American Reacts to Why I Will NEVER Use the Metric System!
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- This is Johnny Harris's compelling argument on why he will never use the metric system! Let's dive into his reasoning and explore the quirks of the Imperial system.
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A meter is a device for displaying a measurement. A metre is a measurement of distance.
Bugs me too.
We use both in the UK, it's a great way to confuse American tourists. Car range is miles per gallon, petrol sold in litres.
UK miles per gallon is a different measurement than the USA because our gallon is larger. Same with our pint.
Also, objects' weight is measured in Kg but people's weight is measured in stones.
@@WookieWarriorz Excellent, even more confusing
Why would the French say ‘bro,dude’?
Milk and beer in pints, everything else ( orange juice, coke etc) in litres. Fun.
I always find it amusing when Americans say they would never use the metric system when they've been using it their whole lives..... Dollars and cents. Where do they think the word "cent" came from? The French centime coinage is the answer.
I hadn't thought of that.
bullet measurements are also in metric :D
Originally Latin "centum" = 100
He didn't mention that Celsius is part of the Metric system too
0C is the temp at which water freezes at Sea level
100C is the temp water boils at sea level
(Atmospheric pressure alters these, so sea level is the point we measure at)
From this we can measure how many joules of energy are required to boil a litre of water at sea level. And these can all be compared to each other and will come out with the same response in calculations
Fairly recent addition: -100C is the temperature where ice is no longer slippery.
Pints you say? Remember ours are different, 20 fluid ounces. OK, we use miles too, and to be fair because I'm so old, I still think in Imperial measurement. however metric is so much easier when working with mathematics.
John I get confused with the imperial I brew up with and the metric which is annoying when I want to buy curtains etc.
Even in the UK most tape measures are both
For some less abled Americans
we use both systems in the uk ..... and somehow we don't get confused
Just learn both!🇬🇧
Impossible, it’s America 😅
How do you americans buy your cocaine? Do you ask the dealer for 1/27th of an ounce 😂
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😂 he did say he knew what a gram is…
Americans are already confused, please don't try and confused them any more, their brains can't take it.
I love it when you start blaming grandma and grandpa 😂
Why would you convert between systems, you guys understand the entire uk almost 70 million People uses both metric and imperial and its no issue. This is just more america ignorance copium.
Just like the rest of the world doesn't bother to convert wheel sizes, screen sizes or pipe sizes. Nobody needs to know how many cms a 16" wheel, a 40" TV or a 1/4" pipe have, we just use them as they are. 🙂
Famous American isolationism. Unless they're invading Middle Eastern countries to nick their oil.
Well let's point out to them that a UK gallon is 20% more than a US gallon, for example if you can travel 100 miles on a US gallon, that would be 125 miles on a UK gallon, just to confuse them to the point of pulsing their hair out.
Don't underestimate your self . Most brits happily use both, pints for beer but liter of milk. Distance is gauged in miles for longer distance but meters for shorter ,like on the running track.
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In the UK beer still comes in pints, cars travel miles, and willies are measured in inches
Bragging again Manc 🙂?
In the UK Our measuring tapes come with metric and imperial measurements printed on them 🤷♂️
Same in Oz 🤷♀️
As many Brits will tell you, over here we use whatever we fancy (although your age does have an influence)... Our old money of pounds, shillings & pence changed to decimal in 1971 ish. I call 50p (decimal) ten bob (10 shillings)... Its miles (not km) between towns, the speed limits are mph, but a car speedometer is miles and km. Our personal weight is stones & pounds and kilos....and on it goes (why do anything easy!?)
I'm an old man but I never use Imperial at any time. I wouldn't know what my weight is in pounds or stones but I know exactly what it is in kilograms. I measure in metres. Metric makes so much more sense but the US keeps on using an archaic system along with just two other 3rd world countries on the globe.
American money is metric.
I think maybe you mean decimal? I would not have coped well with our (UK) pre-decimal currency, now that was a system that definitely needed changing!
240 pence per pound was totally reasonable.
Also we had half pence too, so it was really dividing the pound into 480 pieces.
@@scragar I remember half-pennies and pound notes from the 1980s, but you have to admit - 100 pennies to £1 is much easier to handle than shillings, farthings, guineas and florins!
@@ziggythedrummer Yes - decimal. Actually pre-decimal in the UK was based on 12, and fractions or multiplications of it originally as, believe it or not, using one hand it is convenient to count to twelve and with 2 hands, (using one as a storage device) it is possible to count and calculate to 144 i.e. 12*12 - a standard gross.
@@scragar Farthings 😀
I grew up with both - still get confused, but you get used to it.
I still appreciate how you frequently stop to Google certain things to help you ( and us! ) understand things.
Thank goodness JJ was way more entertaining than the actual video, which was mind numbingly dull. I can't even be bothered to mention the correct spelling of litre and metre.
I couldn't hear the video much of the time because JJ was chattering all the way through it.
Thank goodness for that 😅@@hardywatkins7737
As a commercial/industrial plumber in the UK I have to interchange metric and imperial depending on the type of pipe I’m working on. I literally had to correct my manager today about 35mm pipe being 1”1/4 rather than 42mm which would be 1”1/2
The number of times I’ve had to send supplies back because an inexperienced merchant has done a wrong conversion isn’t funny, I tend to specify both now
Loving your reactions man, the shhhh-ing and blaming grandpa and grandma XD.
In fact, the US aviation industry uses the metric system but Imperial units are often used by aviators. Altitude is usually thousands of feet, airspeed is knots. The knot is one nautical mile per hour...one nautical mile is 1/60 of 1 degree (a minute) at the earth's circumference and is therefore a natural unit for maritime and aviation distance measurement whereas the metre is arbitrary. Incidentally, the base of 60 for degrees etc came from ancient Persia.
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How do you manage with Dollars and Cents then?
Then they have to add the tax 🙄
i never linked a ruler is a foot until he said it, growing up in uk iv called it a 30 cm ruler or 12 inch rule
UK and U.S pints and gallons are 2 different measurements !!
We still use FURLONGS in horse racing.
When I was at school we had measurements called a ROD, a POLE, a PERCH, a FURKIN.
Who uses 3/16ths of an inch etc anymore !!
Metric is easy. Everything is in units of 10 !!
In the UK we spell it as METRE. A METER is something like a GAS or ELECTRIC MEASUREING DEVICE.
UK tape measures have the 2 measurements as well.
Joseph pooped to death...hence the term "taking a Dombey".
Only thing I measure in ounces is weed.
I'm British and old, so I use both. Metric is really good for fine measurements, such as in technical drawing, or engineering. Imperial is better for weights and measuring liquid because it is easier to split into fractions. 12 and 16 are much easier in that respect than 10. It's a more human system.
From what I’ve read, Dombey didn’t take a kilo weight, he took a gram weight.
Anyone know different?
Also… do USAians really pronounce gala as “gay-la”?
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Nobody's listening to Johnny.. now I want Doritos. 🤨 He probably doesn't need to plan on future children if his pillow talk is like his measurement commentary.
What I love about the whole debate, is that when a lot of Americans are taught in school how to calculate force. They are often just taught to convert to metric, apply that formula and convert back. Because it's literally several times faster unless you use a calculator made for that.
We use both, also try dividing certain numbers and precision in science etc. It boils down to the application of said measurements.
The Imperial system is what I was taught in school, and, when I first started work in the 1970s. So I transitioned from Imperial to Metric, also from pre decimalisation ( pounds, shillings and pence), to decimalisation. In the 1980s I was using both in my career in the engineering and still can. Also our tape measures have got the same markings on as the US. Metric and Imperial. Maybe because the Imperial system was invented by the Brits. It's in the name, Imperial.
KorkytheKat Uk
I suspect Imperial is related to the Roman (of which we Britons were (reluctantly?) part) , rather than the British Empire.
It's so funny that he's so passionate about the French system, but can't spell litre or metre.
American spelling: there’s more than one standard with the English language (pointing out the obvious!)
Yes. Even the US spelling system spells it differently to most of the rest of the world.
I use both here in the UK because as I work in construction, it gives me a lot more freedom..... Sometimes things just do not work in one measurement, but they work in the other. Instead of having to say "I cannot do it" because I'd be working with decimals and that becomes annoying, I can switch to imperial and suddenly it fits very nicely. Just the other day I was doing flooring and imperial saved my arse because I just couldn't get the pattern right using millimeters. Also Fahrenheit is a far superior way of measuring air temperature, but Celsius is a better way at measuring water temperature. We use imperial for division, but metric for adding....... So it is better to use both.
“A litre of water’s a pint and three-quarters “
“Two and a quarter pounds of jam weighs about a kilogram”
“A metre measures three foot three, it’s longer than a yard you see”.
Hey JJ .. I do maths like you do... stick my fingers in my ears and sing "ting-a-ling-a-loo" 🎶
It is possible to change. In 1971 the UK changed from the old money system of pounds, shillings and pence (with 240 pence in the pound) to the decimal system (100 pence in the pound) pretty much overnight. The old system had a lot of weird coins (halfpenny, penny, thruppenny bit, sixpence, shilling, florrin, half crown, guinea) and notes, it would make an interesting reaction video.
I was brought up in the 1960s - 70s metrification period in Britain. I am 6 ft 1 cm tall.
I live in Australia and we've used the Metric system since I was about 4 or 5 years old. We converted just about the same time as I started school, I'm 60 now. We still speak as if "the foot" is a thing since there is no Metric equivalent, doesn't matter because colloquially everyone knows what we mean, I don't think you'd ever meet an Australian who would voluntarily revert to the Imperial measurement system and we all look on the Americans as being backward in this regard.
"A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter!"
Sic: 20 fluid ounces in a pint.
8 pints to the gallon is 4.54 liters.
BTW 454 grams make a pound in the UK 2204 lbs make a tonne which is also 1000 Kg.
I was born in '70, educated imperial for first few years, I can work in both systems and convert on the fly.
I do carpentry in feet n inches, but everything else has been meters since the late 70's in engineering and science.
In the UK we prefer pints as they are bigger than a half litre, and old fogeys prefer miles as they think they are British measures, but actually nearly all of our measurement systems came from France (mostly) and the Continent.
we also have both measurements on our measuring equipment. To be honest, I think it's only because the USA still uses both
The thing that drives me mad about imperial measurements, is that - particularly with small units - people frequently have to preface things with the word "about"; "It's ABOUT 2 3/4 inches" or "it's ABOUT 6 foot 3 and a quarter"! You know where you stand with mm!
JJ, when buying a drink in a bar, which would you rather have, American or British, well the British pint means you get more for your bucks, 25% more actually.
Oh and when you use the metric counting system for counting money, how many cents in a dime, how many dimes in a dollar.
You may want to look up how the UK moved from Imperial to Metric, especially to the Decimal system from Sterling for money, the MATHS (note not math) is really quite simple.
The $ vs £ conversion amount would be wrong - because you'd need to convert the amount at the time the money was spent to get the true amount and rates! 🤓😂🤣
Car tyres i will never understand 2 of the are in metric and the main wheel size is in imperial. But i woild use inperal more often
If you moved to a country where you used the measurements every day you'd eventually change and get used to metric measurements. Here in the UK we measure our height in feet and inches (though I do know mine in metres), as you know we have our beer down the pub in pints, we show distances on road signs in miles, golf courses use yards, but growing up, since I was a kid anyway we had those 30cm plastic rulers, you watch the Olympic athletics and watch the 100m, 200m, and 400m races, lately it you go to parkrun to try and keep in shape you know how far 5km is (and they have signed for every km run) so i don't think it's difficult to become accustomed to both.
Fahrenheit, when in the US drives me though, it's just so dumb not to use the freezing point of water as 0 and 100 as boiling. I'm sure though if I moved to the US and married an American lady and had kids they'd learn imperial and I'd get used to seeing and hearing it everywhere. I don't think unless you have to and able to use it in everyday life you make yourself change, that's just not going to work, it'd be like telling yourself you'll only speak French. Very few people would understand you and you'd have to change back.
France are still using Imperial for time. 2 x 12hr in a day. 12 months in a year etc
Very few places use decimal clocks and calendars. Even the French couldn't make it work.
The inch may no longer be defined as 3 barleycorns, but a barleycorn is still defined as a third of an inch and is in everyday use - ever wondered what UK shoe sizes and US shoe sizes actually mean?
Not using metric doesn't mean you're using Imperial.
America didn't adopt the Weights and Measure Act 1824 when it was rolled out to the Empire, and Burma/Myanmar mostly retained using Burmese measures.
Fahrenheit wasn't a required measure in the Act, it was merely used for reference temperatures (e.g. the temperature 10 Imperial avoirdupois pounds of water should be to define the Imperial gallon), so it wasn't technically an Imperial measure.
The Imperial yard, US yard, Imperial avoirdupois pound, US avoirdupois pound, Imperial troy ounce, and Imperial grain, were all replaced following agreement to align our measures in 1959. The international yard, international avoirdupois pound, international grain, and international troy ounce, are not identical to any pre-1959 US customary or Imperial measure.
For reference, England has been trying to standardise weights and measures since before Magna Carta mandated it - before England conquered Wales the Welsh mile was 3 Imperial miles (I can't recall the English mile, Scottish mile, or Irish mile from memory), and before the 1824 Act the Scotch pint was about 3 Imperial pints. The section of Magna Carta saying there shall only be one measure may no longer be on the statute books, but after 800 years we've at least reached the point where we only have two measures for things (with one of those measures being defined by the other, and the other being defined by SI constants).
The US and Liberia use US customary volume measures, such as the 473... ml pint, although Liberia is slowly transitioning to metric and US customary units are defined in metric.
The UK, Ireland, and Canada (and possibly some other Commonwealth countries) use the 568... ml pint (I don't think Australia's 570 ml pint counts), although these are now defined in metric.
If the international standard unit for wind speeds is m/s, and metric is easy, why do "metric" Western European countries insist meteorologists convert speeds to km/h before giving them the weather?
Imperial is confusing on small scales and metric makes total sense to easily calculate things, BUT I refuse to use Kph I much prefer Mph when driving, kph just makes it sound like your goin faster LOL. Would you rather run 3 miles or 5 kilometres???
Johnny Harris is addicted to Doritos, he has a huge stash of them. He's shown it in an older video..
Johnny Harris was on a right rant there. "Chill out mate, step away from the metre stick".
His ranting and all the maths was making my brain hurt.
Thank goodness for your reaction, it was hilarious.
I was brought up with Imperial measurements (born 1940) but, as an engineer, I've used the metric system and centigrade/Kelvin for years. In my dotage I build model aeroplanes and balsa sizes are still, annoyingly, in inches - 1.5mm is close but not exactly 1/16". I used to ride cycle events that were always measured in km (200,300, 400 etc) so got quite used to that.
The first computers I worked on in 1961 actually had hardware to multiply?divide £SD by 10! So may number bases (20,12, 10) for so little advantage.
When I was at school in the 1960s we worked in metric units in science even though Imperial measurements were in use in, for example, construction. I may be old but I've only used metric units for years.
We measure tyre pressure in PSI not bar, people shop for a shirt collar size in inches not cm, beer and milk is pints not litres, estate agents still use square footage for homes too. Apart from that, metric is generally used, apart from land which is still acres, horse racing is still furlongs, depth is fathoms and sea travel which is nautical MPH. It's all fun.
No AICS forms ( to claim agricultural subsidies in the days of the EU ) had to be in hectares. We've been paid for our milk in litres since 1976. I can still asses a field's size more easily in acres though for day to day management.
Coffee? Coffee? Whats coffee? AS a Brit ive never heard of it!! It must be some new fangled American thing!
when were you born? I've had coffee since the 1940s
Has anyone noticed that the one second pendelum is VERY close to a meter long - or is it my national mistrust of the French when I don't believe the idea of two french guys measuring the earth with triangles - just saying.
lol I've driven down that road in Arizona! It's south of Tucson towards the Mexican Border.
Thailand uses parts of the Imperial system.
British pints are different to US ones, about 20% bigger.
Tool sizes in imperial are crazy. 3/16 5/16 inches...
Millimetres are much simpler
I saw your face when you said you knew what a gram is. You naughty boy.
It's a bit "in your face" to say he pooped to death. You might say, he died from a surfeit of fewmets.
I never knew Americans pronounced gala as gayla. 😆
It’s ironic how America refuses to stop using the British messaging system 🤣
Evan edinger made a good video countering this. Heck even real engineering & a lot of others have made the other argument even referring to this video.
I need to measure in pints makes sooooo much sense though
Provided you are using the correct pint - one is 16 oz the other 20 oz
I’m in the uk and have always said 20oz
I read somewhere that Myanmar was moving to the metric system, not sure it's a done deal.
The reason we still have pints is because if we changed it too half a litre it would be more equivalent to a U.S pint (ie smaller) which would make it almost a girls pint and if they started to put less alcohol in the drinks like budweiser , millers etc it would definitely be classed as a girls drink !
I subscribe to a few American auto mechanics and they all use metric spanners.
Now watch Evan Edingers commentary to that very video..
i don't know how anyone draws architectural plans using imperial measurements.. crazy..
Your guys pints are smaller than our pints. I found this out to my dismay upon ordering my first "pint" in America. We drink proper pints. Not short-changing american style ones.
Pints, miles, mph, mpg - we really do kind of mix n match - And if they say meters, my brain just turns into yards + a bit. Still only know my Hight in feet and inches, and my weight in pounds and stones... and we obviously don't like the French! Pretty sensible to my mind and nothing to make a fuss about.😁
you will have to do at least a couple decades with all measurements printed in BOTH imperial and metric but with the prominent measurement in bold being in metric 50METRES / 54yards and 24-5/16"
Metres!
@@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef just a typo sorry you couldn't understand
At least your drug dealers know how to use it 😂
I changed into metric when I was 12 and it was easy that is in 1972 in Kenya.
🍻 - from the UK
You need to react to a response to this, by Evan Edinger
Imperial = Empire.
The US has always used the Metric system when it comes to money. In the UK we had a Base 12 system for money until the 70s. So there were 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 Shillings to a Pound.
I had to stop half way through. Did you wake up that morning and think "I'm going to make my worst video yet"? You broke the golden rule of reaction videos by *talking* at the same time the person in the video is *talking*. We can't hear them. We can't hear you. It's a lose/lose. Perhaps drink more caffeine next time? I recommend tea.
Every other country managed to change. Why is the USA special? Nobody said changing would be easy or popular with everyone.
Pints! Even then your pints are wrong, 16 instead of 20 fluid ounces.
Should have waited till the end!😂😂🤦♂🤦♂😂😂
In the UK we understand both and can think in both without converting, tho don’t know about Gen-Z tho I don’t think they understand anything these days
You should watch - is the metric system actually better?
What's better than a pint? how about 8" ? 😆😄🤣
Scientists in the US use the metric system. Calculations relating to space travel use the metric system but sadly US engineers don't. Remember the Mars Orbiter mission failure? It was due to US engineers trying to convert Imperial units to Metric units. In the UK the only time we use the term "pint" is to talk about a traditional measure of "draft" beer. We don't divide it into fluid ounces!! In any event it's not the same as a US pint. If it's in a container, such as a bottle or can it must be a metric measurement in millilitres or litres. Miles - I have to concede this one because I can't understand why we've been metric for over 50 years and still refer to distances in miles when highway workers will work in kilometres. Pounds and pence are metric with 100 pence making a pound. Do Americans not understand that their currency is also metric or decimal?
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'He must have been an insufferable, narcissistic, ....'. Of course he was, he was a Royal. That's practically the defining characteristics of Royals.
Metric should be used for science and engineering definitely but I'm not a unit snob
I don't mind if people use metric or imperial, so long as the unit is fit for purpose
Eg.
Measuring a human in feet and inches is perfectly acceptable, but when you guys insist on using 5/64ths of an inch for a wrench/spanner size...
No! Stop it...that is an absolutely ludicrous unit when you can say 2mm
So long as the unit is fit for purpose, I don't mind what people use
Thing is the US armed forces, NASA and US corperations all use metric already.
You want kids in America to get used to Metric? Get them into engineering. Or mechanics. The reason the 10mm and 13mm socket always goes missing from your tool kit is because it's most used for bolts and nuts around that size, because they are 3/8" and 1/4" sockets respectively.
In imperial tool sets, there's 1 socket size between 3/8 and 1/4, the 7/16. But in metric, we have 11mm and 12mm, obviously.
The UK uses Imperial. Where ther Hell do you think the Imperial system came from?
The metric system exists because the French couldn't count over 10 without removing their shoes and socks. Nobody wanted French feet unfettered, so Europe had to choose between teaching the French to wash their feet or using metric. Changing to metric seemed easier.
Just use both. That's what we Brits do.
And yet guns/bullets are in mms?
@samanthawhiting0912
And yet guns/Bullets are imperial....
0.22 - imperial
0.224 (223, 222, 22-250.. etc) - imperial
0.308 (30-06, 308win .... etc) - imperial
Etc etc.
Very few are metric; 9mm is pretty much the only one, most such as 6mm are actually 0.243" 7mm is actually 0.284" and so on.
Our pints are bigger than yours sorry 568ml compared to 473ml