Shrek nah to imperial then shrek yah with metric.
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[โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Growing up in the Metric environment, I only have to deal with the Imperial system very rarely before the Internet. But later, I found out there's a whole country that only use Imperial, and that they almost always demand you convert your system to the one they understand, and almost never bothered with Metric when they write anything. But then again, I found out that they also use units that are totally novel. I just have to accept that this is the character of them, and continue using Metric.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There is no country that only uses Imperial. Americans use grams for weed. And technically what the US uses is called US Customary. Some units are different from Imperial. Funny thing is both Imperial and US Customary are legally defined in metric.

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  • Yeah measures like a foot were never standardized across countries using imperial before napolean introduced metric, as the french foot was 13 inches or so, making napolean at least as tall as putin and not the 5 1 under that measure.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's because they believe they're so exceptional that everything that works for the rest of the world doesn't work for them.

    That includes not only the metric system but also things like healthcare, student debt and gun control.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably. Because their understanding of metric is next to none. So they don't even know what to convert it to. We also often take for granted with that we grow up with.

    It wasn't until I was 25 that I realized woodworking and sewing, isn't part of the normal elementary school curriculum abroad.

    It's far from easy for someone that grew up in a different system to get a good reference of what different units feel like. It's the kind of change you need multiple new generations for.

    The only reference Americans have for metric is 9mm

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