world change to a functional system but the Users (All the country in America are americans, and so all the peole in the continent) not....
I think that is pretty easy understand that the one don´t change to a easier and universal system is the stupid. Not sorry: Is not "I think" is "ALL THE PLANET KNOW"
And you, with the copy paste from yourself, are more than the rest. how can you put thats lot of dead-brain shit in so little space?
Only Wanda Sykes could take something as mundane as a system of measurement, and make it so damn funny.
I scared the crap out of my mom last year when I drove her someplace after returning from a trip to Canada and forgot to reset my odometer back to MPH from km/h.
“You’re going too fast!!!”
“No I’m not.”
“You’re going 46 in a 25 zone!! Slow down!!”
“That’s kilometers per hour mom. I forgot to set it back.”
I thought I was going to need the car interior deep cleaned for a minute.
that... is just hilarious..
“Imperial: invented by people who married their cousins”.
Still used by people who marry their cousins.
I'm 20 years old European. I can easily tell you how imperial system sucks. I'm 158 cm in metric. Pretty short, right? But in imperial if I had to be absolutely correct I would be 5'2.2"! YES! FIVE FOOT TWO POINT TWO INCHES! Cause imperial system shortens me for about two centimeters! That's why imperial sucks.
Actually we don't usually use decimal points for inches. We use fractions! So you would have to say you're 5'2" and a quarter. Or 5'2" and a 1/6th. It's insane! Doing construction work involves so much unnecessary math because of all the damn fractions.
.2 is about 3/16”.
Excellent height )
@@landonhill4914 I thought someone is taking piss of me when they were explaining this to me for the first time. I could not believe someone would do that to themselves.
You actually can't concentrate in class if you are worried about getting shot.
The people who killed the metric system had brains 9 centimeters in length. Excuse me, I meant the size of a grape.
The "Metric System" (SI) is alive and well. It is used by about 95% of the population of the world.
There are but a few "outliers", representing only about 5% of the population of the world which do not use SI in their everyday activities.
However, the corporations which manufacture the goods that they use, do use Si in their manufacturing processes. Then, they "translate" the dimensions concerned into US Customary measurements at the last minute to describe their products to their obdurate US Customers.
I meant in the US.
Please re-read my comment.
SI is alive and well in US manufacturing corporations.
While some "States" have tried to take the final step, your Federal Government has not taken this step of making SI the only system which is "Legal for Trade".
(Grapes vary in size. Large ones could be about 30 mm in diameter, which would mean a volume of about 10.6 cc)
World's largest grape.
@@jackmehoff9204 they don't know the metric system, more like the size of half a large banana
America uses miles to prevent enemy invasions. When an invading army reads a US milage sign and confuses it for kilometers, they end up stopping several miles (or kilometers) short of a town they're supposed to invade. This gives defending forces time to mobilize a counterattack.
American: "Take your metric system somewhere else. Here in Murica we love our body parts!"
Oh yeah they love their body parts so much that they shorten me!
How tall is the tower?
About 24.4 arms
How much is that?
Eh, roughly 50 heads
Oh
@@InessaMaxinova and they fatten them
Metric system is so simple even an american can do it. Oh wait..
I just died at the Etch-a-Sketch bit xD Wanda is an amazing stand-up comedian
I like how fuel prices in the USA have fractions in them.
They are the only industry allowed to do that AFAIK. For the oil companies, their accounts want to screw people out of every last 9/10th of a penny. And it's even a coin we don't need anymore!
Born and raised in the united states, and I love the metric system. The imperial system simply makes no sense. In imperial you have to convert through each step because in many cases the conversion is different for each step. In metric, you just move the decimal.
harshbarj. we really did try to switch over to the metric system many years ago, but we never finished the process. they had to change all of the machinery over to metric and so on. maybe we ran out of $$? gave up? said "fuck it", like how Wanda Sykes said in the video? I remember trying to learn metric system in school. it was hard. just not enough practice using it in real life, I think that was the problem.
The imperial system uses measurements that people actually want to use, as opposed to measurements arbitrarily made up by 18th century Frenchmen. The millimetre is not a practical measurement, the inch and the foot are.
The milligram is not a practical measurement , the ounce is.
Measurement is the quantification of matter, not mathematical games with the number 10.
People that are adjusted to more intellectually challenging systems have difficulty dumbing down to simplistic metric systems that work better on paper yet have no legitimacy in practical usage for real world applications.
Bradley R That is pure bullshit.
The inch is in no way a practical measurement. What the hell is one inch long?
What? An Inchworm? And I guarantee your foot isn’t 12 inches long, and even if it was, who gives a shit?
You don’t walk with each foot directly in front of the last one, you walk with your feet extended. Therefore, what is the foot supposed to signify? Nothing. Nothing useful, anyway. Also, if you love the imperial system so much, answer these WITHOUT looking up the answers:
How many teaspoons are in a cubic mile?
How many square feet are in an acre?
How many gallons are in a cubic yard?
How many inches are in a rod?
Don’t know what a rod is? Its 30.5 yards. 30.5. Not 30, not even 31, 30.5 yards.
Use the metric system.
Sincerely,
-An American ( who uses the metric system )
Wait until they find out they’ve been using Arabic numbers all this time 😂
Indun-arabic or to be specific.
Arabs didn't invent those numerals
The imperial system is derived from the metric system .
Americans : the imperial system got us on the moon.
Yeah after the computer converted metric data to display imperial numbers for the astronauts.
I don't need to be smarter than a 5th grader. We have lots of them here in America. If I need to know something, I'll ask em. Nuff said! lol
I'm American. I ride a 600cc motorcycle. My car engine is 3.7 liters. Once I figured out that all you need is 1 gram of weed to get you pretty high. I have a computer which runs at 3.2 Gigahertz speed and has a 500 Gigabyte hard drive. It also has a 2 Terabyte external storage. We use metric, alright.
still have to convert to km when i wanna drive somewhere cause all the signs are in miles.. 20 and 3/4 mile.. WTF?
Funny thing is, the USA actually joined the SI some time ago. All the imerial units are derived from the metric units. Wikipedia say: Since 1959, [the foot has] been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly.
She’s absolutely right.
Metric system is a lot easier and more accurate!!
She said about 9cm is about 4 inches
It's 3.54 inches, so closer to 4 than 3.
1 Inch = 2.54CM
So yea, about. Don't think that extra CM is going to make much difference if you have a tumor that big xD
I love the ironic slap in the face she gives us for being lazy.
Metric is easy guys, a water cube measuring 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm takes up 1 cm³ of space, holds 1 mL of water and has a mass of 1 gram.
Just shifting the decimal is soooo complicated. We'd rather go with 12/24/3/640/22 whatever...
the big problem when you teach someone the metric system that already knows the imperial one is that you keep trying to convert the numbers. Fuck the conversion just go straight back to basic.
A practical approach to the metric system would be of paramount importance in facilitating any change. For example, here in India were use kilometres per litre to measure fuel efficiency. My maid here who is illiterate uses the metric every hour of her life- she only doesn't know its called the "metric system". As a matter of fact, she doesn't even know it's English!!
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Kilometers are shorter than miles, so it would seem the Russians are further away from Amerika, because the number of kilometers is larger at the same distance compared with miles.
British people weigh them selves in teacups per stone
I still don't get it: There are 100 cents in a Dollar. There are 100 centimeters in a metre. What is so hard to understand???? Children are also afraid of changing things they know. Are all Americans children??????
We tried switching back in the 70's. Roads signs started appearing in kilometers and meters. Products started having metric measurements on them. I remember teachers saying "it's going to be so much better, you watch", and then suddenly the movement fizzled out. When gasoline started being sold in liters that created a lot of confusion, and then somewhere around 1979 or 1980 the whole movement fell by the wayside. Right to the point where by the mid 80's nobody was even talking about it anymore. There's still a few road signs in the Arizona desert that have the distances in kilometers and meters, but that's about it. We actually do use the metric system in many fields. Pharmacists use it to measure drugs. Alcohol is sold in milliliters. Cooking wear is measured in both metric and English standard system. The speedometer in your car is in both KPH and MPH. Soda is in one and two liter bottles. Doctors use it. Scientists use it. The military uses it. And there's a lot of hybrid measurements like "grams per ounce". So we're about half and half even though it's not officially recognized.
@RobotShlomo : Should be 1980. Reagan admin took over, politics did a hard turn to the right.
Metric System: 1cm
Imperial System: thirtysix seventeenth of an Albuquerque rodent sphincter
Saay Whaaat
@@supreme3376 Albuquerque rodent sphincter.
Metric System for most Canadians.
Temperature - Celsius (if you are under 50)
Distance, Speed and Measurement - Inches, Feet, Metres, Kilometres
Cooking - Fahrenheit, Spoons, Cups, Pounds
Drinking - Ounces, Millilitres, Litres
Weight - Ounces, Pounds, Grams, Kilograms, Imperial Ton, Metric Ton.
At least though born in the mid 70s to mid 80s it really is a hybrid of the two.
I am 5'11" 178cm, 190lbs, The ceiling is 8 feet high, I want about an inch cut off my hair, I'm about 3 kilometres from the grocery store. The corner store is about 400 metres from the house. I prefer a beer in a 16oz cup I buy 500ml bottles most of the time sometimes they are no bigger than a 355ml can though. It is about 27C degrees outside but I usually set the Oven to 450F degrees when I'm baking.
She is sooooo funny! Also she is telling the whole truth!
Diagnoses in fruiteze! Great stuff!
Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures:
Liberia.
Myanmar (a.k.a. “the country formerly known as Burma”)
United States of America
Liberia and Burma are already on their way to convert to metric
shelbybray ......and this effects you personally; how?
I'm Canadian... I remember when I started engineering school I was sooo confused because teachers talked to us about using 4/10 inches bolts and about rendering thing in inches and I was like wtf is this ish! Whyyyyy! I only learned the metric system at school! And we only use metric in physics! then I remembered that we work a lot with the USA and that most of our pieces probably come from the US. Sooo yeah, we have to learn a new system just to be able to use their parts.
Also, as much as we like to pretend, lets be real! Everything here is in imperial. Like you will buy a 4x12 at reno depot and your apartment will be 300 square feet, and you will be 5'9" and your pool will be 98 degrees, and you will bake your cookies at 425 F... sooo yeah. The only place we use metric is for distances and velocity...
this woman is way way and i mean way more funnier than amy schumer..
Pure genius!!! Love her!
(1km =1,000m=100,000cm | 0ºcelsius=freezes water, 100º=boils water) so simple, my dream is never talk about fuking feet and fahrenheit anymore.
I wanna rest of that show
This woman is the truth.
This video is brilliant
As an engineering student who went to univ in 1990 in the U.S., please understand that we did most of our learning with the metric system. As Wanda said, doctors in the U.S. use the metric system.
The reason we have not converted is that there are a lot of machines that create imperial size parts (steel beams, bars, tubes, etc.) The people who make these machines are not eager to switch to metric because then they have to compete with the rest of the world. It would be worth it in a few years to switch, but the initial change would be extremely expensive. It will happen now that the new machine tools are CNC and units mean almost nothing.
Great bit
Jesus this is funny. Why is Amy Schumer famous when this lady is out here doing standup? This is the funniest bit I've ever seen by a female comedian (not that their bad just not very many of them)
Science uses metric system in America. And SI is also recommended for industry by the government and is being applied on a voluntary basis to be competitive in the world. And all your non-SI units are defined through SI ! That's why the US has "translators", people who translate the SI units into customary units so that the stubborn American citizens can keep using the obsolete units in their daily lives. Exceptionalism gone wrong.
Even the Brits have got the hang of it.
I buy chimney liner. We buy by the Meter but 5, 6 or 7 inch liner
Wanda. Smart, funny and gorgeous.
All science is made in metric. Then converted to archaic measurements, for the unfortunate to understand and do the parts somewhat right...
JUST RIGHT, WANDA!! BOTH THUMBS UP!!
6 years later, murica goes "lets arm the teachers" lel
It's the "Metric Wanda Friggn Sykes" - great show..
Just bought a 2 Liter bottle of Pepsi. Who says we don't use the metric system.
Because it’s ‘litre’ and not ‘liter.’
@@kendrickbritto8556 In "American" Spelling Liter is the accepted spelling. I suppose you also put a "U" in color.
Oh, It also passes the CZcams spellchecker.
@@AI_Image_Master yeah yeah i got that man
@@AI_Image_Master I was just making the joke that it has to be ‘Unamerican’ but my statement is far out vague😅
Please no offense man! Love the USA from India 😎
Yay for metric system. It's so much easier . 1 kg is 1 kg, 1cm is 1cm.
1in is 1in
Perhaps you've never used/don't know metric system, hence your preference. To each his own. I find it people who know metric system learn imperial system much faster/easier than people who are used to the imperial system.
Get this - there have to be two defining points to define a scale. Do you know what points there are to define the Farenheit temperature scale? The 0 is just a random temperature Farenheit managed to achieve some 200 years ago and 100 is the cow's rectal temperature. So if you say "it is -12°F out there" it means "it is twelve degrees less than a temperature some dude 200 years ago managed to achieve" and "it is 200°F" it means "It is twice as hot as cow's ass"... Compare it to the celsius scale - 0°C is freezing of water, 100°C is boiling. So -12°C means "if you hang out out there without clothes, your ass will freeze to death" and "120°C" means "don't go/touch it, your ass will boil to death". I see that maybe the cow's ass can be for some cowfukers in the southern USA very practical defining point, but for the rest of us - isn't the celsius scale a little bit more practical? By the way, Farenheit never intended the 100°F to be the cow's ass temperature, it was meant to be a human body temperature, but he messed up. It leaves me to wonder... How stupid that guy had to be to mistake a cow's ass for a human body?! He had to have a very bad friends to hang out with... All of them cow's asses...
+Thrust vectoring While passing over most of your 'rant", it should be mentioned that 200°F is NOT twice as hot as 100°F
200°F is only 17.87% hotter/warmer/greater than 100°F
This is because 200°F = 366.48°K
and 100°F = 310.93°K
366.48 is 17.87% greater than 310.93
see thats fucked
FrodoOne1 Proof that Farenheit is crap. And Imperial in general
Well, same thing goes for metric system in that regard tho. For example 100 °C = 373.15 K and 200 °C = 473.15 K. So 200 °C is 27% greater than 100 °C.
Cribble Horst Lol Kelvin and Celsius are essentially the same thing. To convert to Kelvin you just add 273.15 and you're done. The only difference is that Kelvin has only positive values for temperature, because it begins from the absolute zero. Otherwise, Kelvin has the same scaling with Celsius. E.g., 20°C - 5°C = 15°C and 293.15K - 278.15K = 15K. This is not true for Fahrenheit though.
This video is being suggested again in July 2023 because in the UK, government ministers are trying to prop up BREXIT by proposing a return to the Imperial measures system. Some stupid ideas never die.
Unfortunately, every "Education System" starts at home, about 6 years before the kid gets anywhere near a school.
You're right, girl! I agree with you 100%
you guys got the better language thoug
NASA switched to the metric system after loosing a 4 million worth satellite...
And they lost another one worth 125 million because one of their suppliers supplied them with imperial data. Now everybody facepalm!
Well put Mark M, much better than my rant.
I like how they all laugh even thoug its the harsh truth
Why they don't make a law that makes everyone shows both metric and imperial systems on their products (both have to be well showed and imperial can't be more emphasized then metric)? this way ppl can slowly get used to metric overtime.
They (we, actually, I am from USA but I'm 110% in favor of the metric system) DO have that - grams are on every foodstuff along with lbs and oz, and there are even thermometers marked up in Celsius alongside Fahrenheit. The trouble is the weathermen all show the forecasts in Fahrenheit and all the food weighing scales are in lbs and oz and not g and kg meaning a lot of the metric is already there; but people _refuse to use it_ .
Murica:
-Let's no have king, we're not empire, we're united states, we're liberty?
Also Murica:
-There is a metric system. What? It was created logically instead of random references? BULLSHIT! Let's stick to the imperial one!
One meter is:
1.0000 m
10.000 dm
100.00 cm
1000.0 mm
Just move the decimal point
there must be something wrong if an industrial nation is using a system which is based on three barley corns.
Sauzechn The metric system is inferior for building and construction. 12 is useful due to being perfectly able to be cut in halves, quarters, and thirds. This probably is a major contributing factor for why most major engineering disasters happen in metric nations. If you have no issues reading a clock as 24 hrs or using 7-day weeks or programming in 16-base hexadecimal, I see no reason to be limited by using only 10 scales for measures. Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe metric is so simple just so simpletons can grasp it easier and not be expected to learn math beyond their number of fingers?
bullshit! simple as that.. fractions are way easier with metric! You just dont understand the number 10!
I wonder what is more easy to learn..if you dont know any system and try both and make a choice. Im born metric and tried to understand imperial..after over a decade i still have to google. Feels like every imperial unit comes with a weird name and the prefix "About an"
That's because you aren't used to using the units but instead learning it through conversion. It's the same problem US people have with trying to learn the SI. They learn the units by relating them to units they already know, instead of to non-unit reference points. The rub though is you're probably not gonna find an Imperial ruler where you live at if you don't live in the US, Canada, or UK, whereas pretty much every American has a ruler with SI units on it. YES! Metric is alive in the US, it's just that it languishes unused in favor of the habit side of the instrument.
The metric System is the best 👍
Probably best to learn both systems, then you're covered!
@Maxx Kroes a lot of countries teach two or three languages in school. Most people in Europe can speak two languages (e.g. German and English).
I thought it was how far up a Faren could fly.
Okay I use the metric system and all but this shit's funny
Actually I am from the metric world.... and my father is a doctor... and even here they still use the unit of different fruits for tumors because 9 cm diameter does not explain the volume of an irregular shaped 'tumor'. Fruit is pretty catchy!
I heard about a doctor who always gives measurements in metric. He once told a patient (American), that he had to insert a rod 600mm into him.(through the rear end". The patient was OK with that until someone told him that 600mm was "two feet".
She's awesome....
Gotta love Wanda Sykes...
compute this: how many 1/16ths of an inch are in a mile? tell me how long it took you.
16 x 12 x 5280 = 1,013,760 1/16th
Can you do that in your head? No you cant!
The imperial system is so dumb you have to use 'olympic sized swimming pool', 'Statue of Liberty', and 'football field' as units of measurement.
what is the name of this comedian? She is really good
Wanda Sykes lol😂 and no disrespect just curious are you American?
Where can I buy a 9 cm grapefruit?
You can really see the Chris Rock influence in this. Not bad!
etch-a-sketch!:)
She's very funny. :)