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