It's only okay when brown people don't speak the language!
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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