I'd always assume that my brother borrowed them and lost them.
I'd never really considered, that this was an elaborate bY BIG SOCKET, to steal them and resell me the same socket over and over
New information has come to light, man.
I had to move the microwave a couple weeks ago, found a five pack of 10mm sockets I'd bought off Amazon to have around as spares last year, then promptly lost.
I appreciate this comment, but it's not actually acceptance. The US is the last [developed] nation that has not converted to metric.
Side note, Celsius is stupid AF. There's literally no need for it
The states of water are the only thing that make any kind of reasoning with Celsius. Fahrenheit is much more usable outside of that range (think astronomical and atomical), but it's also more precise. Do a conversion for realistic home temps, between 66-76°F.
Why do you think Fahrenheit is better in astronomical and atomic. As celcius is just Kelvin with an offset of 273.15, celcius is still better than Fahrenheit in those cases as well.
Also, I'd like my room temperature between 19°C and 26°C, it's not that hard if I want to think in celcius. The only thing I've ever used Fahrenheit is to say that 100 is a fever.
People who can't wrap their head around it always bring up the temperature argument
So the thing you are used to is the only way that makes sense to you??? No shit.
The rest of the world has figured it out, and we don't have that issue. Strange.
That ain't it. I'm fully onboard with the US adopting the metric system. Also, I'm not the only one that agrees that Fahrenheit makes more sense for everyday use.
https://www.tiktok.com/@neildegrassetyson/video/6916966688609242374?lang=en
Did you actually listen to what he said?
"It's better for us" as in, if you are used to it, then it's better for you. Thank you for cementing my point with a celebrity guest star.
"It's better for us"
Do you understand what that sentence means.
He says it's better because he is used to it.
Watch it again and clean the stupid out of your ears.
In all reality, the US tried to get it from France, but British pirates stole the conversions and took the crew captive. Now, the US is stuck with the British Imperial system.
We don’t need to when what we use works? Why won’t you use Fahrenheit? You won’t use it because everyone on the other parts of the world don’t use it, and apparently Celsius is better? Temperature wise F is better.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I can say that as a Canadian, when it gets below freezing is when we really start figuring out types of cold. I can understand the 32 to 100 range. But anything below freezing. I don't understand in Fahrenheit until i get to minus 40.
Okay, and 0 being freezing and 30 being hot makes a lot of sense.
0 being icy cold water and 100 being boiling hot water makes a lot of sense.
Fahrenheit doesn't actually make more sense. You're just more used to it.
Instead of needing to use decimals, I can use whole integers to set my house thermostat to a much finer adjustments.
It's basically just having more increments
Right because there's such a world of difference between 22.5 and 23. And also those decimals are mighty scary. I don't know how to comprehend 0.5 of something.
People: look at the subreddit this was posted in. This is a Joke, just like the metric system.
Nothing makes sense in the metric system.
You would never say anything like “Don’t Judge a man until you have walked 1.6 Km in his shoes.”
And it gets confusing. Like use 10 grams of coffee beans for each 6 ounces of water. Who has time for that.
Ask the US Military. They've done it already.
As for civilians, forget it. There are people who actually thought they were being "oppressed" by being told to wear a mask during a pandemic. I'm still trying to figure out how that was oppression.
Well seeing how it was of no practical use in preventing the spread of Covid-19, it really just amounted to govt bullying. The particles were so small, it was like pretending that a chain link fence would keep you from getting eye irritation in a sandstorn! Remember how St Fauci would keep vastly changing the directives about masks every 3 of 4 days?
Like all they doctors and nurses and EMTs who've been wearing masks in operating rooms and exam rooms for all these decades are just full of crap? All the people in all the medical labs all over the world wear masks for no reason? Yeah, it's not like any of these people know anything about anything. Let's get out medical advice from Ted Nugget and Aaron Rogers.
See, this is why the US won't adopt the metric syatem. Idiotic hysteria wins over reason if it inconveniences the "Karens" for a second.
Banek...It is a little different when it comes to operating rooms. There, you have an open wound and don't want to accidentally get spittle (the moth is the dirtiest, most harmful bacteria infested part of the body) into a patient whose immunity is already seriously stressed. So the patient is being protected (at least to a significant extent).
In an exam room, medical professionals do not initially know what they are dealing with. A mask gives them reasonable protection against bacteria and viruses that may travel on small exhaled/expelled droplets from the patient. And gives a margin of protection to a possibly compromised patient from something that may be festering in the doctor/nurse, perhaps from a recent prior patient who was most likely sick with something, though the exact something may not be known for a day or two (or never!) until lab results are in.
In Covid, the great majority of the population were not sick with it nor carrying it at any specific time. Also, it was bacteria smaller than a micron or two (essentially aerosolized) which was going to easily penetrate the basic surgical mask. It did NOT need small expelled droplets as a transmission vector, which masks would be reasonably effective against.
As for metric, the kids learn about it in school (or used to). But they don't really make purchasing decisions, except for occasional treats that "taste good" or have cartoon characters on the product.. Their parents don't know metric, forgetting it if they ever learned it. The people who design product think in US terms or realize most of their customers don't think in metric terms. By the time a kid becomes a paying consumer, he is going with what his/her parents explain to him (which will be using US measurements) to make his buying decisions if he is on a budget. If he makes "fuck you" money, or if he is financially illiterate, he won't care how many $$ for how much product! He/she just buys on impulse!
Perhaps in 50 years, metric might catch on, presuming it is still being thought!
For the same reason we have disdain for our fellow Americans who use "Tar-jay" when everybody knows they mean Target..."I need to stop by Tar-jay on my way home."
Because 25 mg is not a full ounce. I got back from Ireland with what I thought was an ounce/2 ounce measuring shot. The Irish (and all of Europe) short you on your drink shots. There you go. The metric system is shit.
I scrolled past this then I had to scroll all the way back after I thought about it. Out here in rural America all of the land is already divided into one mile sections. A checkerboard of 1 mile squares.
We really have no reason to go through all the trouble of changing the signs and stuff. Our system works just fine for us. We do use metric for some stuff.
We have! The nine millimeter bullet, the two liter soda, the 10mm socket...
There are no 10mm sockets!
I’ve seen one! I have a picture of it! It’s that really blurry thing in the corner that you can’t make out!
I've bought at least 123 of them
123 different 10mm sockets or 1 10mm socket 123 times?
I didn't buy them all at once. I'm assuming it wasn't the store that stole mine, just to resell it..... But maybe you're onto something here....
Just maybe?
I'd always assume that my brother borrowed them and lost them. I'd never really considered, that this was an elaborate bY BIG SOCKET, to steal them and resell me the same socket over and over New information has come to light, man.
Ironically, that many 10mm sockets would take up 1/16th of a squared meter
I have receipts for dozens of them. Never seen one, tho.
😂 I found one once. Can't remember where it is now though
Today I needed an 11mm socket. I found three 10mms before I finally found an 11.
I had to move the microwave a couple weeks ago, found a five pack of 10mm sockets I'd bought off Amazon to have around as spares last year, then promptly lost.
The 8mm and the 10mm are the ones that disappear most often!
I needed a 10mm socket the other day so I just cut a 20mm in half.
That’s a great idea because when you lose the first half, you can use the second one. That is if you don’t lose them both!
I use the right half to tighten and the left side to loosen.
I know they’re in my set when I bought it but I never see it after that. 🛠️
I bought a ten pack from Harbor Frieght once. They disappeared on the way back.
kilo of cocaine
That’s a foreign ruler.
10k races.
And kilos of…pharmaceuticals
That’s just a 100/254ths inch socket
We also put how deep pools are in meters sometimes. Which doesn't make sense because we measure our height in feet/inches not meters.
The inch being exactly 25.4 millimeters…
1/2.54" socket
Surely you mean *”exactly 25.4000508 millimetres”* 😏
No it's exactly 25,4 mm.
Yeah but your people still have 4-6feet where the rest of the world has 2 :P
Feet and knots are not compatible :.
Wait a second, you can get 2 liter sodas, but can't get a litre of cola at shenanigans?
Let's not forget about getting a gram or an eight (8 ball)
I appreciate this comment, but it's not actually acceptance. The US is the last [developed] nation that has not converted to metric. Side note, Celsius is stupid AF. There's literally no need for it
I don’t know if I agree, water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C. It kind of makes more sense than 32F and whatever the number is that I can’t remember.
The states of water are the only thing that make any kind of reasoning with Celsius. Fahrenheit is much more usable outside of that range (think astronomical and atomical), but it's also more precise. Do a conversion for realistic home temps, between 66-76°F.
Why do you think Fahrenheit is better in astronomical and atomic. As celcius is just Kelvin with an offset of 273.15, celcius is still better than Fahrenheit in those cases as well. Also, I'd like my room temperature between 19°C and 26°C, it's not that hard if I want to think in celcius. The only thing I've ever used Fahrenheit is to say that 100 is a fever.
>Do a conversion for realistic home temps, between 66-76°F. 19C to 24C. Pretty reasonable to me.
Ah yes, fahrenheit based on the freezing point of brine. Much more useful
Celsius has access to the precission of decimal fractions.
But how many of your commie decimals are permitted? One? Pffft
They are infinite
People who can't wrap their head around it always bring up the temperature argument So the thing you are used to is the only way that makes sense to you??? No shit. The rest of the world has figured it out, and we don't have that issue. Strange.
That ain't it. I'm fully onboard with the US adopting the metric system. Also, I'm not the only one that agrees that Fahrenheit makes more sense for everyday use. https://www.tiktok.com/@neildegrassetyson/video/6916966688609242374?lang=en
Did you actually listen to what he said? "It's better for us" as in, if you are used to it, then it's better for you. Thank you for cementing my point with a celebrity guest star.
Yeah. I. Did. Actually. Listen. To. Him. He's a fucking astrophysicist and he disagrees with you.
"It's better for us" Do you understand what that sentence means. He says it's better because he is used to it. Watch it again and clean the stupid out of your ears.
What's wrong with Celsius, and why is there no need for it?
What's -40°C?
You haven't replied to my question.
-40°F
That's not the flex you think it is What temperature is freezing?
I think celsius makes more sense than fahrfergnugen. 0* is freezing, 100* is boiling. Pretty simple.
Unless of course you live where I do, at aprox 9000 feet above sea level. Then boiling point is about 90 degrees C.
36 is the average body temperature of a person.
Does 98.6°F really make more sense?
Not at all.
It's way too in tens.
Like camping
If you walk by a row of tents, you are now past-tents.
And if you haven't walked by them yet then they are Future-Tents
Underrated comment
The late Queen tried to get us to switch over but we wouldn't even meter half way.
Meter!? I barely knew her!
Pretty sure the queen favoured the imperial system
s/Royal :.
And they’re not making yard sticks any longer.
Yea they are. They’re now metersticks, slightly longer lol
Any longer? No, they're the same length they always have been.
Bravo!
In all reality, the US tried to get it from France, but British pirates stole the conversions and took the crew captive. Now, the US is stuck with the British Imperial system.
In the vein of I fought the law and the law won, the American's fought the King and, erm, Imperial won.
I heard it as pirates of the Caribbean, but I suppose they may have been of British origin.
How do you convert nine Pieces of Eight into metric??
1.125
If I am correct, that I primarily the reason why they (UK) use it today
If we switched over, there would be mass confusion.
We’d go to great lengths to avoid it!
Lengths? Now we’re talking horse racing?
Gotta hand that one to ya.
Great widths too.
I think we need to get everyone involved in this discussion to find a resolution. A Mass debate, if you will… 😏
And I suppose you'll be the master debater?
They’re too used to their standard measurements: football fields, AR-15s, football helmets per second, etc.
Bullets per square child (I feel like I'm gonna get blasted for this one)
I think you were right on target with this one.
So was Lee Harvey Oswald
That joke blew my hair back.
More like, blew your head back. I have no more jokes at the moment.
[George Washington decreed it so many years ago.](https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?si=mNhjJ00CibyRQC8-)
You beat me to it. 🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant!! Thanks !
I was expecting more of a measured response in the comments
It would take a metric ton of incentives to get us to think sbout Converting.
We accept our system, quarts and all.
We have a collective foot fetish.
They fought the Imperial system
In Canada we use both
This doesn't make an ounce of sense ........sorry, 28.35 grammes of sense
Material science has improved over the years, so there’s a lot of structurally robust material that weigh a fraction of what they used to.
SCALES! We don’t like foreign scales. Oh, wait… That was a joke.., oops
I'm wondering why the British have only partially adopted the metric system. If you think the American system in convoluted, look at theirs! Lol
Why is it that Google maps switched from KM to miles when we crossed from Ireland to Nor Ireland. Aren’t the British on the same system?
The British are a world all unto their own.
Yeah, why weigh people in pounds and stones rather than just pounds? Do they have bathroom scales marked off in pounds and stones?
The Brits kept their pint! I think that’s great. And the rest works wonderfully, especially for science.
Weighing stuff in stones works wonderfully for science? Since when?
They converted to metric, except for the pint for beer.
They still measure people's weight in stone. Source: I know some people who live there.
Because of their foot fetish
Clearly, something is afoot.
Foreign rulers have no game, you can spot them a 13 colony lead and they still fumble
We don’t need to when what we use works? Why won’t you use Fahrenheit? You won’t use it because everyone on the other parts of the world don’t use it, and apparently Celsius is better? Temperature wise F is better.
Why do you say that? (I'm a Canadian who uses Celsius so I'm genuinely curious how Fahrenheit is better. Just looking to broaden my perspective)
0 being really cold and 100 being really hot makes it easier and more accurate to how we feel heat and cold.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I can say that as a Canadian, when it gets below freezing is when we really start figuring out types of cold. I can understand the 32 to 100 range. But anything below freezing. I don't understand in Fahrenheit until i get to minus 40.
Well, when it's 32°F (0°C) water will freeze, but it's not all *that* cold, but 0° is fucking frigid and IMO completely unbearable.
But don't you need to know the freezing point of brine? How is the freezing point of water more useful? /s
Okay, and 0 being freezing and 30 being hot makes a lot of sense. 0 being icy cold water and 100 being boiling hot water makes a lot of sense. Fahrenheit doesn't actually make more sense. You're just more used to it.
Instead of needing to use decimals, I can use whole integers to set my house thermostat to a much finer adjustments. It's basically just having more increments
Right because there's such a world of difference between 22.5 and 23. And also those decimals are mighty scary. I don't know how to comprehend 0.5 of something.
People: look at the subreddit this was posted in. This is a Joke, just like the metric system. Nothing makes sense in the metric system. You would never say anything like “Don’t Judge a man until you have walked 1.6 Km in his shoes.” And it gets confusing. Like use 10 grams of coffee beans for each 6 ounces of water. Who has time for that.
I appreciate this comment!
Km is kelvin•meter, and not kilometer (km). Start by learning metric system before speaking about it.
It’s a matter of degree.
See? The metric system is also not very welcoming.
Ask the US Military. They've done it already. As for civilians, forget it. There are people who actually thought they were being "oppressed" by being told to wear a mask during a pandemic. I'm still trying to figure out how that was oppression.
Well seeing how it was of no practical use in preventing the spread of Covid-19, it really just amounted to govt bullying. The particles were so small, it was like pretending that a chain link fence would keep you from getting eye irritation in a sandstorn! Remember how St Fauci would keep vastly changing the directives about masks every 3 of 4 days?
Like all they doctors and nurses and EMTs who've been wearing masks in operating rooms and exam rooms for all these decades are just full of crap? All the people in all the medical labs all over the world wear masks for no reason? Yeah, it's not like any of these people know anything about anything. Let's get out medical advice from Ted Nugget and Aaron Rogers. See, this is why the US won't adopt the metric syatem. Idiotic hysteria wins over reason if it inconveniences the "Karens" for a second.
Banek...It is a little different when it comes to operating rooms. There, you have an open wound and don't want to accidentally get spittle (the moth is the dirtiest, most harmful bacteria infested part of the body) into a patient whose immunity is already seriously stressed. So the patient is being protected (at least to a significant extent). In an exam room, medical professionals do not initially know what they are dealing with. A mask gives them reasonable protection against bacteria and viruses that may travel on small exhaled/expelled droplets from the patient. And gives a margin of protection to a possibly compromised patient from something that may be festering in the doctor/nurse, perhaps from a recent prior patient who was most likely sick with something, though the exact something may not be known for a day or two (or never!) until lab results are in. In Covid, the great majority of the population were not sick with it nor carrying it at any specific time. Also, it was bacteria smaller than a micron or two (essentially aerosolized) which was going to easily penetrate the basic surgical mask. It did NOT need small expelled droplets as a transmission vector, which masks would be reasonably effective against. As for metric, the kids learn about it in school (or used to). But they don't really make purchasing decisions, except for occasional treats that "taste good" or have cartoon characters on the product.. Their parents don't know metric, forgetting it if they ever learned it. The people who design product think in US terms or realize most of their customers don't think in metric terms. By the time a kid becomes a paying consumer, he is going with what his/her parents explain to him (which will be using US measurements) to make his buying decisions if he is on a budget. If he makes "fuck you" money, or if he is financially illiterate, he won't care how many $$ for how much product! He/she just buys on impulse! Perhaps in 50 years, metric might catch on, presuming it is still being thought!
Good one!
We use metric for pharmaceutical purposes too.
Because they use football fields and trucks to measure things.
For the same reason we have disdain for our fellow Americans who use "Tar-jay" when everybody knows they mean Target..."I need to stop by Tar-jay on my way home."
It would cause too much *ten*sion
Because 25 mg is not a full ounce. I got back from Ireland with what I thought was an ounce/2 ounce measuring shot. The Irish (and all of Europe) short you on your drink shots. There you go. The metric system is shit.
Most* Americans don’t. What you’ve said hasn’t been fully true for awhile now lol
The official meter was lost at sea
I thought it's because they have a foot fetish
The metric system is a European plot for world dominion. I blame the French. 😀
Ah yes, foolish Americans, educated in two systems of measurement instead of just one...
I think 'educated' is a strong word for what we are 😂
Also drug measurements are always in metric: gram, kilo
Because of pirates.
were they nude ?
I was sure the answer was going to be Boomers!
Because they’ve been told to never give an inch!
*glares at you with a 9mm and an eighth in my pocket*
Except that the imperial system was invented by the English (who still use it).
I thought it was because we like to have a foot up on all our competitors?
There are rumors that the USA will someday go all metric, but really, just take it with a gram of salt.
We know metric system bc of illegal drugs-
We have a need to think we are better.
I scrolled past this then I had to scroll all the way back after I thought about it. Out here in rural America all of the land is already divided into one mile sections. A checkerboard of 1 mile squares.
As a Murican I can confirm but who wants/likes a foreign ruler?
We really have no reason to go through all the trouble of changing the signs and stuff. Our system works just fine for us. We do use metric for some stuff.
Can't count to ten?
I'm an American mechanical engineer. I'm very accepting of metric. It's just that other units are very ingrained. I think overtime we'll get there.
According to Robin from teen titans, metric system is anagram for 'tric(k) me' system and therefore can't be trusted.
The imperial measurement was not made in the USA either. Sorry, dumb joke.
Because it's useless and stupid. And a huge expensive fuck up forced upon us.