In the UK in daily life the general public usually use Celsius for Temperature (makes sense since freezing point is 0 and boiling point of water is 100) and Mph for road vehicle speeds. Everything else varies, for example, the general public usually uses ft and ins for height and st and lbs for their personal weight but in hospitals we measure patients in Kgs and centimeters. Baking measurements I feel depends on how modern or traditional the recipe book is because it could be oz, mg, ml, cups, tbsp or tsp etc. Also running or cycling distances also changes, longer distance races are in miles and shorter races are in Km. 😅 thanks for another great reaction vid, loving these daily uploads 👌🏼👍🏼❤ Edit: Talking about people born in the UK from 1990 onwards and current times. Didn't think I would have to specify this 😂 basically written for JT and Anna for when they visit the UK because nowhere will they see the temp in F rather than Celsius in modern days unless they keep their American phone settings.
The US does use the metric system everyday. 100 cents in 1 dollar, meds are measured in metric, guns/ammo are metric and all those foreign cars in the US are metric.
.50 cal means 0.5 inches, not 0.5 centimetres. Okay, I reckon 9 mm, though, but let’s face it: that’s a gangster’s caliber. Criminals measure the cocaine in grams and kilograms, but the cops and US Customs and Border Protection measure seized cocaine in pounds and ounces.
@@cousinluigi And who invented the .50 caliber? Americans, that's who. Otherwise it would have been 12.5x32. Ever heard of an '88? As in 88 anti aircraft, or 88 Howitzer. That's 88millimeters caliber. Time for the US to catch up - they're way behind the rest of the world.
I was once in a meeting in New Jersey, discussing a process to make a chemical. There was a big argument about the temperature at which a particular reaction was carried out, the lab chemists insisting on one temperature, but the production plant staff saying it was a different temperature. This argument went on for at least ten minutes. Then, having grown up in 1960s and 1970s Britain where we used °F but now we use °C, I realised that the plant staff were talking in °F while the lab staff were talking in °C.
In the 1960s, Britain started to convert to the metric system. Half way through, we got bored and couldn't be arsed to finish. Which is why beer is in pints, but petrol (gas) is in litres. Distance is in miles, except when it's not. Height is measured in feet/inches and weight in stones/pound except when measured/weighed in hospitals 😂
Road signs were in the process of being switched from miles to kilometres in the 60s, when the government unfortunately changed and cancelled the whole thing.
In the metric system you have the meter unit which is the base and the larger or smaller units are multiples/divisors of 10. The table from largest to smallest would be like this: Km (Kilometer) > Hm (Hectometer) > Dam (Decameter) > m (meter) > dm (decimeter) > cm (centimeter) > mm (millimeter) If I convert for example 1km to meter it would be like this: 1Km > 10Hm > 100Dam > 1000m or if I convert 1 meter to millimeter it would be like this: 1m > 10dc > 100cm > 1000mm In summary, you multiply your unit by 10 if you change to a smaller one, or divide by 10 if you change to a larger one. If I wanted to convert 12cm to Decameters, I have to make dividends of 10, which I can do mentally by moving the decimal point one place to the left for each divisor, and I would have 0,012Dam. If I have to convert 12K to m, I make multiples of 10 and move the decimal point to the right for each multiple, which would be 12000m.
If you can count to 10, you can use the metric system as every unit is divisible by 10, weight, length etc but for some reason in the UK we still go for a pint and drive in miles
I spent my early childhood in Australia before the metric system had been fully adopted. Therefore, as kids, we learned the imperial system. We then moved to mainland Europe where they had been using the metric system for over a century. It was a relief for me because I found it so much easier as well as logical. Then I spent time in the US where I encountered the imperial system again (groan) and now back in the UK where a combination of both are used. 🤣
tl;dr America uses metric to check its measures The whole world uses some shit that happens in the universe to check metric measures. Swapping between metric measures - good swapping between imperial measures - stupid
I was an apprentice joiner (carpenter) from 87-92, and we used imperial on site when I was with the the old tradesmen, and we use metric when I was in college. I would do 6 weeks blocks of each. So I essentially became 'bi-lingual'. I also have a big toolbox of spanners mixed with both measurements.
Mass is how much matter makes up an object - your mass on Earth is the same as your mass on the moon, unless you change your diet or exercise. Weight is the force you exert on the Earth or another surface due to gravity. Your weight on Earth is roughly 9.81x your mass, and is different to your weight on the moon.
I was born in 1954, and went to school in England from the late 50s to the early 70s. During that time we had to learn not only imperial and metric measurement units, but the old money system of pounds, shillings and pence, before conversion to decimal currency in 1971, so I am quite comfortable working in any system of measurement there is. In my work life, I was a mechanic, so, although in the beginning, there were still lots of cars around using imperial threads and sizes, by the time I retired, everything was metric, even those made in the US, ironically. In my daily life, I am happy dealing with whichever I encounter.
I too was born in 1954. I was SO happy when the money changed as I have dyscalculia.. and the metric money is much easier than shillings, pennies, ….etc! I heard that the reason we by carpet in lengths in metric ..but the width was still in Imperial..as it was the sizes of the old machinery that had been making carpets for years and they were too expensive to change to metric! No clue if that’s still true as I now live in northern Portugal!
I work in England in aerospace engineering. Most of our work is done in metric and it can be frustrating when a job turns up in imperial. We have plenty of conversion charts available for everyone at our factory
... And mass is how much actual "stuff" there is in an object. That object's mass will remain exactly the same even if it's floating about weightless in outer space.
The easiest definition (that I have to explain to schoolkids) Mass is how much matter (stuff) there is in a substance and is measured in kg. Weight is how much force that matter applies due to gravity and is measured in Newtons. Hence mass will always be the same but people can be weightless in space as there is no effect of gravity….
The UK mixing and matching between the two different systems can be a bit messy - but at least it means that we all have a working knowledge of both systems. So if we hear something from an American or somebody from the rest of the World, we can understand everybody.
I grew up in the1950s-1960s and went to decent schools so lived through many of the changes in the UK. I use both Imperial & metric, for some things effectively interchangeably, and for other things I use Imperial more frequently and for others I use metric more frequently. The Imperial that the US uses isn’t actually exactly the same as British Imperial (where it originated) and is in fact American Standard. This is most noticeable for fluids/liquids. In the UK a pound weight is 16 ounces, but a pint is 20 fluid ounces, whereas in the US both a pound and pint are 16 ounces - perhaps more logical/consistent, but I express no personal view on this issue. The upshot is that a gallon in the US is 4/5ths of a UK gallon (of course in the UK we now use litres/cc mostly, but we do buy petrol/gas in litres, but measure consumption in miles per gallon (mpg) ), although as I lived for many years in France and other metric countries I grew accustomed to thinking about petrol/gas consumption in litres per 100 kilometres, the way it is usually expressed there. I didn’t remember some of the older confusions highlighted in this video, but what I do recall is the more recent confusion over measurements when the Hubble Telescope was first launched which meant that it’s resolution for imaging wasn’t as good as first envisaged until adjustments were made.
I don't know what made me laugh more JT...you being concerned that the bolts for the bridge weren't long enough and then proceeding to get the length of the bridge wrong by more than half...or the fact that you thought a Metric Ton was in the Imperial System. Brilliant entertainment, brought some much needed fun to my day, much appreciated, thank you! Peace and love from the Uk.
13:40 It's even better than that. How would you use a kilogram to check the pound? You literally balance it out. 1 kg on one side, 1 lb and whatever (1 kg - 1 lb) is, 0.54640763 kg down to the microgram on the other. I hear it's a pain from people that have to do it. I guess with the new definition of the kilogram you can just measure the pound directly now, and other fractions of the kilogram as well.
In the UK, we still use miles for the road, which I can gauge distance wise if asked for directions but kilometers makes way more sense haha. Weight is normally grams/kilograms for measuring ingredients/products but then it's pounds in body weight, which is weird a little weird at times haha. I think Canada might also have a mixture of metric and imperial measurements, such as they use kilometers for distance and then imperial for weight.
Here is the most useful example of the difference between US vs UK Imperial systems. When you order a pint of beer in America you get 16 fluid ounces (473 ml) but in the UK you get 20 fluid ounces (568 ml). When you fill up your truck and put in 15 US gallons, you are actually only getting 12 UK gallons, because a UK gallon is 8 x 20 fl/oz (4.54 liters) whereas a US gallon is 8x16 fl/oz (3.785 liters). So if you go to the pub and drink 4 pints then drive home you are only getting 4/5 as much beer and 4/5 the mpg as you would in the UK, but you would still get a DUI in both countries so don't do it!!
Well that was deep for a sunny Tuesday afternoon. 😂. I use pounds, stones, feet and inches but then I am 65 so I don’t think I’m going to change anytime soon 😊
I prefer the metric system for practical use, but I love history and enjoy the old measures. The more you go into the old units the madder they get! The most familiar units of weight in the imperial system are the pound and ounce; and in the most normal units of these, 16 ounces(oz.) = 1 pound (lb). But that only relates to pounds avoirdupois ( pronounced avverderpoiz). Tradiitional jewellery, such as is still made in the Jewellery Quarter in my nearby city of Birmingham, used pounds troy, each of which had 12 troy ounces. Both these units are different! However, a unit called a 'barleycorn' is the same in both systems. I'm not certain whether I've got the figures right, but it's something like there are 3 barleycorns to an avoirdupois ounce and 5 barleycorns to a troy ounce. And then there's apothecaries' weight, which used to be used by pharmacists. This has drams and scruples and things. And there is still a real trap about Imperial Gallons (= 20 fluid ounces, from an old beer gallon), and US Gallons (=16 fluid ounces, from an old wine gallon ). Since pints in both systems are one-eighth of a gallon, Americans in our pubs often get more than they bargained for of strong real ale! Since 1000 kilograms (about 2218 lbs?) is nearly one Imperial (long) ton( 2240 lbs), it is tempting to call it a metric ton; I try to avoid confusion by calling a metric ton a tonne. I think it was about 1964 that our Imperial units were legally defined in terms of metric units, for example an inch being defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres. When in the early 1960s we conveyed from Fahrenheit to a measure dividing freezing point to boiling point of water into 100 degrees, we at first called this Centigrade. I think this was discovered to be a way the French measure steepness of slopes, so we changed thebname of this to Celsius, from a Swedish scientist.
My figures weren't right, but I've been looking up in Wikipedia as to where I got muddled. There is a unit which links the troy ounce and the avoirdupois ounce. The ounce troy is 480 'grains'; the ounce avoirdupois is exactly 437.5 grains. As you rightly say 'barleycorns' are now used to refer to fractions of an inch, but apparently the 'grain' was originally a grain of barley, and grains were originally called 'barleycorns'. That's where I got muddled. Incidentally, when the US talks about ounces of gold, they refer to troy ounces.
My daughter did a PhD looking at an experiment from the 1820s. In it the person doing the experiment describe some sizes in lines. She then found out how many lines there were in an inch and converted that to mm for the work she was doing. She had to go back (and add in another section about the measurements she was using) and correct all her figures after I asked which inch she was using. It never occurred to her that the length of an inch varied all over Europe and the USA in the 1820s. She had to make an educated guess in the end regarding what the local inch was where the experiment was carried out. I find the origin story of gauge blocks interesting and educational.
the metric system is a system based on 1's and 0's and a single metric gram is the weight of a 1cm cube of water. Its a much simpler way to measure things, imo anyway.
Absolutely correct. 🙂 US Pints are 16 Fluid Ounces, UK ones are 20 Fluid Ounces. US Gallons are therefore 128 Fluid Ounces and UK Gallons are 160 Fluid Ounces. US Tons are 2,000 Pounds ("Short Tons") and UK Tons are 2,240 Pounds ("Long Tons").
@@RobertWhetton Yes, I wrote "Tons" for the benefit of the USians who would have gone into a flat spin of not understanding if I had used "Tonne(s)". 🤣
In the UK we have ditched the boring metric measures like kilometers and just use WTF we like LOL. Imperial measures are organic and relate to humans while welcome to the machine with metric...just compare Canada and the USA, Canadians have been sent into a stupor with metric.
@@Comfortzone99 As someone who lives in a very metric country, it feels really organic and relates to humans. It just makes perfect sense, I would say. It fits perfectly into the human logical brain, so to speak.
It's why Americans win a lot of track events. Most athletes in the sprint are running 100 meters whereas the US athletes run 100 yards, so they win, because it is a shorter distance 😆
@2:40 If you don't know history this might seem strange. The video creator does and make it kind of funny. The man he claims to be an Alabama native is Wernher von Braun, a German that worked with the Nazis and helped design the V2 rocket that they launched on Britain a few times. He surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war and moved to the USA where he got involved with NASA to help them with their rocket program.
You do actually use the metric system in america as well. Those big bottle of coke on the store shelves are they 6 pint bottles or are they 3 litre bottles? Also your money works on the metric system, you get 100 cents to the dollar, thats metric.
The UK actually uses a hybrid system based on both the old Imperial system and metric system. It is also safe to say that your age has a bearing. Brits now buy petrol by litres but will tell you how many miles per gallon their car will do; our road signs are also MPH and road measurements are in miles. We will use Celsius for temperature until it gets close to 100 Fahrenheit then generally switch. Most older people will weigh themselves in pounds and stone but the younger generation will often use kg's. Most people also measure their height in feet and inches. Saying all that, we will usually use metric for almost everything else. Just to confuse matters, British Imperial liquid measurements are bigger that the US Imperial measurements - our pint of beer is bigger than yours as is our gallon.
We're mid change from imperial to metric in the uk. My Dad (born 1949) thinks in Fahrenheit, Inches, Yards, lbs, Stone, pints, gallons for everything and will have to do a rough mental conversion to visualise metric measurements. Me (born 1974) thinks in Celsius, litres, pints, gallons, mm (or thou), cm (or inch), metre (or yard) for shorter measurements. Miles (also yards) for longer measurments. Good grasp of feet and inches as we always talk about peoples height in those measurements. No real grasp of Fahrenheit. My son #1 (born 1993) thinks in Celsius, mm, cm, metre, then miles. Only imperial measurements used are miles (inc mph) for longer distance and feet and inches for peoples height (he knows his weight in Kg). My son #2 (born 2003) thinks in all metric only. Peoples height is in metres and their weight in Kg. Only imperial left he ever uses is mph and miles distance when driving, but those are just abritrary numbers on a scale or map to him. Looks like we might keep pints of beer (spirit and wine measurments went metric many years ago) and miles/mph on roads but they won't really mean much to people. A pint of beer will just be what you say when you want one of those big glasses, or half a pint for a small one. If you know London is 100 miles away, and the town you visit a lot is 10 miles away, you know it's 10x as far to go to London, doesn't matter what the units are. I guess once we reach the point that the units used don't really mean anything anymore, someone will come up with the bright idea to switch to units everyone knows.
As a brit I'd love to see you react to a video about Milton Keynes in England. The city (used to be a town until August 15th 2022 when the queen granted it city status) is based off a "typical American city" love the video and glad you're okay and back!
I also love the way a pint in the USA is smaller than a pint in the UK. 16oz in the USA and 20oz in the UK. Therefore 1 US gallon = 0.832 UK gallon. That makes it easier doesn't it LOL. Here's another stupid one. In the UK jams and marmalade etc are sold in 1/2 and 1 pound jars but are marked up in grams 226.7g and 453.5g. Just round it up to 250g and 500g, a quarter or half kilo, FFS. 10mm = 1cm, 100cm = 1m, 1000m = 1km 1g, 1000g = kilogram, 1000kg = 1 tonne. 1ml, 1000ml = 1 litre A box of 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm (1000 cubic cm) full of a liquid is 1litre.
Being of an age that until I was about 16 we used the Imperial System, then when I was around 22 we started using the metric system for most things. Because it uses base 10, the metric system is much easier to use. Whilst we still predominately use miles for distance and Pints for beer and miles per gallon for fuel consumption, otherwise we mainly use metric.
Never used imperial. In cooking I prefer recipes in metric, as it is more accurate in my opinion. Although that may be because most recipes in US use volume (cups) rather than weight. Another nice thing is that since one liter of water weighs 1 kilogram, if I need 600 ml of water, I can just put the bowl on a scale and put 600g. There is also a relationship between liter and meter, or rather cubic meter. 1 Liter is the volume of a cube with length of 10 cm, so cubic decimeter. So 1 ml is 1 cubic centimeter (1cc).
All you need to know is that in the metric systerm, everything is in units of 10, 10 milimeters is one centimeter, 10 cm is one decimeter, 10 decimeters is 1 meter, 1 kilometer is a 1000 meters, it's all dividable by 10, and this applies to ALL measurements... iI's so ridiculously simple you don't ever need to waste any effort or time on pointless conversions between units within your own system... The imperial system is absolutely ridiculously convoluted and unnessecarily complicated for no valid reason whatsoever!
Horses are measured in hands! Light riding horses are typically 14-16 hands (1.42-1.63m), larger riding horses are 15.2-17 hands (1.57-1.73m), and heavy or draft horses are usually 16-18 hands (1.63-1.83m). Growth can also be influenced by genetics and nutrition.
In the UK we use the metric system for most things, it's just a much better system. Speed, we still use mph, and miles are widely used. We measure beer in pints but our Imperial pints and gallons are not the same as US pints and gallons. Our Tons are also not the same as US tons (we used long tons you used short tons although now we use metric tonnes)
We use both the imperial and the metric systems here in the UK. We go by miles not kilometers but in some things we use both, e.g. if buying a carpet they will give you a price for square feet or square yards just as easily as giving you a price for square meters. We only went metric relatively recently, i.e. from about the 1970s.
Growing up as was educated in the metric system, only to leave school and get a job working for a guy who was educated in the imperial system. He asked me to measure something, which I did in metric, only to be told "measure that again in inches" My answer was "16 foot and three long knobbly lines and a smaller one. " I didn't realize those lines were (quarter & eighths)...lol
What fascinates ME is that Americans I've spoken to claim never to have used the STONE or the FORTNHIGHT, when these must once have been as much in use (like Good English) in the Thirteen Colonies as they still are in the Mother Country.
When we drive in the UK, speed limit is in miles per hour, we buy petrol in litres though, but measure how efficient it is in miles per gallon 🤣 Centimeters, Meters and Kilometers as well as Celsius are easier to understand than inches, ft, and ferenheight as it's in multiples of 10, or water freezing at 0C and boiling at 100C
In engineering both systems often co-exist side by side. Steam Turbine bolts for instance use 6 TPI for threads as it is easier to work out the angle of rotation of the nuts when they are heat tightened. Imperial threads on pipes are still widely used even in countries that use the metric system.
The pipes where I used to work were nominally USA Nominal Bore designations but when made in Europe were marked up in outside diameter and wall thickness. So for example a 2"NB sch 5 pipe would be marked up by the manufacturer as Ø60.3mm x 1.65mm wall thickness.
Ah… the UK’s mashup of measuring sticks… pounds, ounces, stone when measuring body weight… miles per hour for speed, feet and inches for a persons height (and others)… everything else is Metric. (I’ve probably missed some). You really want your mind blown… look into volume. The imperial gallon and the US gallon (and other denominations) are different. So talking about the price per gallon of fuel, means different things in different parts of the world. 🤯
I was taught metric in school; then when I left school in 1989 and went in to the building trade the old guys all used feet & inches, then when I changed career paths to be a chef in 1991, the old guys all used Pounds & ounces, so I tend to switch between both sometimes but metric is MUCH easier for small accurate measurements.
1 cm is roughly the width of 1 finger. (That's not a definition, that's just what I observed) And then every unit is either 10 more or 10 less. Centi - means "1/100" Decy - means "1/10" Kilo - means "1000" So kilo-meter is 1000 meters Kilo-gram is 1000 gram The very base unit need precise definition. Be it meter or inch But in metric we basically only need to remember how big is 1 base unit. 1 inch is 2,54cm So roughly 4 inches is 10cm. 1 meter is then 40 inches. Yes there are imperfections in this conversion I gave here. But if you want to try using metric, that's basically the easiest way to do it.
Generally in the UK any thing that needs to be super accurate, like wood working, is done in cm/metres because in that you can use millimetres which is easier and more accurate than using it’s imperial equivalent of 0.0394 (yes I just searched it 😅) or 1/16 of an inch which is bigger than a millimetre. When I did wood working at school we were taught to measure and draw out plans in millimetres because that can easily be converted to larger sizes. 10mm = 1cm 100cm = 1metre 1000metres = 1 kilometre. It can also be translated into weight and liquid measurements 1 cubic centimetre = 1 millilitre and 1 millilitre = 1 gram so it all rounds out nicely 😂 Most people use stone and pounds as a measurement of weighing people and foot to measure your height and miles to measure distance when travelling and speed in MPH. Which is guess is kind of like how in the US you generally use inches to measure for construction work but kilometres and KPH for distance and speed 😅
I feel the need to point out, that "1 cubic centimetre = 1 millilitre and 1 millilitre = 1 gram so it all rounds out nicely" only applies to H₂O (water) at 278K (~4°C), 1 millilitre of Mercury has a mass of 13.6 grams or 1 millilitre of Ethanol is 789 milligrams. But I understand that your point was a general rule more than an exact comparison.
@@kirstygraham3781 Yeah I figured as much, but as someone that loved science at school and still enjoy learning about science now I'm in my 40s, I have a compulsion to make sure things are clearly defined, it irritates me but I can't help it.
The IMPERIAL part of the name is in honour of the British royal family. The Royals thank you for your unwavering dedication but will not be offended if you move on. lol
I’m a 70s vintage Gen X Brit and have seen the UK gradually shift towards metric. Temperature went first, I think. I certainly remember Celsius being used on the weather forecasts when I was quite young. You’d still buy things in pounds, ounces and pints though, and a measure of port or a shot of whisky in the pub was a third of a fill and a sixth of a gill respectively. A gill is probably unfamiliar to Americans, who seemed to take some Imperial units but missed a load, but it was a quarter of a British pint. That changed to 50ml and 25ml in the early 90s, and I think the push to switch to grams, kilograms, millilitres and litres came not long after. Gen Y and younger seem to be mostly metric now unless they’re driving, and with 30 or 40 million private vehicles and who knows how many tens of thousands of miles or motorway, highway, roads and lanes and all the associated road signs that’d have to change, I doubt the UK will stop using miles any time soon. Personally I still struggle to judge distance in kilometres after 15 years living in Australia, though even here you sometimes still hear people use feet, inches and miles in conversation because they’re nice short names. They’ll use metric for actual measurement though. A football player might be described as a 6 footer, but that only means he’s about 1.8 metres tall. If he’s exactly 6 foot and you actually looked up his stats his exact height will be given as 1.83 metres or 183 centimetres. Metric is simple and precise, but it’s awkward to use in conversation when precision isn’t needed.
@@SteveODonnellI take your word for it but I think Scotland wasn’t using 1/3 and 1/6 gill measures before they went metric either. It’s easy to forget Scotland does a lot of things just a bit differently.
in the UK we use a hybrid of Metric and imperial, for example, distance we use yards but also kilometers and metres but miles per hour, and gallons for fuel for your car and pints for milk and alcohol, but litres for pretty much every liquid, for weight we use Kilograms and grams usually unless its vehicles where its tonnes, and unless its babies in which case its pounds and ounces, we use a combination of centimetres and inches for distances too. its a mess really
We always used the imperial measurements until we went into the European Union and they made us use the metric system, but when we came out of it, they did not revert back to Imperial measurements
We still use miles per hour, but beer in pints ( proper pints not your 16 fluid ounce yankee ones) and measure a persons weight in stones ( 1 stone = 14 pounds) except in hospitals. I use both as i was 9 years old when the UK became decimalised and i had just learned the imperial system.
Usually everything in the USA is bigger than in Europe or the U.K. except the US Gallon that is smaller than an Imperial Gallon………. Weights - easy to visualise ils /kgs - 1 bag of sugar is 1kg = 2.2lbs in the U.K.
Hey JT. Yeah, we do mix & match quite a bit in the UK, probably 'cos the Imperial system was our creation (s'in the name!) and we're just not ready to go 'full-euro' and submit to the 'French' Metric System in it's totality, old enemies & all that - but we're not crazy enough to still use it for everything... Miles for roads, Pints for beer & milk. Fuel? It's bought by the litre but we measure in miles per gallon! If you're a bit older you'll certainly still be using Stones & Pounds for weighing yourself and Feet & Inches for height, though most younger folk will use Kilograms & Metres. Buying stuff is mostly in grams - but we have packaging that still matches the Imperial measures - you'll find many foods in 454g (1lb) packages, for instance. The most common use for metric is in building/crafting - 'cos saying 2345 millimetres (I've put in a few kitchens in my day) is just so much easier than saying & comprehending 7 ft 8 and 21/64ths of an inch!
well it got simple when you think of it as one unit of mesurement is equal to one or one tenth or one hundred of another unit it only differ in number of zeros or where you put decimal place basic example is water, standard substance of metric system box 1/10 of a meter in all dimensions filled with water, weigh 1 kilogram and take one liter of space knowing your engine displacement in liters you know how much water would fill in that space and how much it would weigh and 100 newtons of force is like being pulled down by a liter bottle of water you know how much torque your engine make, divide it by 100 and you now how many kilograms, or liters of water it could lift at full power if you connect them to a 1 meter stick rotating on a flywheel, calculate it by rpm and you now know how many liters of water your engine could pump per minute if one blade propeler of a 1 meter diameter was connected to it and you can scale it from proportions, smaller the diameter more force and it all convert directly with no complicated math
It’s not that some people prefer metric and some prefer imperial and other choose to mix and match. It’s that our country is weird in that all of us mix and match. We use miles for our roads but metres and centimetres for other things. We sell fuel in litres but then sell beer and milk in pints. Its like we started to switch to metric and went “ahh f**k it, that’ll do, let’s go to the pub”
I was born in the 70's and have made a point of using only metric whatever I can. It annoys some people for some reason, but I'm not forcing them to use it.
Sadly, in the UK we still use some Imperial units. All our road signs are in miles and speedometers in mph because we simply can't afford/can't be arsed to change everything, but we know what m and km are. We measure and weigh ourselves in feet and inches and stones and pounds but, most of us, I think, would be reasonably ok with m and cm and kg - it's now commonplace in hospitals. We measure horse races in miles and furlongs because honestly, who cares??? We buy our beer in pints because there would be riots if that was ever removed. Personally, as a scientist, I wish we would stop this nonsense and just switch entirely - metric is, without any shadow of doubt, the superior system. There are exactly 1,000,000,000 micrometres in a kilometre. If you cannot tell me, off the top of your head, exactly how many "thous" or thousands of an inch there are in a mile then you don't even get to try to dispute this. For interest, the answer is 63,360,000...
I was a joiner and doors were 6’6” x 2’9” but when fitting kitchens used metric 300mm , 400mm , 450mm etc so we mixed and used both. Then even before decimalisation we just got used of using old money penny’s shillings etc but then changed to new money it was crazy then we bought gallons of fuel now use litres but when weighing I use pounds and ounces but sometimes grams etc . Think I’m from the F--ed up generation. Although in the UK we still use miles and miles per hour . To make matters worse a UK gallon is different from the American gallon , no way mistakes happen 😂
My son is an engineer, he mostly uses imperial, he’s only 27. Generally we use the one that’s easier when measuring lol. I have to say both have their uses.
American do use the metric system in everyday stuff buy drinks in a shop more then likely is in liters and of course ammo sizes for your guns. There are others such as engine sizes, medicine and of course money
I'm at an age where I learned both as a kid. Our speed signs and distance signs are in miles but eveything else is metric. British and American Imperial measurements are different! I use metric, but still miss ordering a quarter of kola kubes!
Just to make it more complicated we tend to use both imperial and metric in the UK. We still use mph and have beer in pints. I worked in a timber yard for a few years. You had to be able to converse in feet and inches and meters and millimetres depending on what the customer asked for. You get used to it, but for many it is an issue. Edit...just finished the video. You knew this already...I'll sit in the corner and be quiet.
Most cars in the UK show miles per hour but also kilometres per hour. I'm old enough to remember before metric in the UK when it was forced upon us when Britain joined the common market (europe) 1 of our conditions in joining was the we had to switch to metric measurements. Most people my age and older (or a little younger) use imperial measurements. Most people in UK under the age of 40 will use metric as that's all they were taught at school. I was taught in both and because i grew up that way i can switch easily between both (and get the correct answer)
Yes, 1 UK lb is the same as 1 US lb. But A US ton is 2000lb but a British ton is 2240lb. And yes halfway through this video my head started to hurt and the guy in this video ur watching might as well of been talking Arabic to me. Thank u for another great video x
The metric system is just plain easier to work out and learn because everything is base 10. You don't need to go on the internet to find out how many meters to a kilometer because just from the name you can tell that there are 1000 meters (kilo = 1000). I'm from the UK and unfortunately while we started switching over from imperial to metric way back in 1973, we are still not there yet. We measure beer and milk by the pint, our own weight by the stone (and no, I have no idea why but that's about 14 lb) even though we use grams and kilograms in the kitchen and when we drive we base our speed on miles per hour. None of that makes much logical sense, it's just the hand-downs from previous generations that didn't want to learn in certain aspects and quite frankly, we have a lot more on our plate as a country to worry about that completing the switch is so far down the list of priorities, I can't see when it might ever get done.
A little funny thing in metric, 1L (of water) = 1Kg = 0.1m3, just easy as that. Example, my height is 1m78 (or 1.78m) in cm (centimeter) it's ... 178cm. 1 ton is 1 000Kg = 1000 000 grams, very simple.
As a former teacher in British schools, I have never taught the imperial system to children. All measurements are calculated in metric. It blows my mind that people are still using the imperial system to calculate weight, height and road distance.
In the UK in daily life the general public usually use Celsius for Temperature (makes sense since freezing point is 0 and boiling point of water is 100) and Mph for road vehicle speeds. Everything else varies, for example, the general public usually uses ft and ins for height and st and lbs for their personal weight but in hospitals we measure patients in Kgs and centimeters. Baking measurements I feel depends on how modern or traditional the recipe book is because it could be oz, mg, ml, cups, tbsp or tsp etc. Also running or cycling distances also changes, longer distance races are in miles and shorter races are in Km. 😅 thanks for another great reaction vid, loving these daily uploads 👌🏼👍🏼❤
Edit: Talking about people born in the UK from 1990 onwards and current times. Didn't think I would have to specify this 😂 basically written for JT and Anna for when they visit the UK because nowhere will they see the temp in F rather than Celsius in modern days unless they keep their American phone settings.
apart from when we complain that the temp is in the 90's
Hang on! When did the UK start using Celsius? I only saw and heard Fahrenheit when I was living over there in the 1980s.
@@cousinluigilate 1960s early 1970s though things have changed a lot in the last 40 odd years since you were here. Crazy 😂
@@cousinluigi Celsius for when it's cold, Fahrenheit for when it's hot.
(Winter: -16°C , Summer: 92.3°F)
i do not use celcius depends who you speaking with .
The US does use the metric system everyday. 100 cents in 1 dollar, meds are measured in metric, guns/ammo are metric and all those foreign cars in the US are metric.
.50 cal means 0.5 inches, not 0.5 centimetres.
Okay, I reckon 9 mm, though, but let’s face it: that’s a gangster’s caliber.
Criminals measure the cocaine in grams and kilograms, but the cops and US Customs and Border Protection measure seized cocaine in pounds and ounces.
@@cousinluigi Shows where your priorities lie.
@@cousinluigi The UK media measures cocaine in street value
@@cousinluigi And who invented the .50 caliber? Americans, that's who. Otherwise it would have been 12.5x32. Ever heard of an '88? As in 88 anti aircraft, or 88 Howitzer. That's 88millimeters caliber. Time for the US to catch up - they're way behind the rest of the world.
@@natashafletcher600so true
I was once in a meeting in New Jersey, discussing a process to make a chemical. There was a big argument about the temperature at which a particular reaction was carried out, the lab chemists insisting on one temperature, but the production plant staff saying it was a different temperature. This argument went on for at least ten minutes. Then, having grown up in 1960s and 1970s Britain where we used °F but now we use °C, I realised that the plant staff were talking in °F while the lab staff were talking in °C.
In the 1960s, Britain started to convert to the metric system. Half way through, we got bored and couldn't be arsed to finish. Which is why beer is in pints, but petrol (gas) is in litres. Distance is in miles, except when it's not. Height is measured in feet/inches and weight in stones/pound except when measured/weighed in hospitals 😂
I was in hospital recently and told my weight in KGs.
I had no idea what that meant, and asked what it was in English 😂
@@jaydee_83 a pint of liquid in the UK is a different volume to a pint of liquid in the US though 😅
@laurenC91. Same with gallons and ton, must've been a different way to measure them 😂
Road signs were in the process of being switched from miles to kilometres in the 60s, when the government unfortunately changed and cancelled the whole thing.
wiat till he hears about old moneys his head will explode 3d 7shillings all that malarky
In the metric system you have the meter unit which is the base and the larger or smaller units are multiples/divisors of 10. The table from largest to smallest would be like this:
Km (Kilometer) > Hm (Hectometer) > Dam (Decameter) > m (meter) > dm (decimeter) > cm (centimeter) > mm (millimeter)
If I convert for example 1km to meter it would be like this:
1Km > 10Hm > 100Dam > 1000m
or if I convert 1 meter to millimeter it would be like this:
1m > 10dc > 100cm > 1000mm
In summary, you multiply your unit by 10 if you change to a smaller one, or divide by 10 if you change to a larger one. If I wanted to convert 12cm to Decameters, I have to make dividends of 10, which I can do mentally by moving the decimal point one place to the left for each divisor, and I would have 0,012Dam.
If I have to convert 12K to m, I make multiples of 10 and move the decimal point to the right for each multiple, which would be 12000m.
If you can count to 10, you can use the metric system as every unit is divisible by 10, weight, length etc but for some reason in the UK we still go for a pint and drive in miles
I spent my early childhood in Australia before the metric system had been fully adopted. Therefore, as kids, we learned the imperial system. We then moved to mainland Europe where they had been using the metric system for over a century. It was a relief for me because I found it so much easier as well as logical. Then I spent time in the US where I encountered the imperial system again (groan) and now back in the UK where a combination of both are used. 🤣
I still go to the timber mercha t and order an 8 foot by 4 foot sheet of 25mm board. Crazy.
We do tend to use a mix of both in the UK, for example we could use Miles Per Gallon for a cars fuel range but have to fill it up in Litres.
In Scotland we use Bawhairs!
Examples.....
I am 5ft 7" and a bawhair.. or that table is a bawhair over 14 inches long.. the Bawhair is very accurate 👌
Holy hell 😳 sound I’m definitely telling my misses this theory 😂
Love seeing JT wishing he'd spent more time listening in school! 😂
Half way through this my brain left the building
tl;dr
America uses metric to check its measures
The whole world uses some shit that happens in the universe to check metric measures.
Swapping between metric measures - good
swapping between imperial measures - stupid
I was an apprentice joiner (carpenter) from 87-92, and we used imperial on site when I was with the the old tradesmen, and we use metric when I was in college. I would do 6 weeks blocks of each. So I essentially became 'bi-lingual'.
I also have a big toolbox of spanners mixed with both measurements.
Mass is how much matter makes up an object - your mass on Earth is the same as your mass on the moon, unless you change your diet or exercise.
Weight is the force you exert on the Earth or another surface due to gravity. Your weight on Earth is roughly 9.81x your mass, and is different to your weight on the moon.
I was born in 1954, and went to school in England from the late 50s to the early 70s. During that time we had to learn not only imperial and metric measurement units, but the old money system of pounds, shillings and pence, before conversion to decimal currency in 1971, so I am quite comfortable working in any system of measurement there is. In my work life, I was a mechanic, so, although in the beginning, there were still lots of cars around using imperial threads and sizes, by the time I retired, everything was metric, even those made in the US, ironically.
In my daily life, I am happy dealing with whichever I encounter.
I too was born in 1954. I was SO happy when the money changed as I have dyscalculia.. and the metric money is much easier than shillings, pennies, ….etc! I heard that the reason we by carpet in lengths in metric ..but the width was still in Imperial..as it was the sizes of the old machinery that had been making carpets for years and they were too expensive to change to metric! No clue if that’s still true as I now live in northern Portugal!
We’re quirky, we use metric and imperial 😂
On building sites I seen wood cut to length using both! 6" and 80 mil
I work in England in aerospace engineering. Most of our work is done in metric and it can be frustrating when a job turns up in imperial. We have plenty of conversion charts available for everyone at our factory
No JT - 'weight' is how heavy it is (which is equivalent to 'mass' at sea level on Earth,) but the amount of 'space it takes up' is VOLUME.
... And mass is how much actual "stuff" there is in an object. That object's mass will remain exactly the same even if it's floating about weightless in outer space.
FAROUT MAN😕
The easiest definition (that I have to explain to schoolkids)
Mass is how much matter (stuff) there is in a substance and is measured in kg.
Weight is how much force that matter applies due to gravity and is measured in Newtons.
Hence mass will always be the same but people can be weightless in space as there is no effect of gravity….
The UK mixing and matching between the two different systems can be a bit messy - but at least it means that we all have a working knowledge of both systems. So if we hear something from an American or somebody from the rest of the World, we can understand everybody.
I grew up in the1950s-1960s and went to decent schools so lived through many of the changes in the UK. I use both Imperial & metric, for some things effectively interchangeably, and for other things I use Imperial more frequently and for others I use metric more frequently. The Imperial that the US uses isn’t actually exactly the same as British Imperial (where it originated) and is in fact American Standard. This is most noticeable for fluids/liquids. In the UK a pound weight is 16 ounces, but a pint is 20 fluid ounces, whereas in the US both a pound and pint are 16 ounces - perhaps more logical/consistent, but I express no personal view on this issue. The upshot is that a gallon in the US is 4/5ths of a UK gallon (of course in the UK we now use litres/cc mostly, but we do buy petrol/gas in litres, but measure consumption in miles per gallon (mpg) ), although as I lived for many years in France and other metric countries I grew accustomed to thinking about petrol/gas consumption in litres per 100 kilometres, the way it is usually expressed there. I didn’t remember some of the older confusions highlighted in this video, but what I do recall is the more recent confusion over measurements when the Hubble Telescope was first launched which meant that it’s resolution for imaging wasn’t as good as first envisaged until adjustments were made.
I don't know what made me laugh more JT...you being concerned that the bolts for the bridge weren't long enough and then proceeding to get the length of the bridge wrong by more than half...or the fact that you thought a Metric Ton was in the Imperial System. Brilliant entertainment, brought some much needed fun to my day, much appreciated, thank you! Peace and love from the Uk.
13:40 It's even better than that. How would you use a kilogram to check the pound? You literally balance it out. 1 kg on one side, 1 lb and whatever (1 kg - 1 lb) is, 0.54640763 kg down to the microgram on the other. I hear it's a pain from people that have to do it.
I guess with the new definition of the kilogram you can just measure the pound directly now, and other fractions of the kilogram as well.
In the UK, we still use miles for the road, which I can gauge distance wise if asked for directions but kilometers makes way more sense haha. Weight is normally grams/kilograms for measuring ingredients/products but then it's pounds in body weight, which is weird a little weird at times haha.
I think Canada might also have a mixture of metric and imperial measurements, such as they use kilometers for distance and then imperial for weight.
To give you an idea why we mix them, you can say 2.54 centre meters ,or I inch . We were taught both so use whatever works easiest
Here is the most useful example of the difference between US vs UK Imperial systems. When you order a pint of beer in America you get 16 fluid ounces (473 ml) but in the UK you get 20 fluid ounces (568 ml). When you fill up your truck and put in 15 US gallons, you are actually only getting 12 UK gallons, because a UK gallon is 8 x 20 fl/oz (4.54 liters) whereas a US gallon is 8x16 fl/oz (3.785 liters). So if you go to the pub and drink 4 pints then drive home you are only getting 4/5 as much beer and 4/5 the mpg as you would in the UK, but you would still get a DUI in both countries so don't do it!!
Well that was deep for a sunny Tuesday afternoon. 😂. I use pounds, stones, feet and inches but then I am 65 so I don’t think I’m going to change anytime soon 😊
I prefer the metric system for practical use, but I love history and enjoy the old measures. The more you go into the old units the madder they get!
The most familiar units of weight in the imperial system are the pound and ounce; and in the most normal units of these, 16 ounces(oz.) = 1 pound (lb). But that only relates to pounds avoirdupois ( pronounced avverderpoiz). Tradiitional jewellery, such as is still made in the Jewellery Quarter in my nearby city of Birmingham, used pounds troy, each of which had 12 troy ounces. Both these units are different! However, a unit called a 'barleycorn' is the same in both systems. I'm not certain whether I've got the figures right, but it's something like there are 3 barleycorns to an avoirdupois ounce and 5 barleycorns to a troy ounce.
And then there's apothecaries' weight, which used to be used by pharmacists. This has drams and scruples and things.
And there is still a real trap about Imperial Gallons (= 20 fluid ounces, from an old beer gallon), and US Gallons (=16 fluid ounces, from an old wine gallon ). Since pints in both systems are one-eighth of a gallon, Americans in our pubs often get more than they bargained for of strong real ale!
Since 1000 kilograms (about 2218 lbs?) is nearly one Imperial (long) ton( 2240 lbs), it is tempting to call it a metric ton; I try to avoid confusion by calling a metric ton a tonne.
I think it was about 1964 that our Imperial units were legally defined in terms of metric units, for example an inch being defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres.
When in the early 1960s we conveyed from Fahrenheit to a measure dividing freezing point to boiling point of water into 100 degrees, we at first called this Centigrade. I think this was discovered to be a way the French measure steepness of slopes, so we changed thebname of this to Celsius, from a Swedish scientist.
Isn't it 3 barleycorns to an inch? 3 barleycorns in troy of avoirdupois would be nowhere near an ounce.
My figures weren't right, but I've been looking up in Wikipedia as to where I got muddled. There is a unit which links the troy ounce and the avoirdupois ounce. The ounce troy is 480 'grains'; the ounce avoirdupois is exactly 437.5 grains.
As you rightly say 'barleycorns' are now used to refer to fractions of an inch, but apparently the 'grain' was originally a grain of barley, and grains were originally called 'barleycorns'. That's where I got muddled.
Incidentally, when the US talks about ounces of gold, they refer to troy ounces.
My daughter did a PhD looking at an experiment from the 1820s. In it the person doing the experiment describe some sizes in lines. She then found out how many lines there were in an inch and converted that to mm for the work she was doing. She had to go back (and add in another section about the measurements she was using) and correct all her figures after I asked which inch she was using. It never occurred to her that the length of an inch varied all over Europe and the USA in the 1820s. She had to make an educated guess in the end regarding what the local inch was where the experiment was carried out. I find the origin story of gauge blocks interesting and educational.
the metric system is a system based on 1's and 0's and a single metric gram is the weight of a 1cm cube of water.
Its a much simpler way to measure things, imo anyway.
In the UK, we are so clever that we use BOTH....at the same time !!
UK imperial pints, gallons and tons are different from USA ones.
Absolutely correct. 🙂
US Pints are 16 Fluid Ounces, UK ones are 20 Fluid Ounces.
US Gallons are therefore 128 Fluid Ounces and UK Gallons are 160 Fluid Ounces.
US Tons are 2,000 Pounds ("Short Tons") and UK Tons are 2,240 Pounds ("Long Tons").
Tonne/s
@@RobertWhetton
Yes, I wrote "Tons" for the benefit of the USians who would have gone into a flat spin of not understanding if I had used "Tonne(s)". 🤣
In the UK we have ditched the boring metric measures like kilometers and just use WTF we like LOL. Imperial measures are organic and relate to humans while welcome to the machine with metric...just compare Canada and the USA, Canadians have been sent into a stupor with metric.
@@Comfortzone99 As someone who lives in a very metric country, it feels really organic and relates to humans. It just makes perfect sense, I would say. It fits perfectly into the human logical brain, so to speak.
It must have been confusing for Americans watching the Olympics.
It's why Americans win a lot of track events. Most athletes in the sprint are running 100 meters whereas the US athletes run 100 yards, so they win, because it is a shorter distance 😆
Your skilled use of the calculator is unparalleled 😂
You kick us out America give it the biggun then use the imperial system that we invented 🇬🇧🇬🇧😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And our language.
Sort of😂
@2:40 If you don't know history this might seem strange. The video creator does and make it kind of funny. The man he claims to be an Alabama native is Wernher von Braun, a German that worked with the Nazis and helped design the V2 rocket that they launched on Britain a few times. He surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war and moved to the USA where he got involved with NASA to help them with their rocket program.
You do actually use the metric system in america as well. Those big bottle of coke on the store shelves are they 6 pint bottles or are they 3 litre bottles? Also your money works on the metric system, you get 100 cents to the dollar, thats metric.
But they have also got a 25c coin, so not completely metric but they are getting there.
I'm still imperial, along with many of my peers
A "kilo-metre" is the heaviest distance. 🤣
So is a "light"-year the "lightest" distance? 😂
@@gary.h.turner Absolutely yes.
The US military uses metric.
As do its citizens in many things. They just don't realise it.
I live in the UK, taught kilometres in school, but always walked in miles. Still do.
American use both but don't realise it.
The UK actually uses a hybrid system based on both the old Imperial system and metric system. It is also safe to say that your age has a bearing. Brits now buy petrol by litres but will tell you how many miles per gallon their car will do; our road signs are also MPH and road measurements are in miles. We will use Celsius for temperature until it gets close to 100 Fahrenheit then generally switch. Most older people will weigh themselves in pounds and stone but the younger generation will often use kg's. Most people also measure their height in feet and inches. Saying all that, we will usually use metric for almost everything else. Just to confuse matters, British Imperial liquid measurements are bigger that the US Imperial measurements - our pint of beer is bigger than yours as is our gallon.
The UK uses both. Miles, pints, inches, feet and then also meters, centimetres etc
We're mid change from imperial to metric in the uk.
My Dad (born 1949) thinks in Fahrenheit, Inches, Yards, lbs, Stone, pints, gallons for everything and will have to do a rough mental conversion to visualise metric measurements.
Me (born 1974) thinks in Celsius, litres, pints, gallons, mm (or thou), cm (or inch), metre (or yard) for shorter measurements. Miles (also yards) for longer measurments. Good grasp of feet and inches as we always talk about peoples height in those measurements. No real grasp of Fahrenheit.
My son #1 (born 1993) thinks in Celsius, mm, cm, metre, then miles. Only imperial measurements used are miles (inc mph) for longer distance and feet and inches for peoples height (he knows his weight in Kg).
My son #2 (born 2003) thinks in all metric only. Peoples height is in metres and their weight in Kg. Only imperial left he ever uses is mph and miles distance when driving, but those are just abritrary numbers on a scale or map to him.
Looks like we might keep pints of beer (spirit and wine measurments went metric many years ago) and miles/mph on roads but they won't really mean much to people. A pint of beer will just be what you say when you want one of those big glasses, or half a pint for a small one. If you know London is 100 miles away, and the town you visit a lot is 10 miles away, you know it's 10x as far to go to London, doesn't matter what the units are.
I guess once we reach the point that the units used don't really mean anything anymore, someone will come up with the bright idea to switch to units everyone knows.
“Why are we counting Germans” 🤣💀💀
No idea what a "kilometer" is...I do however know what a "kilometre" is.
As a brit I'd love to see you react to a video about Milton Keynes in England. The city (used to be a town until August 15th 2022 when the queen granted it city status) is based off a "typical American city" love the video and glad you're okay and back!
I also love the way a pint in the USA is smaller than a pint in the UK. 16oz in the USA and 20oz in the UK. Therefore 1 US gallon = 0.832 UK gallon. That makes it easier doesn't it LOL.
Here's another stupid one. In the UK jams and marmalade etc are sold in 1/2 and 1 pound jars but are marked up in grams 226.7g and 453.5g. Just round it up to 250g and 500g, a quarter or half kilo, FFS.
10mm = 1cm, 100cm = 1m, 1000m = 1km
1g, 1000g = kilogram, 1000kg = 1 tonne.
1ml, 1000ml = 1 litre
A box of 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm (1000 cubic cm) full of a liquid is 1litre.
2:19 "I aim for the stars, but keep hitting London " - "Wernher von Braun :-)
Being of an age that until I was about 16 we used the Imperial System, then when I was around 22 we started using the metric system for most things. Because it uses base 10, the metric system is much easier to use. Whilst we still predominately use miles for distance and Pints for beer and miles per gallon for fuel consumption, otherwise we mainly use metric.
JT what have you got us watching😂😂😂
Never used imperial. In cooking I prefer recipes in metric, as it is more accurate in my opinion. Although that may be because most recipes in US use volume (cups) rather than weight.
Another nice thing is that since one liter of water weighs 1 kilogram, if I need 600 ml of water, I can just put the bowl on a scale and put 600g.
There is also a relationship between liter and meter, or rather cubic meter.
1 Liter is the volume of a cube with length of 10 cm, so cubic decimeter.
So 1 ml is 1 cubic centimeter (1cc).
All you need to know is that in the metric systerm, everything is in units of 10, 10 milimeters is one centimeter, 10 cm is one decimeter, 10 decimeters is 1 meter, 1 kilometer is a 1000 meters, it's all dividable by 10, and this applies to ALL measurements... iI's so ridiculously simple you don't ever need to waste any effort or time on pointless conversions between units within your own system... The imperial system is absolutely ridiculously convoluted and unnessecarily complicated for no valid reason whatsoever!
Horses are measured in hands!
Light riding horses are typically 14-16 hands (1.42-1.63m), larger riding horses are 15.2-17 hands (1.57-1.73m), and heavy or draft horses are usually 16-18 hands (1.63-1.83m). Growth can also be influenced by genetics and nutrition.
In the UK we use the metric system for most things, it's just a much better system. Speed, we still use mph, and miles are widely used. We measure beer in pints but our Imperial pints and gallons are not the same as US pints and gallons. Our Tons are also not the same as US tons (we used long tons you used short tons although now we use metric tonnes)
When NASA went metric there was an audible cheer.
We use both the imperial and the metric systems here in the UK. We go by miles not kilometers but in some things we use both, e.g. if buying a carpet they will give you a price for square feet or square yards just as easily as giving you a price for square meters. We only went metric relatively recently, i.e. from about the 1970s.
Growing up as was educated in the metric system, only to leave school and get a job working for a guy who was educated in the imperial system. He asked me to measure something, which I did in metric, only to be told "measure that again in inches" My answer was "16 foot and three long knobbly lines and a smaller one. " I didn't realize those lines were (quarter & eighths)...lol
the metric system is undeniably king , it is defined by physics , the speed of light .
What fascinates ME is that Americans I've spoken to claim never to have used the STONE or the FORTNHIGHT, when these must once have been as much in use (like Good English) in the Thirteen Colonies as they still are in the Mother Country.
When we drive in the UK, speed limit is in miles per hour, we buy petrol in litres though, but measure how efficient it is in miles per gallon 🤣
Centimeters, Meters and Kilometers as well as Celsius are easier to understand than inches, ft, and ferenheight as it's in multiples of 10, or water freezing at 0C and boiling at 100C
In engineering both systems often co-exist side by side. Steam Turbine bolts for instance use 6 TPI for threads as it is easier to work out the angle of rotation of the nuts when they are heat tightened. Imperial threads on pipes are still widely used even in countries that use the metric system.
The pipes where I used to work were nominally USA Nominal Bore designations but when made in Europe were marked up in outside diameter and wall thickness. So for example a 2"NB sch 5 pipe would be marked up by the manufacturer as Ø60.3mm x 1.65mm wall thickness.
Ah… the UK’s mashup of measuring sticks… pounds, ounces, stone when measuring body weight… miles per hour for speed, feet and inches for a persons height (and others)… everything else is Metric. (I’ve probably missed some).
You really want your mind blown… look into volume. The imperial gallon and the US gallon (and other denominations) are different. So talking about the price per gallon of fuel, means different things in different parts of the world. 🤯
I was taught metric in school; then when I left school in 1989 and went in to the building trade the old guys all used feet & inches, then when I changed career paths to be a chef in 1991, the old guys all used Pounds & ounces, so I tend to switch between both sometimes but metric is MUCH easier for small accurate measurements.
I used to teach physics lol and whoosh that went over my head at the end lol
1 cm is roughly the width of 1 finger. (That's not a definition, that's just what I observed)
And then every unit is either 10 more or 10 less.
Centi - means "1/100"
Decy - means "1/10"
Kilo - means "1000"
So kilo-meter is 1000 meters
Kilo-gram is 1000 gram
The very base unit need precise definition.
Be it meter or inch
But in metric we basically only need to remember how big is 1 base unit.
1 inch is 2,54cm
So roughly 4 inches is 10cm.
1 meter is then 40 inches.
Yes there are imperfections in this conversion I gave here.
But if you want to try using metric, that's basically the easiest way to do it.
Generally in the UK any thing that needs to be super accurate, like wood working, is done in cm/metres because in that you can use millimetres which is easier and more accurate than using it’s imperial equivalent of 0.0394 (yes I just searched it 😅) or 1/16 of an inch which is bigger than a millimetre.
When I did wood working at school we were taught to measure and draw out plans in millimetres because that can easily be converted to larger sizes. 10mm = 1cm 100cm = 1metre 1000metres = 1 kilometre.
It can also be translated into weight and liquid measurements
1 cubic centimetre = 1 millilitre and 1 millilitre = 1 gram so it all rounds out nicely 😂
Most people use stone and pounds as a measurement of weighing people and foot to measure your height and miles to measure distance when travelling and speed in MPH.
Which is guess is kind of like how in the US you generally use inches to measure for construction work but kilometres and KPH for distance and speed 😅
I feel the need to point out, that "1 cubic centimetre = 1 millilitre and 1 millilitre = 1 gram so it all rounds out nicely" only applies to H₂O (water) at 278K (~4°C), 1 millilitre of Mercury has a mass of 13.6 grams or 1 millilitre of Ethanol is 789 milligrams.
But I understand that your point was a general rule more than an exact comparison.
@@jollybodger yeah I was meaning more to do with baking like with milk and water and lemon juice and that kind of stuff 🤣
@@kirstygraham3781 Yeah I figured as much, but as someone that loved science at school and still enjoy learning about science now I'm in my 40s, I have a compulsion to make sure things are clearly defined, it irritates me but I can't help it.
@@jollybodger fair 😅
The IMPERIAL part of the name is in honour of the British royal family.
The Royals thank you for your unwavering dedication but will not be offended if you move on. lol
Hope you've got that lightning rod JT ✌️❤️
I’m a 70s vintage Gen X Brit and have seen the UK gradually shift towards metric. Temperature went first, I think. I certainly remember Celsius being used on the weather forecasts when I was quite young. You’d still buy things in pounds, ounces and pints though, and a measure of port or a shot of whisky in the pub was a third of a fill and a sixth of a gill respectively.
A gill is probably unfamiliar to Americans, who seemed to take some Imperial units but missed a load, but it was a quarter of a British pint. That changed to 50ml and 25ml in the early 90s, and I think the push to switch to grams, kilograms, millilitres and litres came not long after.
Gen Y and younger seem to be mostly metric now unless they’re driving, and with 30 or 40 million private vehicles and who knows how many tens of thousands of miles or motorway, highway, roads and lanes and all the associated road signs that’d have to change, I doubt the UK will stop using miles any time soon.
Personally I still struggle to judge distance in kilometres after 15 years living in Australia, though even here you sometimes still hear people use feet, inches and miles in conversation because they’re nice short names. They’ll use metric for actual measurement though. A football player might be described as a 6 footer, but that only means he’s about 1.8 metres tall. If he’s exactly 6 foot and you actually looked up his stats his exact height will be given as 1.83 metres or 183 centimetres. Metric is simple and precise, but it’s awkward to use in conversation when precision isn’t needed.
Except in Scotland where many old pubs do still sell spirits at 35ml.
@@SteveODonnellI take your word for it but I think Scotland wasn’t using 1/3 and 1/6 gill measures before they went metric either. It’s easy to forget Scotland does a lot of things just a bit differently.
in the UK we use a hybrid of Metric and imperial, for example, distance we use yards but also kilometers and metres but miles per hour, and gallons for fuel for your car and pints for milk and alcohol, but litres for pretty much every liquid, for weight we use Kilograms and grams usually unless its vehicles where its tonnes, and unless its babies in which case its pounds and ounces, we use a combination of centimetres and inches for distances too. its a mess really
We always used the imperial measurements until we went into the European Union and they made us use the metric system, but when we came out of it, they did not revert back to Imperial measurements
We still use miles per hour, but beer in pints ( proper pints not your 16 fluid ounce yankee ones) and measure a persons weight in stones ( 1 stone = 14 pounds) except in hospitals. I use both as i was 9 years old when the UK became decimalised and i had just learned the imperial system.
Usually everything in the USA is bigger than in Europe or the U.K. except the US Gallon that is smaller than an Imperial Gallon……….
Weights - easy to visualise ils /kgs - 1 bag of sugar is 1kg = 2.2lbs in the U.K.
Hey JT. Yeah, we do mix & match quite a bit in the UK, probably 'cos the Imperial system was our creation (s'in the name!) and we're just not ready to go 'full-euro' and submit to the 'French' Metric System in it's totality, old enemies & all that - but we're not crazy enough to still use it for everything...
Miles for roads, Pints for beer & milk. Fuel? It's bought by the litre but we measure in miles per gallon! If you're a bit older you'll certainly still be using Stones & Pounds for weighing yourself and Feet & Inches for height, though most younger folk will use Kilograms & Metres. Buying stuff is mostly in grams - but we have packaging that still matches the Imperial measures - you'll find many foods in 454g (1lb) packages, for instance. The most common use for metric is in building/crafting - 'cos saying 2345 millimetres (I've put in a few kitchens in my day) is just so much easier than saying & comprehending 7 ft 8 and 21/64ths of an inch!
In the words of Yoda "Metric"..."Don't convert... USE"
well it got simple when you think of it as one unit of mesurement is equal to one or one tenth or one hundred of another unit it only differ in number of zeros or where you put decimal place
basic example is water, standard substance of metric system
box 1/10 of a meter in all dimensions filled with water, weigh 1 kilogram and take one liter of space
knowing your engine displacement in liters you know how much water would fill in that space and how much it would weigh
and 100 newtons of force is like being pulled down by a liter bottle of water you know how much torque your engine make, divide it by 100 and you now how many kilograms, or liters of water it could lift at full power if you connect them to a 1 meter stick rotating on a flywheel, calculate it by rpm and you now know how many liters of water your engine could pump per minute if one blade propeler of a 1 meter diameter was connected to it and you can scale it from proportions, smaller the diameter more force and it all convert directly with no complicated math
It’s not that some people prefer metric and some prefer imperial and other choose to mix and match. It’s that our country is weird in that all of us mix and match. We use miles for our roads but metres and centimetres for other things. We sell fuel in litres but then sell beer and milk in pints. Its like we started to switch to metric and went “ahh f**k it, that’ll do, let’s go to the pub”
I was born in the 70's and have made a point of using only metric whatever I can. It annoys some people for some reason, but I'm not forcing them to use it.
I do use both I have too say. I wish the roads would go back to miles.
That explanation has blown my mind!!!!! ❤❤❤❤🎉
Where do you live?
Sadly, in the UK we still use some Imperial units. All our road signs are in miles and speedometers in mph because we simply can't afford/can't be arsed to change everything, but we know what m and km are. We measure and weigh ourselves in feet and inches and stones and pounds but, most of us, I think, would be reasonably ok with m and cm and kg - it's now commonplace in hospitals. We measure horse races in miles and furlongs because honestly, who cares??? We buy our beer in pints because there would be riots if that was ever removed. Personally, as a scientist, I wish we would stop this nonsense and just switch entirely - metric is, without any shadow of doubt, the superior system. There are exactly 1,000,000,000 micrometres in a kilometre. If you cannot tell me, off the top of your head, exactly how many "thous" or thousands of an inch there are in a mile then you don't even get to try to dispute this. For interest, the answer is 63,360,000...
Sadly? It's our culture. It's like telling the French they have to eat Ciabatta because the EU have decided it's better than baguette.
@@colinwelsh2874 You are quite right Colin, it is our culture, however metric truly is better than Imperial.
JT.. I didn't understand any of that.. 🤣🤣🤣
I was a joiner and doors were 6’6” x 2’9” but when fitting kitchens used metric 300mm , 400mm , 450mm etc so we mixed and used both. Then even before decimalisation we just got used of using old money penny’s shillings etc but then changed to new money it was crazy then we bought gallons of fuel now use litres but when weighing I use pounds and ounces but sometimes grams etc . Think I’m from the F--ed up generation. Although in the UK we still use miles and miles per hour . To make matters worse a UK gallon is different from the American gallon , no way mistakes happen 😂
My son is an engineer, he mostly uses imperial, he’s only 27. Generally we use the one that’s easier when measuring lol. I have to say both have their uses.
Go at 88 mph for 25 seconds, and besides to back to the future, you'll have covered a kilometer.
American do use the metric system in everyday stuff buy drinks in a shop more then likely is in liters and of course ammo sizes for your guns. There are others such as engine sizes, medicine and of course money
I'm at an age where I learned both as a kid. Our speed signs and distance signs are in miles but eveything else is metric. British and American Imperial measurements are different! I use metric, but still miss ordering a quarter of kola kubes!
Just to make it more complicated we tend to use both imperial and metric in the UK. We still use mph and have beer in pints.
I worked in a timber yard for a few years. You had to be able to converse in feet and inches and meters and millimetres depending on what the customer asked for. You get used to it, but for many it is an issue.
Edit...just finished the video. You knew this already...I'll sit in the corner and be quiet.
Most cars in the UK show miles per hour but also kilometres per hour. I'm old enough to remember before metric in the UK when it was forced upon us when Britain joined the common market (europe) 1 of our conditions in joining was the we had to switch to metric measurements. Most people my age and older (or a little younger) use imperial measurements. Most people in UK under the age of 40 will use metric as that's all they were taught at school. I was taught in both and because i grew up that way i can switch easily between both (and get the correct answer)
Rough rule of thumb. 5 miles is 8 kilometers
Being in the UK the speedometers in our cars have both mph and kmph (in case we have to drive in Europe).
We use both in the UK but I prefer imperial in weight and measurement.
Can you please react to the old British currency system. Shillings, half pennies and farthings. That will scramble your brain JT 😅
Yes, 1 UK lb is the same as 1 US lb. But A US ton is 2000lb but a British ton is 2240lb. And yes halfway through this video my head started to hurt and the guy in this video ur watching might as well of been talking Arabic to me. Thank u for another great video x
The metric system is just plain easier to work out and learn because everything is base 10. You don't need to go on the internet to find out how many meters to a kilometer because just from the name you can tell that there are 1000 meters (kilo = 1000). I'm from the UK and unfortunately while we started switching over from imperial to metric way back in 1973, we are still not there yet. We measure beer and milk by the pint, our own weight by the stone (and no, I have no idea why but that's about 14 lb) even though we use grams and kilograms in the kitchen and when we drive we base our speed on miles per hour. None of that makes much logical sense, it's just the hand-downs from previous generations that didn't want to learn in certain aspects and quite frankly, we have a lot more on our plate as a country to worry about that completing the switch is so far down the list of priorities, I can't see when it might ever get done.
I still use pounds, shillings and pence 😂😂
here in the UK we only regularly use 2 Imperials units of measurement, pints, for beer and milk, and miles for distance, why, who knows :D
A little funny thing in metric, 1L (of water) = 1Kg = 0.1m3, just easy as that. Example, my height is 1m78 (or 1.78m) in cm (centimeter) it's ... 178cm. 1 ton is 1 000Kg = 1000 000 grams, very simple.
I’m 41 and use British imperial system and metric. My mum used imperial at home and school taught me metric.
When i was a kid we used the imperial system and my brain still uses feet, inches,miles lbs and ounces 😂 and i still struggle with it 😂
As a former teacher in British schools, I have never taught the imperial system to children. All measurements are calculated in metric. It blows my mind that people are still using the imperial system to calculate weight, height and road distance.
Perfectly normal for British people. It's always Been the same.
Ive always used a mix of both depending on what im doing 🏴
Mass is how much of something there is, weight is the affect of gravity on that mass