She’s right. 😂 I remember in Elementary school them trying to teach us kids about the metric system for like a few days & then they just gave up. We were just looking at our books like, “The f**k is this s**t?” I still get confused when some UA-cam video says, “it was a sweltering hot 35° that day” & I’m thinking, “Wtf that’s almost freezing temperatures...Oh wait... Siri, convert 35°C to Farenheit...Oh damn 95° that is hot!” 😂
That metric system joke was spot on. I was rolling. I remember getting beautiful brand new math books (and even workbooks) in elementary school and all of us kids were so excited. I think the teaching was trucking away at teaching us the metric system for about a month or two. I honestly think the problem was that we had to learn both systems but in the stores, on TV, signs, everything was not metric. Nothing had changed, so why were we learning it. Ultimately the next year in school not one teacher was even talking about the metric system. The great experiment that didn’t work.
Only job I can openly error and make mistakes on a daily and still get paid! And not fired. Hahaha higher pay too. I took the wrong thing in school. Wrong. Hahaha but right abt metrics my son doing year of college in UK and I've been Google converting my life away ever since. Hahaha n it is embarrassing. Lmao
Funny thing is all the smart Yanks already use the Metrics system, in medicine, computing, basically in all US-science use the metric + their military.
You don't need to convert stuff in the metric system, that why. It leaves you with more brain and computing capacity, easier to understand = more efficient to use = more efficient results when you work with it. It makes more sense.
I understand both system just fine and most modern American college students know both because the metric system is pushed hard in the science field. Now if that student is not necessarily in the scientific field then they may not be so fluent.
If imperial system was more efficient, I dont think your corporations and military would opt out for the metric system. They do care more about results than how you get them, don't they?
You know, Canada only converted to the metric system so quickly because we wanted to beat the US said they were gonna and we wanted to beat them to it.....Then the US backs out like a jerk
@luciacoutinho: It's the older people that don't. I'm a high school student, and we learn both systems now in our schools. At least in my states. Anyone who was born in the last 20 years (I can't say older, because I'm not that old and I can't argue it) or anyone who goes to college knows the metric as well as the imperial system.
I'm American, currently in Japan and moving to the UK in the future. Metric isn't hard, as far as adding things up and such... but wrapping my head around, for example, how much 5 kilograms is, is tough. I just can't picture it. I have to have my mathematician boyfriend convert things to Imperial for me, ha ha. I have a whole big sheet of notes about conversions for cooking. Temperature took me LONG time to figure out, but finally, after years, I can picture whether 40 degrees C is hot or cool, ha ha.
I can understand that going from imperial to metric would be hard. But going from fucking farenheit to Celcius is fucking easy, that should take a day tops to learn it!
@catseye664 take it easy, she just said it's easier to use a system which divides everything by 10 cause that's easy math. you don't need to think about it, everyone knows in half a second how much is a number divided by 10. so supposedly it should be easier to get used to, even if you've done it in a different your whole life. she didn't mean you're wrong by doing things your way, actually i think she was just saying that maybe if you tried it once you would all see it's much simpler.
@15Ellimist It's not that Americans never attempted to learn. We were transferring to the metric system in 1974 but President Carter stopped us from going Metric in 1975 because we would have cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS to change our entire industry, like manufacturing machines, containers, labeling. so they gave up
@loreliz4 Forget Sarah Palin on this issue. It's not that Americans never attempted to learn. We were transferring to the metric system in 1974 but President Carter stopped us from going Metric in 1975 because we would have cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS to change our entire industry, like manufacturing machines, containers, labeling. so they gave up
LOL well okay, even most American's don't know how many feet are in a mile. It's a shame, really, 'cause Metric is so much easier conceptually, and would help us out, but we'd pretty much NEED the government to mandate it for it to sink in. I know, off the top of my head, that 30cm=1foot, a meter is about a yard, and a km is, like 6/10 of a mile. It's like having a 3 year old's command of language, but with numbers. XD
I remember the last time someone asked me for directions to the nearest gas station and I told them "head straight for 17, 234 feet and then take a left and drive another 11, 257 feet and it will be on your right."
These are JOKES people. No one needs you to go into some explanation about Americans and learning and the metric system.. Just laugh and move on lol.. Geez!
You can use any system you like ^^ ... if you want to accelerate a larger change in culture just start using metric system screws, parts and stuff ... or start buying inch based parts in europe if you love that stuff. It's a free world.
@luciacoutinho because when youve done something one way your entire life, ofcourse something new is going to be hard to learn. It would be just like your country had to switch to our system. Just because everyone else uses the metric system doesnt mean the U.S. needs to conform. If people wanna be overh ere, then they can learn how to do things our way, just like we would have to adjust to doing things your way if we wnet to your country.
LMFAO. I am a pure math major graduating this year and I still don't know the measurements. I do know basic estimate for miles since I drive often and I have a GPS but I don't know exactly how many feet are in a mile. Come to the dark side. Meters and Kilo G's are awesome. =p
It's a real shame that most people in Colorado think Denver ( "the mile high city") is higher than Colorado springs (6300ft) .... Im glad I moved away....I was surrounded by idiots!
@67ChevelleSSBlown460 upto about 10-15 years ago the news here (canada) still gave the temp in metric and imperial now thateveryone has learned it or died we only use metric officially (but in the industry its funny to use metric which is more accurate and then convert it to imperial when we send it to the states lol
@johdorada I just dont like the fact that America is the country that all the other ones come down on. Maybe I take it a little personal, but its hard when people make a sweeping generalization about an entire nation based on things done by a couple people.
@Tumaano im saying if the situation was vis versa (america used metric system and everyone else used the more complicated version), all the other countries would be saying "americans are too stupid to understand our system"
@johdorada im not comming at you in an offensive way, and I love Wanda. I just get tired of hearing people say shit about America, especially when Americans go to a different country, we have to learn there way of doing things, but people bitch about how we do things differently. Every country is different, but it just seems America gets all the heat. its annoying.
@catseye664 you dont' take all the head dude, I'd say everyone gets the same amount of heat. I'm Canadian and I get sterotyped for saying "eh" and "aboot" and "ruff(roof)" or "rum(room)" all the time not everyone talks like that and we don't live in igloo's or get around in dog sleds lol. Wanda Sykes is just saying the truth and so what? Don't get all upset everyones different, lighten up a little bit...
1) Metric system accurately measures miniscule lengths. Adjoining latin prefixes allows it to be fluid and much more precise. 2) The standard measurement in scientific studies is the metric system. Are you seriously telling me that scientists are stupid for picking the metric system over the US standard of measurements? Even US scientists use the metric system for a reason. 3) Tell me why there are 5280 feet in a mile. I can tell you why there are 1000 grams in a kilogram.
Seriously though WHY are we the ONLY damn country to not use the metric system?!? I've been learning it so my bf and I don't confuse each other 😅 ...example: its somewhere in the mid 20's celsius right now, but it will get up to maybe 30...this has been your half-assed semi-international weather report 😅✌
@luciacoutinho Matter of habit I guess, we've been raised with the metric system, if we had to change now to something different, it would be a problem too :)
@snaketooth98 exactly, theres all different body types around the world. America is not the only country with people who have weight problems but everyone just likes to sterotype american's for it cause thats what they see on tv and on the internet. People are to naive these days to understand that sterotypes apply to everyone and everywere. Its saddening :(
@luciacoutinho u couldnt believe how slow some of the people in america are look at Sarah palin i live in america i know lol i didnt think the metric system was too hard
I remember when I was in like 6th grade they tried to teach us the metric system & no one understood it, our teacher understood it. Now that I'm in the 11th grade, I'm glad that we don't have the metric system. lol.
Well, it's not useful for MOST people's professions...XD Strange, though, that your elementary school didn't teach any measurements along with basic math. I guess if someone said "5 miles ahead", you'd have the same problem I'd have with meters and such, I guess?
I thought the same thing. As a Norwegian who has been living in the UK for almost nine years now, I have had to get used to this nonsense. Feet, inches, pounds, stone... However, the worst of it has been the height of horses. I was once asked how tall my pony is. I gave the answer in cm, and then feet and inches, but just got blank stares. People genuinely cannot understand how tall a horse is unless it is given to them in hands. Fucking HANDS. Why? WHY IS THIS? It's ridiculous. If feet and inches make sense when talking about humans, how can it suddenly become incomprehensible when applied to horses? Utter bullshit.
I thought the same thing. As a Norwegian who has been living in the UK for almost nine years now, I have had to get used to this nonsense. Feet, inches, pounds, stone... However, the worst of it has been the height of horses. I was once asked how tall my pony is. I gave the answer in cm, and then feet and inches, but just got blank stares. People genuinely cannot understand how tall a horse is unless it is given to them in hands. Fucking HANDS. Why? WHY IS THIS? It's ridiculous. If feet and inches make sense when talking about humans, how can it suddenly become incomprehensible when applied to horses? Utter bullshit.
@RedspRayypainT so true alot of people think all americans are fat although we deff arent the skinniest either but we arent all fat although i dont really like america at all actually but i hate being steriotyped just because of where i was born! >.
@luciacoutinho as moofa said, we do understand it. you know whats funny? if we used the simple metric system and every other country used our more complex system, we'd just be called too stupid. when its the other way around however....
If you spend your entire life understanding the quantifiable world around you in inches, yards, and so on it's easy to see why the metric system would be difficult to understand conceptually.
"...The teachers were crying cause they didn't know that shit either!" Lmao 😂
Couldn’t stop laughing when she said “so I looked at these 2 dummies. In my country we have meteorologists” lol lol
Groundhog Day.. :)
And they get paid right or wrong 😊
You go Wanda
In all fairness, we’ve dedicated a day to watching a rodent popping out of the ground to see when winter ends.
I've never understood how we arrived to that. Trippy
Ironically, here I am on Groundhogs Day to see this comment. 😂
"In my country, we have meteorologists"
Who still get paid when they get it wrong
She’s right. 😂 I remember in Elementary school them trying to teach us kids about the metric system for like a few days & then they just gave up. We were just looking at our books like, “The f**k is this s**t?” I still get confused when some UA-cam video says, “it was a sweltering hot 35° that day” & I’m thinking, “Wtf that’s almost freezing temperatures...Oh wait... Siri, convert 35°C to Farenheit...Oh damn 95° that is hot!” 😂
Loll 😂
Wanda Sykes is hysterical...I have tears in my eyes from laughing so much lol
That metric system joke was spot on. I was rolling. I remember getting beautiful brand new math books (and even workbooks) in elementary school and all of us kids were so excited. I think the teaching was trucking away at teaching us the metric system for about a month or two. I honestly think the problem was that we had to learn both systems but in the stores, on TV, signs, everything was not metric. Nothing had changed, so why were we learning it. Ultimately the next year in school not one teacher was even talking about the metric system. The great experiment that didn’t work.
Highly entertained. 🤗😂
This woman shines in every perfomance/interview/movie. ❤
"So fuck yo birds."
Yeah but meteorologists don’t always get it right either😁😁😂
Only job I can openly error and make mistakes on a daily and still get paid! And not fired. Hahaha higher pay too. I took the wrong thing in school. Wrong. Hahaha but right abt metrics my son doing year of college in UK and I've been Google converting my life away ever since. Hahaha n it is embarrassing. Lmao
"in my country, we have a meteorologist!" hahahaa
Funny thing is all the smart Yanks already use the Metrics system, in medicine, computing, basically in all US-science use the metric + their military.
You don't need to convert stuff in the metric system, that why. It leaves you with more brain and computing capacity, easier to understand = more efficient to use = more efficient results when you work with it. It makes more sense.
Also everything metric is EXACTLY defined@@MikkoMurmeli whereas imperial is not.
I love that she said "my wife". you go Wanda!!!
OMG This is an OUTSTANDING set for her. She is on "F'n" 🔥 😄😄😄😄😄
I understand both system just fine and most modern American college students know both because the metric system is pushed hard in the science field. Now if that student is not necessarily in the scientific field then they may not be so fluent.
If imperial system was more efficient, I dont think your corporations and military would opt out for the metric system. They do care more about results than how you get them, don't they?
1975, you'd have thought the Russians had landed! OMG 😂😂
I love Wanda funny as shit,
This special set such a high bar that it'll be hard for Wanda to top it.
She's such a crack up!! 😄😄😄 Thanks for the upload!!
The US is becoming increasingly isolated due to our inability to adhere to world standards, while trying to compete in a world market.
You know, Canada only converted to the metric system so quickly because we wanted to beat the US said they were gonna and we wanted to beat them to it.....Then the US backs out like a jerk
@luciacoutinho: It's the older people that don't. I'm a high school student, and we learn both systems now in our schools. At least in my states. Anyone who was born in the last 20 years (I can't say older, because I'm not that old and I can't argue it) or anyone who goes to college knows the metric as well as the imperial system.
In the continuation of this stand up, she goes into that. How medicine uses metric.
I'm American, currently in Japan and moving to the UK in the future. Metric isn't hard, as far as adding things up and such... but wrapping my head around, for example, how much 5 kilograms is, is tough. I just can't picture it. I have to have my mathematician boyfriend convert things to Imperial for me, ha ha. I have a whole big sheet of notes about conversions for cooking. Temperature took me LONG time to figure out, but finally, after years, I can picture whether 40 degrees C is hot or cool, ha ha.
0 and below is freezing point. 100 and above is boiling. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
5 kilograms is like a fat cat
Um, er, well, go find & ask a drug dealer ... even a low level US street dealer uses the metric system on a daily basis.,😉
I can understand that going from imperial to metric would be hard. But going from fucking farenheit to Celcius is fucking easy, that should take a day tops to learn it!
snowfish1121 1kg is 2.2 pounds. So just think of anything in kg as being a little more than 2x that amount in pounds. So 5kg is about 11 pounds
I'm Brazilian and I never heard about this!
Same
haha same. I wonder which state was it xD
Really???
Me neither, but if there is... then it is not from São Paulo, because nobody knows when is gonna rain here
@DarynLXM I think it makes sense but it's just impractical. The metric system follows a pattern that is much simpler to learn and remember
That bird by the weather thing is not only funny, but true. Meteorolist tested, even! 😂❤
we have meteorologists and our *** tell us what the weather gon'na be like for the next 5 days???
..so true... it does seem that everyone thinks their shit IS the best
@catseye664 take it easy, she just said it's easier to use a system which divides everything by 10 cause that's easy math. you don't need to think about it, everyone knows in half a second how much is a number divided by 10. so supposedly it should be easier to get used to, even if you've done it in a different your whole life. she didn't mean you're wrong by doing things your way, actually i think she was just saying that maybe if you tried it once you would all see it's much simpler.
@15Ellimist It's not that Americans never attempted to learn. We were transferring to the metric system in 1974 but President Carter stopped us from going Metric in 1975 because we would have cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS to change our entire industry, like manufacturing machines, containers, labeling. so they gave up
Love Wanda
"We've been trying to convert to the metric system since 1875!"
Oh my god. LMFAO! 😁😁😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@loreliz4 Forget Sarah Palin on this issue. It's not that Americans never attempted to learn. We were transferring to the metric system in 1974 but President Carter stopped us from going Metric in 1975 because we would have cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS to change our entire industry, like manufacturing machines, containers, labeling. so they gave up
Sorry Wanda, but you have The Groundhog Day, in America, where a groundhog tells you if there will be spring or winter the next 6 weeks!
LOL well okay, even most American's don't know how many feet are in a mile. It's a shame, really, 'cause Metric is so much easier conceptually, and would help us out, but we'd pretty much NEED the government to mandate it for it to sink in. I know, off the top of my head, that 30cm=1foot, a meter is about a yard, and a km is, like 6/10 of a mile.
It's like having a 3 year old's command of language, but with numbers. XD
I remember the last time someone asked me for directions to the nearest gas station and I told them "head straight for 17, 234 feet and then take a left and drive another 11, 257 feet and it will be on your right."
These are JOKES people. No one needs you to go into some explanation about Americans and learning and the metric system.. Just laugh and move on lol.. Geez!
NO!
better then Ellen!!
Oh come on. NO COMPARISON. Wanda IS a comedian.
Metric system and meteorology comes from my country ! So proud !!!
yeah i want birds
Only 3 countries are not using metric system officially; Burma, Liberia, and USA
You can use any system you like ^^ ... if you want to accelerate a larger change in culture just start using metric system screws, parts and stuff ... or start buying inch based parts in europe if you love that stuff. It's a free world.
And we have advanced Doppler Radar !! Take that Brazil & France !!
This woman crazy 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭
We don't like change and we DO think our country is the best!😂 😮 Not necessarily so! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
EricSingerFan32, yap, she is!
@luciacoutinho because when youve done something one way your entire life, ofcourse something new is going to be hard to learn. It would be just like your country had to switch to our system. Just because everyone else uses the metric system doesnt mean the U.S. needs to conform. If people wanna be overh ere, then they can learn how to do things our way, just like we would have to adjust to doing things your way if we wnet to your country.
LMFAO. I am a pure math major graduating this year and I still don't know the measurements. I do know basic estimate for miles since I drive often and I have a GPS but I don't know exactly how many feet are in a mile. Come to the dark side. Meters and Kilo G's are awesome. =p
It's a real shame that most people in Colorado think Denver ( "the mile high city") is higher than Colorado springs (6300ft) .... Im glad I moved away....I was surrounded by idiots!
@67ChevelleSSBlown460 upto about 10-15 years ago the news here (canada) still gave the temp in metric and imperial now thateveryone has learned it or died we only use metric officially (but in the industry its funny to use metric which is more accurate and then convert it to imperial when we send it to the states lol
@johdorada I just dont like the fact that America is the country that all the other ones come down on. Maybe I take it a little personal, but its hard when people make a sweeping generalization about an entire nation based on things done by a couple people.
Tells you a lot about a country when they dont understand the number 10..
She is so funny!
My country we have a meteroligist
@luciacoutinho we weren't taught it when we were little. but i understand it =)
@Tumaano im saying if the situation was vis versa (america used metric system and everyone else used the more complicated version), all the other countries would be saying "americans are too stupid to understand our system"
Yeah im tryna cook american and its saying 1/2 pound and 2 sticks of butter and im like come on guys
“ fuck ur birds.” lol
@johdorada im not comming at you in an offensive way, and I love Wanda. I just get tired of hearing people say shit about America, especially when Americans go to a different country, we have to learn there way of doing things, but people bitch about how we do things differently. Every country is different, but it just seems America gets all the heat. its annoying.
While the rest of the world is using metric, America is still measuring things in school buses, swimming pools and football fields.
@catseye664 you dont' take all the head dude, I'd say everyone gets the same amount of heat. I'm Canadian and I get sterotyped for saying "eh" and "aboot" and "ruff(roof)" or "rum(room)" all the time not everyone talks like that and we don't live in igloo's or get around in dog sleds lol. Wanda Sykes is just saying the truth and so what? Don't get all upset everyones different, lighten up a little bit...
Funniest female comedian
She is so funny.
@EricSingerFan32 uhhh YEAH just check out the video gay vs black over in the suggestions list >>>>>>>
@Ivyjoy215 thank you for schooling me on something i never knew that
1) Metric system accurately measures miniscule lengths. Adjoining latin prefixes allows it to be fluid and much more precise.
2) The standard measurement in scientific studies is the metric system. Are you seriously telling me that scientists are stupid for picking the metric system over the US standard of measurements? Even US scientists use the metric system for a reason.
3) Tell me why there are 5280 feet in a mile. I can tell you why there are 1000 grams in a kilogram.
Seriously though WHY are we the ONLY damn country to not use the metric system?!? I've been learning it so my bf and I don't confuse each other 😅 ...example: its somewhere in the mid 20's celsius right now, but it will get up to maybe 30...this has been your half-assed semi-international weather report 😅✌
@luciacoutinho because we are used to something else
@luciacoutinho You just answered your own question. "divisible by 10." Math is kryptonite to Americans
Everybodies shit IS the best. UBI for the world 😊
And now we have common core
Facts
@luciacoutinho Because we're stupid, that's why XD I'm American, and I'll say it for us.
@mangarda Many places still use the mile, so it's not a big deal. :p
@luciacoutinho Matter of habit I guess, we've been raised with the metric system, if we had to change now to something different, it would be a problem too :)
Wanda is so awesome 🙂🙂🙂
And you are so wrong 👎👎👎
i am american and even i dont understand why other people dont get it.
@gingerbreadgirl5000 yes she is
@snaketooth98 exactly, theres all different body types around the world. America is not the only country with people who have weight problems but everyone just likes to sterotype american's for it cause thats what they see on tv and on the internet. People are to naive these days to understand that sterotypes apply to everyone and everywere. Its saddening :(
meteorologists...hahaha
Hahahaha so dam true. My son doing a year of college in UK and I've had to Google a lot of conversions. Lmao. And it is embarrassing. Lol.
💜😂🥇
@luciacoutinho u couldnt believe how slow some of the people in america are look at Sarah palin i live in america i know lol i didnt think the metric system was too hard
Well she’s not wrong lol. Metric’s everywhere except for us; and European measurements are more accurate.
Isn't she forgeting Groundhogs Day?
Go to your medicine cabinet.. Do you see a bottle of medicine... Take a closer look: mg (milligrams) right there.
Yeah. You use the metric system.
I think the metric system is ok, I just don't like saying 'kilometer.' I like saying 'mile,' it's easier lol
Doesn't Britain still use the customary system? So we're not the ONLY ones.
Julian nope
I remember when I was in like 6th grade they tried to teach us the metric system & no one understood it, our teacher understood it. Now that I'm in the 11th grade, I'm glad that we don't have the metric system. lol.
I like to confuse people. I'm germn so we got metric. But I just love using imperial so noone get's what I'm saying.
@luciacoutinho im american and i love it
Well, it's not useful for MOST people's professions...XD
Strange, though, that your elementary school didn't teach any measurements along with basic math. I guess if someone said "5 miles ahead", you'd have the same problem I'd have with meters and such, I guess?
This is why American's have an hard time to catch cocaine dealers...
Hey Are you carrying cocaine?
No! just grams!
Ok! You can go...
I live I'n the UK and I say Fuck the metric system.
Why do people have to fix what isn't broken??
Fuck that
Well also England didn't completely turn over to metric
I thought the same thing. As a Norwegian who has been living in the UK for almost nine years now, I have had to get used to this nonsense. Feet, inches, pounds, stone...
However, the worst of it has been the height of horses. I was once asked how tall my pony is. I gave the answer in cm, and then feet and inches, but just got blank stares. People genuinely cannot understand how tall a horse is unless it is given to them in hands. Fucking HANDS. Why? WHY IS THIS? It's ridiculous. If feet and inches make sense when talking about humans, how can it suddenly become incomprehensible when applied to horses?
Utter bullshit.
I thought the same thing. As a Norwegian who has been living in the UK for almost nine years now, I have had to get used to this nonsense. Feet, inches, pounds, stone...
However, the worst of it has been the height of horses. I was once asked how tall my pony is. I gave the answer in cm, and then feet and inches, but just got blank stares. People genuinely cannot understand how tall a horse is unless it is given to them in hands. Fucking HANDS. Why? WHY IS THIS? It's ridiculous. If feet and inches make sense when talking about humans, how can it suddenly become incomprehensible when applied to horses?
Utter bullshit.
Still not reformed
@luciacoutinho we understand it... we just dont like it.
@RedspRayypainT so true alot of people think all americans are fat although we deff arent the skinniest either but we arent all fat although i dont really like america at all actually but i hate being steriotyped just because of where i was born! >.
@luciacoutinho as moofa said, we do understand it. you know whats funny? if we used the simple metric system and every other country used our more complex system, we'd just be called too stupid. when its the other way around however....
If you spend your entire life understanding the quantifiable world around you in inches, yards, and so on it's easy to see why the metric system would be difficult to understand conceptually.