I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

May I present to you, how to measure like a Brit

It's great fun especially when you're trying to work out how fuel efficient your car has been when your tank and fuel pump is in litres and the fuel efficiency is in miles per gallon.

Oh and you'll have a jolly time following a recipe from more than 20 years ago trying to remember what the hell "Gas Mark 4" is in centigrade for fan or convection ovens.

Oh and my personal favourite for the industry I'm in: when designing a PCB your component sizes will use imperial codes, your wire diameters will be in AWG, your track widths and PCB dimensions will be in millimetres, but your copper thicknesses will be in ounces despite the final weight for the assembly will be in grams.

these MFs convey weight in whatever the fuck "stone" is. don't let them shame you for not using liters

Invents the word Soccer, calls americans dumb for using it.

(TBF it's dumb, especially since you call hand egg football, sry americans)

The UK sorta tried switching to metric but didn't do it completely and now has a weird system where the system you use depends on the situation I hate it

As an American, I use the metric system whenever possible. As of more recently, it's usually taught in schools, as well as used ubiquitously in science. I wouldn't be surprised if the US switches to primarily using the metric system in the next few decades.

Someone: Ugh, the recipe is in grams, and I need it in ounces.

Me: Just divide by 28

Them: How'd you know that?

Me: ...👀

The US was a founding member of the Metre Convention, find a new slant

For decades, Britain has had campaigners against metric (or the “Napoleonic system” as some of them call it), who were generally on the populist right. There was a grocer who refused to display prices in metric measurements and, when he was fined, refused to pay and was sent to gaol; the tabloids called him the “Metric Martyr”, and lionised him as a hero alongside those who vandalise speed cameras. One of the promises of the Brexit campaign was to abolish the metric system and go back to imperial measures, though after they won, they realised that the imperial measurements have been legally defined in reference to SI units for decades, and establishing a new basis for measurement would be far too expensive and disruptive to do just to placate a bunch of pub bores and opinionated van drivers, so they dropped it.

So Britain has a mixed system (beer and milk are measured in pints, and road distances/speeds in miles, but most other things are metric), only the fluid ounce, which is 1/20 of a pint, is legally defined as 28.4ml or so. Even worse, road distances given in yards (each being around 0.9 of a metre) are actually in metres, going on the assumption that the average person can’t tell the difference. Of course, they can’t call them metres, as there’d be irate letters to The Times and questions in Parliament.

The UK can pretend all they want, but they ain't part of the metric club.

I thought you guys were independent?

Why do you need a former master to tell you to switch?

Um actually the US doesn't and never has used the Imperial System

No we are a mixed people thank you very much

The US wanted to rid itself of as much English influence as possible, she even changed the spelling. Odd that she held on to Imperial.

You forgot "and we continue to use Imperial and archaic things like 'stone' " too.

We are supposed to use metric here in my country, but because of American influence, we use imperial.

I loved Torque Test Channel's take on the whole metric thing... https://youtu.be/2QUum9NymZY?si=8w7PCNReVX1-3tMn

Yeah, we got bigger problems.