I hate imperial measurements!

[PennyArcade]

Oh god, how I hate imperial measurements! It is a useless measurement system when the metric system is clearly better.

Couple examples:

- In science, it would be insane using imperial measurements. Any measurement you wanted to convert into a smaller unit would have different values one would have to multiply by. Metric? you just go and extra " x 10^y" and you're basically done.

- At work, we manufacture instruments and use many fasteners (screws) and machine custom pieces. I'll take a metric hex socket screw and try to figure out which key to use. 3mm too big? ok, go with a 2.5mm key. ahhh... good. With imperial, I grab a 17/32 key which is too big. What's smaller? I have to convert that stupid fraction into a decimal and then take another key, look at it, then figure out another fraction to see if it is smaller. WTF is up with that?! The Metric keys are in decimals which makes much more sense.

And WHY do we still have Imperial? USA. Damn the American ancestors, sticking to the imperial measurements. You have a revolution against your British oppressors, yet you still keep their stupid measurements. Almost no one in the rest of the world uses the obviously inferior measuring technique... get with the times and use the right one.

long live metric!!!

[Talamasca]

I agree but that being said, I still prefer to use pounds when referring to weight and feet/inches when referring to height.

[steve.m]

[Headhunter]

^ Heh, classic.

I agree but that being said, I still prefer to use pounds when referring to weight and feet/inches when referring to height.

Those should be the only 2...

[canabiz]

I second this

Freaken American customer asked me how much is gas up here these days. I told him it's about 80 cents/litre

He then asked me how many litres in a gallon, I was like 'Doh' why do i have to know and why do i have to care to know ?

He then asked OK how much does it cost you to fill up a tank and that question certainly made more sense

[PennyArcade]

I agree but that being said, I still prefer to use pounds when referring to weight and feet/inches when referring to height.

In europe and asia (from my experience), they use cm and kg and they do NOT know how much pounds and inches really are.

It is another effect living beside the elephant.

[Jim123]

He then asked me how many litres in a gallon, I was like 'Doh' why do i have to know and why do i have to care to know ?

At that point you should ask if he means US gallons (3.785412 litres/US gallon) or Imperial gallons (4.54609 litres/Imperial gallon).

Then give him the answer in US hogsheads (63 US gallons = 1 US hogshead). When he looks confused, tell him that you thought he understood his measurement system. Then give him the answer in fluid ounces (1 fl. oz. = 0.02957 litres) and ask him to convert that to US gallons.

[JimG]

Interestingly, several imperial units are defined by metic units. Like 1 pound (lb) == 453.592 37 grams (g). They're not just equal, the pound is defined in grams, so if the definition of a gram changes, so does the definition of a pound. That makes the imperial system, the metric's bi***.

Jim

[Talamasca]

In europe and asia (from my experience), they use cm and kg and they do NOT know how much pounds and inches really are.

It is another effect living beside the elephant.

True but in the UK at least, road distances are still measured in miles.

[terribly]

It's odd reading UK car magazines - power ratings are in horsepower, torque is in Nm.

And - yes. Nothing cheeses me off more than imperial (minus, as the one poster mentioned, lbs and feet/inches).

I'm in engineering - If you gave me questions that weren't in metric, I think I'd have some trouble working them out. I wouldn't even know whether or not the final units I got were right :p

[NDman]

I have no problem with imperials for most of the daily stuff. I go by pounds on weight, most of the time. Grocery, they go by pound too, which is what I'm used to. When people ask me how tall I am, I tell them 6' even, not in cm. A lot of you are probably the same. You just don't realize how much imperial units you actually deal with everyday. Of coruse there's some more obscure ones then that's when it gets crazy.

[synaptech]

True but in the UK at least, road distances are still measured in miles.

Well I can't speak for all of UK, but Ireland has both... except of course they don't tell you which they're using km or mi hehehe, but pretty quick you see the old signs are in miles and the new in km

[Ripcat]

Oh god, how I hate imperial measurements! It is a useless measurement system when the metric system is clearly better.

- At work, we manufacture instruments and use many fasteners (screws) and machine custom pieces. I'll take a metric hex socket screw and try to figure out which key to use. 3mm too big? ok, go with a 2.5mm key. ahhh... good. With imperial, I grab a 17/32 key which is too big. What's smaller? I have to convert that stupid fraction into a decimal and then take another key, look at it, then figure out another fraction to see if it is smaller. WTF is up with that?! The Metric keys are in decimals which makes much more sense.

long live metric!!!

I agree that metric is a much better system.

I just dont understand your trouble with the allen wrenches. Sometimes it is too hard the read the size anyways. If I grab the wrong size I just slip it back in the handy carry case and grab the next size which is right beside the one I just put back. Doesnt matter whether they are Imperial or metric.

[Mint]

Another thumbs up for metric.

the equivalent of "grams" in imperial is a "slug".
What's a "slug"? Exactly! So messed up.

[webdoctors]

i hate imperial, even the how tall are you, 6 ft stuff, its annoying, i prefer cms