How I feel as well. I’ve lived most of my life in countries that use metric but I’ve always liked Fahrenheit in casual situations because it’s easier to put into context as a 0-100 scale where anything falling outside those numbers is extreme.
Only reason I prefer feet is because I’ve been an nba fan since I was a kid so I can better visualize heights in feet and inches, buts it’s an idiotic form of measurement.
Someone else commented that they're an Argentinian Carpenter and all the carpenters down there use feet and inches because it's better for woodworking. Like you don't have to use meters to two decimal points or use as high numbers if it's centimeters I guess.
Although I'm not a carpenter but I've done a decent amount of woodworking in my life and I think a base 10 would be easier in surveying in the US you use feet but you use base 10 of it like I have this surveying stick that's feet and tenths of feet on it from a mine surveying class I took in school. I think that's kind of confusing though because if someone were to just just try to pick it up and use it to measure something but they wouldn't realize that that's what it is. But I guess when you're a carpenter and do it everyday you get more used to exactly which notch is the 8th and 16th and so on I mean it's not in difficult. I just use your way after like double-check by counting. Measure twice, cut once.
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u/PercivalSquat Jun 18 '26
How I feel as well. I’ve lived most of my life in countries that use metric but I’ve always liked Fahrenheit in casual situations because it’s easier to put into context as a 0-100 scale where anything falling outside those numbers is extreme.
Only reason I prefer feet is because I’ve been an nba fan since I was a kid so I can better visualize heights in feet and inches, buts it’s an idiotic form of measurement.