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You understand there are some major benefits to the English system of measurement, right?
The metric system isn’t anchored to practical physical reality. The jump from centimeter to decimeter is too small to be practically useful, and the jump from decimeter to meter is too large to be practically useful. There’s a lot of stuff in physical reality that’s larger than cm/dm scale but smaller than meter scale. The metric system has no easy way of representing that.
Inch = roughly the distance from the tip of my thumb to the first knuckle
Foot = roughly the length of my foot
Yard = roughly the distance of a full stride
I had to double check what a decimeter is because I've never heard of anyone using that, everyone uses either centimeters or meters and that works just fine. I don't know how you think there's a problem for something "larger than cm/dm scale but smaller than meter scale" when people just say things like 58 centimeters, or 9.45 meters, etc.
Another big problem with metric is the names.
Mile vs kilometer
inch vs centimeter
pound vs kilogram
Too many syllables. They're so awkward that people use slang like "clicks" or "k". And context clues to know if "kilo" is a weight or some other measurement.
Metric is absolutely better for science and engineering, but for everyday life it's worse or at least dubious.
edit: it's funny the inferiority complex metric people have. This is objectively true, and even in wordy German they still use "meile" sometimes in songs and other places because "kilometer" is even too much for them.
Yeah this is how I feel as well. As someone who has a job that requires lots of metric, I understand Celsius and kilograms and stuff very well without needing to convert. But I'll be damned if they aren't just absolute dogshit for everyday life in comparison.
Who measures the temperature of their water boiling? Like, it's at 96 now it'll be ready to make tea in a few more seconds!
EU weather and thermostats have three digits and a decimal because people are sensitive to fractions of a degree C but not so much that you need decimals for Fahrenheit so two digits is all that's needed. Thermostat is at "twenty-two point five" vs "seventy-two".
Somebody told you that water freezes at 0 or that it freezes at 32. They're both arbitrary numbers. How do you remember your phone number or manage to live your life if that's a serious problem for you that 32 is slightly harder to remember than 0?