English Makes No Sense: Units of Measurement

Yeah, breeding address to 12 inches in his foot, that’s a really big foot

Bro definitely lives in new york

My yard is 5feet x 5 feet

😂

​@@AdventureCJso your yard isn't one yard

Canada: Uhhh I'm gonna use the french one... but also the american one... but not often...

UK: But also how many stones am I?

Also UK: "Let's sink the French ship carrying the units over to the US :D"

US: Also, some times instead of using my feet I'm going to use my hands.

​@@oliverknagg5109I think you wanted to say: "How stoned am I?" 😂

Entire world (except USA)

@@vighnesh153 UK: How many STONE do you weigh? (clue: there are 14 pounds in one stone)

Your profile pic is my favourite animal

​@@vighnesh153What about Liberia?

Nah, for some reason, human height makes more sense in feet and inches, while weight makes more intuitive sense in pounds...most likely through societal influence from the US/older generation who original learned those.

It's because the word "Pound" comes form "Libra Pondo".

Still can't be LB 😂 ​@@theshlauf

Which means lots of bullshit

​@@firasatef528 lb/libra. Oz/onza(medieval italia

@@firasatef528😂😂😂

Until you notice they're obsession with decimalization (which I love, they might have gone a bit too far with it during that brief period of the French 10 hour day, but I adore it)... Doesnt extend to their numbers. Quatre-vingt-dix-sept, anyone?

@@Stephen-Fox 97

And ...The "quatre-vingt dix sept" and the "soixante dix" (or worst "soixante treize "!!) is only in Metroplitain French. Not in North of France + Belgium + Switzerland + Quebec !! There is a start of explaination with some invasion by the Celt by the north of France, but they never have the other area... If it's simple, then it's less fun !!

@@Stephen-Fox 10 hours day would be great. It is not much different: 1 Decimal second = 0.864 seconds 1 Decimal minute = 1.44 minutes 1 Décime = 14.4 minutes (quarter) Transformation from km/h to m/s or km/day would be much easier.

All hail to the french revolution of 1789.

Except for outside temperature; everyone agrees that C is much easier than F.

And Quebec decided ' F that, were doing the opposite' as usual

Canadian here. Can confirm, this is accurate.

What?? 😅😅

@@corinna007 f is for the pool, c is form the outside

*calmly*

No that is how many of those it is Tall not how many the horse could fit.

Same! I have this trouble when American tourists ask how far something is. So I often just give them an estimated time it takes to get there, since distance in metres or feet will only confuse both of us.

inch and foot are easy to convert. I can even convert pound to kg quite easily. My problems start with ounces (sl or fl), stones, and last but not least, Fahrenheit. This is the formula: (212°F − 32) × 5/9 = 100°C How on earth does it make sense?

Personally I just created programs in my calculator that convert between our system and the American system. Saves a lot of times when watching American Media or commanding stuff from America.

@@SchultzDorinda care to share them?

Oh, you mean... 6'2 :smirk:

3 barleycorns in an inch.

We call inch 'a thumb' (tum) in Sweden.

@@joakimmoller That's basically because the definition of an inch is the length of the upper part of your thumb.

@@dschoene57 I know

in french too "un pouce"​@@joakimmoller

Traditionally, it's spelled "about YEA big." It's true that imperial measurements are often reasonably useful for eyeballing, but - who uses leagues anymore? And isn't 5 km/h a reasonable ballpark for walking speed? I bet if you'd grown up using the metric system, you'd eyeball stuff in metric units.

@@DrewLevitt I eyeball things in both, conversions are all super easy.

I understand you and it stems from how you grew up with metric or imperial system. People that grew up in a pure metric system eyeball everything in metric units. I am pretty good at eyeballing how many cm something is or how many meters something is apart. it is just what we are used to and our brain makes the eyeballing without thinking

The real question is why is the Kilogram the basic SI unit of mass and not the gram? Meter is good enough for legth so gram should be good enough for mass right?

​@@christianboehlefeld5168The only reason I can think about rn is because in the past people have more heavy things than they go lengthy ways. If that even makes sense.

Fun fact: back when currency was based on weights of precious metal, the pound Sterling got you a pound of sterling silver.

​@@btf_flotsam478Oh.

Wait until he hears about stones (14 lbs). Even the Americans struggle with that one.

I love slugs.

It's pretty basic once you realize the Roman word for pound was Libra.

​@@ColScoob right, ok, but the English weren't the Romans, nor do we speak Latin

​@@ChileSpiceNinjaThe upper classes in England used to speak Norman French, which is a descendant of Latin, and Latin was a liturgical language until the Church of England left the Catholic Church.

And pound in weight is lb 🤣

Man I blame all of you, non of you opposed it XD, why we still use it today? I read somewhere someone made the funniest excuse on how to remember how many feet in miles, and its rhymes with tomato, bruh how is that better than 1000m to 1km XD.

@@MaiZera-dl2vk Sorry, I was busy not existing in 1824

Sometimes I think the real answer is to bottleneck educational progress by introducing kids to confusing and dysfunctional "systems" instead of making them easier and more practical to understand. Then conveniently we're told to accept things as they are, and not to question the logic, which is then applied to greater socio-political issues. It feels very conspiratorial, but functionally I can see it operating that way.

Roughly a kilogram And don't forget to mention it have to be water since volume and weight is not the same thing. If you fill that cube with cooking oil it'll weight like 850 grams. I have to say this because some idiot actually weighted a litre of oil found it less than a kilogram and shame themselves on twitter

@@JeSt4m yes I hope I was specific enough that the density of water is 1g/cm³ Edit: what @nyeeeofthestarz1804 said

​@@theirishpotato3948you mean cm³ ?

Thats only water. Thats actually the base idea

Tis is at 4°C btw

14lbs = 1 stone, so he was offering to simplify the maths for you (in a way that wouldn't help you, but I understand it coz I'm British 😅) ... Yeah the UK is still a muddle of metric and imperial. Eg: your destination is 5 miles away, I am 5ft 6 & 12st 6... And yet I weigh cooking ingredients in g and measure furniture in cm 🤦🏻‍♀️ I still have no idea what heights and weights (of people) are in metric 😂 ... I'm hoping my son's generation will go purely metric, and not get all confused like us 80s/90s kids!

⁠@@hannahpaul1988I was born in the late 2000’s, so whether that a 2000’s kid or not idk, but it’s still the same here, no sign of changing yet. We still in the middle 😂

​@@hannahpaul1988 I think 90s kids are confused everywhere. 😂😂

@@hannahpaul1988 And what the actual f*ck is "lbs" then?

@@herrbonk3635pounds

Well, of course not. You're skipping a few steps: There are 5.5 yards in a rod, 4 rods in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, and 8 furlongs in a mile. :P

@@WarmongerGandhisurveyor detected. ;)

that's because it makes no sense, most people propably don't even know it

Pareil 😂 Same 😂

Native born American here. I only understand it because it’s what I grew up with. I can’t imagine how confusing it is for all of you.

I’m English and use metric, Americans use imperial (though us British do use it occasionally but only for bodies and cars)

​@@LMay11037pretty much the same here in canada. Km/h, kg for store food (usually) but lbs and feet for measuring people (ounces for babies and metric at the doctor's office)

Je suis totalement avec toi sur ce point

Not to mention the difference between troy pounds, which has 12 ounces, and avoirdupois pounds, which has 16 ounces. And the ounces are also not the same.

I work with food data and there are SOOOO MANY food workers who are like: "Well it says 12fl oz, so it just weighs 12 oz! Duh!" And then they look at me like I'M the stupid one. 🤦‍♀️

@AsuraSantosha Well, one fluid ounce of water is pretty close to one ounce of weight (1.043, officially, although it will depend on the temperature of the water). The system breaks down once you stop talking about water, though.

Don't forget gallons. US-gallons are different to GB-gallons (at least in the context of car efficiency, i.e. "miles per gallon" uses different volumes for US- and GB-gallons.)

@Gulgathydra Yes! That's the origin of confusing UoMs that sound the same but are not. But whenever I have this conversation with people, we are never talking about water. Lol.

Also the same name for mass and weight, pounds.

And money. :)

Or maybe a gallon, or a quart of gallon, or even an imperial gallon or a quart of imperial gallon.

I'm English and I've never heard of Imperial pints and gallons. Is that an American thing?

@@creative_carrie Imperial is the traditional British weights and measures, US Customary Units are what the US uses. Weights and lengths are identical (except Imperial includes stones), volumes are different, Imperial pint, quart and gallon are larger than the US counterpart (all by a factor of 1:1.2). The US fl oz is larger than the Imperial version but they only have 16 fl oz to a pint instead of 20.

Thanks to Napoleon to put it in place in the past.

Except for the fact that the earth doesn't have an exact circumference of 40,000 km.

@@delta-7operativeAK Close enough for 18th century standards

​@@delta-7operativeAK Doesn't matter. The meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

@@bentels5340 yes

If it only would be consistent....

Fun fact: in metric system EVERYTHING is divided by 10, no matter how big numbers you take. I think this trumps imperial convenience any time. :D

Are you insane?!

What a glorious idea ! Merci beaucoup ! 🤩

I have an idea! kila, hecta, deca, decia, centia, millia kilite, hecete, decete, decite, cenite, milite we play limbo, switch things up, and add one. millia, deca, hecta, decia, kila, milite hecete, kilite, decete, domile, cenite, millia and then we add animate and inanimate versions (obviously without consistency). milliata, decata, hectadeux, deciata, kilata, militeta heceteta, kiliteta, deceteta, domileta, ceniteta, milliata milliano, decano, hectanom deciano, kilano, militenoni heceteno, kilitemon, deceteno, domilio, ceniteno, millan Slap on the labels now! (Inconsistently.) Female Inanimate: milliata, decata, hecadeuxtal, deciata, kilata, militeta Female Animate: heceteta, kiliteta, deceteta, domileta, ceniteta, milliata Male Animate: milliano, decano, hectanom deciano, kilano, militenoni Male Inanimate: heceteno, kilitemon, deceteno, domilio, ceniteno, millan Someone else can do plurals, I'm too tired.

What do you mean? In french meter, kilogram, ampere and kelvin are masculine while second, candela and mole are feminine.

They are gendered though

Ofc we did. Units are masculine except the (metric) ton, which is feminine.

Don’t forget pints, millilitres, litres, UK gallons and °C

I can actually explain this though: - when you are a baby you are measured in pounds (lbs) and ounces (oz). When you are an adult you are weighed in stones (14lbs) and those too. Except medical where it’s done in kilos and most people know kilos unless you’re old or a bit posh. - Height is done in feet and inches but people I know all seem to know feet and inches. - Precise measurements of length are done in metric (mm, cm etc) - For shoe sizes we use both European and our own weird system - Now onto volume: for most drinks we use metric (mL, cL, L) except for beer which is in pints and milk which is normally sold in pint increments in litres (so your 1pint milk would have a 0.568L label and your 4pint milk is actually 2.272L). -More liquids (you shouldn’t drink these though) are petrol (gas in the States) and diesel. These are sold in pence per litre which is a very nice metric measurement but when you go into your car it will say miles per gallon (mpg) for efficiency. - That takes us nicely onto speed and long distances. We use mph and miles here but cars often have the km/h as smaller numbers underneath too. On the approach to a junction you will see slashes on rectangular signs (motorway is blue, green for (primary) A road and black and white for a non-primary route) there are three signs all 100 yards apart but people do tend to use metres (not to be confused with meter which is a device that measures things). - Another unit on cars is your tyre size. This is done in inches diameter for the metal wheel itself, mm for the width and a % of the width for the sidewall so cars seem to like to be mixed between the units. - On the railways they use miles and chains (80 per mile) and mph except on HS1 I think (bc of link between France and Britain) where they use km/h and trams use km/h too.

@@Ro99 The "UK gallon" is the proper Imperial Gallon. US uses the older Queen Anne's wine gallon.

And while petrol is purchased in litres, distance in the context of car journeys is measured in miles, meaning the unit for fuel efficiency that would actually make sense for how we deal with the act of driving would be... Miles to the litre... Which... Is an abomination that thankfully I've never seen anyone use. But km to the litre and miles to the gallon don't translate to distances and fuel purchases here and WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS

Sounds like Canada.. what's worse than a terrible system? Two systems, including a terrible one...

That is because this is not really "the french system" vs "the english system" but the metric system vs the imperial system. Nearly every country uses the metric system. I think the USA, Myanmar and Liberia are the only ones who use the imperial system. And the UK uses the metric system most if the time but for some things they still use imperial.

The USA (and presumably Liberia) use US Customary, not Imperial.

@@hermionelovegood9814 Metric system was invented by France in around 1790, hence why this sketch. France then exported this system all over the world and almost everyone adopted it

Not always though. My grand mother still uses imperial and gets confused with metric, even my mother uses both interchangeably. And I work in a place that uses a lot of food products and some of the imported pre packaged foods, more then you would think, only are in imperial, which makes it very confusing to me when we have to collect items by weight.

Australia is a very successful example of switching to metric. The US and UK are officially both metric but the customary units are imperial for a lot of people

No, the Imperial system started in the mid-1800s with the Imperial gallon. The Imperial system is younger than the metric, and the USA has never used the Imperial system. It was strictly in the British Empire. The USA uses a form of the traditional European systems, and before 1800, the French version was a howling mess. Their pound varied from one city to another!

What in heck is a barley corn

@@allyndeimos It's what defines English and American shoe sizes. It's a grain (actual plant seed length, not the unit of measurement measurement for weight smaller than an ounce that explains why so many medications are dosed in increments of 65mg).

@@hollyingraham3980 That's why, during the revolution, some wanted to make a standard measurement system. It has to be repeatable (anyone could recalculate it with the same definition) and simple (anyone should use it without too much math knowledge). They choosed earth as stalion : the meter is a 10 millionth of the distance between the equator and the pole.

@@warny1978 Actually, a cartographer wanted to make it easier to convert miles to arc degrees. Now, a mile is supposed to be 1,000 steps. Somewhere along the way it became 1,000 strides (two steps is a stride), so the cartographer set it back to 1,000 steps. Now, the average man's step is 30-40 inches, depending on leg length and the individual's casual pace. That step defines a yard, and the standard yard is 36 inches. The cartographer added three inches to make his yard better align with his conversion system. He then called his yard a meter, making his new mile a kilometer. And, based on measurements of earth they had at the time, the poles were 10,000 kilometers from the equator. With the new "mile," it suddenly became much easier to figure out how far you traveled on a map based on your starting and ending latitude and longitude. The REAL reason America didn't adopt this cartographer's new system was because its origin and purpose were hidden from us, and Britain's entire pitch was, "You should adopt the metric system to be more like us." You can guess how well that went over. So you can stop criticizing us for not conforming to the rest of the world and instead criticize Britain for making us think the metric system was just another new and pointless means of subjecting us to the crown.

Same question for almost all the world 😂

It's actually a TON of old measurements taken throughout time and different countries smashed together. Acre I English. Mile is Roman. Inch I believe I read was French. I think foot I German or something. They just took really popular units from around Europe and put them together. So Italians were using a mile. And the French were using the inch. And someone said, well how many inches are in a mile? Then a few hundred years later they standardized all of them to the inch. Then a few hundred years after that they ditched them for the hot new thing from France.

And they would be wrong. The principle of the old measurement (imperial / english / whateveryouwanttocallit) is one of useful aproximations for the age to which they were more commonly used. A Foot: Literally your foot - that's a foot. Gets standardized at some point, but generally speaking get a group of people in a town, and the foot would have been pretty close to the average foot size. A Yard - has to do with stride length (two strides maybe? I forget exactly). Furlong: Has to do with the land clearance capability of an average ox. Useful for dividing land between farmers, and maximizing yield of crops. A mile: Roman mile was defined as 1000 paces, the english was 8 furlongs. League: While no longer in use, was a celtic? unit defining aproximately the distance a person could walk in an hour or something akin to that. All of these measures adjusted, and altered slightly over time - but they certainly had a purpose, and were informative in their day. It's just, things of the day were less exacting, and they didn't need to be exact. Its' really only with the advent of industrialization that standardized measurements become necessary - and, the French going through a massive revolution wished to revitalize and be a powerful centre for commerce+trade, and figured that standardizing weights and measures in a means that were more precise, and less dependent on esoteric approximations would benefit France, and the world. Thus the metric system was born. But it should be noted, the metric system came to be only after calculation, and validation of certain presumptions were made, and they simply again: Did their best to achieve accurate results. What is interesting the polar circumfrance of the earth is defined by the Metric system - as north pole to equator is defined as 10 million units, or 10,000km - making the polar circumfrance 40,000km.

I still like the idea of drunk math nerds better.

I think they were just drunk. No mathematicians. 😂

@@majinjason Inches were French, but British inches and French inches were different length. That's why Napoleon being 5'2" is misleading. In British inches, he was about 5'7".

same here....

Wizard of Ounce

Funny, I though "weird choice, I would have talked about the pound which has neither l nor b and yet is abbreviated lb..."

Same!!🤣

Funnily enough, the Wizard of Oz is called like that because of the abbreviation (referring to ounces of gold). It's a very interesting topic, I recommend you read a bit on it ^^

IT INDEED DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, yet my British boyfriend still tries to convince me that it does 😂

Canadians are similar, we use a weird mix of metric and imperial measurements.

You guys invented the stupid system that we use, so I think it’s fair to blame the entire language.

@@AntjedePantje 😂😂

@@ericherde1 yes, we just decided to use both. And it's confusing sometimes tbh.

Real!

It’s not French, it’s Europe I’m pretty sure

It is french ... (1791 for metres and 1793 for gramms)

​@@JumKrozBow It’s basically everywhere outside of the Usa Edit: But French was indeed the first country to use them

@@timcrushcounter7100 the fact that I am French and I don’t even know that… I feel so dumb, but thank you

Hahaha perfect

no need for defense, it's tradition.

they both have their place much easier to do fractions with imperial simply because it's already a fraction system

Having moved to Canada, the worst is that you can’t buy some stuff in metric. Like drill bits, where do I get a 5mm?! They only have 7/32 or some sht like that

@@bryantaylor948 by imperial you mean the inches feet measurements ? i don't get it at all actually. Wouldn't it be easier to do fractions with a decimal system, where everything is regularly augmented by 10 ? genuine question, i just can't wrap my head around that system

And what about Fahrenheit 😜

Wouldn't we just use thousands of an ounce? US Customary is based off of metric.

@@jonathancaballeros3408 Good question. We could use one thousand of an ounce. The problem lies with time of calculations and typing without error. In my profession, I have to calculate dosing quickly. It's easy to say 1 thousand of a gram is 1 milligram. Is there a word for one thousand of an ounce? I would have to type out .001 ounce. This would eventually lead to errors. Causing errors in dosing will eventually lead to harm and me being sued by the victim. I can tell you that you will not find a pharmacist who do frequent calculations would want to use Imperial measurement in healthcare. I hope this helps. Feel free to question me again.

Once you get used to grain, it isn’t complicated. Just don’t mix it up with grams or even milligrams

@@Sqwan2 I agree. It’s just like how we use feet and inches. If used a few times it becomes easier. For my profession, it’s impractical. Grains is the smallest unit in the apothecary system. Because measurements are so much smaller than a milligram, we have to use micrograms. For example, an effective thyroid dose (levothyroxine 100mcg) would equal to 0.00154324 grains. If I had to use grains, it would drive me crazy.

@@ideasasopiates3129 I am used to the metric system. It is easier most of the time. But I will get along with imperial, too. You just get confused if try to convert it. Most likely it is similar with grs and mcg. If medication would have been in grain, you would think mcg is stupid. The customer would get 0.0015 grain.

It would've been too bad if we had to measure things by nostril-length. Also--shameless plug--I'm hoping some of you might like the music I make too :)

You think that's bad? How about furlong and beard-second? Yes, they are (somewhat) real, check Wikipedia.

Let's not forget hands and rods. Or "stone" for weight. Or "hog's head" for volume.

Don't give them ideas

It could be worse like measuring stuff by rectum, scrotum or the like. Lol 😂

I mean yes, but it's not anything inherent to the system itself, just the fact that two different systems of measure were in play.

@@survivordave it actually is related to the imperial system itself having no coherent relation between units.

​@tommerker8063 no it's not ? Something was wrong bc the European measurements were used and the other person thought it was imperial. That's not the fault of the imperial system.

Correction, the US Customary unit system

​@@booposreal The NASA is only using the metric system and they're doing that for a reason! The metric system is way more useful in science because it is really easy to convert one unit into a different one which is not the case in the imperial system.

See the fact that the whole scientific world decided to use metric/kilo/°C systems tells a lot about the imperial system in my opinion 😄

@@_heloangel_ As much as I agree that the imperial system isn't the greatest, the science community physically has to be standardized because of the vital information we share and how important it is for things to be exact, which is hard to get when doing conversions, and sometimes it can lead to a lot of confusion that can bring on other issues. In all honesty, though, I really couldn't care less about what system we use because I'm so bad at directions and distance perception (thanks neurodivergency) that I only base things off of how long it'll take 😂. Plus, the only measurements I ever need are for labs, so the only thing I need to really know is how height and body weight works, which I just base off of knowing my own height and the heights of the people around me, and the second someone's out of sight, I kinda forget how tall they are in comparison anyways, so oh well 🤣. As for weight, I literally only know my own and the typical range that I should be in, so it doesn't really affect me. I will say, though, I'm so used to Fahrenheit that I can't make the switch in my head to Celsius that easily. I know the temperatures I need for my labs and what to measure, but I couldn't tell ya the temperature outside. It's a whole other thing since measuring it in a small flask and knowing the temperature of that is different than being outside and feeling the temperature and just being able to tell

I am so sorry, I just realized how long that was, and editing it will only make it longer 😅. TLDR: science needs to be exact and avoid confusion, so standardized measurements are a must. Also, I couldn't care less about what system we use because I'm bad with both anyways and have to look up everything because neurodivergency makes perception hard :)

@@a.cuddle2514 "the science community physically has to be standardized because of the vital information we share and how important it is for things to be exact" Yeah, just ask NASA and Lockheed Martin about the Mars Climate Orbiter...

@@atmosfear667 yeahhhhhh we've learned our lesson many times 😅

Yep, there were Scottish miles as well and possibly Irish I'm not sure.

There were dozens of different lengths for miles all over Europe because they kept drifting and then getting re-standardised by different kings and empires over thousands of years. Since almost all of them are gone people have no idea how confusing it used to be before Metric. But for example, a modern Swedish mile is 10 Km!

The US mile and the Imperial mile were different until the late 1950s.

96 = "four twenties and sixteen" The "four twenties" part is there because you have to be high to think this is reasonable.

​@@oenrnI had french in school and I still remember the lesson when we learned how to count to 100😂

so someone with ADHD decided how to count in French 😂

96= nonante six ​@@oenrn

@@MZRandom Romand :-)

There are just too many reasons to not immigrate to the US. Health care. Gun violence. Maga. The maga supreme court. Voter suppression. Hurricanes. Tornados. Paper houses. Wildfire season. Lack of privacy die to complete surveillance. Untamed Corporate greed & capitalism. Christian fundamentalism. Karenism.

Just for my culture‚ what does Streitchholaschächtelchen mean?

...little wooden, uh... My German isn't good enough to decipher that, but it is at least theoretically possible to understand what it means from the individual parts of it.

​@@benikujaku4567 In the German language we often pur together several different words. "Streichholz" is Put together of the words "Streich" which comes from the Verb "streichen" and "Holz". It could be translated hast "rubbing wood" wich actually is a match. "Schächtelchen" comes from "Schachtel" which means box and by adding the "chen" and changing the a to an ä it becomes a small box. So a Streichholzschächtelchen is a small match box.

​@@benikujaku4567Matchbox :)

That abbreviation actually comes from the Latin word Libra and "libra pondo" for pound weight. That is not by choice of Americans

The Americans CHOSE to go with pounds and chose to use the Latin abbreviation for it. They didn't have to - like everyone else.

​@@lyndaek99 The British didn't have to use the pound for their currency and use the fancy L for the "logo" (which also comes from Libra/Lira) and use the word "pound" either, but they chose to as well. I'm sure lots of countries and languages take things from Latin - they (and their culture) controlled most of Europe in their time. And then Europeans colonized America. Although we do denote both imperial and metric measurements on most items and we learn both in school.

And they say French makes no sense.

​@@smily4In Spanish both are called Libras tho

Pretty much the whole world does. It's historical variant between British Empire and France way back in a day.

It’s called metric, most of the world uses it.

It isn't french, it is universal measurement system, every body uses it except for USA and England

@@__Mist__ 1s of google search would give you the answer of who invented the metric system: the Frenchs

​@@hoangminhnguyen435I know that, I'm french, I just meant it was not used only by French

Ohhhh

now that's a real freedom unit

Tell me about it! I HATED cooking during my year in the States!

A lot of cooking is based on 4. 16 (4*4) Tablespoons in a cup, 4 cups in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon. Half-gallon is self-explanatory.

@@queenofthecapes It's not precise, complicated, It's subpar. (If you make pizza dough, they will advise you to use the metric system to measure) On the other hand, Fahrenheit is a superior measurement system, much more precise than Celsius.

@@galaxielbreizh3475 Honestly glad that both temp systems exist, but it can be a little frustrating to have to convert to the one you don't know intuitively.

​@@galaxielbreizh3475 What do you mean by defining "precise"? It's a stupid off-balanced scale, totally UNUSABLE in scientific means whatsoever, unless you're a maniac. Kelvin is the best measure in general, but celsius simply removes 273 degrees in order to make things simply understandable (0 for water freezing point at normal circumstances, and 100 for boiling). Celsius can also be fractioned however you like, keeping it's precision thoroughly, therefore, usable in both scientific and daily means.

It's just left over infrastructure at this point. But it IS slowly changing. Metal comes in millimetres now. As does wood (usually) even clothing sizes are slowly making the change. We are getting there. But it's going reaalllyyy slowly.

@@Alex-on-youtube Damn slowly you're right there. When I was being made to learn both in the 80's they made out we'd be metric by the 21st century......

@@TheCormTube hah, maybe they meant the end of the 21st century? That might still happen? Surely?...right?

Remember that Rees-Mogg and his friends think that returning to imperial would be a great idea.🤦‍♂️

And measured DIAGONALLY. 🤐

Using inches on a screen isn't the issue Diagonal measuring is an issue. I don't care if they put .0003 milesX870mm, please quit measuring screens diagonally!

​@@magnushultgrenhtcThat's for a reason though. Because otherwise you'd have to measure both sides to have an understanding of how big the screen is.

​@@shirothefish9688You really want to have the length and the width of a screen instead of a simple diagonal? Even if it's not directly stated that the screen is 16:9 or something like that, you can pretty much roughly imagine the size of it.

@@jonasklose6472 I'm quite sure that the aspect ratio will tell you how high or wide the screen is when you have only one of the two measurements. Which is not the case for a useless diagonal that only compares it to other similar screens.

Try making caramel or tempering chocolate. The smaller more precise Farenheit means a lot less failure then the larger Celsius units. We take no responsibility for the weird compostion of "water" that was used to zero the Farenheit scale. Also, only the proper SI Kelvin scale leaves off the degree indicator after the numerical representation of the temp. Which would, in your example be 40°C ~313K.

Sewing definitely uses yards as well.

I weigh 12st 11lbs.

Yes; except for road distances, UK switched to metric for almost anything. It's easier to buy metric products form mainland Europe than having to get custom products for UK (except for labeling, witch need to conform to UK regulation)

Well, it is called “imperial”, so it’s probably our fault the Americans use it

Except people are dumb and just don't understand the system. Not that I agree that it's the best but like... 1 inch is 1 section of your finger, 1 foot is just the length of 1 of your feet. A yard is the length of your leg. Its mostly good for measurements if you don't have tools handy.

And don't forget boulders. Especially the "large boulder the size of small boulder". If you haven't heard of it, look it up, it's worth the laugh.

That's normal you can do it in metric too. In germany we use cars, football fields, parking lot and Saarland (our smallest state) for area. No one has a clue how big a Saarland is but for some reason we seem to need a unit for exactly 2569km².😂

at least the Olympic pool is a metric unit

Because they come with tablespoon measurements marked on the side - one stick of butter equals 8 tablespoons.

@@almswell why eight? :)

Good question. Eight tablespoons is half a cup, which is a common amount in baking.

Because butter is commonly sold in sticks 😮

​@@booposreal lol