Yankees, why are you still using the imperial system?

because we are the empire duh.

really thought provoking question

I wonder why Americans use the British measuring system. britain's so far away

metric is goyslop conformity.

the somewhat smarter "people" living in the us are using the metric system.

>>17567240 (OP)

We have cups and fluid ounces that are smaller than pints. This graph is wrong.

The same reason you're still talking in Russian and not using a more "efficient" language or whatever. The simple fact is that no one really cares about systems of measurement in day to day life, they'll just use whatever they're used to and whatever helps them communicate with the people immediately around them. 



The US is simply too important to ignore which means we don't really have to follow global trends like other countries and every country is more than willing to appease us. If medkit over there decided to go back to the yeoldetyme unit, everyone will just tell him to go fuck himself, but no one is willing to do that to the US. So the Imperial system remains because there's no pressure for us to change from any direction.

The somewhat smarter you're-a-peeins immigrate to the United States for better pay and a better life. Probably not many from you snobby mountain jews, but your buddies definately have a problem with brain drain toward us.

What's the point in changing the way we do things when the system we already have works perfectly fine? The metric system is already used in scientific, engineering etc. applications where it's relevant, there no sense changing it anywhere else

british units are used in engineering. metric is only used occasionally, depending on your equipment

>>17567240 (OP)

It just works

>>17567240 (OP)

Imperial is more human than metric. It's very helpful for day-to-day things

i remember a conversation between a german and an american when i was in university and the german was asking the american why they still used imperial and the american said imperial was better because the numbers were bigger

In no way could he have been being facetious when he made that statement

wow americans truly are something else then

>>17567240 (OP)

They actually don't. 

American standard units (ASI) are defined in Standard Internation (SI) units. 

For example, according to US law, an ASI inch is 0.0254 SI meters and an ASI foot is not defined as 12 ASI inches, but rather 0.3048 SI meters. 



So America is actually on the metric system, they just do it the most retarded way they can.

dude i love replying to an abandoned thread

It's not even hours old.

he probably got bombed he won't reply to any of you

So the same as every other thread.
