we arent pussies like the rest of the world

That and everyone in Liberia is too fucking stupid to measure anyways, so it's more like two countries using it.

>>10306171

that is just too perfect.

Actually most Americans use both. Imperial for distance and mmetric for measurements

>>10306217
> metric for measurements
yeah like metric gallons or metric pounds right

>>10306217

>imperial for distance
>metric for measurements
>distance is not a measurement

>>10306152

actually, due to using imperial initially and having all USA engineered shit in that system makes it almost impossible for a changeover in the near future. it would be damn expensive

Hey, way to be on our nuts 24/7. Make sure you stroke the shaft. Drink the gravy.

>>10306247
>>10306260

No, fools. I meant grams ounces etc. Maybe just because I sell drugs.

UK officially uses Metric, but maintains many double standards similar to the USA.

As a britfag, I see that this is stupid but whatever, people are set in their ways.

>>10306270
Nope. Most industrial processes use metric. It has yet to filter down completely to regular people/home construction.

>>10306293

Still doesn't change the fact that you more-or-less asserted distance was not a form of measurement.

>>10306293
metric ounce? are you serious?

>>10306329

Okay. Weight measurements. Get off our dicks.

Ps. Zed

>>10306306
Old people use Imperial and young people metric, except for human height and long distances.

My dad still doesn't have a concept of a meter...

Scientific community in the US uses the metric system; this is the only thing that is relevant.

Who gives a fuck what Vicki McFatty from Ahlabahma uses to calculate what pants she should buy from Walmart.

>Burma
It's called Myanmar faggot.

>>10306344

Sorry, I meant rods and hogs heads. And grams make up ounces so I'm just going to keep assuming they're related.

>>10306317

thats why american car parts are all in imperial, right? and bottles are filled by fluid ounces etcetc

>>10306392

You made me spit out my 500mL bottle of Poland Spring water.

>>10306375
BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO STEREOTYPE ALL AMERICANS AS VICKI MCFATTYS BECAUSE OUR SHRIVELED UNCUT EURO COCKS MAKE US FEEL BITTER AND FAIL SO WE HAVE TO INSULT THEM SOMEHOW.

>>10306383
THERE ARE NO OUNCES IN THE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SYSTEM

there's grams, and kilograms
one kilogram = 1000 grams
there's tons, which are 1000 kg, but that's unofficial

Since when is litre not an SI unit?

>>10306392
OH NOEZ FUCKING ML HOW DO THEY WERK

>>10306420

>nestle isnt an international corporation

>>10306392

Only rednecks fix cars, so who cares.

Guy who works in a chem lab here. I've gotten my measurements all screwed up. I use both about equally but it depends on scale. For instance I can quickly determine large distances in kilometers...however I can't instinctively think of the speed i'm going in KPH, I still think of that in miles per hour. I find pretty much ANY weight easier to think of in grams...except measurement of medium size objects like animals and people. Volume is a toss up, I know instinctively how much both a gallon and a liter is so can use both interchangeably. However I never use ounces or pints.

So yeah, metric from an american point of view.

We do use liters in measurements in general society (we have 2 liters measured out in soda containers next to the gallon of milk and ounces of soda). But this is relevant:

Farva: Gimme a litre o' cola.
Dimpus Burger Guy: What?
Farva: [Annoyed] A litre o' cola.
Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Litrecola? Do we sell litrecola?
Thorny: Will you just order a large, Farva?
Farva: I don't want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola!
Dimpus Burger Guy: [to Farva] I don't know what that is!
Farva: [slowly starts shouting] Litre is French for...
[grabs burger kid by shirt]
Farva: ... give me my fuckin' cola before I break VOUS FUCKIN' LIP!

>>10306463

The fundamental SI units are the meter, the kilogram, second, amp, kelvin, mole, and candela.

The remainder of SI units are derived from these.

>>10306493

*trollface* right, Mr. Faggot McMetrosexual.

America is a nonconforming hipster

>>10306487

>hey guys, i got the perfect size for a bottle of pop - 0.71 litres!

Amerifag here.
It's not any easier for us, either.
I've been fucked in the ass from quite a few physics questions that start out in kilometers/second and ends with inches/radian^2 or some shit.

Reagan defended us from your communist unified systems of measurement.

America does whatever it wants, even when, maybe even especially when, it makes no sense.

Deal with it.

Pic very related.

The human mind works in concepts of halves, not tenths.

Lolz Eurofags

>>10306526
it's mol and gram

>>10306487
>>10306420
You got 500ml on your bottles D:

Norway uses 0.5L

>>10306566
Exactly what I have always thought. I'm in the US but always have measured things like that (gallons/quarts/etc. just didn't make sense to me at first). Didn't help I was mildly obsessed with chemistry for a while. So, yeah, liters have always made sense to me. Usually cheapest way to buy things around here too, too bad it's only used really in soda.

>>10306526
> meter, the kilogram, second,
these make sense
> amp, kelvin, mole, and candela.
these are stupid, they are amounts of stuff

>>10306620

my point was that the bottle was obviously filled to a specification of 24 fl. ounces and 710 mL is a conversion

>>10306566

Liters* ....

Damn communists

>>10306644
How does Ampere not make sense? What do you suggest we measure current in?

>>10306605
nope, the base unit is actually kilogram. it's the only unit to have a prefix in the name, as well as the only base unit to be defined by an artifact instead of a reproducable physical property.

>>10306693
current should be measured in ampere, of course. what i meant was, there is no sense in having it as a base unit because it is defined as this and that many electrons passing a point during one second.

so it could really be defined from other units

>>10306650
No I know. I just meant to me, it didn't make any sense to list how many ml something was when it was something completely random. If we had measurements that went nicely back and forth, it would make more sense to have those measurements shown too. Always am the only one laughing about this, though, so it worries other people and they don't understand why I'm so obsessed with measurements. It's kinda funny, actually.

>>10306450

28 grams makes an ounce, 453 grams make a pound, 1000 grams makes a kilo. That's my point you daft fuck. Americans use both.

>>10306797
I immediately started reading this in a British accent and it became immensely funnier. Have no fucking idea why I choose British, either.

>>10306826

Probably because I used the word daft, haha.

>>10306797
> 28 grams makes an ounce, 453 grams make a pound, 1000 grams makes a kilo. That's my point you daft fuck. Americans use both.
you use all that nonsense and then you call me daft?
lolamerican

>>10306152
Alaska isn't a nation dumbass
Facepalm.jpg

>>10306797
the point of using g and kg is that, for example, 0.399 kg = 399 gram.
how many gram is 0.399 ounces?

I guess that's why the United State's buildings stand up better than the rest of the world's.

>>10306844
It's because the numbers don't inherently make sense. I mean, who the fuck measures things in increments of 28 or 453? Seriously? We like nice numbers like 0's and 5's. Not fucking "I have 2 453-units of grams, or 2 pounds". It's just funny.

>>10306844

My point is that almost all US citizens use both. Both metric and imperial are taught in every highschool here. I understand your form of measurement, why don't you understand ours? Cunt.

>>10306878
we understand it, we just don't use it since we no longer live in the middle ages... american.

>>10306878
Truth. I had to start learning this from the age of 10, and every science-related problem I did from then on did not use imperial measurement. Our scientists don't use imperial.

So really it's only an issue if road signs and speedometers disturb you.

>>10306906

Why are you posting on an American message board then if we're such uncultured peasants from the dark ages?

>>10306878
They are, but we don't understand that a 2 liter is 2 of another unit of measurement. I grew up thinking 2 liters were just like 6 cans of soda that went flat really fast, so thats why it was cheap. When we hit high school, it finally made sense after the 2nd time I went through a class that used nothing but m/k/s. But once you understand that system, the US's just doesn't make any fucking sense anymore. Goddamn retards if you ask me.

>>10306909
it's not just that
i had an american give me his length once
first he mentioned feet and inches
i asked for metric
he replied in meters and cm
lol

>>10306878

because its useless when metric is superior in terms of accuracy and conversion

>>10306930
what are you talking about, 4chan is french

>>10306940
Yeah, it's so bizarre that he wouldn't know how to give you his length (height?) in a format that we don't use here. Crazy! It'd be like if a Brit told me his weight in stone! Inconceivable!

Thomas Edison burned down Nikola Tesla's laboratory. The original US vs. Europe troll.

>>10306950

I'm quite sure moot is from New York. I'm also quite sure you didn't have an intelligent response so you just gave me a stupid one.

>>10306959
> a format that we don't use here
exactly my point
why don't you use it?

> It'd be like if a Brit told me his weight in stone!
the brits are the americans of europe, so it wouldn't surprise me.

>>10306375
>>10306358
Fascinating, they're already decided which system to use without government intervention. Let's keep it that way, but the US government needs to encourage states to teach people about the both systems of measurement.

>>10306990
or you just didn't deserve anything else.

>I tell people my weight in newtons
>they ask for kilograms
>I tell them that they should have asked for my mass
>mfw

>>10306999

They do. Literally every US school teaches both. We've been over this.

>>10307003

America FUCK YEAH.

Ps. Only idiots argue which is best over things which they have no control over. Ie race, country of origin, etc.

I know the metric system pretty well. one meter basically equals 1 yard.

>>10307025
> raised in america
> moved out of your shithole as soon as possible
> have full control of what country i live in
america sucks.

England is just pissed we kicked their "arse" in dubya dubya two

>>10307050

Ah, so you're a self hating American. Nice.

>>10306152

Why do you care so much? Why are you bubbling with anger at the fact that we don't do shit like you?

Fucking loser.

>>10307065
no, i had my citizenship rescinded.

>>10306930
I see a .org url and manga advertisements...

Well guys it's been great arguing with you and all. But at the end of the day this was all brought to you by the United States. They did, after all, invent the internet, the domain name system, and hypertext. (inb4 no they didn't, i'm a computer science major)

I claim this victory for AMURIKA CHYEAH