I mean to be fair it is usually an over exaggeration. While at times it can be 100 degrees it’s usually not unless you live somewhere like Arizona. Basically what I’m trying to say is that even if it’s not 100 degrees outside people will still say it is as a hyperbole more often than you’d think.
Ko O I know but 100 degrees is used as a hyperbole a lot. Like if it’s hot out people will often say, “gosh it’s 100 degrees outside!” Even if it’s not really
I'm from Australia and my science teacher is American. Our class had a very lengthly discussion about why America is one of the only countries not to use the metric system and even our teacher completely wrote it down as a "act of stubbornness'. we then discussed how America was all about the idea of FREEDOM and how they view changing to the metics system (just like the rest of the world) as an improper way to show their right to freedom. I just through hearing her views on her country really interesting. (Just wanna let y’all know I don’t mean to offend any Americans I think if the system works for you guys then so be it but I just though our class discussions was very interesting and getting an Americans perspective on the issue gave us a better insight on the topic)
@idk idc I mean, feet are also aribitrary. Everyone has different feet, so you still need a ruler to measure anything accurately. And if you want a vague visualisation, then one meter is about the size of an average step that a human takes. So each step is about a meter.
@idk idc nope, not everyone know what foot is, so everybody except US use matric. We have nano meter,mili meter, centi meter meter, kilo meter. Gram, kilo gram, etc .
@Alex Mostly because we're used to our system, sure the switch would be simple, but we'd have to get used to it again. AKA I know 32°F and below is freezing, 60°F is the perfect Temp and 212° is the boiling point of water. (only reason I know the last one is because that was our school's motto.)
I suggest just renaming all units to freedom. Here are some examples The drive from LA to San Francisco is 381.1 freedoms an apple weighs 5-6 freedoms and water freezes at 32° Freedom and there are 12 freedoms in one freedom.
As an American who thinks that both systems are equal, I really would have a problem with a switch. If it going to happen, then I think I'd have to mail the government a letter to do it when I'm dead
Haha... That is why I always use units after a number. By the way, my home thermostat is set to 25°C during the summer (in the US). I decided to use the metric system for my thermostat starting in May 2022, and I don't want to go back to imperial. Shame my fridge and oven can't be set to Celsius. My weather app is set to metric also.
I only wonder why does the U.S. use such a simple currency, when there is clearly a more complicated option: *Wizard money* 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 29 Knuts.
Still too simple. That would be 493 knuts in a galleon. Why not 1 Galleon = 17.843 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 28.219 Knuts? That would be 503.5116 Knuts in a Galleon.
It's just a silly temperature scale for humans because at 32 degrees being freezing is cold but not awful. 0 degrees being freezing just makes it seem as if it's super cold out when in reality it isn't.
USA also have their Maritime Port ( Red Left) and Starboard Green Right) markers reversed from the rest of the world so if you enter a port the USA the Green marker is on the Left and the Red is on the Right side of the channel, complete opposite from international navigation rules, but still have Port left and Starboard Right lights on their vessels.
When Middle Eastern asks what's the temperature in the NY Middle Eastern: What's the temperature there? American: It's 45 degrees Middle Eastern: Weird, it's 45 degrees in here too.
people nowadays use opinions to fight with. that just separates us. opinions are not wrong nor right. yet we use that thinking it's the truth. one voices how they feel they attacked yet people say to stand up to what you believe in.
@@inkedhigh Regardless of that, lets take a look at a popular political discussion. Abortion. One side of the argument is right, and one is wrong. Given that it is an important issue, each side argues believing they are right.
funfact: nasa lost a 300million dollar aircraft in space due to conversion errors in 1990s. nasa used the metric system while the company that supplied the parts to NASA used imperial units
It wasn’t nasa It was a private American company that relied on the imperial sysyem rather than metric. NASA should have hired a European company but that’s another story,
@@Paolanmetal wow you do! I just think maybe where s/he lives in, less people know what Kelvin is and s/he thinks it's an uncommon fact. If you have a PhD, you'd know how stupid people could be, so much that an entire community may not really know what Kelvin is and s/he is one of the 'smart' people.
0 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of water. 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water. Heating 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius takes 1 calorie worth of energy. What was Fahrenheit useful for again?
Except that salt water that you encounter in nature has a freezing point of roughly -2C/28F. The "salt water" that has a freezing point of 0 degrees Fahrenheit is completely saturated and contains something like 30% salt. That's something that you won't ever use or come in contact with. It's useless. And no, the boiling point of that "salt water" isn't 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's more like 250.
As a child always saw American movies where the mother would take the temperature of their sick kid and exclaim "100 degrees omg baby you're burning up!" and I always thought that it was just normal for your body to get up to the same temperature of boiling water when you get sick, until I realised they use Farenheit.
Thomas Tressel well I mean we did create a nuke which worked pretty well built the airplane made it to the moon won 2 World Wars and build some of the highest quality products you can find and the best teachers and doctors
We also walked our own soldiers through nuke craters which made them later get weird diseases, built "the first" airplane which copied a lot of ideas from those of French and English scientists from the 19th century, failed to send the first man to space, intervened late in both World Wars (especially the first one) which made us seem like huge douches who didn't care about the sufferings of our allies (not saying this is the case, by the way), import most of the products we consume yet exit the TPP and have doubts about the NAFTA, and have teachers who are Christian and fundamentalists to the point that they refuse to teach anything related to evolution.
TSeries is better than OmNom honestly its not that hard to understand if you don’t think about it 0-50 chilly/cold 60-100 warm/hot obviously above 100 very hot
I want to program Siri to give temperatures in the Jevrel scale, which I created because I was bored. Water freezes at 0°J and boils at 128°J. Me in the same situation: Siri, what's the temperature outside? Siri: It's 41°J.
Also soft drinks and other stuff. Even power consumption is measured in Kilowatts per hour. Which is disappointing. I thought it would be something fancy like "stone-gallon per foreman gas grill clock-inch". The USA is inching towards the metric system.
No kidding, when I flew to the US for holiday about 10 years ago I went fully confused when I got that they used the imperial system but I lost it when I realised that they still used Seconds, minutes and hours
What's funny is that time is actually a base 12 measurement system developed in the Eastern parts of the world. Every other part of the metric system is base 10. I think there's some cultures that actually use different bases for time measurements such as base 10 time
@@Arniox French tried to made metric time made on 10, 100s in minute, 100 minutes in hour, 10 hours in day, 10 days in the weak. But that failed spectacularly and nobody really used that.
@@ObywatelMurawjow As a french myself funny how i didnt knew this. Sadly few of us know that metric system come from us but to this point woyah sacrebleu
@@g-4642 It’s believed to be because (1) the freezing point of brine and the boiling point of water were the coldest and hottest temperatures, respectively you could reliably reproduce in the lab with available techniques of the era (while something is in the process of melting or boiling, the temp of both phases remain constant until the process is entirely complete), so it was a good measure to reliably calibrate his new mercury thermometers with and (2) he wanted 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because 1/180th is literally what a “degree” means, and they were close enough to whole numbers that he could just adjust the brine mixture a little bit to MAKE both those points into easy-to-use (compared to other systems available at the time) whole numbers.
I remember my 2nd grade teacher in 2002 tried to introduce us to the metric system. When some parents heard she was teaching something outside of the prescribed curriculum, they complained to the superintendent, and she was forced to stop.
Sanchez, Theodore J. How on earth is it stealing the kids freedom when imperial is the official system that Americans use for everyday life? Metric is still the better option anyways
a real news article: "a sinkhole roughly the size of six to seven washing machines..." we as americans like to use anything but what the rest of the world uses to measure.
tokekkk I like how I know exactly what 0 kelvin is, and how concrete it is. If it's better to use Celsius, why don't we continue worth the logical extreme, and just use kelvin. It's not like adding 273.15 is very difficult. Remembering that ice roughly melts at 0 C as it does at 32 degrees F or 273.15 K. Using Kelvin also makes doing science easier considering you'll have to do simpler calculations. It is also very difficult for you to confuse if someone is using celsius or Fahrenheit. Additionally Kelvin is faster to speak, and easier to spell than either Celsius or fahrenheit. But I guess the benefits all of the can be grossly outweighed by the additional ink required to write the extra digits. Then again, I'm pretty sure if we add up the minuscule amount of tome that's wasted over the F vs C debate, the additional calculation errors, spelling mistakes, it would have been optimal if the system everyone adopted were Kelvin, and not Celsius.
@ timithy4569 Not to mention you usual weather thermometer won't be measuring 1/100 of a kelvin, so you can round that 273.15 K off to 273 K for freezing in weather apps. Also, there is no degree symbol which makes it much easier to type. I find that to use Celsius or Fahrenheit you either need to omit it (which makes it almost look like an electric charge, in coulombs (C), or a capacitance, in farads (F)) or you need to use some awkward computer magic to get that ever-lovin' degree symbol. But for Kelvin it's just K, no degrees, with 300 K read as "300 kelvins" or less accurately/more colloquially, "300 Kelvin". So no need to try to obtain awkward symbols not found on your keyboard to type anything. I find it funny that I'm more familiar with the Earth average surface temperature as 288 K, then any other scale. Then again I also might advocate not only for kelvins but kiloseconds. None of that hours and minutes bullcrap. 1 000 s, 86.4 per day, 9 192 631 770 000 cesium sneezes is where it's at. Then that's the only non-SI factor you'd ever need (since there's no need for a 273.15 offset to get Celsius when you're not using Celsius anymore but straight up Kelvin although Celsius is SI it is wedged in a little awkwardly so I'm calling it "non-SI" here) - 86.4 ks / day. You'll have to deal with a worse number when you go to Mars: there it's 88.775 per day (or "sols", actually, they're called, not "days", heh.). With kiloseconds there is no need for kilowatt hours, just use megajoules (MJ) to bill electricity as SI intended, so all energy units can be just reduced to joules and prefixed joules, with nothing else needed, making all energy comparisons transparent (dump food calories too and use kilojoules (kJ).). Speeds can be set on the road to m/s, not km/h. So 30 m/s might be a typical highway speed limit. Since m/s = km/ks by cancellation, if you're driving 30 m/s you can see you will drive 60 km in 2 ks, but also 600 m in 20 s. Which actually shows how fast highway speed is - doing that calculation I was a bit surprised you go that far that fast. We take our highway travel for granted so often we forget just how insane these speeds really are. Except when there's a crash...
@@srikrishna2561Actually, it's the other way round. Celsius is based on Kelvin, which itself is defined using the Boltzmann constant. Why would the base unit for temperature, used to derive other units from, be a non-absolute unit?
Which is funny because here in the US they force us to learn how to convert the metric or si units to the imperial system unit I honestly don’t understand why we haven’t switched yet
@@EthanSimmons06 you are the type of person who always showing off in the class during highschool. like ... bruh, not everybody can count that formula in their head in the blink of an eye. even with calculator, it still takes a time.
@@EthanSimmons06 ok smartguy (2) basic habit of smartguy at class: dont wont lose an argument and keep showing off their skill. im just ... yeah ok, whatever.
Exactly, and nobody wants to learn how to apply the most basic mathematics to everyday life even though they use something similar but with different quantities.
@@HULKHOGAN1 she's making great points and i'm 900% done with farhenheit and wish we'd use the metric system already (i'm US born and raised but still forget conversions from ounces to cups between wet and dry, how many feet in a mile, etc) but i came to this video looking for a better historical perspective rather than making obvious points in a way that alienates american viewers and gives everyone else warm fuzzies about using the better system. i kind of expected a better look into the cultural and industrial/business oppositions to switching to metric because it seems like an interesting dynamic.
I was born in the US spent the first 10 years of my life in Canada, it took me a whole lot of time to convert to Fahrenheit, I would mix them up, I think that the adoption of the metric system would be amazing, an using a 24 clock would be cool too.
I absolutely hate the American date format. For some reason most digital watches use that annoying format. It's DD/MM/YYYY. The month is not before the day!
@@michaelhoppmann6167 Celsius is most definitely a part of the Metric System. You are confusing Metric with SI. Celsius is even used/tolerated in the scientific world because it's interchangeable nature with Kelvin when dealing with delta values.
The Fahrenheit scale isn’t about the properties of water, it’s about human experience. In temperate zones, the temperature is almost always between 0°F and 100°F. The scale is tied to Celsius at 32 and 212 because that is 180 steps.
The US: Spends $700+ Billion on the military, literarly more than the next 10 combined Also the US: Not converting to metrics because it "costs a lot of time and money"
@@parksalot7669 yet the whole world managed to change to celsius. Even China and India. I believe it is just because your government is too lazy to care
I've lived in the US my entire life. I learned the metric system for life science in the 7th grade, and have been learning the imperial system since birth because America. I cannot for the life of me remember in imperial: -Any of the weight stuff except a ton is 2000 lbs -Any of the liquid measuring stuff except a gallon is 4 quarts -The boiling point of water -How big an acre is -If a teaspoon is bigger or smaller than a tablespoon -The difference between a mile and a nautical mile (I am also the only person I am aware of that knows how many feet in a mile and how many yards in a mile, 5280 and 1760 respectively) I can, however, remember all of the metric system: King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk So... Kilo- (x1000), Hecto- (x100), Deka- (x10), (base unit), Deci- (÷10), Centi- (÷100), Milli- (÷1000) Add in liter, gram, or meter and you're set. For example, distance: Kilometer=1000 meters Hectometer=100 meters Dekameter= 10 meters Meter= 1 meter (duh) Decimeter=0.1 meters Centimeter=0.01 meters Millimeters=0.001 meters Where's my cookie.
Pretty easy, 12 inches per foot, 16 ounces per pound, 3 feet per yard, 2 pints per quart, 2 tablespoons per ounce, 3 teaspoons per tablespoon, 2 cups per pint. etc...
Michael Davis metric is even easier. 100 centimeters is one meter, 1000 meters is a kilometer and 1000 grams is a kilogram and 1000 milliliters is one liter
It's actually NOT the Imperial System. The US standard system is based on what the British were using BEFORE they adopted the Imperial System in (IIRC) the early 1800s. So the USA is actually TWO systems behind the rest of the English speaking world.
the first time i went on a vacation to the states (i was 6) my parents turned on the news and it said it was 60 degrees or something. my parents then told us we were going to disneyland that day. my little brother started crying because he thought we were all going to burn
On a real note, I don't think anybody knows. To convert football fields to kilometers or miles you would have to have at least some knowledge of how big a football field is. To my observation so far, no single person in the world knows how big a football field is. The most accurate answer I have gotten is "I dunno, it's probably really big" Edit: Jeez, I didn't know you guys were football fanatics. On a real note though, basketball is so much better
about ten, give or take. (when you take their length obviously) the american football field is 100 yards, thus 91.44 m, meaning 11 of these make 1.00584 km. on the other hand soccer fields are 105 m, thus 10 of these make 1.05 km.
very roughly 10, 1 footbal field is 100 yards, 1 yard is roughly 1 meter, so 1 football field is roughly 100 meters, which is a 10th of a kilo(thousand) metrers
@@Jessica-eo5hg football fields are VERY clearly marked with how big they are,,, that's why the numbers are there, they're not just there for fun, to spice up the game with some math
As an American, I also don't get why we haven't switched to Celsius. The freezing point being 0 and the boiling point being 100 makes a lot more sense.
Metric is good all around, but celcius is less accurate than Fahrenheit because metric is tied to water where as Fahrenheit is tied to body temperature.
@@tellyvisionwatcher8617 But body temperature is different for everybody and changes when you are sick. Water has the same properties everyday everywhere in the universe, and Fahrenheit also uses the freezing and boiling point of water.
In Brazil the only remaining use of imperial I can remember, is for measuring TV diagonal sizes, in inches. Which I never understood, why we keep using it...
@Panzerkampfswagen VII Maus you can easily figure out his age range. Just click on his profile picture to see which videos he has recently commented on and what those comments were. By doing this, you can see that he is just reaching his pre-teens.
I am an American, specifically a Louisianian who exclusively uses the metric system unless absolutely necessary to use imperial units, such as speed limits. Something I've run into a lot is people in the U.S. have a strange cultural pride for being the only major country still using imperial units. People will ask me for the weather and I'll give it in Celsius, as that is what I get my weather in now, and will get responses like "This is America" and "Speak English, please". This usually results in a short discussion in which the other person gives out various reasons why they could never switch to metric such as "It's what I grew up with" and "America will always use Imperial units" and this one really bothers me "You're a STEM major and most people aren't Scientists or Engineers". These people never really even entertain the notion of switching to the metric system, it seems so outlandishly difficult for them to do. Just an interesting experience of mine as an American metric system user.
But... If you are American and you live in the US, why do you use the metric system? Why do you tell people the temperature in celsius? Obviuosly they are not gonna understand
@@simonefiumara2832 perhaps it's because STEM education and training mostly use the metric system, even in North America. So for him the metric system is more intuitive.
I’m a Canadian living alongside the border, so naturally both the imperial and metric systems influence me, oddly I use Fahrenheit during the summer months and Celsius during the winter months.
I’m a Vietnamese and I move to USA in 2017. I remember that I asked my professor how is the weather. She told me is 106 degrees outside.🧨😱 I thought the apocalypse was coming outside
Honestly, No Hate but This makes me think... Americans: So... How big is your city? Me: 564 km2 Americans: I don't unders... Me: Like 76 Football fields Americans: Oh. 🤦😂😂
I actually just realized that I don't care. This is not satire, I am serious. I used to care somewhat about switching, but seeing this thumbnail was like a reflection on myself, and I just do not care anymore. Its just temperature. If you need to use one over the other, then do it.
General S. Patton i am not American but I think the territory before AK became an official state was called Arkansaw and then after the Louisiana Purchase somehow it transitioned into a more 'French sounding' name. Or at least how it's spelled out.
Fun fact: Originally, Thomas Jefferson was going to ask Congress to use the metric system when the US was just formed. To do this, he invited Joseph Dombey to bring over a kilogram weight (because, of course, he need to know how much a kilogram weighed), and to help with the process of metrication. Unfortunately, the British were still sour at the Americans, so they sponsored pirates to hold him hostage. Dombey then died. So, *pirates. They're the reason America doesn't use the metric system.* Also, until the mid-1900s, England, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland all used the imperial system.
That is an interesting piece of history, but the United States was not about to change its system of measurement anytime soon. Jefferson did propose a switch to decimal measurement, but it went nowhere. Jefferson could have replaced the prototypes and continued to work on it after becoming President, but he didn’t. Other things on his agenda were more important.
My college physics professor (an englishman) once explained to us the practicality of fahrenheit. In technical applications it's far easier and likely outright better to use metric, but for every day usage, imperial units are very "human-friendly"; 0 degrees F is very cold, and 100 degrees F is very hot - very simple. Furthermore the smaller degree units allow for better articulation of temperature to people, from 68 being room-temp, slightly cold, to 72 slightly warm, all expressed in integers.
I don’t really see how imperial units are more “human-friendly” in this case. 0 degrees C is still very cold and 100 degrees C is still very hot and when you talk about room temp to slightly warm temp it seems more like a perspective thing if anything (In that whatever you were taught as a kid would be easier understand). Or am I just reading this wrong?
For me metric is way easier: 0°C water is freezing - there could be ice in the streets-> I can perfectly imagine that, 100°C water is boiling-> please do not but your hand in water hot like that, it will hurt you... also very easy to imagine. 20°C -> nice not to hot summer day in europe. 36°C my bodies temperatue. All values that are easily imaginable and user friendly. The explanation for 0°F is (wiki) : Fahrenheit used as the zero point of his scale the lowest temperature he could produce with a mixture of ice, water and ammonia (= ammonium chloride) or sea salt (cold mixture): -17,8 °C. Water, ice and ammonia mixture is something I can rarely see in nature. I can see freezing water every winter in form of ice. I do not think that your professor worked in a STEM field.
@@triloization OK, going by that logic, a foot is based on the average size of a human foot. Very easy to imagine and visualize. The meter is based on the circumference of the earth...a little bit harder to imagine. So in the US, if you need a rough estimate of how far 14 feet is, you simply walk toe to heel 14 times and you have about 14 feet. Also, just like you know 0 is the freezing point of water, we know 32 is the freezing point of water. 0 is just as arbitrary a number as 32. The important thing for people who live where water freezes is to know the temp at which it freezes in the system you use. Also, you know not to put your hand in water that is boiling, you don't need a thermometer for that. Finally, because you have about twice as many integers in Fahrenheit than Celsius, its very easy to say the temp is going to be in the 70s today as opposed to the temps are going to be between 21 and 26c today...what a mouthful
England: *Invents Imperial System USA (Former colony): *Uses system of former mother country England: *Changes to metric, and makes fun of USA for using Imperial. USA: "Wait, this whole operation was your idea."
@TopCat As an American, I do not trust the US government. Therefore, I do not want them to be the only ones with the firearms. That's what I was getting at.
FYI, -40 Celsius = -40 Fahrenheit = 40 Below in Canadian. Lately in Canada a big jug of antifreeze and many other liquids holds 3.78 liters which is 1 USA gallon. It's amazing how much mischief a Trudeau can make.
No. Rights, capitalism, the constitution in general, those are freedom. Stay mad that your "prime ministers" keep taking away your rights. Europoors can only barely hang on to the fact that they use to own the world, but now they are small socialist SJW pieces of crap. No wonder the U.S is still the greatest country in the world no matter our shortcomings.
I'm an American and I would REALLY love to see us switch. Try telling me how many feet are in 3 miles without a calculator or scratch paper. However, you know there are 3,000 meters in 3 kilometers without even thinking. It's much easier if we were raised that way from the start. As it is, we're asked to learn conversions instead of just starting out that way.
Car companies are affected already. Most all of engineering today is done in metric, cars are a mix. Yes, there would be an initial investment; but the running cost you have today by maintaining your oddball "standard" next to the world having another one are also substantial.
Tad nailed it. Lumber is sold by the foot in the US. No one is going to order "3 miles" of two-by-fours; a large bulk order would just be specified in thousands of feet. These supposedly oh-so-important examples just don't come up in practice.
It's worse in the UK in a way, because in classic British fashion, we've got one foot in and one out. We buy Coke in 2 litre bottles, but enjoy a pint of Beer. Car dimensions are now in millimetres, but we measure height of a person in feet and inches. A bag of sugar is 1kg or 500grams, but the weight of a person is often still measured in Stone, which barely anyone else in the world understands. Petrol and Diesel are priced per litre, but fuel consumption is measured in miles per Gallon. Not even the US Gallon either, it's the Imperial Gallon, which is larger! We're slowly transitioning to metric, but slowly is the operative word. Oh, and older people here still like to use Farenheit, and many weather reports quote both Farenheit and Celsius. Great, isn't it?
@@cadenyoung9968 Yep. Vehicle speed limits are in miles per hour. Interestingly though, the tram system in Nottingham has metric speed signs (KM/H)! We're so confused!
Whenever I heard an United States man say something like "boil the water at more than 200°" I thought how they hecking got an industrial ore smelter into their house
@@IndustrialParrot2816 that aside, ovens easily surpass at least 250º. not that you could ever get water to that point, but still, really doesnt take any specialized equipment.
As a child when I heard Americans say it's 100° outside I thought they were just exaggerating.
I thought it was retardedly hot there lol
Yes it's common to see 100°f here is the us
I mean to be fair it is usually an over exaggeration. While at times it can be 100 degrees it’s usually not unless you live somewhere like Arizona. Basically what I’m trying to say is that even if it’s not 100 degrees outside people will still say it is as a hyperbole more often than you’d think.
OMG SAME!!
Ko O I know but 100 degrees is used as a hyperbole a lot. Like if it’s hot out people will often say, “gosh it’s 100 degrees outside!” Even if it’s not really
American: its 48° outside today.
Me, an Australian: funny, its 48° here too
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nico osullivan add a negative to that and that is our avrage winter!
@@tasmanmillen literally
me: searches on google what 48 Celsius is in Fahrenheit
also me: begins to laugh
Its -40° Outside
Celsius Users : **Screams**
Fahrenheit Users : **Screams**
Kelvin Users : [Confused Screaming]
I'd rather leave Kelvin out of it. I also know someone called Kelvin, and would rather leave him out of it. Kelvin not use Kelvin. :-)
@@GoodVideos4 ok dude 😂
why are the "Screams"-es in asterisks but the "Confused Screaming" in i square brackets? it makes no sense. it scares me.
@@somemagellanic would you say it makes you scream when you are *confused*?
0celcius is 32fahrenheit
So 0+0=64fahrenheit
Just brand them "military units" and Americans will switch to metric in no time.
as an american i can confirm we would
Better: Freedom Units
Ah
@@Avatar2312 oily units
Lol
Its 73° Outside
America : What a nice day
Rest of the world : *AAAAGGHHHHH*
don't forget liberia and myanmar!
@@spongebob1849 HAHAHAHA good joke!!
@Danica Lockett oh I totally believe you
Alan MacLaren • 76 years ago nah he’s right search it up
@Homer explains the joke when did I say he’s wrong? I just said that I totally believe him
‘The problem was that, unlike the UK, Canada or Australia, the US was too much of a stubborn bastard to comply’
I'm from Australia and my science teacher is American. Our class had a very lengthly discussion about why America is one of the only countries not to use the metric system and even our teacher completely wrote it down as a "act of stubbornness'. we then discussed how America was all about the idea of FREEDOM and how they view changing to the metics system (just like the rest of the world) as an improper way to show their right to freedom. I just through hearing her views on her country really interesting. (Just wanna let y’all know I don’t mean to offend any Americans I think if the system works for you guys then so be it but I just though our class discussions was very interesting and getting an Americans perspective on the issue gave us a better insight on the topic)
Everyone: cast it into the fire destroy it
Us: *no*
"Was"
It’s Because of pirates look it up
ur just jealous that we can conquer your country in the span of a year.
American: its 1000 feet long
Another american: no its about 0.18 miles
Ah there's another american: ThReE FoOtBAaL FiEld
Ok. As an metric using American. We can do math and answer in football fields
@idk idc I mean, feet are also aribitrary. Everyone has different feet, so you still need a ruler to measure anything accurately.
And if you want a vague visualisation, then one meter is about the size of an average step that a human takes. So each step is about a meter.
@@laerin7931 i always think of metres in terms of those long 1m rulers
@idk idc As an European, no, i have no Clue how long a Foot is.
Long as my Foot or long as the Foot of my Girlfriend?
@idk idc nope, not everyone know what foot is, so everybody except US use matric. We have nano meter,mili meter, centi meter meter, kilo meter. Gram, kilo gram, etc .
Rest of the developed world: “It’s a logical idea that makes sense!”
America: “NEVER!”
America: You must be unaware of our history.
@@crex8751 British Colony
Also america: schools teach us so much junk we'll never use
@Alex Mostly because we're used to our system, sure the switch would be simple, but we'd have to get used to it again. AKA I know 32°F and below is freezing, 60°F is the perfect Temp and 212° is the boiling point of water. (only reason I know the last one is because that was our school's motto.)
@Alex AKA some people are too lazy to get the point. Our school system also doesn't help either.
I'm one foot, one leg, one torso, one neck and one head tall.
IAmAgainst i am approximately the size of 16 weed brownies
IAmAgainst youre cute
wot me 2
I suggest just renaming all units to freedom. Here are some examples
The drive from LA to San Francisco is 381.1 freedoms an apple weighs 5-6 freedoms and water freezes at 32° Freedom and there are 12 freedoms in one freedom.
I am five calf tall
They would probably just complain someone is taking away their freedom if they had to switch
The freedom to use a system of the British Empire.
This will surely happen
@@Garother Invented by a German...
exactly 😂😂
As an American who thinks that both systems are equal, I really would have a problem with a switch. If it going to happen, then I think I'd have to mail the government a letter to do it when I'm dead
Hello, i am 16 iphones tall and i weigh 12,000 tidepods.
Lol
"look, it's the funny!"
"Wow, that's rare"
@@v01can06 ok
What? 😂😂
You could weigh yourself in stone, but would have to decide whether to use UK or US stone...
"It's 36° outside"
Americans: Jesus, it's a new ice age?
Rest of the world: Jesus, is the sun hitting the earth now?
Scientists- looks like winter in pluto has started
Ah 36°C, good old summer here at my place
Haha... That is why I always use units after a number. By the way, my home thermostat is set to 25°C during the summer (in the US). I decided to use the metric system for my thermostat starting in May 2022, and I don't want to go back to imperial. Shame my fridge and oven can't be set to Celsius. My weather app is set to metric also.
as an american who lives in the north no one would ever say that about 36 degrees cause thats pretty warm
36 is like average mid summer day
"That would spend a lot of mony"
Said the country with a military budget of 1 trilion
Coreone 9 they are in huge debt
You have excatly 69 likes
Nah mates that would be the welfare budget.
yeah pretty sad that America gotta carry the rest of the world like that
2 TRILLION
**Me dying cause of 45℃**
US weather report:
IT IS A *H U N D R E D* degrees here
😂
45 Celsius is 113 Fahrenheit. Either way that's HOT.
@@johntracy72 well it's 313 kelvin
@john tracy Happens every day during summer in India 😂
@@Creativity06 kelvin doesn't use degrees.
I only wonder why does the U.S. use such a simple currency, when there is clearly a more complicated option: *Wizard money* 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 29 Knuts.
😂😂😂😂😂
Still too simple. That would be 493 knuts in a galleon.
Why not 1 Galleon = 17.843 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 28.219 Knuts? That would be 503.5116 Knuts in a Galleon.
@@fresch4395 That's.. perfect.
@Kang SwagGi Improvement.
It's just a silly temperature scale for humans because at 32 degrees being freezing is cold but not awful. 0 degrees being freezing just makes it seem as if it's super cold out when in reality it isn't.
Not to mention they use MM/DD/YYYY as date format
@Shinymaniac I prefer order and consistency over expressing dates marginally quicker in a foreign language.
DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD it is. :P
Oh, yeah, that's weird.
Oh he'll nah that's a forbidden date format
USA also have their Maritime Port ( Red Left) and Starboard Green Right) markers reversed from the rest of the world so if you enter a port the USA the Green marker is on the Left and the Red is on the Right side of the channel, complete opposite from international navigation rules, but still have Port left and Starboard Right lights on their vessels.
In Philippines we are starting to leave this date format behind.
It's 20° outside
Rest of world: What a lovely day
America: ARGH!
American: it’s 80 degrees outside. Awesome
Rest of world: Armageddon is here, say your goodbyes.
America: Wait its always Canada?
The rest of the world: Never has been.
Finally snow in LA
thats every day in my state
Bro, 20° in Australia is considered freezing.
When Middle Eastern asks what's the temperature in the NY
Middle Eastern: What's the temperature there?
American: It's 45 degrees
Middle Eastern: Weird, it's 45 degrees in here too.
And sometimes it reaches 55 degrees celsius
loll ol
NY your 45 degrees are not oir 45 degrees
Where do you think Hell's Kitchen got its name?
I live in Phoenix, AZ. It gets up to 45°C here in the summer.
I swear, some day we'll stop having live political debates and just settle everything in the youtube comment section
Robert Kite not just the comment section. There is gonna be diss tracks too, horrible horrible diss tracks
No debate needed on that point...
Oh god no. UA-cam Comment Section Politicians. The lowest IQ demographic on earth I swear to god
people nowadays use opinions to fight with. that just separates us. opinions are not wrong nor right. yet we use that thinking it's the truth. one voices how they feel they attacked yet people say to stand up to what you believe in.
@@inkedhigh Regardless of that, lets take a look at a popular political discussion. Abortion. One side of the argument is right, and one is wrong. Given that it is an important issue, each side argues believing they are right.
funfact: nasa lost a 300million dollar aircraft in space due to conversion errors in 1990s. nasa used the metric system while the company that supplied the parts to NASA used imperial units
It wasn’t nasa It was a private American company that relied on the imperial sysyem rather than metric. NASA should have hired a European company but that’s another story,
Basically the entire world uses Celsius on a daily basis and Kelvin for scientifc purposes, Fahrenheit is just pointless
Kelvin is Celsius with offset. Celsius and Kelvin have the same scale
The equivalent for Kelvin in the Fahrenheit is degrees Rankin (another painful scale to stumble across).
@@BigChiken44 I'd know, I have a PhD in Chemistry
@@Paolanmetal wow you do! I just think maybe where s/he lives in, less people know what Kelvin is and s/he thinks it's an uncommon fact. If you have a PhD, you'd know how stupid people could be, so much that an entire community may not really know what Kelvin is and s/he is one of the 'smart' people.
Just like America has become. Pointless.
How tall are you?
Americans: i'm 6'2
Rest of the world: okay dwarf
cries in 5'4
So I’m confused about this I have friends that say their height around the world. They all use feet when saying height.
@Sebbo h actually, here in the Philippines, we use feet not meters to measure people’s height. But we still use km, Celsius, etc
Doesn’t the rest of the world use meters to measure height? Wouldn’t they be calling them super tall?
*meters*
0 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of water.
100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water.
Heating 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius takes 1 calorie worth of energy.
What was Fahrenheit useful for again?
BudgeThePutcher 0 degrees Fahrenheit is the freezing point of salt water 100 degrees Fahrenheit is the boiling point of salt water
Except that salt water that you encounter in nature has a freezing point of roughly -2C/28F. The "salt water" that has a freezing point of 0 degrees Fahrenheit is completely saturated and contains something like 30% salt. That's something that you won't ever use or come in contact with. It's useless.
And no, the boiling point of that "salt water" isn't 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's more like 250.
Fahrenheit was the first standardized method of measuring temperature, 2:10
The first wheel was made of wood. That doesn't mean it's any good.
BudgeThePutcher any wheel is better than no wheels. First they develop an accurate system, then they would have something to improve on.
As a child always saw American movies where the mother would take the temperature of their sick kid and exclaim "100 degrees omg baby you're burning up!" and I always thought that it was just normal for your body to get up to the same temperature of boiling water when you get sick, until I realised they use Farenheit.
Well, if it is 100 degrees Celsius, the child is really burning up
@@АндрейЩепотьев-п6б100 Celsius degrees is not burning up that’s literally dying
Hipsters use Kelvin
Gangsters use Rankine
Idiots use Fahrenheit.
Thomas Tressel well I mean we did create a nuke which worked pretty well built the airplane made it to the moon won 2 World Wars and build some of the highest quality products you can find and the best teachers and doctors
TheGoober2100 the first nuke was created by and Israeli engineer..
We also walked our own soldiers through nuke craters which made them later get weird diseases, built "the first" airplane which copied a lot of ideas from those of French and English scientists from the 19th century, failed to send the first man to space, intervened late in both World Wars (especially the first one) which made us seem like huge douches who didn't care about the sufferings of our allies (not saying this is the case, by the way), import most of the products we consume yet exit the TPP and have doubts about the NAFTA, and have teachers who are Christian and fundamentalists to the point that they refuse to teach anything related to evolution.
Me in America: hows the temperature, siri?
Siri: it is 90° sir
Me: {confused screaming in spanish}
I think you can program Siri so you'll get the temperature in Celsius.
In metric* 😂
If siri or alexa does answer with imperial system I'd insta destroy it
TSeries is better than OmNom honestly its not that hard to understand if you don’t think about it 0-50 chilly/cold 60-100 warm/hot obviously above 100 very hot
I want to program Siri to give temperatures in the Jevrel scale, which I created because I was bored. Water freezes at 0°J and boils at 128°J.
Me in the same situation: Siri, what's the temperature outside?
Siri: It's 41°J.
Who said the USA doesn't use metric system? Drugs are sold in grams and ammo calibre is measured in millimetres.
Guess you never buy drugs of large scale lol.... when the dealers are selling a lot they go back to ounces, ridiculous
Also soft drinks and other stuff. Even power consumption is measured in Kilowatts per hour. Which is disappointing. I thought it would be something fancy like "stone-gallon per foreman gas grill clock-inch".
The USA is inching towards the metric system.
@@Avatar2312 yes, "inching" towards metric, not "metering"
@@prateekbhurkay9376 I chose those words carefully ;)
You forgot the "Tons of TNT"
The only time I know the American in general using metric system is for measuring the size of calibre of the gun.
No! Also drugs were soled in g in the US... ;-)
Drugs, soft drinks, power consumption, in science
We buy weed by the gram
No we Americans use military per oil
Engine sizes on cars often use metric.
Fun fact: -40 is the only number in the scale that corresponds to the same temperature in celsius and fahrenheit
its not that fun
It is
that's just more confusing
And if I see that temperature I'm locking myself in a bomb shelter.
YEah I found that out when it was -40C where I live and I checked F thinking it would be some large ass number and it was -40F. I was shocked.
At least the US also uses seconds, minutes, hours, days etc....
No kidding, when I flew to the US for holiday about 10 years ago I went fully confused when I got that they used the imperial system but I lost it when I realised that they still used Seconds, minutes and hours
Thank God.
But I bet if we find a better time keeping system, US would lag without it for a century more.
What's funny is that time is actually a base 12 measurement system developed in the Eastern parts of the world.
Every other part of the metric system is base 10.
I think there's some cultures that actually use different bases for time measurements such as base 10 time
@@Arniox French tried to made metric time made on 10, 100s in minute, 100 minutes in hour, 10 hours in day, 10 days in the weak. But that failed spectacularly and nobody really used that.
@@ObywatelMurawjow As a french myself funny how i didnt knew this. Sadly few of us know that metric system come from us but to this point woyah sacrebleu
Wasted opportunity. It should have been titled:
“Why the F° America Still Uses Fahrenheit”
C’mon guys, a little creativity!!!
does
@@PyroFloe also r/woooosh
@@dotbox3018 great job redditor, but that was a grammar correction
I C° what you did there
U mean... C°mon guys
American: It's like 100° outside
Me as a kid: How tf are you still alive?
Don't worry. The US is still inching towards the metric system.
INCHING towards
Nice.
I hope so. It's the best decision to integrate with the world in this regard.
Hahaha
Andres Felipe Enriquez no they aren’t, its a joke
Farenheit looks like someone just picked some random numbers and called it a day
You little bit of a good time to
Wrong
@@g-4642 It’s believed to be because (1) the freezing point of brine and the boiling point of water were the coldest and hottest temperatures, respectively you could reliably reproduce in the lab with available techniques of the era (while something is in the process of melting or boiling, the temp of both phases remain constant until the process is entirely complete), so it was a good measure to reliably calibrate his new mercury thermometers with and (2) he wanted 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because 1/180th is literally what a “degree” means, and they were close enough to whole numbers that he could just adjust the brine mixture a little bit to MAKE both those points into easy-to-use (compared to other systems available at the time) whole numbers.
@@IONATVS meanwhile celsius...
0° freezing point. That's it.
@@avert_bs why dose water matter if we’re measuring temperature
I remember my 2nd grade teacher in 2002 tried to introduce us to the metric system. When some parents heard she was teaching something outside of the prescribed curriculum, they complained to the superintendent, and she was forced to stop.
Sad press f to pay respect
You're stealing the kids' freedom to use Imperial! //s
Sanchez, Theodore J. How on earth is it stealing the kids freedom when imperial is the official system that Americans use for everyday life? Metric is still the better option anyways
@@ammszz5939 it's sarcasm, duh
@@ammszz5939 you see, in Reddit, when you add /s to the end of your sentence, it means you were being sarcastic.
It's hilarious that the video is about Fahrenheit and it's 4:51 long! How clever!
good catcha!!! haha
Heinlein fan
“Imagine using the imperial system ”
This post was made by the rest of the world.
The metric gang
imagine not living in usa, what do you even do, like you cant even drive a tank
ItchyPit Have normal healthcare
Imagine protest against Wuhan Virus
- The rest of the world
@@trunghoanginh3505 imagine thinking the entire united states was doing that
-99.9% of the USA
older canadians use fahrenheit and imperial and it drives me crazy
"it's 46 degrees outside" is it really, Linda? it's only april but ok
Lol in other countries around the world it's actually 46 degrees outside
Climate change hitting HARD
Respect your elders and use Imperial
@@alaskaball188 a lot of our elders also supported hitler
As of writing this in thailand, yes ite 46 degree outside
When I come to America I need to learn 3 languages.
English, sarcasm and the Imperial System
Does the rest of the world not use sarcasm?
@@OrigamiMaster06 nope, we just straight up throw insults at each other
@@martinxy1291 Huh, I thought sarcasam was pretty universal (except for maybe in the east)
Well, you'll learn that lesson pretty early because of Internet people
@@OrigamiMaster06 no only in Britain the rest of Europe will just be condescending
When I first came to the US I got really scared when the weatherman said it was 90° outside. I thought the world would end.
:o
It will. by the time the US switches it'll get °90 Celsius
90°F would be 34.37°J. The J stands for Jevrel, a temperature scale I created out of boredom. Water freezes at 0°J and boils at 128°J.
AetheralMeowstic neat
@Vision Thing yeeeeeah sure infact only one country in the world uses it
Nobody:
Americans: An ELePhAnT iS AS TaLL aS TwO ReFrIGErAToR.
a real news article: "a sinkhole roughly the size of six to seven washing machines..." we as americans like to use anything but what the rest of the world uses to measure.
The thing is, how wide are 6 to 7 washing machines?
A person is as tall as a human.
or a 1/100 of FoOTbAlL GrOunD
fairy godmother sufhfshf feed d gf
Using non metric measurements should be classified as a war crime
Well, as an European I like to use American units, like Eagles per Cheeseburger or Weapons per squareobisity.
*obesity, if your going to criticize Americans at least learn how to spell words in american.
hahahaha
@@definitivedom5482 it's a joke. I love these types of jokes and am American lol
We also use military per oil
Did you forget football fields?
or bullet square per child
The United States: **Gets joked about for not using the metric system**
Liberia and Myanmar: 👌
Liberia is good and uses the Imperial system, Myanmar is also good because it dosent use the metric System
I like american cooking instructions cause here in Canada the ovens are in imperial
Thinking Brain whoosh
that was the joke flying over your head, dude
Cuphead , don’t you guys get a lot of appliances from the states? Is that why?
they get us...
USA - Miles!
Most of the world - KM!
UK - Miles for speed, KM for distance!
wtf really?
@@bigdickmcgee3293 yup
@Demonic Sinister boi Japan and some Asian nations drive on the left too.
Uk mph Usa KPH
Usa Watts uk Volts
USA ounces and gallons uk litres and milliliters
err... uk is miles for distance too.
As a mechanical engineer I can say, people seriously underestimate how deeply entrenched imperial measurements are to American and Canadian economies.
canadian?? canada use metric system bro
Kelvin cries in the corner..
I mean, it's basically the same thing as Celsius.
Kelvin is worthless in day to day life.
tokekkk I like how I know exactly what 0 kelvin is, and how concrete it is. If it's better to use Celsius, why don't we continue worth the logical extreme, and just use kelvin. It's not like adding 273.15 is very difficult. Remembering that ice roughly melts at 0 C as it does at 32 degrees F or 273.15 K. Using Kelvin also makes doing science easier considering you'll have to do simpler calculations. It is also very difficult for you to confuse if someone is using celsius or Fahrenheit. Additionally Kelvin is faster to speak, and easier to spell than either Celsius or fahrenheit.
But I guess the benefits all of the can be grossly outweighed by the additional ink required to write the extra digits. Then again, I'm pretty sure if we add up the minuscule amount of tome that's wasted over the F vs C debate, the additional calculation errors, spelling mistakes, it would have been optimal if the system everyone adopted were Kelvin, and not Celsius.
@ timithy4569
Not to mention you usual weather thermometer won't be measuring 1/100 of a kelvin, so you can round that 273.15 K off to 273 K for freezing in weather apps. Also, there is no degree symbol which makes it much easier to type. I find that to use Celsius or Fahrenheit you either need to omit it (which makes it almost look like an electric charge, in coulombs (C), or a capacitance, in farads (F)) or you need to use some awkward computer magic to get that ever-lovin' degree symbol. But for Kelvin it's just K, no degrees, with 300 K read as "300 kelvins" or less accurately/more colloquially, "300 Kelvin". So no need to try to obtain awkward symbols not found on your keyboard to type anything.
I find it funny that I'm more familiar with the Earth average surface temperature as 288 K, then any other scale. Then again I also might advocate not only for kelvins but kiloseconds. None of that hours and minutes bullcrap. 1 000 s, 86.4 per day, 9 192 631 770 000 cesium sneezes is where it's at. Then that's the only non-SI factor you'd ever need (since there's no need for a 273.15 offset to get Celsius when you're not using Celsius anymore but straight up Kelvin although Celsius is SI it is wedged in a little awkwardly so I'm calling it "non-SI" here) - 86.4 ks / day. You'll have to deal with a worse number when you go to Mars: there it's 88.775 per day (or "sols", actually, they're called, not "days", heh.). With kiloseconds there is no need for kilowatt hours, just use megajoules (MJ) to bill electricity as SI intended, so all energy units can be just reduced to joules and prefixed joules, with nothing else needed, making all energy comparisons transparent (dump food calories too and use kilojoules (kJ).). Speeds can be set on the road to m/s, not km/h. So 30 m/s might be a typical highway speed limit. Since m/s = km/ks by cancellation, if you're driving 30 m/s you can see you will drive 60 km in 2 ks, but also 600 m in 20 s. Which actually shows how fast highway speed is - doing that calculation I was a bit surprised you go that far that fast. We take our highway travel for granted so often we forget just how insane these speeds really are. Except when there's a crash...
It is. The degrees are the same size, but the zero point is different. So it is basically Celsius.
The world: "Why can't you just be normal?"
USA: *screams in Fahrenheit*
What’s wrong with being a little different?
@@monkeydui7241 a lot of things
@@monkeydui7241 nothing, its just because of America's unwillingness to change its broken system that a million dollar satellite went missing.
@@my.dear.watson Do you know how much it would cost to change it?
Also how's it broken? It's been working for us for a long time.
Why America uses Fahrenheit system
Why America uses Mile system
Why America uses a different date format
TheLegend27 BECUZ FREDUM
TheLegend27 Because they're HIPSTERS
Wait, what's the difference in date formats?
JJDraws In Europe, and Canada, and in most places, it goes DD/MM/YYYY
In the US, it goes MM/DD/YYYY
mm/dd/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy
How often do you forget which month it is before which day? smh America.
We must reject both celsius and Farenheit. Kelvin is the true system.
@Xerius Kelvin is better due to counting from absolute zero
Kelvin is based on Celsius.
Rankine is based on Fahrenheit.
@@srikrishna2561Actually, it's the other way round. Celsius is based on Kelvin, which itself is defined using the Boltzmann constant. Why would the base unit for temperature, used to derive other units from, be a non-absolute unit?
I get annoyed when US science UA-camr doesn’t include the Celsius metric. I have to literally google covert the metric to understand
Which is funny because here in the US they force us to learn how to convert the metric or si units to the imperial system unit I honestly don’t understand why we haven’t switched yet
@@EthanSimmons06 uhh not very easy
@@EthanSimmons06 you are the type of person who always showing off in the class during highschool.
like ... bruh, not everybody can count that formula in their head in the blink of an eye.
even with calculator, it still takes a time.
@@EthanSimmons06 ok smartguy
@@EthanSimmons06 ok smartguy (2)
basic habit of smartguy at class: dont wont lose an argument and keep showing off their skill.
im just ... yeah ok, whatever.
America: hmmm yes I can see here that this football field is about the length of a football field.
Or 165,9 washing machines.
your pfp represents america right now
Or 3 School Buses
How much feet ?
@@ma14.27 washing machine: 60cm
Rugby field:144m
14400:60=240
*Metric system is so much easier!*
Metricccc
Wei Xun - *So, pretty much like your mom?*
*M E T R I C C*
Exactly, and nobody wants to learn how to apply the most basic mathematics to everyday life even though they use something similar but with different quantities.
M E *T H I C C*
Fun fact: No matter how much you try to justify it, the Celcius scale is just as arbitrary as the Fahrenheit scale.
Yup, and they both work.
This video is mostly about why America should change to metric, not why America is still using Fahrenheit
because there is no reason why they are still doing it
She's making good points. America needs to get off its high horse and join the rest of the planet.
@@HULKHOGAN1 she's making great points and i'm 900% done with farhenheit and wish we'd use the metric system already (i'm US born and raised but still forget conversions from ounces to cups between wet and dry, how many feet in a mile, etc) but i came to this video looking for a better historical perspective rather than making obvious points in a way that alienates american viewers and gives everyone else warm fuzzies about using the better system. i kind of expected a better look into the cultural and industrial/business oppositions to switching to metric because it seems like an interesting dynamic.
@@kakashisfriend Maybe the content you're looking for will surface as pressure rises for America to the switch. Not sure when that'll happen
It was kind of trash
There are two types of countries in this world-
1.The ones that use metric system
2.The country that loses war to rice farmers
underrated comment
And my country, the one who lost a war to a species of big birds.
Yeah but we have the best weed
3. countries that lose wars to the country that lost war to rice farmers
Liberia doesn't use the metric system and it didn't lose a war to rice farmers.
I was born in the US spent the first 10 years of my life in Canada, it took me a whole lot of time to convert to Fahrenheit, I would mix them up, I think that the adoption of the metric system would be amazing, an using a 24 clock would be cool too.
nobody:
America:
Miles!
Inch!
Foot!
Yard!
Fahrenheit!
MM/DD/YYYY!
Weeaboo Generator *yyyy
@@rezkid283 o_o fixed
Ok "weeaboo generator"
I absolutely hate the American date format. For some reason most digital watches use that annoying format. It's DD/MM/YYYY. The month is not before the day!
@Natalie Wood Can you please explain why you prefer MM/DD/YYYY over DD/MM/YYYY?
I remember my father freaking out when he heard the weather on the US was 80°.
xD
‘That is even hotter than the microwave’
Why would anyone use Fahrenheit,32 degrees for freezing and 212 for boiling,it's absurd.
Actually its 273,16K for freezing and 373,15K for boiling.
The Celsius scale isen't exactly part of the Metric System, the Kelvin scale is ;).
@@michaelhoppmann6167
Celsius is most definitely a part of the Metric System.
You are confusing Metric with SI.
Celsius is even used/tolerated in the scientific world because it's interchangeable nature with Kelvin when dealing with delta values.
The Fahrenheit scale isn’t about the properties of water, it’s about human experience. In temperate zones, the temperature is almost always between 0°F and 100°F. The scale is tied to Celsius at 32 and 212 because that is 180 steps.
If Sweden could shift from left side driving, then USA can shift to metric.
Cheers Mate Just remember, most of our small States have a population the size of Sweden.
Christopher Frey so Sweden has more GDP than those states anyway.
True, my grandfather still remembers the day when we switched. He always says that it was a mess
Dagen H yay!
bongo155 my ass. There's gonna be a lot of people pissed about switching. But idc, it's not gonna happen anyway
The US: Spends $700+ Billion on the military, literarly more than the next 10 combined
Also the US: Not converting to metrics because it "costs a lot of time and money"
??
Lolz.. they dont even use the military time.. like the rest of the world. 😆😆
And because it’s too hard :(
Funding a miltary and trying to change 330 million peoples way of measuring things are two entirely different things.
@@parksalot7669 yet the whole world managed to change to celsius. Even China and India.
I believe it is just because your government is too lazy to care
4:10 did you guys actually just use your own article as a source?
Nathan McNelis lmao im dead 😂
Nathan McNelis it's a lazy video with no greater purpose than to complain and collect a paycheck
VeryUnemployed it's not complaining? It's simply informing
they kinda quoted a quote yknow
Wasn't a citation, just a reference.
I was hoping for a video about farenheight usage not just another plea to switch to metric.
America likes their measurement because it have the word "Imperial" in it.
The Imperial Strikes Back!
Rebels hate em!
imperialism
Of course.
Jerrodb5 - Bur it doesn’t. We use the US Customary System.
I've lived in the US my entire life.
I learned the metric system for life science in the 7th grade, and have been learning the imperial system since birth because America.
I cannot for the life of me remember in imperial:
-Any of the weight stuff except a ton is 2000 lbs
-Any of the liquid measuring stuff except a gallon is 4 quarts
-The boiling point of water
-How big an acre is
-If a teaspoon is bigger or smaller than a tablespoon
-The difference between a mile and a nautical mile
(I am also the only person I am aware of that knows how many feet in a mile and how many yards in a mile, 5280 and 1760 respectively)
I can, however, remember all of the metric system:
King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk
So...
Kilo- (x1000), Hecto- (x100), Deka- (x10), (base unit), Deci- (÷10), Centi- (÷100), Milli- (÷1000)
Add in liter, gram, or meter and you're set.
For example, distance:
Kilometer=1000 meters
Hectometer=100 meters
Dekameter= 10 meters
Meter= 1 meter (duh)
Decimeter=0.1 meters
Centimeter=0.01 meters
Millimeters=0.001 meters
Where's my cookie.
Which King Henry? There’s 8 of them
I don't have a cookie emoji so here is some cake 🍰
Pretty easy, 12 inches per foot, 16 ounces per pound, 3 feet per yard, 2 pints per quart, 2 tablespoons per ounce, 3 teaspoons per tablespoon, 2 cups per pint. etc...
Michael Davis metric is even easier. 100 centimeters is one meter, 1000 meters is a kilometer and 1000 grams is a kilogram and 1000 milliliters is one liter
It's actually NOT the Imperial System. The US standard system is based on what the British were using BEFORE they adopted the Imperial System in (IIRC) the early 1800s. So the USA is actually TWO systems behind the rest of the English speaking world.
the first time i went on a vacation to the states (i was 6) my parents turned on the news and it said it was 60 degrees or something. my parents then told us we were going to disneyland that day. my little brother started crying because he thought we were all going to burn
Psssh in Florida you should worry about it randomly raining more than burning.
4:33 the rest of the world finally understood
Great video but why don't the lady just change her echo setting to Celsius 🤔
That would make sense
bc she tries to make a point or she's just stupid
INSIDER needs the settings for the video
You are a genius.
And that *is* a mystery.
@@monadolifesaver5613 That's a Vox video, dumbass.
No one:
Not a single soul:
Americans: hºw mªnY fO0Tbªll fiElDs iS a kíL0meTeR?!?!?
On a real note, I don't think anybody knows. To convert football fields to kilometers or miles you would have to have at least some knowledge of how big a football field is. To my observation so far, no single person in the world knows how big a football field is. The most accurate answer I have gotten is "I dunno, it's probably really big"
Edit: Jeez, I didn't know you guys were football fanatics. On a real note though, basketball is so much better
literally all of Europe: HoW mAny RevaLutiOns AnD wArs iN a YeAr?!?!?
about ten, give or take. (when you take their length obviously)
the american football field is 100 yards, thus 91.44 m, meaning 11 of these make 1.00584 km.
on the other hand soccer fields are 105 m, thus 10 of these make 1.05 km.
very roughly 10, 1 footbal field is 100 yards, 1 yard is roughly 1 meter, so 1 football field is roughly 100 meters, which is a 10th of a kilo(thousand) metrers
@@Jessica-eo5hg football fields are VERY clearly marked with how big they are,,, that's why the numbers are there, they're not just there for fun, to spice up the game with some math
“...Even though a majority of the world uses the metric system”
You mean every country other than the US
yep
Shubham Garg - Including the USA. Many things in the US use metric units.
Apparently Myanmar and Liberia use imperial.
Then there's also the silly Brits who use miles
Colm Moloney I think I heard one of them was considering going metric...
I use both, just because 1 is for working and cooking the other is for temperature outside
Speed in imperial : 60,120,180,240...
Speed In metric : 100,200,300,400...
Much more easier at least for me
“Right now it’s 90 degrees.”
ALMOST BOILING?!?!?!? DAMMIT!!!
In America
“Right now it’s 25 degrees Celsius.
Oh shoot it’s below freezing
As a Texan I can say this:
90 degrees definitely feels like boiling for us.
EDIT: Trust me. Summer exists down here and it boasts it well..
ixabi Seriously? That’s boiling to you?
When it’s like 35 degrees Celsius or rather over 40 degrees Celsius is when it’s boiling for us.
@@littlestsnowy8177 hahahahahha 35c is our daily lives and its not hot , because mans not hot . Okay i'll stop
@@littlestsnowy8177 35 degrees is 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because 5 degrees is so much of a difference.. (40 = 104 F but that's also boiling to us)
me: wants to follow a recipe i saw on the internet
also me: reads 1/4 cups and immediately stops and looks for another recipe that uses kg
One cup about 250ml
So 1/4 cup is about 60ml
There are metric cups as well
This dude measures volume in weight
@@kahimma4577 😮
I’m confused, do Europeans not know what 1/4 is? You don’t even need to use the metric system for that.
Normal people: 110 metres
Americans: 361 feet
Also Americans: 1 soccer field
Also also Americans: RoUgHlY 130 wAsHiNg MaChInEs
@@ichijofestival2576 it is a joke mate
@@dangalladon8417 Uk? Trivago
Me an intellectual:110,000mm
better than saying a stones throw from the queens tiddlywhackers
@@ichijofestival2576 what do you want to be called: US Citizen 😂??
Kids use Fahrenheit
Men use Celcius
Legends use Kelvin
As an American, I also don't get why we haven't switched to Celsius. The freezing point being 0 and the boiling point being 100
makes a lot more sense.
Metric is good all around, but celcius is less accurate than Fahrenheit because metric is tied to water where as Fahrenheit is tied to body temperature.
@@tellyvisionwatcher8617 wadafuq? 😂
@@tellyvisionwatcher8617 ehm...
@@tellyvisionwatcher8617 But body temperature is different for everybody and changes when you are sick. Water has the same properties everyday everywhere in the universe, and Fahrenheit also uses the freezing and boiling point of water.
@@tellyvisionwatcher8617 .....
In the UK we use degrees celsius for temperature, we buy carpet by sq metre, petrol by the litre etc yet all our road signs are in miles????
So you guys use both??? Wow that's a drag
UK also uses stone to measure weight. Which is an imperial measurement. (14lb = 1 stone)
@@persephone3892 That makes sense. Otherwise they'll get Pound (money) confused with pound (weight measurement)
metRE
@@BillyBob_McSanchez or they could use kilograms like everyone else that uses metric...
I cannot tell you how many times teachers tried to teach us the metric system, always saying "America is gonna switch to the metric system soon"
Well, they're right.
On a geological scale, USA will switch to the metric system soon.
@@Tjalve70 ?
@@harrisonkarn2078 in other words: it won't last long anymore
@@kingleonidasiofsparta7966 ik, I just don’t know what he meant by “geological scale”
@@harrisonkarn2078 probably compared to the lifetime of planet earth
In Brazil the only remaining use of imperial I can remember, is for measuring TV diagonal sizes, in inches. Which I never understood, why we keep using it...
Same in France ,every screen (For TV ,Computer ,laptop etc...) are in inches ,but nobody understand it and we have to convert it on Internet .
Same in Poland… just why? Centimeters, please!
Wheather in us: 70 degrees
9 year old me: bRo HoW aRe ThEy NoT bUrNiNg
Is your caps button broken?
@Bindhu Antony and youre 5
This is the dumbest comment thread ive seen in a long time.
@Panzerkampfswagen VII Maus i aint nine your moms iq is 9
@Panzerkampfswagen VII Maus you can easily figure out his age range. Just click on his profile picture to see which videos he has recently commented on and what those comments were. By doing this, you can see that he is just reaching his pre-teens.
And in the Philippines we use kilograms for weight, feet for height, inches for body measurements and celsius for temperature. 😅
Same also for elders in Malaysia. Mix between imperial and SI.
Samee in Pakistan
Same in the UK
Same in Canada, although we use pounds for weight when it comes to human bodies usually
Enjoying the itch of both worlds.
I am an American, specifically a Louisianian who exclusively uses the metric system unless absolutely necessary to use imperial units, such as speed limits. Something I've run into a lot is people in the U.S. have a strange cultural pride for being the only major country still using imperial units. People will ask me for the weather and I'll give it in Celsius, as that is what I get my weather in now, and will get responses like "This is America" and "Speak English, please". This usually results in a short discussion in which the other person gives out various reasons why they could never switch to metric such as "It's what I grew up with" and "America will always use Imperial units" and this one really bothers me "You're a STEM major and most people aren't Scientists or Engineers". These people never really even entertain the notion of switching to the metric system, it seems so outlandishly difficult for them to do. Just an interesting experience of mine as an American metric system user.
But... If you are American and you live in the US, why do you use the metric system? Why do you tell people the temperature in celsius? Obviuosly they are not gonna understand
@@simonefiumara2832 perhaps it's because STEM education and training mostly use the metric system, even in North America. So for him the metric system is more intuitive.
@@andyhaochizhang Could be, but it is still weird
I like the metric system but Jesus Christ, you sound insufferable. I bet you're a blast at parties.
BASED
I’m a Canadian living alongside the border, so naturally both the imperial and metric systems influence me, oddly I use Fahrenheit during the summer months and Celsius during the winter months.
Look at comments below. Never thought even Fahrenheit and Celcius have fanboys.
It does, sadly. Everything has a fanboy.
Did you just assume gender?
Triggered
Well there's Fahrenheit fanboys. Then theres the rest of the world.
+Fuck Off
It doesn't. That's why no one except America uses it.
I’m a Vietnamese and I move to USA in 2017. I remember that I asked my professor how is the weather. She told me is 106 degrees outside.🧨😱 I thought the apocalypse was coming outside
bruh 106 fahrenheit is over 40 celsius
scp-001 weather be like
41 degrees, yeah, the apocalypse definitely was coming that day
@@gtxg. I think there are a lot worse things to worry about in SCP-001 than the weather...
@@gtxg. 40 celsius? that is australian weather not scp001
Bruh 40 degrees celcius isnt that hot 💀
Honestly, No Hate but This makes me think...
Americans: So... How big is your city?
Me: 564 km2
Americans: I don't unders...
Me: Like 76 Football fields
Americans: Oh.
🤦😂😂
im american and that would make me understand lol.
I hate to say this, but yeah, I would probably understand the football fields more.
It would actually be 105396 football fields to be precise.
Football fields are not a good measure of area, kids.
Also me:which football?
I'm American and I actually understood that lol.
I actually just realized that I don't care. This is not satire, I am serious. I used to care somewhat about switching, but seeing this thumbnail was like a reflection on myself, and I just do not care anymore. Its just temperature. If you need to use one over the other, then do it.
That "Ah!" is one of the most relatable sounds to a European when talking to an American. It sparked some decent laughter in me.
Why is Kanas, Kansas but Arkansas is Ar-kan-saw. America explain.
Because it kept it's traditional native american pronunciation, if i remember correctly. Basicly cause it's not an English word
General S. Patton I AM confusion
General S. Patton i am not American but I think the territory before AK became an official state was called Arkansaw and then after the Louisiana Purchase somehow it transitioned into a more 'French sounding' name. Or at least how it's spelled out.
General S. Patton the Arkansas River is also Ar-Kansas River.
But why is k = k and s = s
But C is s or K?
English explain
I am confusion
Fun fact:
Originally, Thomas Jefferson was going to ask Congress to use the metric system when the US was just formed.
To do this, he invited Joseph Dombey to bring over a kilogram weight (because, of course, he need to know how much a kilogram weighed), and to help with the process of metrication.
Unfortunately, the British were still sour at the Americans, so they sponsored pirates to hold him hostage.
Dombey then died.
So, *pirates. They're the reason America doesn't use the metric system.*
Also, until the mid-1900s, England, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland all used the imperial system.
That is an interesting piece of history, but the United States was not about to change its system of measurement anytime soon. Jefferson did propose a switch to decimal measurement, but it went nowhere. Jefferson could have replaced the prototypes and continued to work on it after becoming President, but he didn’t. Other things on his agenda were more important.
Hah, that’s interesting.
"Until 1990"?we still use metric
@@utkarshbajpai4628
It says the mid-1900s, and also "imperial", not metric.
@@hongxiuquan69 can't read? it says "edited" On the comment 😑
My college physics professor (an englishman) once explained to us the practicality of fahrenheit. In technical applications it's far easier and likely outright better to use metric, but for every day usage, imperial units are very "human-friendly"; 0 degrees F is very cold, and 100 degrees F is very hot - very simple. Furthermore the smaller degree units allow for better articulation of temperature to people, from 68 being room-temp, slightly cold, to 72 slightly warm, all expressed in integers.
I don’t really see how imperial units are more “human-friendly” in this case. 0 degrees C is still very cold and 100 degrees C is still very hot and when you talk about room temp to slightly warm temp it seems more like a perspective thing if anything (In that whatever you were taught as a kid would be easier understand). Or am I just reading this wrong?
Exactly! More graduations between whole numbers make it easy to get a better grip or "feel" of the number being said or stated.
For me metric is way easier: 0°C water is freezing - there could be ice in the streets-> I can perfectly imagine that, 100°C water is boiling-> please do not but your hand in water hot like that, it will hurt you... also very easy to imagine. 20°C -> nice not to hot summer day in europe. 36°C my bodies temperatue. All values that are easily imaginable and user friendly. The explanation for 0°F is (wiki) : Fahrenheit used as the zero point of his scale the lowest temperature he could produce with a mixture of ice, water and ammonia (= ammonium chloride) or sea salt (cold mixture): -17,8 °C. Water, ice and ammonia mixture is something I can rarely see in nature. I can see freezing water every winter in form of ice. I do not think that your professor worked in a STEM field.
@@triloization OK, going by that logic, a foot is based on the average size of a human foot. Very easy to imagine and visualize. The meter is based on the circumference of the earth...a little bit harder to imagine. So in the US, if you need a rough estimate of how far 14 feet is, you simply walk toe to heel 14 times and you have about 14 feet.
Also, just like you know 0 is the freezing point of water, we know 32 is the freezing point of water. 0 is just as arbitrary a number as 32. The important thing for people who live where water freezes is to know the temp at which it freezes in the system you use.
Also, you know not to put your hand in water that is boiling, you don't need a thermometer for that.
Finally, because you have about twice as many integers in Fahrenheit than Celsius, its very easy to say the temp is going to be in the 70s today as opposed to the temps are going to be between 21 and 26c today...what a mouthful
England: *Invents Imperial System
USA (Former colony): *Uses system of former mother country
England: *Changes to metric, and makes fun of USA for using Imperial.
USA: "Wait, this whole operation was your idea."
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Hol up, I think u mean the U.K
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@TopCat Answer me this, do you trust the US government?
@TopCat As an American, I do not trust the US government. Therefore, I do not want them to be the only ones with the firearms. That's what I was getting at.
My foot is 0.85 feet?
. . . Or you could use inches
wear thick boats and BOOM 1 foot long feet
Colin Thorneycroft wear boats, huh?
OMG LAKEWOOD, how are you doing in Tibet? Police department misses you buddy
Weird... even my gigantic 45/46 size feet are only 0.92 feet. But my shoes are almost exactly 1 foot!
Who were the unit foot based on?
In Celsius water freezes and boils at nice round numbers. In Fahrenheit people freeze and boil at nice round numbers.
FYI, -40 Celsius = -40 Fahrenheit = 40 Below in Canadian. Lately in Canada a big jug of antifreeze and many other liquids holds 3.78 liters which is 1 USA gallon. It's amazing how much mischief a Trudeau can make.
Herr Zeppelin euros founded the U.S good one how long did it take you fools to become free again?
Marc Llorens rocketscientist in murica use metrics as well. Are they nasafags now?
Herr Zeppelin way to backpedal we all know that you are just jealous of our freedom
No. Rights, capitalism, the constitution in general, those are freedom. Stay mad that your "prime ministers" keep taking away your rights. Europoors can only barely hang on to the fact that they use to own the world, but now they are small socialist SJW pieces of crap. No wonder the U.S is still the greatest country in the world no matter our shortcomings.
You can program your Alexa to change to Celsius. Just say ‘Alexa, change to Celsius’
I'm an American and I would REALLY love to see us switch. Try telling me how many feet are in 3 miles without a calculator or scratch paper. However, you know there are 3,000 meters in 3 kilometers without even thinking. It's much easier if we were raised that way from the start. As it is, we're asked to learn conversions instead of just starting out that way.
But the amount of problems would be very high, car companies, schools, and older people would be affected :/
Car companies are affected already. Most all of engineering today is done in metric, cars are a mix.
Yes, there would be an initial investment; but the running cost you have today by maintaining your oddball "standard" next to the world having another one are also substantial.
Who cares how many feet are in 3 miles, not like there’s any practical real world math that you’ll need to know that for.
Tad nailed it. Lumber is sold by the foot in the US. No one is going to order "3 miles" of two-by-fours; a large bulk order would just be specified in thousands of feet. These supposedly oh-so-important examples just don't come up in practice.
older people just need some time to adjust ;)
It's worse in the UK in a way, because in classic British fashion, we've got one foot in and one out. We buy Coke in 2 litre bottles, but enjoy a pint of Beer. Car dimensions are now in millimetres, but we measure height of a person in feet and inches. A bag of sugar is 1kg or 500grams, but the weight of a person is often still measured in Stone, which barely anyone else in the world understands. Petrol and Diesel are priced per litre, but fuel consumption is measured in miles per Gallon. Not even the US Gallon either, it's the Imperial Gallon, which is larger! We're slowly transitioning to metric, but slowly is the operative word. Oh, and older people here still like to use Farenheit, and many weather reports quote both Farenheit and Celsius. Great, isn't it?
Yeah, you're learning more ways to measure stuff.
@GodBotherer1 you can find both metric '500ml' cans of beer an imperial 'pint' cans in the UK too.
Oh and miles per hour too, right?
Don't forget about stone as weight scale.
@@cadenyoung9968 Yep. Vehicle speed limits are in miles per hour. Interestingly though, the tram system in Nottingham has metric speed signs (KM/H)! We're so confused!
Whenever I heard an United States man say something like "boil the water at more than 200°" I thought how they hecking got an industrial ore smelter into their house
too be fair there are a lot of weird things people have in their houses here lots of people have casting furnaces
@@IndustrialParrot2816 that aside, ovens easily surpass at least 250º. not that you could ever get water to that point, but still, really doesnt take any specialized equipment.
This video's on Fahrenheit, and is exactly 4:51 seconds long. I just noticed that and wondered why nobody pointed it out haha
Good catch
Loved the book
What does 4:51 have to do with it?
@@matthiaswarlop2316 There’s a great book called that way.
@@matthiaswarlop2316 a really good book called Fahrenheit 451