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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.