Which measuring system is best? You should already know the answer.
It’s 2:30 in the morning! That’s how you know we’re trying to do right by you this December. Tenacity95 tenaciously writes: “Which is better: Metric or Imperial? What are their pros and cons?”
This is easy, because there is only one for each. [Metric] Pro: It makes sense and virtually everyone else uses it. [Imperial aka Standard] Con: It doesn’t make any sense … at all.
You want proof? Try this in your head. What is one kilometer minus twenty decameters plus three meters minus 25 centimeters? Tick tock, tick tock. It’s easy. It’s 802.75 meters. That’s what it is. Alright, now what is a mile minus 10 yards plus 2 feet minus an inch and a half? Tick tock, tick tock. You don’t have any idea. And I don’t either. Let’s see that’s 1750 yards plus 2 feet … I should be doing this in feet. And I didn’t even use obscure measurements like furlongs or fathoms. In case you are wondering the answer is … 5251 feet 10 and one half inches. I’m not a show off. I had to work for it.
And for you skeptics, Need I say more? Okay fine, I will.
Mix two gallons with 6 pints, and 3 quarts, stir it up and take out 3 cups, how much is left? You probably can’t remember how many pints is in cup, and how many cups is in a quart. You probably didn’t even catch that I just said them in the wrong order. The answer is 3 gallons, 2 pints and one cup.
It’s not a broken system, just a lousy one.
On the flip side you mix 6 liters with 22 centiliters and 8 deciliters, and then take out 160 milliliters, how much is left? One thousand one… times up. 6.86 liters.
Okay. Rewind. It’s arbitrary. At some point somebody made something up as a standard to measure things by. I am the king, we shall use our royal body parts as a standard of measurement.
Metric is so much better. Like Occum’s razor and all of science, the simplest solution is the best and by simplest I mean simplest for calculations. Look since it is all arbitrary, I don’t care what you call it. You can still say yard even when it’s a meter and use horse power for… whatever that is. Just please make it divisible by 10. Not by 4 or 12 or 3 or 6 or 16 depending on what we’re are talking about. It just makes it easier.
It’s 3:00 in the morning. I’m not going to try and be funny.
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Meandering {207}
Ain't nobody gonna make me use meters and the like in my measurements. I like fathoms.Pandora
I have fought with my dad for years about metric vs imperial. He insists imperial is easier, but won't ever ...sodiumpowered
Metric does have a lot of benefits for most scientific applications or people doing complex computations. But there are pros ...lobe
Also, metric is way, WAY better. I've been forced to learn it in my perceptions, due to the military. Once ...lobe
You have no idea how excited I was when I saw this video. I haven't been here in forever. Then ...Jennifer McKenzie
Um, you started word problems and I fell asleep. What were you talking about?Steve
time to burst this bubble...Metric is fine for all you young punks who were forced to learn it as children, ...Butterfly
Did you see it?! Did you see it?! The mad cyclops! It was in the graph! Table... Thingy... D( yay!kbeddes
I don't know what you are talking about not being funny at 3 o'clock in the morning. Anything past eleven ...Anonymi [22]
I think it doesn't change just because people are stuck in their ways. But we should convert!pkw
In school, when we were learning metric vs. us, and we asked why, the answer we were given was "Because ...Moongazer27
the only unit conversion i find to be difficult is time... and time doesn't change even if you are using ...chancemuse
So true. I find it funny how America has yet to fully make the switch, yet their military uses kilometers. ...breeze
It's more fun to use BOTH! Try baking using an American recipe and Canadian measuring tools. The US cup ...Scott
I used to work at a manufacturing company. One day I asked the boss man (quite the scientist/engineer) why ...just_this_guy
Your antiquated "3:00" confuses me. My metric mind can’t handle increments of 60 or 12 (or is it 24). Ack! ...Ingrid [22]
So glad metric is the system to use in europe, (I'm actually not quit sure about that, but at least ...Jair
Lucky 7! I agree that metric is much better but unfortunately I've been taught in imperial and my brain processes imperial ...PicoDeRyo
I love that you guys are back and making informative hilarious videos. Thanks for sacrificing some sleep so we can ...Curtis [22]
Hmmm, you're right. It is easier. Take your 3am, add 15 kilometers to work, add 2 liters of mountain dew ...Pheonix_blu{207}
liking the new vids Bro's! Now get some sleep_ loltomboy
you saying it's 3:00 in the morning i'm not going to try to be funny was funny :)Gully
the redness in the eyes totally say your tired or stoned good sirChristian [22]
where you really up a 2:30! give me a call i have some thing you might want?