My Confederate flag will always be measured in feet and inches.

Shows you how clever us metric guys are. Werner von Braun worked that stuff out inspire of the imperial system

I've heard that us American's only buy liquor & drugs using the metric system.

Same thing in the Engineering Deparment ebsurveyor - With plan assembly, it was actually getting easier with the metric system. Then, swooosh throw everything in a box or drawer & back to U.S.

Screw drivers, hammer, crescent wrenches, can be saves. What would we do with football?

There was a third system about 70 years ago. In-law rebuilt an MG-TD and had to buy a new set of wrenches and sockets. That system was short lived I think. What was it called?

Could be British Standard or Whitworth. Similar but separate types of sizes. I've worked on a couple older Rolls-Royces that had those fittings.

In the UK, Everything to do with electrickery was then BS ( British Standard ) Hydraulic stuff was Witworth and the rest was AF then came the metric system and mixed things up a bit. So we had 3 sets of wrenches to round off any bolt we encountered.

The English can't pick anything and stick with it.

90% of the English speaking beekeeping world uses the Langstroth hive and whether imperial or metric is fully interchangeable.

The British Isles has over half a dozen different hive designs in common use including two different types called British National.

You got that right.

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My lathe cuts threads in threads per inch. Electrical conduit and plumbing pipes are imperial. Along with all the fittings and machines to bend or process them. Cost too much for industry and tradesmen to change over.

What is theoretically sharper?
I perfect sphere on a perfectly flat surface,
Or a point of a triangle?
(I find that all of this rabble about measuring systems is injuring my devout binaryism.)

If you think the imperial measurement system is too difficult, cumbersome, or hard to understand, you probably aren't smart enough to need to measure much anyways. It's really not that complicated. Any fourth grader should be able to handle it with no problem.

I think most people in the US are pretty well adept at using metric measurements when needed. I would consider us rather "bi-lingual" when it comes to measurements. Why is the rest of the world unable to cope with using more than one system of measurement? I guess the Heimies just aren't bright enough to deal with both systems - gets them all confused, I guess.

Anyways, what gets me is when I see a drawing for a brand new part design coming out of Germany or Switzerland and everything is metric. I see all these weird metric dimensions like 22.225mm or 8.731mm. Then, when I convert them to USAican for manufacturing purposes, I find the dimensions are exactly 7/8" and 11/32". So, clearly the design was done using the imperial system of measurement. Then, the drawing was convert to metric. I convert it back to inches to manufacture the parts. Quality takes measurements in imperial, and then converts it back to metric. What a bunch of useless nonsense to bring the metric system into play at all. Just for the purposes of showing how superior Fritz is.

I don't see impact or any other square drives in metric or am I leading a sheltered life? The international langue is English so why not make international measure in imperial as well?

75 degrees ...sounds a whole lot bettah than 24 c

When I was in grade school (late 70’s) they told me I had to learn the metric system because that will be all that’s available in my adult life. Wrong.

When I was in Jr High they said I had to show my work on math problems because I won’t be carrying a calculator around when I’m an adult, wrong again.

In high school my English teacher said I had to buckle down and take an extra spelling class because I wouldn’t be walking around with a dictionary ……… strike three.

When my kids went to collage we were told they would have to pay back student loans if they borrowed $$, so they didn’t………… you guessed it.

If metric is so good, Michael, why do they need four different thread pitches in metric. What a nightmare! To get a bolt or nut, you have to take in one that came out of what your working on, to match it. AND most places only stock two of the different pitches. To be honest, I have gotten more used to it, but still scratch my head as to why ya want to be like everyone else! I cant remember which way it is, but Europe uses uneven sizes and Japan uses even, or vice versa. A mechanic needs a short legged dog, with American on one side and metric on the other, otherwise you will spend your whole day chasing wrenches! lol

Strike four, Shawn!

Did not know that!

But a pound of gold in Troy or Av., when converted to grams is very close to the same!