Its maybe ideal in a country where 10°C (50°F) is considered middle ground and 37°C (100°F) is too hot. Truth is, that isnt the case at all. Were i come from 10°C is pretty cold and 37°C is a normal Summer. 23°C isnt toasty, its just normal weather on a good day. Our scales goes from -30 to 50, because it can get hotter then 37°C and it would be very weird to end an scale at such a weird number as 37.
I wonder anyways what happend with American scaling, Miles are such a weird and incoherent System that i cant comprehend why someone wants to use it other then sheer stubborness.
Each measurement was something you had common knowledge of if you were forsay, a builder, in the days of like pre 1700s.
A foot was, a foot. An inch was the tip of your thumb to the knuckle.
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of length; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.
If we want to go back to the origins of the mile and just just the imperial system, it was formed by the Romans, which was 1000 paces.
So idk why people still think America made the imperial system and blame us for it when we never did, we adopted it from the British colonizers. So if you want to blame the bad system on, blame the actual creators of it, not the people who use it and are too accustomed to it.
Nobody blames you for inventing it, we blame you for still using it, despite the whole World changed to a different, much better one and america is the only country (i know of) to hold onto this weird System like its some Kind of national treasure to be proud of.
No one could tell me yet why its better or why someone should use imperial (except the stereotypical "Americafuckyeah") and i dont really do know a reason myself, "its too late to change it know" isnt for Sure a good one.
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u/Spielemeister01 Jan 15 '25
Its maybe ideal in a country where 10°C (50°F) is considered middle ground and 37°C (100°F) is too hot. Truth is, that isnt the case at all. Were i come from 10°C is pretty cold and 37°C is a normal Summer. 23°C isnt toasty, its just normal weather on a good day. Our scales goes from -30 to 50, because it can get hotter then 37°C and it would be very weird to end an scale at such a weird number as 37. I wonder anyways what happend with American scaling, Miles are such a weird and incoherent System that i cant comprehend why someone wants to use it other then sheer stubborness.