It's only okay when brown people don't speak the language!
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Most Europeans piss me off. They look down on Americans who visit Europe or spend some months or years in Europe for only speaking English or for acting like Americans while ignoring the massive fucking rainbow colored gay elephant in the room which is all the African and Arab immigrants in their country who lived there for a long time and never integrated. It's like "Priorities, dumb ass. You are going to be bothered by white people from a very different culture not integrating in 2 seconds while giving Africans and Arabs, a free pass? Tell me you are a raging leftist retard without telling me you are a raging leftist retard."
"These silly Americans! Look at them!" - Europeans as their country turns into Africa 2.0
“I would rather be raped to death by a thousand niggers than tell one American how to get to the train station!”
-T. Frenchman.
You know what this might be? Stockholm syndrome.
Africans say “kneel. Bitch. “ and the french quickly get on their knees.
But they relieve their frustration by bullying other white people.
This can also lead to Stockholm syndrome.
French people in Paris have Stockholm Syndrome.
Tourists get Paris Syndrome when they see what a shithole it became due to immigration.
It's essentially a rephrased streetlight problem. If they talk down to an african or arab, they'll get their head cut off or a face full of acid. Much easier to mock a law abiding American.
It's the same reason the police arrest people for tweets and ignore rape - dealing with actual criminals is difficult, harassing innocents is easy.
Pretty much. It’s why people don’t openly say things about Muhammad. They’ll fucking kill you. That entire mentality where you can’t speak or something because those folks will kill you means those folks are fucking savages. Even drawing a picture of it.
The kangoroo court of human right in Québec, along with the Liberal party in power back then, wanted to make disparaging religions illegal, specifically Islam ( and by virtue of Intersectional social justice, insulting Christianity would de-facto remain allowed ), and put the names of the offenders on a public list.
So make a hit-list for Islamists to kill them.
This pooled so extremely bad among the general population that the Liberals backed-down.
Provincial libs went too woke too fast and pushed for a grand comission on systemic racism all over Québec, which pissed the founding population enough that Libs crashed outside Montréal, and haven't recovered yet.
Yet another reason why 2A and concealed carry are God's given rights, but the cucks in the UK will openly celebrate their government disarming them and even poke fun at the US ''at least we don't have mass shootings chud'' while he's scared of saying anything when he goes outside because a nigger will rape him.
You make a good point. They ignore African and Arabs in order to not to be victimized.
These two points wrap into one another, since a Euro could feasibly be arrested for complaining that an african or an arab don't speak the language, but would never get arrested for complaining about a White American.
On the flip side, many of the things they say about Americans might be directed towards, oh, lets say, one particular third of the American population, if you catch my drift. Euros can safely say "I hate Americans, they are so stupid and rude" but they can't swap "American" for the gamer word or "beaner" because that is prosecutable speech.
In the UK, telling a non-White to speak English can be considered a ''hate crime'' according to the police.
Even if this was them getting slightly ahead of themselves, they WILL register it as a ''non-crime hate incident'' and come harass White people.
Olympic Ceremony in America: Torch lights an arrow, archer fires the arrow over a giant cauldron, the massive Olympic torch is lit!
Olympic Ceremony in France: Gay furries fuck each other while insulting Christ.
Yeah, that's exactly the sentiment I'm mocking here. The white guy from Nebraska who is otherwise totally respect is worthy is scorn. But the streetshitter Arab who attacks and sexually assault women and doesn't speak the language, bury our heads in the sand.
Yes, I saw a lot of this nonsense in Germany and the Netherlands. The fucking irony there because a large percentage of Americans are the descendants of German immigrants. In fact, a lot of Americans are more genetically German than a lot of Germans in Germany. Because after WW II, a lot of Germans in Germany mixed with non Germans. That is what all that leftist brainwashing does to you.
Appalachia is more English than the actual English. Probably has the purest 18th century English accent too, before the UK collectively decided to mimic the nobility's RP accent.
No they don't. Maybe the Parisians do, but the Parisians look down on everybody, and if you go to Paris in the first place YGWYFD, it's a shithole.
Your typical Euro takes no joy in the presence of these people and wants nothing to do with them - this is why they're not "integrated". They were never wanted and so are rejected by most everybody, which is fine since the muslims and africans themselves never wanted anything to do with White Christians either. The various EU state govts on the other hand do what they can to force them into language and integration classes etc.
American English, like the rest of our standards, is one of the best languages. People consider it hard to learn because it's so flexible but it's also more normalized and plain than any other language. Counting to 100 in any European garbage language shows how fucked their systems are. The French, especially, have cultural language police that REFUSE to let the language evolve to better interface with modern life.
Same with Imperial. It's just a better system. It's why they hate it so much. They gave a bunch of nerds high positions in society and a lot of money over centuries and they all produced a bunch of fashionable uninformed non-working bullshit. Meanwhile the busy working people put together a system that gets work done and is no more complex than their system. They've just never been able to admit this or get over it.
Fuckin' eurotrash. They all already know English. They just refuse to use it. Zero service in those people. Never go there never spend your money there.
Imperial and Metric both have their value. Metric is good for very large or small numbers, so mostly math and academic. Imperial is useful for everyday scenarios and trade work, because its always focused around useful default sizes and being divisible by 2/3/4s.
The fact that they act like Imperial has no use or is inferior shows just how little actual work most of them do, or how much they pride themselves on using a tool system designed for micro and macro science for their simple baking.
Its the same with American English. Its hugely flexible to be used by a common man or idiot to accomplish so many tasks. You can bend words to mean all sorts of things, break its rules, and generally just make shit up and it'll still work quite naturally. You can learn to speak it with zero time spent studying, just embroiling into slang.
Whereas many European languages are riddled with rules and genders that you need to memorize by the thousands, and they will scoff at you if you didn't know this word you never heard before was feminine and not masculine (its an inanimate object). Sure Germans have a word for everything, by just jamming dozens of other words into something incomprehensible to say outloud.
I'll take metric for 'everyday' use seriously when they start calling 2,000 kilometers "2 megameters".
Until then they're just poseurs.
I'd bet most "Metric users" don't even know Deci/Deka exist. And those would be the most useful of their prefixes for normal use possible.
Instead they are 154cm tall, because big number make their pp feel big I guess.
That's the other thing. They never utilize half their own units like decimeters or mega meters.
Or how many of them actually know that 1 cc is also 1 ml?
I've found plenty of imperial fans that will say metric is useful under certain circumstances. I've never seen the reverse. And it's not because metric is perfect. It's because they are so snobby they can't stand the idea that "the American" system has any merit.
And the proof that both systems have merit is that two big nations use both: Canada and Mexico. Maybe not officially but every tradesman in those those countries uses imperial. Fact. And I'm sure chemists in Mexico use metric. A measuring system is a tool just as much as a hammer or a microscope. And just like different tools are for different jobs, so can different measuring systems.
But Europeans are so far up their own ass they can't admit this.
The irony being that it came from Europe, and then Europe switched. Just like the word "soccer".
I seriously doubt that simply because of the words "decimal", "decibel", and "decimate".
They don't know what that means lol. "Decimate" functionally lost its original meaning centuries ago.
Grammar nazis decimated.
Counter argument: most people are so retarded they know if the word decimate but don't use it correctly. People use decimate as an incorrect synonym for "annihilate" when it's to kill or destroy 1/10th. The irony being that it was designed to not over do something (to not over kill). "We want to punish these bad soldiers but we don't want to kill too many of them because we still need them. So let's only kill a small number of them as punishment. How about 1 in 10?". Fast-forward and people retardedly say "the evil robots completely decimated the city!".
In my country, for some reason, people use deka when buying sliced meat at a supermarket deli counter or at the butcher. "I'll have 20 deka of that smoked ham over there please". Noone uses it in pretty much any other scenario, just this. I never understood why that is and I don't even know if any other nations do that.
Also shots (as in, alcohol) are often listed in centiliters on drinks menus, and again this is the only time anyone uses that unit.
Deka is still used in weight measurements. Usually for cooking and baking. It is old fashioned and less common than it used to be, but you still see it.
Yeah, people are 154cm because writing "15dm and 4cm" is gay and retarded. And 1m 5dm and 4cm even more so.
Also I don't really see how "this system of measurement has so many subsections, it can afford to loose 90% of them for everyday life and no one will suffer any form of detriment from it and even then it's still relatively easy to remember because the conversion number is always a factor of 10" is inferior to "our units of measurement have like 5 subsections that are all wildly different numbers and our smallest unit is still so big that we need to start writing it out in fractions, because inventing a smaller subsection means the Eurofags win".
You mean like when we write 6'3" for our height instead of 76 inches? Seems to work fine over here. I mean, if you want to write it in the most nonsensical way to make it seem retarded you did fine, but I think 1.54m probably would accomplish everything.
I never said it was inferior. My entire original point was people acting like one is inferior to the point of not having value is retarded. Which is something almost all Metric users seem to believe, while almost all of us in Imperial land do just fine with using both as per needed when they are most useful.
Except this isn't true, we have those units. They just don't see common usage, because Imperial also suffers from the same issue of people sticking with their preferred nomenclature to a point where most people forgot other units. Like the "hand" which is 1/3rd of a foot or the "barleycorn" which is 1/3rd of an inch. Or the "chain" and "furlong" which come between yard and mile. The naming isn't standardized, but all forms of Imperial come from their historical origin instead of having a governing body.
As for why these fell out of usage, I don't know. But we aren't also the ones crowing constantly about our superior and perfect system to anyone else.
Except that one fag up there, but that's why I called him retarded too.
Especially since with metrics, you can state that your penis is 140 mm long!
Engineering notation works fine with either. Want metric decades with imperial units?
2.7e-10 feet.
Not a problem.
And now you are complicating a simple system to force it to work in something its not suited for.
Which is exactly what the Europeans do, to suite their own unnecessary pride and ego, when using Metric for everything just to avoid the Imperial.
What? Engineering notation is the preferred notation even for metric. It's suited to numbers in general. You can (and should) even use it without units. There's literally nothing complicated about it. If you can do decimal you can do engineering notation.
Understanding the reasons to use one over the other is the point. And there is no logical reason to ever use metric. It's entire invention is a sham and it's promoted by people who are too dim to understand the underlying problem. Which is why it solves nothing other than to add another layer of bullshit to existing metrology.
Which is bad enough, but to believe and then say out loud that metric is good for "big numbers," demonstrates that you are firmly within this category of people.
So we went from "its only used by nerds!" to "engineering notations are the superior form of all numbers."
That's how I know you have no point. You are just saying things to look and sound smarter than you are.
You provided an example showing exactly how useless your notation would be in any form except academia and text. Its seven fucking syllables. Something impossibly useless to yell across a jobsite, the thing Imperial was designed and made for, and Metric can take up its slack of not having incredibly large or small units in the cases its needed.
I might have use for a 2mm drillbit, and that is an easy thing to both say, hear, and write.
Which is where you would find very small numbers and very large numbers.
Would you find very large or very small numbers there? Would you suddenly switch to metric to make that easier? Stop being intentionally retarded.
This is just a retarded thing to say. Sorry you're so butthurt you have to twist words to try to win. I'm making a simple easy to follow point. You're trying to not lose. It makes you sound and look stupid.
"I have a 3/32nds drillbit."
Do you have a clue or did a random example made for demonstration purposes blow your mind so badly you still can't cope?
I said something as simple as "it has its uses at times." You found this so enraging you cannot even live with the very idea without sperging.
That's okay, you can win this one. It seems to matter a whole lot to your pride.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Be honest, the US only uses that medieval system because it has to be different from Europe and the rest of the world in every way it possibly can. Same for Fahrenheit, AC voltage and frequency, AKI fuel octane number, UL standards, etc.
We get it, you're not Europe anymore but you can relax and stop torturing yourselves now because it's been 500 years. People have died because you can't properly convert the units the rest of the world uses into whatever convoluted mess you came up with.
I was with you until you said imperial is better than metric system. Why is that or what are you basing that on?
Imperial is better for real world applications because it's easier to estimate, metric is better for more precise measurements because it is easier to make smaller.
Take temperature, Fahrenheit is better for real life because you don't have to go into decimals to describe the weather outside while Celsius is better for lab work because it's easier to increase or decrease by a small amount.
...Fahrenheit is smaller than celcius.
It's just zeroed on super-saturated saltwater freezing and hundreded on the original thinker's temperature when he was outside a bit too long, instead of freshwater freezing and freshwater boiling.
But one degree F is almost exactly 5/9ths of one degree C. About half as much. So if you hate deci-mals for some traumatic backstory reason, you'd want to use F for your fine-tuning adjustments... And C for the outdoors, which doesn't usually require as much precision. The only issue with that idea is F is scaled on two very different things, which makes some calculations a chore since a surprising amount of our science is based off of water freezing and boiling.
The IDEAL temperature system in this hypothetical decimal-hater-but-science-lover's case would be Rankine, which is like Kelvin (absolute zero is a baseline), but in Fahrenheit units instead of celcius units in the steps.
That's not what I meant, but go off. Celsius is easier to use for lab work because all of the useful temperatures are multiples of 10, decimals are easy to do math with, and simpler to record. Having the baselines between freezing water and boiling water be 0 and 100 meant it was easier to do stepwise incremental heating back when you had to calibrate analog equipment in the days we were determining relative humidity by spinning these bad boys over our heads.
Metric is also better for lab work because it's easier to put onto the microscopic scale, all you have to do is keep dividing by multiples of 10 to millimeters, micrometer, nanometer, etc.
Kelvin and Rankine are only useful when doing theoretical science and some thermodynamic and quantum mechanic calculations. Also when you're doing quantum computing and attempting to approach absolute zero. Otherwise normal temperature values are too high to be useful.
Experience. Metric is garbage. Divisibility by 10 or SI prefixes are not used by most people. It pretends this is some superior benefit when it is not. It ignores completely how the majority of people use units.
People in Europe use km to describe big distances, m to describe medium ones, and mm to describe small ones. They don't know or care what a Gm is or why a um might be a better choice of unit for the scale of work being described. They don't really relate the two units together on any level either. "How many human bodies would you have to lay end to end to get from Edinburgh to Glasgow?" Who cares? So, fundamentally it's never actually used the way it was intended.
Outside of those contexts knowing how many feet are in a mile will occasionally be useful but never on an immediate basis. You're never going to need to stand in a field with nothing and work it all out in your head. So those complaints that there are 5280 ft (1760 yards really) in a mile are hard to remember are completely misplaced and never present themselves in actual work.
The fact that the imperial relation between feet and inches mean there's a factor of 3 between them. Dividing by 3 in metric is annoying as all fuck. And shows precisely why there's no metric time and we still use a base 60 system for time keeping... making every time related calculation in metric fucking retarded due to the lack of common factors.
All of this equally applies to the mass scale. I could go on but my dinner is here. You get the point I hope.
Metric is better for tool measurements. Hands down.
If the metric "9" socket is too big, what size do you grab next?
If the imperial "1/2" socket is too big, what size do you grab next? A 7/16? A 15/32? A 31/64? Who fucking knows, typically the answer is 'whatever is next to the open hole in my toolbox cutouts, assuming I have them'.
One is much easier to answer than the other, which requires nothing more than rote memorization of 'standard' fractional notation and mental division.
Metric becoming standard on vehicles came with an additional advantage, they basically decided to make the 10mm the socket that will work on 95% of the bolts in the entire car. Nice round number.
1/32 is more precise than 1mm. The fact that you even have 1/64ths. To do that in metric you'd have to have a "9.5mm". Oh fuck, looks like you already do, because of course you need that. We didn't start using 1/32" just to fuck with you. We needed the additional precision.
That's so low rent fuckwits in foreign factors can assemble them.
They could have all decided to use 3/8" heads and kept it imperial.
I assume you have a nice round head.
lmao shut the fuck up you hyper-contrarian fag. It's obvious you cooked up this explanation from absolutely nothing because it's so stupid. Inventing gay arguments because you're a fucking gay who is addicting to arguing.
Nobody ever built a fucking bolt with a 9/16ths head and said "oh no, this isn't PRECISE enough! Increase it to the 19/32nds! MUUUUH PRREECCISSSIOOONN!!!!"
Nobody did that because a 19/32nds socket doesn't fucking exist, because nobody needs it. Oops there goes 'muh precision'.
How many sockets come in a typical Imperial socket set up to 1"? 12? 13 maybe?
Wow, 'muh precision' only comes in 12 grades of precise. How fucking weird is that.
You're such a fucking fag. Delete your account.
My car was made in Tennessee by a Japanese corporation.
This corporation was practically single-handedly responsible for putting the stupid fags with their imperial system cars in Detroit out on the streets living under overpasses because literally everything they made was a creaky pile of poorly-made dogshit.
I keep rereading this comment and it's funnier and funnier.
Agreed.
I explain to friends like metric might be easier for things like chemistry where you're dealing with incredibly small numbers or on large scales like space travel.
But for the layman, imperial is easier. The units are more relatable. An inch is more useful than a centimeter. A foot is more useful than a meter. And if we need a meter we have yards.
Imperial is better for fractions. It's easily divisible by 12, 6, 4, 3, and 2. And 9 is also easy.
Metric is interesting in that it was built upon scientific relationships but those relationships are meaningless for 99% of people and are, in and of themselves, arbitrary. If we ever came across aliens their measurements would be completely different because metric is ultimately based off of the circumference of the Earth (that's the basis of the meter).
Of course those snobs have tried to "standardize" it in idiotic ways, like defining the meter as "one three hundred millionth something of the time it takes light to travel one second" but that's retarded. They had to do it because the meter has always been a fucked-up measurement.
It's a big fat "who cares".
Because who gives a shit.
NASA for one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
After 30 years, they speak tons of English.
They just pretend not to, because fucking around with terps and special accommodations filibusters their deportations even longer.
knew a costa rican immigrant who didn't speak a word of english when he started at master woodcraft... (I don't work there anymore, and Cabinet Worksgroup 'retired' the brand and laid me off, no special consideration at this point).
six months later, he was training me on the CNC router, and spoke english with a mildly heavy accent, but was completely understandable.
Point is if this kid fresh off the boat can do it in six months, there's no reason you can't do it in two years, unless you have extra chomosomes or something...
Hahahahahahahahaha, try expecting someone BORN and RAISED in the US to speak basic English.
Search "yeshiva english".
Euros will all be speaking arabic in 15 years.