Haruka explains Canadian Measurement system to Henya and Ari
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As a Canadian I've shown this chart to so many people and everyone laughs bc of how insanely accurate it is. I will say tho that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do we use miles or mph, it's just put in small text on our cars speedometers in case we accidentally venture into the states
I will say older people do sometimes say the distance in miles as do some runners depending on the distance they are training.
Oh so the inverse of how the speedometers are set up down here then, neat.
Canada turned metric but the proximity to the USA forced imperial on us partially.
Wanna sell your product to the USA? Better have imperial on it! You bought it from the USA? Its in imperial so i hope you understand it.
This.
Driving distances are measured in hours, never miles or kilometers.
Miles and mph are for exaggerations I find. stuff like "goddamn you sent them a mile away" or "that car's going a million miles an hour". otherwise Km or km/h.
or y'know, hours and minutes.
Canada was too polite to even break the heart of one system of measurement.
It's more a matter of having to liease and trade with the Americans and that alot of the things we buy come from the US and are in imperial. Hence the cooking and pool temperature being imperial but everything else is metric. Also any machines are often in both. Including aircraft.
im english and can confirm stones is a unit of measurment for weight in the uk
14 pounds = 1 stone
@@user-lv5rd6kb5o also = 7kg......................ish
Yup, but only used with regard to the weight of a person, and only in casual conversation. Just another holdout from times past, one that'll probably gone in another few decades.
Isn't it roughly 10 kilograms?
More surprised American's don't use Stone for personal weight, they already started shifting size numbers, why not hide the extra pounds... behind a stone :P
Me, another canadian, at the beginning of the video: No we don't
Me, when Haruka shows the Chart: oooooh, we totally do
Why not for cooking though, when metric is more accurate? I understand distance or temp of the pool, but for cooking, especially for baking accuracy is important.
@hannesh234 likely because alot of recipes were made before the switch/for American audiences
@@MiniEnder American volumetric systems are different as we don’t use imperial
Canada: Stuck between two current systems... a lot of it probably becasue of proximity with the US, if we're being honest.
UK, breaking out PRESTANDARD IMPERIAL UNITS at random just to fuck with people. Ringfit in England asks for your weight not in Kilogram, but in STONE. WHAT THE FUCK, DAYO?!
Does it actually ask for it in stone?! That's crazy dayo! Most younger people in england don't even know what stone is...
Except Canada uses mystic and imperial
While the USA uses US Customary
And despite having the same names for every measure some of them are significantly different (like 1 USC gallon is .8 imperial gallon)
Sorry autocorrect metric*
The US actually uses pre-imperial units. *Some* units (distance and weight) were standardized with the international yard and pound, which is why the US has "Survey" units which are the per-standardisation units, but then the units of volume differ (e.g. a pint is 473mL in the US versus 568mL in the UK) because the UK uses the imperial system while the US system is derived from the pre-imperial "english customary" system. So when talking about the US, "imperial" is not actually imperial, it's more properly "US customary".
Most of the products you get off the shelf are made by Canadian branches for canadians. They do not have to have those measurements except that most Canadians still use them.
When I look at a thing of meat that only has grams on it I am looking for how many pounds it has.
I am not looking at what it is in multiples of 1000g, I am looking at it in multiples of 454g because that's a pound.
A pound is a decent amount of meat for a meal, a kilogram is not making it not a valid measurement for the purpose.
This also does link back into that actual chart which is about right for the most part.
If you want small amounts (which is basically anything under a ton for weight or 1,000 km for distance/height) there's no reason to use metric.
One of the grocery stores I go to, for example, is about half a mile away. I know the calculation to transfer that but I have never done so because it doesn't matter how many kilometers away it is. It's a few minutes from my home, not a road trip vacation.
Also fun fact the gallons used in the USA are different than the gallons used in the UK (and Canada I think when we used them).
True, in fact all of the volume measurements are different
Because the USA doesn’t use the imperial system
@@drthmik And then lengths are only the same due to a standardisation treaty, they used to be different too.
I worked in a US manufacturing plant.
It was like Canada we used imperial and metric at the same time. To the point blueprints would swap back and forth on the same print.
The USA doesn’t use imperial
We use the US Customary system
And while they are largely the same, being based on the same older system
There are some significant differences
Are you launching something into space? Metric
Unless you want to create the worlds most expensive explosion or crater.
Or miss entirely, which is what led the US to switch all of their contractor's work to metric.
I'm Canadian and I can understand all of this perfectly
Same
Funnily enough, I’m not even Canadian and I also understand this mostly. Only part I have a problem with is the 'Is it very heavy' part. But that’s mainly due to me being used to a Ton (or Tonne if in the UK) being around the range of 1k to 2k lbs, I think it was around 1.600 or something.
And despite being a Texan that lives in a household that uses Imperial, I just find the Metric system easier for conversions anyhow. No fussing about 'How many of this to make that', it’s just 1k each time. 1.000 meters is a kilometer and 1.000 grams for a kilogram for instance, while temperature 0 is freeze, 100 is boiling, 20-21 is normal.
So the actual situation for why it is so messy in Canada and why the USA does not use metric is a bit different then what Ari and Haruka thought.
Canada had never previously used metric, it used Imperial as it was largely a vassal of the United Kingdom which used Imperial. In the 1960s there was a decision of we should move to metric coinciding with similar efforts in the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. In 1982 in the USA, in 1985 in Canada, and 1985 in the UK Metrication stalled as the federal governments ofthe country chose to get rid of the federal comissions and boards responsible for Metrication. The USA very much could in the future have Metrication which would leave Myanmar and Liberia as the only countries that officially don't use Metric almost at all.
In Aerospace in the USA metric is used as not using the same measurements in airplanes has lead to multiple major accidents. The biggest thing stopping efforts in improving metrication in all countries where it hasn't been done is just cultural resistance to change, as well as the age and private industry. Gas ovens in Canada even 25 years ago still sometimes were solely in imperial.
It's a little more complicated than that in the US, and yeah. Both you and Ari are right.
To swap just the road signs to metric would take somewhere on the order of hundreds of billions. And that's just road signs of all things. There's tons of other things that are similar to that and would also be expensive.
On the other hand, as Ari said, lots of our stuff is already metric. All of our food is legally required to have metric measurements if Imperial is listed on it for example.
Don't underestimate the power of inertia. America's big and has a ton of it.
@@MrSJPowell "To swap just the road signs to metric would take somewhere on the order of hundreds of billions. And that's just road signs of all things. There's tons of other things that are similar to that and would also be expensive."
Things like this get said alot but it's just not true. Things don't last forever they'll need replacing sooner or later just do it then. Cars already have to have both anyway.
@TheAkashicTraveller distances posts cannot be replaced like that because you would physically have to go out and plant entirely new posts at different locations for each kilometer irrespective of when it comes time for the signs with miles on it to get replaced.
@@TheAkashicTraveller I could not think of anything more chaotic and painful than the hodgepodge mix of metric and imperial signs as they replace some with metric while waiting for others to degrade more. The resulting cost of all the mix-ups and accidents which would be a consequence of that would far outpace any savings associated with gradual/interspersed replacement.
Both are to extent correct but we where going to switch to metric back when metric was being created in the 1790's. But the kilogram standered which is used to grow a measurement system never made it to the United States to be adopted. Some Pirates decided to sink the ship and we went to the imperial system instead. Then we came to using it so long that it is just a money thing at this point.
I remember the late 70's in northern Canada when the road signs started changing from 50 to 80. Lot of speeding tickets for those who didn't notice the little km/h under the number.
I can shed some light on this.
Canada made the change a little right around the 1970s, when many of the parents of my generation would be well through school, and these things can take time, having finally finished in 1985, and because they weren't in school much longer, they didn't have a chance to learn the metiric system too thoroughly. But, obviously, with official documentation, certain things had to be learned, but others, there was no reason too. If you look at the flow chart, the things you would do around your own home, for example, personal height and weight, cooking, short distances, etc. something you would use in day to day like talking with people, are imperial, since they would use the system they grew up with at home. Meanwhile, anything relating to legal things or work, like speed limits, large objects that would be products with weight labels on them which were metric by law, or anything that required precise measurement in work, would use metric.
Temperature is an interesting one in that, when taking someone's temperature for a fever, you use farenheit, but for weather, because all the weather channels made the switch to Celcius, it was something everyone had to learn, at least in terms of what temperatures in Celcius were good or bad.
As for my generation, well, kids learn by immitation and observation. So, since our parents would use this strange measurement system they had to develop due to the change, we instead learned it as our natural way of looking at measurements. If I look at my height, or the size of house, I think feet. If I think of something far, I think how many kilometers an hour I need to drive to get there in a certain time.
Another added factor is that, living next to the USA, we are exposed to a lot of USA media, which of course uses imperial, so we also hear that growing up.
So yeah, the flow chart is sort of the results of the change happening right when a generation was finishing their education, and thus, didn't have time to learn it in school, and then didn't have a reason to do so once they left,
As a child of the 70s, I’ve been waiting all my life for the old folk to pass away so I can do my carpentry et al in metric in peace… It’s going to take longer than my life for that to happen, I’m sure.
Another big part of it is the residential construction industry is still heavily influenced by importing and exporting with the US. Plywood and lumber are all in feet, stud walls are still built 16" on centre and so anything that interfaces with that is in feet/inches. Not to mention many of the older tradespersons didn't want to switch over from what they had years of experience in measuring and estimating sizes. And as they teach their apprentices the change to metric in construction is slow. Then with all the commercial construction still being in imperial it leads to anyone doing any DIY to having to deal with and understand imperial too.
The USA doesn’t use imperial
We never have
We use the US customary system, and yes, there is a difference
Example: 1 usc gallon = .8 imp gallon
@drthmik Interesting! I always wondered why things that were labeled as a gallon seemed slightly smaller in person when compared to what I'd see in pictures and in screens.
I admit my ignorance on the difference between the US customary and imperial, though in my diffence, I have heard many Americans call it the imperial system, possible thinking the two to be synonymous.
Still, while imperial and us customary may have different values, the fact that many of the terms are still the same, meant cross border trade, as well as the large amount of American media Canadians consume, helped keep the terms in use within Canada.
@@lollypopalopicus Probably
My parents moved to Canada right when the switch to Metric started
and they had to learn both Metric and Imperial at the same time
And it is Ironic that Canada uses ºC for weather as the ºF scale has 0ºF set at the temperature that Saltwater friezes which is very helpful in the winter as you know when salting the roads stops working
Simultaneous "Pain..." "Pain..."
You want pain
My parents moved to Canada right when the switch started
And contrary to popular belief the USA doesn’t use Imperial measurements
So they had to learn both metric AND Imperial measurements at the same time
Fluid Ounces. Troy Ounces. You learn something new every day.
Doesn't mean I like it, but it exists.
In the UK you more or less need a chart like that.
Speeds? All imperial, miles per hour. Unless we're talking sciences, then it's 100% metric.
Distances? Road signs are imperial, informal usage is almost invariably imperial, but in a professional or official context everything is metric (often by law).
Temperature? All metric, but speak to senile old farts and they still think in fahrenheit.
Mass? Again, informal usage tends towards imperial, official is in metric.
Volume? For really small quantities you'll still get spoons as measurements (but that's practical, who the f is going to measure out 5ml of something?), but generally metric now. Except drinks at pubs, you still buy a pint of beer.
Mostly the UK is just a country that was deeply stuck in the old ways, but is mid-transition to the new. Outside of speeds and distances on the road signs, basically everything is being pushed into metric, the country only retaining imperial units because that's all old people understand, a problem that's going to solve itself within another generation or two.
UK also uses Fahrenheit for temperature when it's hot outside and they want to complain about it.
@@fwiffo No, not true in general. It might happen rarely as a joke or within certain friend groups but that's it.
@@TheAkashicTraveller There was a whole episode of Black Books about it.
@@fwiffo Do you mean the 2000-2004 Tv show? Because if so that date says it all.
All of this also depends on your generation. Even in casual, informal contexts, I'm using metric. As are all of my friends. For reference I am 23 now.
Interestingly tho, back when I was working as a machinist. The boomers would use this rotary table fixture on their milling machines, which the unit was hours, minutes and seconds. Then some fractions of seconds. This is for angles of rotation!
So 6 hours = 180 degrees
1 hour = 30
30 minutes = 15
And so on... insanity.
She missed time. Canada uses YYYY-MM-DD, DD-MM-YYYY, and MM-DD-YYYY depending on the situation.
Not to mention driving distance is in hours
Atleast they don't also use 'stones.'
How about elms, furlongs, hands, decimetres, nautical miles, and chains?
We will now
@@user-lv5rd6kb5o you left out Dekameter (dam as the unit symbol) and many more
@@HrLBolle Honestly never heard of that one: thanks.
Let's not start on currency: pony, monkey, cockles. It's like a zoo.
I've seen a couple of clips from this stream so far. I can't wait for the VOD to pop up on CZcams.😂
Haru: this is what a society that switched from imperial to metric looks like.
Ari: we can’t switch at all 🤷♀️
To be fair, she's right. Just imagine how much work it'd be to go all around the US and change all the MPH signs to KPH signs. Then imagine all the problems people would get into after the change where they'd see "80 KPH" on a sign and think it's "80 MPH" and go way too fast.
@@rhawkas2637 we did it in Canada, that was the point.
@@rhawkas2637Everyone else did it though
If henya wanted to learn about stone she's best asking Froot and obikat
Stone is very much a real type of measurement.
"Ain't no fairy story, ain't no skin & bones, but she's given all she got, weighin' in at nineteen stone"
AC/DC 'Whole Lotta Rosie'
Not sure if stone is a weight measurement In all of the UK, but people I've met from Scotland and Ireland use it, but only for body weight.
Same in England
In the UK we use both. Imperial and metric, so you can go to the vuildes and get a 2x4 piece of wood and m3 screws to hold it together.
While metric is based around everything being divisible by 10's, imperil is all about ratios. Thus the seemingly random numbers.
Also Henya teaching Ari and Haruka an English word and them not believing her was hilarious.
That's why imperial is used in certain areas like construction. You can divide 1 foot by 3 (4 inches), but dividing 1 meter by 3 is 33.333333333(etc.) cm.
@@Ragnell123 Thing is you can't actually divide a 1 foot anything into 4 inch sections anyway because you lose some when cutting.
>he doesn't compensate for blade width?
>Lol,lmao?
Me as a Canadian I never say Can we buy a gallon of milk I always say Can we get a Litre of Milk
It's so much worse with Imperial units, because there's US and Imperial versions of each unit. For instance, there are actually *three* versions of the fluid ounce: the Imperial fluid ounce that's 1/20th of an Imperial pint, the US customary fluid ounce that's 1/16th of a US liquid pint, and the US food labeling fluid ounce that's exactly 30 ml. That's right, the fluid ounce on food labeling in the US is, in fact, an Imperial unit that is defined in *metric*. And the other two are different fractions of different pints, but they're only like 5% different because the US pint is like 20% bigger than the Imperial one! And don't get me started on tons....
tbf a us customary fluid ounce is like 29.6 ml, and all our units are ultimately derived from metric units. here's a few exact conversions:
- 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters
- 1 gallon = 231 cubic inches
- 1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms
- fahrenheit = take celsius, multiply by 9, divide by 5, add 32
2:52 Ari is just Confirming that 'Imperial' Mindset.
3:25 NA being clueless about european meassurement trivia classic
All 3 of US, UK, and Canada are mixed systems to varying degrees but the world only gets mad at the US, despite being the one most accommodating to both.
In the US, water and Soda are in ML with fluid OZ underneath while Milk and juices are in quarts and Gallons with liters underneath. Speedometers have MPH on top but with KPH underneath and rulers for school have inches on one side and CM and MM on the other. Even Temp we often have both in most analog thermometers and digital ones can be changed.
?? The UK at least is just as accomodating.
That's just a federal law requiring product labeling to include metric. In practice, Americans are generally unaware that this is even a law. If they even notice the metric information on product labels they figure it's just a corpo/science thing.
As for the companies, any company that has a global presence is functionally metric because it's just easier/cheaper. Car speedometers in America have both because the manufacturer of that speedometer usually makes the same speedometers for the global market anyway.
@@silbury2325worth noting our bottled drinks (except for milk and alternatives) are usually aligned to metric measurements when in amounts below a gallon. 500mL bottles are pervasive, i'm starting to see 700mL and 1L bottles of water and such, and 2L bottles of soda have been around for decades, to the point "a two-liter" is often thrown around as short for "a two liter bottle of soda"
we don't use other metric units much outside of science and specific sports (like track and running) tho.
@@dead-claudia Yeah, around 20 years ago it was more common to find mainstream products like, say, "Head & Shoulders", in round imperial quantities.
These days, if a product is sold in round Imperial units, it's very likely a small business limited to doing business regionally or within the USA.
_"rulers for school have inches on one side and cm and mm on the other"_
That's the case for the entire world. Well, unless the ruler only has one labeled side, but measuring tapes and folding rules that you use in, like, construction always have both. I think this is the rest of the world accomodating the imperial countries rather than the other way around.
In some parts of Canada (especially near the boarder), they use metric, imperial and US customary; so that petrol can can say "4.5 L, 0.99 Imp. Gal., 1.19 US Gal." Which is *wild*.
But yes, the UK does use stones. Which means that a ton weighs more in the UK than the US. What we agree on is that an ounce (oz) is 28.3 g, and a pound (lb) 453.6 g; but that's where it falls apart - a stone is 14 lb, so 6.35 kg, and then there's this thing called a hundredweight (cwt). In the US a hundredweight is 100 lb (45.36 kg), in the UK it's 8 stone, which is 112 lb (50.8 kg). A ton in both systems is 20 cwt, which makes 2000 lb in the US (907.2 kg) and 2240 lb in the UK (1016.1 kg).
Oh, and the imperial/UK fluid ounce is different to US one. The imperial floz is the volume of 1 oz of water, the US floz is 1/128 US gallons, where a gallon is 231 cubic inches...
Even in measuring lengths in work related things we use both. For precision it’s metric and anything else it’s imperial. Also in industries the measurement changes depending on where machines come from. Screws and parts are measured differently and won’t fit if you pick the wrong measurement system.
If you see weirdly specific volumes for soft drinks in Canada, this is why. Sure, we have 500ml and 2L bottles, but you'll also see the following very often: 237 ml (mainly for glass bottles), 355 ml (most cans are like this), 473 ml (only saw Fanta plastic bottles use that one actually), 591 ml (plastic bottles love this one) and 710 ml (large beer cans and plastic bottles).
237 ml is 8 fluid ounces, 355 ml is 12 fluid ounces, 473 ml is 16 fluid oz, 591 ml is 20 oz and 710 ml is 24 oz
Same in the UK, we have both.
lol we use both in Nicaragua
In Canada, when driving any real distance both Metric and Imperial are abandoned for time: such as, that town is a 4 hour drive away.
Oh man, I can't wait for them stumble across "gauge" and the many MANY variants it has across various fields and products.
Now we just need to see them all enact a play with a Florida Wizard of Oz.
I'm old enough to not get confused by it. Imperial wasn't taught in school by the time I came around, but my mother taught it to me, because it was still common in her time. I think it was later reintroduced at a high school level during Home Ec. and the more social science aspects of other subjects, like Geography when it came to populations living near dams, coastlines and weather.
Puerto Rico also uses Imperial and Metric systems.
Speed? MPH. Distance? Kilometers.
Fluids? Imperial, unless it's fuels like gasoline, which is sold by liters, except in US military bases, where it's sold by gallons.
In the automotive world in general, modern vehicles are tooled to use the metric system, but older vehicles use Imperial. That's why tools come in both systems. Yet in measuring for parts tolerances in engines, Imperial is the most used unit, but instead of fractions, decimals are used.
It's a confusing world of measurements out there, but it's not so bad once you get used to it.
Converting, however, is a whole other beast.
america definitely also uses metric, just in a less defined way than canada. in addition to its use in the aerospace industry, it shows up with certain foods and drinks (like a 2L bottle of soda). it’s also taught in most science classes these days, so metrication in the US would honestly be a lot easier than people realize
I live in Louisville Kentucky, we have both imp and metric on part of Dixie Highway.
There is also the pica and point. Both used for typing
Canadian land is divided up by miles as well. One section is a mile by a mile square. The ranges that hunters use here is mostly measured by yards as well
That chart is pretty accurate. There are provinces that we will measure distance in Time, instead of saying the actual Km between where you are and where you are going. I'm not sure about all the of them though.
The reason we have both is because Canada used to use Metric for a very long time. If you find old enough vehicles, their speedometers will just be in Miles, even if the vehicle was made and sold in Canada.
As of this writing the UK still uses MPH for their speed limit signs. Last time I was there it was still used by the public too. Basically even if you if you switch you often still end up with a situation currently like the USA, because while it is really important to be exact for that rocket ship motor, it's less so with gam gam's cookie recipe. And it's not always easy to get people to change.
Also, the logic behind imperial measurements is just that it tries to have things dvisible into 4ths and 3rds as much as possible. That's it. Not always consistent because it not terribly precise at the end of the day.
What it really amounts to is that imperial was about daily use.
Most metric measurements have no use in daily life.
As I mentioned somewhere else if you want a decent portion of meat for a meal you're looking at a pound.
You're not going to go up to someone and say 454 g because it isn't useful as a number.
And it gets even worse if you try and make it kilograms because then you're adding a decimal to it making it even longer.
No one wants to use the longer number because it's a waste of your time and in the case of products it's often a waste of ink and therefore money. Not a lot of money or any given single product, sure, but it all adds up the more product you sell with pointlessly long numbers on it.
6:17 I could be wrong but it’s not about science necessarily. They just wanted a more easily measurable standard. The meter is supposed to represent 1/1 millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the equator (which is not). 0 degrees Celsius is when water freezes unlike Kelvins where it means the absence of heat. Both imperial and metric systems are arbitrary, one is just easier to use.
How to use both:
Is it related to cooking? Yes. -> Imperial system.
Is it related to your body? Yes. -> Imperial system
Everything else -> Metric system
Exception: Temperature
if your location gets really hot °F
if your location gets really cold °C
A simple guide to understanding what Canadians use and when we use them: Whatever the hell we want to use whenever the hell we want. It's so individual in my experience.
Haruka was wrong, Canada doesn't use both. Some individuals use both, some private stores use both for public facing things, but legally we are a metric country, all legal dealings use metric. You won't see both KPH and MPH on road signs anywhere in Canada, grocery weights are in grams, kg, when you look at a receipt. She never leaves her house, so she doesn't know!
That said, it gets even worse, because Canadian Imperial isn't the same as US Customary Units. For example, a Canadian Gallon is 4.54L, a US Gallon is 3.78L. A pint of beer in Canada legally has to be 20oz/591mL and not 16oz/473mL, or they can lose their liquor license.
wait till she learns Californian measurements, where we measure distance in TIME.
"So how far is it?"
"about 6 hours. "
Is that by foot or by vehicle??
Canada does that too in a lot of areas. Like I know that the city is an hour away. How long of a distance is it? I have a vague idea of it being roughly 110km give or take 20km accounting for route. The valley is the same for me being half an hour away, so 45km give or take 10km. If someone asks me how far it is to get to something I'll do the same as you folks. Km is just our official measurement on roads and distances. Time is what everybody around here uses anyway. Maybe in like Toronto or Vancouver they'll use distances but where I am, it's time.
@@yong9613 both. "oh it's a good 15 minute hike from here, nothing to far."
@@yong9613In LA the traffic is so bad those two measurements are the same. XD
But yeah, it’s by vehicle, since this is America and we don’t walk anywhere, and you’re not judging the actual distance, you’re judging how long it takes to get there going at normal vehicle speeds with normal traffic. You don’t need the time measurement as much for walking since the distance will tell you roughly how long it will take to get there, since traffic rarely affects walking time. It’s for car travel that we break out the “it’s 45 minutes away” kind of thing, because the distance doesn’t always correspond to how long it takes to get there.
If something is 50 miles away but something else is 25 miles away, they’re equally pains in the ass to get to if the 50 miles is on open roads and takes 50 minutes to get there, but the 25 miles is through a city and because of traffic also take 50 minutes to get there.
@@korben600 Well, fair enough, I don't live in the states, so I was just saying off the top of my head and closer to where I live and work currently. (small city, almost everywhere within walking distance, unless it's offshore)
We here in Finland only use metric. It's so nice. Only exception is recepies and only tea spoon and spoon but it's easy since tea spoon is always 5ml and spoon 15ml
The most interesting freedom unit I even seen is foot-pound or the equivalent of Joules (or N*m), the unit for energy. There is also Rankine, absolute zero scale but in increments of Fahrenheit instead of Celsius like Kelvin. Just the absolute obstinacy to keep Imperial units in science.
I think there's a refrence to stone in a AC/DC song "whole lot of Rosie."
Way to confuse the poor girl that is already distracted by shiny objects and the jingling of keys!
Its real funny that the USA's first and likely only possible chance to transition to Metric was thwarted by Pirates (Brittish Privateers specifically in this case). After that, Imperal became too entrenched to work its way out.
Though we have half swapped over in a lot of ways. Scientific applications almost always use Metric if only because its meant to sync up with the rest of the world. But like was stated, Daily use is imperial because Trillions have already been spent on infrastructure that was designed using it. Trying to merge nice numbers for inches and MM just doesn't work, becuase no one is going to ask for the 17.4625 mm wrench to use on the bolt that was designed to be 11/16ths of an inch. Its a long and slow process that requires generations of intentional effort we barely started.
I still have a chip on my shoulder for getting docked points on a science project for not using metric. I was in elementary or middle school and I don’t think I had ever heard metric actually used before
This is so true.
When you are building a fence around your property, your property measurement is in meters.
*But your material lengths are all in feet and inches!!*
As a Canadian this is totally accurate
Please also don't forget the Big Ounce, which is equal to one praire dog in Waco Texas.
An ounce is a unit of weight, while a fluid ounce is a unit of volume.
henya should watch al murray why its called great britain explains everything you need to know about the metric / imperial system
There are three countries who still use imperial, two of them previous British colonies. The U.S., Burma/Myanmar, and the non-British colony, Liberia. Which was established by help from the United States, so that's an easy one. Burma, no goddamn clue. And then the good old 'Murica. I could be getting the story wrong, but what happened is when the metric system became a thing. The British so kindly sent a ship to bring the United States knowledge of it. However the War of 1812 was happening and the ship was captured. And that's why (maybe, again I could be wrong, I heard this story a while back.) we use the imperial system.
As a Canadian, can confirm this chart is accurate lol
The best part is that the USA doesn’t use imperial
And we never have
We use the US customary system
And while some of the measures are the same, some are NOT even though they use the same words
Need to get the chain and rod measurements that where used in the original surveying of land. Then we could take the girls down the Fathom and knots for ocean going people. Then older time measurements would make their brains explode. The greatest would be showing them the table of the different miles that exited and all varied.
I personally think its hilarious, how the americans always say, that they dont use the metric system. When in reality its already there and some are using it without knowing xD
-The entire medical field uses metric units. When interacting with patients certain data, such as their height and weight, is presented in imperial units.
-The US military uses metric extensively to ensure interoperability with allied forces (STANAG). Ground forces have measured distances in "klicks", slang for kilometers, since 1918. Most military firearms are measured in metric units, beginning with the M-14 which was introduced in 1957, although there are a few exceptions, such as .50-caliber guns.
-In the US, handguns chambered for 9mm ammunition are best sellers in the civilian market, 9mm is metric.
-She earns "80k" a year. "k" means kilo, like in kilometer=1000meter or kilogramm=1000gramm, that "k" is metric, the imperial version is "grand".
-Cars are now universally built with metric parts, due to globalization of manufacturing. Build in metric, advertised in imperial.
-Gemstones and pearls are sold in metric carats.
-The metric units ampere, volt, ohm and coulomb for electricity and energy are the only units used.
-Consumer-size photographic film is commonly sold in a 35 mm standard (24×36 mm negative), although print sizes and large format films are defined in inches.
-Wine is sold in standard bottles of 750 mL, as in the rest of the world. A fifth of liquor, once one-fifth of a U.S. gallon, or 757 mL, is now commonly 750 mL, though it is still referred to as "a fifth".
-Newer units introduced by engineers and scientists from the 18th century onwards, such as volts, megapixels, and kilotons and megatons of TNT, are generally formulated in terms of powers of 10 of the metric system.
In short, the US uses both, they just dont want to admit it. xD
Just wait until they tell Ari about Short Ton, Ton, and Long Ton. Oh and Metric Ton.
As a Brit I can confirm that yes we do use stones (14 pounds) as a measure of weight.
I went to the UK and it switched from Metric speed to Miles per hour and I am just like dude wtf?
As someone who is friends with people in the UK, I can confirm stones is a unit of measurement they use over there
lol as a Canadian I never realized this .
To to the fun, there is 16 mm in an inch, but 12 inches make a foot, a yard is 3 feet... and that inch we started with... can be divided by 4'ths, 8'ths or the usual 16'ths...
ICANT Henya's first ever gaslighting... well technically. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who else would actually watch a Florida Wizard of Oz?
Instead of Dorothy and her pet dog, it's Mila and her pet gator that get swept up by a hurricane
2:39, No, we refuse to
This is the first time I’ve seen the chart and why is it so accurate?? How did we ALL learn this???
The only two changes I'd make would be:
1) distance is in time, not in metric.
2) when you measure you height **and your length**😉
2:23 the real reason we don't is much, much stupider than that. Back in the late 1700s and early 1800s, America's leaders ready to go metric. They were men of the Enlightenment and could clearly see the superiority of metric. BUT! Back then "a kilogram" was defined as "what this specific lump of metal in France weighs" (yes, metric is French). So naturally, every country needed an incredibly precise copy of the kilogram. The French ship carrying America's replica kilogram was blown off course in 1793 and subsequently attacked by English privateers. The Brits were rather rude to the man carrying the kilogram that would have kickstarted America's metric integration and held him captive until he died. And that's how pirates in the Caribbean prevented the adoption of the metric system in the US.
edit: spelling
I was told uk uses stone because they already use pounds for money so it would be confusing.
I can handle competing units with different names, but I cannot stand competing units that share the same name.
-Short Ton (US Ton): 2,000 pounds
-Long Ton (Imperial Ton): 2,240 pounds
-Metric Ton (Tonne): 1,000 kilograms (~2,204.62 pounds)
-US Fluid Ounce (volume): ~29.57 milliliters
-UK Fluid Ounce (volume): ~28.41 milliliters
-US and UK ounce (weight): ~28.35 grams
-US Gallon: 128 fluid ounces (~3.785 liters)
-UK Gallon (Imperial Gallon): 160 fluid ounces (~4.546 liters)
-US Pint: 16 fluid ounces (~473.18 milliliters)
-UK Pint: 20 fluid ounces (~568.26 milliliters)
-US Quart: 32 fluid ounces (~0.946 liters)
-UK Quart: 40 fluid ounces (~1.136 liters)
You forgot the most commonly used "ton": the fuckton. =P
You don't see miles on anything in Canada EXCEPT on speed signs near a border crossing where you see both to let them Americans know that 80 km = 50 mph and that kinda thing.
A lot of countries switched to metric after their monarchs were overthrown (with some outliers like the US, UK, Germany, and Italy). The French were the first to fully adopt the metric system (to the point they used metric time, i.e. the Revolutionary Calendar) and it spread through Europe via Napoléon.
tbf the four you named kicked out their monarchs before the metric system became a thing
Canada officially uses metric, and we do it for everything official. We use Imperial for unofficial things, because they're easier to rationalize. Also, the use of imperial on traffic signs isn't univeral and is mostly near the border to help American's traveling here because too often you'd get some idiot coming up here, seeing 100 on the signs and driving 100 miles an hour when its 100 km/h (which is closer to 60 miles an hour). The cooking stuff on the chart is purely personal preference. I know on the east coast we are purely metric for temperature and measurements except for powders.
As a Canadian, we really are f**ked up
If anyone is curious, no Quebec is not exempt from this chart madness. This is one thing where every canadian wether english or french share. The exception for french canadian is that distance is always measured with meters/kilometers and to my knowledge, miles are never used. Maybe because the word for it in french is pronounced the same as 1000 so it might get confusing but I have no way of confirming this.
Correction: Below "no" on height, the next question should have been "Is it for sports?", "Yes: imperial", "No:...(back to 'is it a long distance?' in tree)
Wizard of OZ actually relates to OZ as ounce for weight because the original story is about the gold and silver standards. So Henya is actually kinda right for the weight, and Ari ended up right as well.
This is fake. For one, Baum always insisted the name OZ came from glancing at a filing cabinet and seeing the "O-Z" drawer.
I don't actually watch Haruka but she has my favorite Fugi png
I think all of En needs this be they company or independent
They forgot time a measurement of distance. "How long to "", about 3 hours. Is understood by most any Canadian.
FREEDOM UNITS ALL THE WAY!!!!
yea i was watching this and was sad they never went back to the "stones" thing. the maple syrup thing was funny as hell tho.
yeah distance is always metric except for measuring your height or very short distances then its foot and inches ex: 5 foot 8 inches (5' 8") and for temp is always metric too except for cooking, (i never knew about the pool temp thing) for some reason all cooking instructions are all in F° idk why, also never knew about work related for distance lol and yeah weight is imperial for measuring a human (ex 180 pounds) never knew extreme weights were in metric, i always used to measure vehicle weight in pounds too. Lol and for volume its always liters and milliliters even for cooking (ex: 250 milliliters of water or 1 cup) didnt know a cup was imperial measurement lol we do use teaspoon and tablespoon for measuring small amounts when cooking (tsp, tbsp)
I got told that the only reason we use F° for cooking is because most of ours ovens came from USA a while ago (and they use F°); we just kept using F° since then.
@@Doranos89 Really? Interesting, make sense lol thanks!
Wait till she learns that there are multiples of imperial units, gallons have both US and UK meanings which are different! (US gallons are smaller)
Yeah the Uk's system is similarly a mess though I think we're a little more metric. Also I'm not sure what canada uses but imperial and US customary actually have quite a few differences a US pint is smaller than an imperial pint for example. Also when driving here we use miles and mph but the fuel pump is in liters so none of us actually understand the fuel efficiency number.
A Stone is 14lbs and is primarily used to measure the mass of People, not sure if they measure animals anymore in stones, probably KG or lbs or tonne + lbs.
Money is a problem of not converting to the metric system but the biggest barrier is cultural. As long as people don’t use it, it will never catch on.
I changed my map phone to metric and it has changed my world. I know EXACTLY when to turn and go around stuff.
Imagine the map telling you to turn in 0. 5 miles..... wtf oh wait lets change it to feet, whatver that means.
The imperial used by the US every incomplete... Henya mentioned stone (14 lbs) but there's other stuff as well like furlong (just under 8000 inches).
Fathoms, Cubits, Handspans, Palms, Chains, Links, Hogsheads, Butts, there's so many obscure units to choose from!
USA is metric, signed the treaty of the meter too, and the imperial system is a legally coded conversion from metric in the USA. Canada just had so many problems with people and businesses in USA so canada just sub adopted it. Again.
England uses "stone" for weight of people.
Sea-miles and "knots" are also used. Sea-mile is not same as mile..
Feet and ounce used to differ per country. So the meter and kilogram was a really important in getting all countries on the same "foot".
Of course nautical miles aren't the same as overland miles, that would be ridiculous!