It's only okay when brown people don't speak the language!
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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.
I was with you until you said imperial is better than metric system. Why is that or what are you basing that on?
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.