(August 27, 2016 at 9:07 am)Tiberius Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 5:49 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I am British and have been involved in science and engineering all my life, in these areas almost everyone uses metric units. I have never understood why anyone would use the Fahrenheit scale for temperature, it is so illogical, centigrade is simple - 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling, 20 is room temperature. As far as distance is concerned I find it easy to switch between miles and kilometers, I have no preference. Volume and weight is simple - a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, can't get easier than that!
Centigrade is awful. Why base temperature scale off water of all things?!?
Kalviners represent!
Fahrenheit, you furriner here to terk er jerbs.
In all seriousness, I can recall learning metric and some push to get the USA to adopt metric when I was in elementary school - during the Carter administration.
For what has worth, most products are now labeled in both Imperial and metric units, and some like a bottle of water I purchased then other day uses metric as it's primary unit (700ml).
Practically every vehicle I have owned had a speedometer a calibrated primarily in MPH but also indicated KPH. I don't think it's terribly likely the US will change it's roads to kilometers any time soon due to the expense of altering signs, not to mention replacing countless mile markers.
Other than that, bring it.
I personally have no problem adjusting to metric when I travel outside the US. YMMV. The trick is to stop trying to do the conversion to Imperial and simply embrace the new unit.
P.S. Celsius sucks. Fahrenheit, fuck yeah!
