Posts by drfunk

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: No to cups or spoons

Depends. If I'm baking accurately I'll use the measuring spoon. & If I want half a table spoon I'd take 1 & 1/2 teaspoons. If I want a cup I get a 8 oz cup... If I want to know the ml it says on the handle. Or I'd grab my Pyrex that has increments in Cups & milliliters.

Re: The amount of times...

Idk. I think most people just simply convert. I usually split my screen & have the article on the top half & my converter on the bottom.

I feel most Americans don't see Metric being used in the the U.S. because we don't need it.

In science though everything is metric & we embrace it.

They teach us metric in school. Plus centi, milli, etc. Just the basic unit headers that you see.

I only see metric used in machine shops & rarely. They usually use decimal inches. Things go Metric when it's in a lab & under a 1/32nd.

I also believe rough measurements are easier. I know my foot is 12 inches or a foot, I know my average lunge is a hard long.

Even when my foot was 11 inches I could rough the math out.

28 centimeters is a bit harder to multiply mentally (No calculator)

Plus I have four fingers & a thumb. My fingers each have 3 segments. 12 total.

Other things are multiples of 2.

What about our clocks!? That's base 12. It'll never change but it's fun. Here's a fun video on it: https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc

To each their own