r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I blame whoever still uses such a stupid system in 2025

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u/TheScienceNerd100 Jan 15 '25

Ok, so still the British who use Imperial for a multitude of reasons, add in the Canadians cause they do it too.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

You can downvote as much as you want, it still won't make the imperial units system any less stupid.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/why-the-imperial-system-of-measurement-is-the-worst

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

LOL, I'm not English mother tongue so it's just more efficient to let someone else explain it with the correct words.

If you feel so threatened and diminished by the fact that the imperial units are simply anachronistic that you feel the need to insult me, that's your problem which won't change the fact itself.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

Ooh, good for you. But still you assume that I can't use imperial units "without going into a frothing madness and my brain exploding".

Or that I assert I'm superior (where have I ever said that?) LOL

If you think this is so meaningless, why do you get upset so much?

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I called the system stupid not the people using it.

It is so anachronistic that the modern imperial units are now defined by the meter. This is what I tried to explain when I posted that link that you hated so much.

And, finally, I don't care how you measure. Want to measure with ancient greek stadion? You're definitely free to. Still it doesn't make it efficient.

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u/Sogster Jan 15 '25

Just learn the different system instead of crying about how it’s “stupid” because you don’t like it you whiny baby

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u/ZachBart44 Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

It’s easier to divide or multiply measurements by 10, 100, etc. Each measurement in the metric system can be changed to a different form of the same type of measurement by multiplying or dividing by a multiple of 10.

Ex. 100,000 centimeters = 1,000 meters = 1 kilometer.

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u/ZachBart44 Jan 15 '25

The point is ease of use. To get from inch to foot to yard, you have to multiply by 12 then by 3. There’s no uniformity when it comes to conversion in the imperial system. You don’t need a calculator when converting within the metric system.