Which system of measurement do you prefer to use?

Imperial is more poetic

"Give them a centimeter and they'll take a kilometer" is a mouthful

Imagine if the Shylock had demanded a "kilogram of flesh"


I know and use both systems, off the top of my head I can remember:

122 grains is 7.9 grams
230 grains is 14.9 grams
360 m/s is 1181 ft/s
860 m/s is 2822 ft/s
748 m/s is 2,454 ft/s

One pound equals 0.45359237 kg
One grain equals 15.4324 grams
One inch is 25.4 mm
There are 3.280839895012 feet per meter



Metric people are always smug about their system but the only advantage to metric is "base 10"

Do you know how a meter was actually defined? It's laughable, for 100 years it was the length of a certain metal bar. Really.

Do you know how the kilogram is defined? Still? It's the weight of a certain metal cylinder.



If ancient people were looking at things it made more sense to measure in "feet" than it did in "meters". A meter isn't something they could see, it's based on nothing practical.

Imperial is better quantities for your everyday measurements, "six feet tall" is easier on the mind and tongue than "1.82 meters tall".

Which I use depends on my mood at that moment.

Imperial for everyday life. Metric for school and other technical stuff. I'm in the US.

The detail

The global one.

I use imperial, but I recognize that Metric is better.

I don't really care enough to want it changed either.

Imperial. It's based on human interaction with its environment like Goosey said.

I only use Metric for my science classes. And not even fully because we use Kelvin for temperatures

Myanmar will be ditching the imperial system soon for the metric system..

Um... So? What's wrong with having a base measurement item with which to compare all other things? Much, much more practical than the foot which was based on nothing solid and varied country to country (even City to City in ancient times) until 70 years ago or so when the major English countries standardised their measurement of a yard. Just because something was easier in ancient times doesn't meant that's still the case today.

I don't get why you find "A metre is the length of this metal bar" more laughable than "A foot is a foot long"? The metal bar doesn't vary in size or weight, it's a perfectly reasonable base measurement. The length of a metre came before the metal bar rather than the other way around, you know...

It's only easier on the mind for you because that's (presumably) what you were taught in school.

Metric, Europe.

Metric system.

British imperial system is outdated and quite useless in todays economics, sciences and engineering. Thats why most of the countries abandoned their measurement systems based on natural units.

The metric system is based on the normalized natural units too tho.
The metre was based on the distance from the Earths equator to the North Pole and kilogram was based on the mass of water having a volume of one litre.

A wonderful system lost to so many cultures because lazy schoolchildren didn't want to learn how many scruples were in a drachm.

You seem a bit... pressed.
Congratulations on memorizing that pile of numbers, I guess.

But the thing with metric is - it's simple.

There is one unit for length. One for volume. One for mass and so on, combined with prefixes - mili, centi, deci, deca...

Conversion between imperial units is a mess cuz you have to:
1. remember all the unit names, there is too much of them
2. remember the messy overkill of conversion factors
3. multiply and divide by them.

In metric, conversation is merely changing the prefixes. Which is as simply as moving the decimal point.

Also, 1 kilo of water = 1 liter of water = 1 dc^3 of water.

The argument about how is meter/kilogram defined is laughable. (Gram is defined as mass of 1 cm^3 of water, and kg itself will be defined by Planck constant this year, iirc)

Also, what is a foot? Is it mine foot? A girl's foot? Baby's foot? How is that a good measurement unit?
And believe me, almost no one who's born in metric country can imagine how 'six feet tall' looks. And saying '180' after someone asks you how tall you are isn't really that hard. (See what I did there? Changed meters in centimeters in mater of 0.2 seconds? (Aka 200 milliseconds?))
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TL;DR - Metric is easier, simpler, more practical and has proven itself as superior system.

Metric vs Imperial shouldn't even be a question.

Who else but the GLOBAL metric

VACUUM PACK HA

Metric for the most part. But I use miles instead of kilometres because kilometres are the pits. Unless it's referring to the global smash album '200 km/h in the Wrong Lane' by Icons of Music, t.A.T.u. .

I'm from the UK.

1 pound = 16 oz
1 pound of water = 16 fl oz of water



Some metricationists seem to think the value of the meter makes more sense than the foot, or that the liter makes more sense than the gallon, this is false. The only thing that makes more sense is "base 10". A meter taken by itself is just as meaningless as a foot.

Pressed? Never said that.