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Ayo the car thing is absolute bullshit.

10mm bolt for the fuckin brake caliper but 3/8 for the fuckin slide bolts?

Get the fuck outta here

Don't forget the most important US measurements of them all: 5.56, 7.62, 9, etc.

Also, the imperial system is defined through the metric system.

In using imperial, you're just using metric with extra steps.

In the UK, weed is measured in authentic receding British imperial units where an ounce weighs one less gram every year.

The army uses metric almost exclusively. It’s where I learned it.

• talking to my european friends
• talking to my african friends
• talking to my asian friends
• talking to my south american friends
• talking to my north american friends (exceptions apply)
• talking to my oceanian friends
• talking to my antarctican friends

My favorite fuckery is when Europeans see shit like 25.4mm, 27.2mm or 31.8mm and it's because of imperial bullshit

Not to mention that every single food product has metric measurements on the label as well.

Last panel should be the entire US Customary System, which is literally just a rescaling of the SI ("metric" system) units. US Customary is derived directly from SI.

When I was young I lived in Puerto Rico for a few years (1980's). Milk was sold in either one litre cartons or one gallon jugs. Distances in road signs and road markers were in kilometers but speed was in miles per hour. Fuel was sold in litres but fuel usage is in miles per gallon.

I literally learned lessons on metric in public school

Bicycle parts entered the chat

You forgot measuring bullets.

The whole world uses both for various things. Even the countries that "officially" use metric. Specific global industries still use imperial. Canadian and British people are perhaps the most famous for combining the two, but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.

And of course the whole conversation is Euro-centric and ignores the historical use of traditional measurement systems in Africa and Asia, but somehow that never gets brought up.

Let's not forget that the Apollo space program used SI units at every step, except for displaying it to the astronauts.

What are you talking about with the weed? It's sold in pounds, ounces, quarter ounces and "half quarters" which is as ridiculously un-metric as it gets.

Which sports use metric in the US? Gridiron football uses yards, auto racing uses miles, baseball uses feet, etc. The only sports I can think of that use metric are track and swimming, and those aren't as popular outside of Olympics time.

not to mention, the imperial system is just the metric system in disguise. An inch is defined as 25.4mm, and not by some universal constant, like a proper measuring system.

Yeah, but you still have work tool measurements in 5/8, 7/32, and 13/64 or whatever the fuck dumbass measurements.

I say this as an American that hates the way tools use measurments here.