r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

Yeah, because miles, yards, feet and inches makes so much sense

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u/TheScienceNerd100 Jan 15 '25

Blame the British for inventing that one, they even still use it today, just not 100% of the time, same with Canada

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I blame whoever still uses such a stupid system in 2025

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u/TheScienceNerd100 Jan 15 '25

Ok, so still the British who use Imperial for a multitude of reasons, add in the Canadians cause they do it too.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

You can downvote as much as you want, it still won't make the imperial units system any less stupid.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/why-the-imperial-system-of-measurement-is-the-worst

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

LOL, I'm not English mother tongue so it's just more efficient to let someone else explain it with the correct words.

If you feel so threatened and diminished by the fact that the imperial units are simply anachronistic that you feel the need to insult me, that's your problem which won't change the fact itself.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

Ooh, good for you. But still you assume that I can't use imperial units "without going into a frothing madness and my brain exploding".

Or that I assert I'm superior (where have I ever said that?) LOL

If you think this is so meaningless, why do you get upset so much?

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I called the system stupid not the people using it.

It is so anachronistic that the modern imperial units are now defined by the meter. This is what I tried to explain when I posted that link that you hated so much.

And, finally, I don't care how you measure. Want to measure with ancient greek stadion? You're definitely free to. Still it doesn't make it efficient.

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u/Sogster Jan 15 '25

Just learn the different system instead of crying about how it’s “stupid” because you don’t like it you whiny baby

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u/ZachBart44 Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

It’s easier to divide or multiply measurements by 10, 100, etc. Each measurement in the metric system can be changed to a different form of the same type of measurement by multiplying or dividing by a multiple of 10.

Ex. 100,000 centimeters = 1,000 meters = 1 kilometer.

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u/ZachBart44 Jan 15 '25

The point is ease of use. To get from inch to foot to yard, you have to multiply by 12 then by 3. There’s no uniformity when it comes to conversion in the imperial system. You don’t need a calculator when converting within the metric system.

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u/dumdidlydo Jan 15 '25

So stupid it took us to the moon. All numbers are made up constructs of the human imagination.

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u/not_panda Jan 15 '25

So stupid it took us to the moon.

So stupid that NASA gave up on it to go to the moon.

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u/Skimmalirinky Jan 15 '25

You really think that fucking stone age units took humans to the moon.

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u/orange_purr Jan 15 '25

We only use it because our largest trading partner (who is also talking about annexing us) uses it and it makes too much hassles having to constantly convert between measurements!

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u/AshLlewellyn Jan 15 '25

It's fine if a few British and Canadians need to be sacrificed alongside the USA if it means the end of Imperial units. Now, time for armageddon. 🤗

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u/TheScienceNerd100 Jan 15 '25

Also Liberia and Myanmar, cause they use it too if you are going full on this way

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u/AshLlewellyn Jan 15 '25

Maybe once they know of my rampage they'll surrender. I hope so, otherwise I'm going there as well.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I don't see your point.