#the metric system

[digital-vic]

LETS SWITCH TO THE METRIC SYSTEM IN THE STATES

feet and inches? what the heck are those? more like meters and centimers. theyve all got a "met" in them. the metric system. its about time we met it.

#the metric system #satire

[ersatzpenguin]

Have you ever created a spreadsheet to analyze a recipe you developed based on the relative percentages of different ingredients by weight compared to other similar recipes (created by others) in order to gain additional insight into future revisions, and thereby gone on a journey that led you to calculate standard measurements of various spices in grams? Or is that, like, mostly a “me” thing?

Btw, did you know that 1 tsp of ground coriander weighs about 2g?

#just normal things #food #seitan #vegan meat #the metric system

[tumbler-polls]

For USAmericans: height converter

#height #polls #tumblr polls #metric system #statistics #tumbler polls

[starweed]

i’ve decided to be a nuisance (and i think the three people who’ll see this will appreciate it)

context for these three people, i live in america we use the imperial system of measurement, aka the not-the-metric-system system of measurement (you can blame nixon for that)

i have slowly been changing my phone to make it difficult for people in america to understand what it says.

i changed the weather app to show celsius instead of fahrenheit. this doesn’t affect me because i didn’t really understand fahrenheit anyway, so the exact calculation doesn’t really matter. but it does bother people who ask me for the temperature (my friends, nobody else does that).

a few months before i changed the weather app i changed my clock to 24-hour time (i don’t know if you people not in america use it regularly or not, i don’t really care. this was to be a nuisance, not european). this is because 1) i like being a nuisance to my friends and family in harmless ways 2) i have issues with falling asleep and dreaming that i’m still awake while having legitimate conversations with people in my general area. this means that when i wake up i know that i took a nap but not for how long because i think it’s been five minutes while it’s actually been two hours. 24-hour time helps with that. 3) i can call it 24-hour time and annoy the pretentious fucks (my dad) who call it military time (*gags*). 4) nobody asks me for the time anymore, i answer in 24-hour time

i (try to) use the metric system. it’s a work in progress because i’m in the country that would prefer to use (american) football fields as a base measurement than meters. it’s annoying, but i do generally have to use feet and inches rather than meters and milimeters because i do like being understood occasionally.

now to monologue about why the u.s. doesn’t use the metric system in the first place, because i think it’s interesting. so, the french revolution happened, and the french didn’t want to use the imperial system anymore because it gave off bad vibes and didn’t make any sense (a group of french scientists wanted a global unit of measurement that actually made sense, but it wasn’t fully adopted until the political unrest that occurred during the napoleonic wars). the rest of the world was like, “that’s a great idea!” (nearly all of the times it was adopted had been during times of political upheaval, similar to how it was adopted in france and it also took quite a while for that to happen). the u.s. also decided that they should use the metric system, but nothing came about from that (it happened from 1968-1971 which was the last year of lyndon b. johnson’s presidency to around year 3 of richard nixon’s).

if you asked me, i’d say that the u.s. probably never fully picked up the metric system because of everything that happened during the time that anyone in government really cared about officially changing it happened during the watergate scandal. although it was a time of political uncertainty it wasn’t the type of upheaval that would result in the change of the system of measurement. to put it simply, people didn’t care about the metric system in the face of having the corruption of their government thrown in their face.

tldr? i like being a nuisance, and richard nixon is the reason why the u.s. doesn’t use the metric system

#the metric system #celsius #fahrenheit #the french revolution #the napoleonic wars #24-hour time #lyndon b. johnson #richard nixon #the watergate scandal #us president #i personally think this was very interesting #yay me #i am so tired

[duey65]

Metrication

What does metrication mean? According to the Cambridge dictionary, it defines it as: https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › metricati…  the change from measuring things in imperial units (= feet, pounds, pints, etc.) to using metric units (= metres, kilograms, litres, etc.):. I started school in 1970. In 1975, the metric system was introduced. So I was taught in elementary school both…

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#the metric system #United States

[lunian]

✨When you actually joined your dear Hylian friend in his great adventures✨

(better late than never to do this barbie meme)

#yeahhhh :) #legend of zelda #totk #botw #sidlink #totk sidon #totk link #king sidon #oh wow….. #sidon #loz fanart #loz link #totk fanart #myart #yeah i used metric system ADAPT #made them do a crime in hateno bc of damn mushrooms around #pls let them burn

[backintheblackparade]

Gotta love good old fashioned American Ignorance(TM): Metric System Edition… I was laughing my ass off at math textbook claiming a woman “running” a race at a speed of 3 1/3 km/h….

(the average human walking speed is 5.1 km/h)

like… how do you get to the level where your scholars writing the books for educating the next generation are so sanitized and ignorant of literally the entire rest of the world that they write nonsensical bs like that?

#math #justteacherthings #yikes #Leah rants #the metric system

[weewoow-20706030]

The bats use the metric system. You can not tell me that the bats would use inches, feet, yards and miles when centimeters, meters, and kilometres are right there.

#the waynes use the imperial system because they are dirty little Americans #but the bats are all logic #logically Metric is better #batfam #dc #batfamily #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #bruce wayne #stephanie brown #barbra gordon #cassandra cain #duke thomas #alfred penyworth #although Alfred has always used the metric system. being British and all

[aleatoryw]

#star wars #sw fanfic #writing #goddddd the metric system is fucking my american ass UPPPPP

[27-royal-teas]

look i know i made this exact same poll a while ago but i only made the duration one day long so i didnt get as much data as i could have. and i am simply burning with curiosity

EDIT: im sorry i forgot to add an option if ur in between pete and joe’s heights thats totally my bad so uhh just pick whichever is closer ig. sorry!!

#fob #fall out boy #pete wentz #patrick stump #joe trohman #andy hurley #toby speaks #the last time i made this poll i had like 5 people in the tags going like ‘americans will use anything but the metric system’ #which i found very funny #polls #Im andy height in case you were wondering

[ersatzpenguin]

Seriously considering becoming one of those Americans that full on switches to the metric system (because “be the change”), and as a result annoys all her friends.

#the metric system #metric #i’ve already switched over for cooking #grams are 20x better for ingredient measurements #so it’s really just distances and celsius

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

2am height hcs

I just like it when Gabe gets his ass kicked by ppl who don’t even reach his shoulders

#bedrock’s #ultrakill #sorry ab the imperial system I pht gabe at 8ft and cba to convert it to metric #*put gabe at 8ft #wow that’s a hell of a typo

[sky-is-the-limit]

My red flag is that I'd still fuck Graves after his betrayal, even after shooting Soap and trying to get him and Ghost killed, after the tank chase and I'd blame it on my chronic dilfcrazed disease.

Catch me switching sides with a text like "bye 141, I'm a Shadow now 😘"

Even if his middle name was Judas, I'd be all like "Yes, Commander. Whatever you want, Commander, you want me to shoot the Scott? Only if you promise to fuck my brains out later, Commander"

Anyway, I think everyone was overreacting a bit cause me, personally? I'd give him both my base and body to use 🙏

#no1 mistake was casting Warren Kole to be a villain as if i wouldn't forget all my morals and be on my knees for him #I'd learn all those ammendments Americans love to use and recite them while he eats me out #I'd leave the metric system for him #warren kole #phillip graves #cod #call of duty #phillip graves smut #task force 141 #cod 141 #tf 141 #captain price #simon ghost riley #ghost #john soap mactavish #kyle gaz garrick #könig

[prokopetz]

I fully understand that the prevalence of “american pentagon” as a search string is due to the need to specify that one is looking for information about the building, not the geometric shape, but I’m not gonna lie, when I saw the phrase pop up as a suggested search term my first thought was “well, now there’s a dimension of non-SI measurement which I had not heretofore considered”.

#language #linguistics #word nerdery #nomenclature #nameology #geometry #metric system

[warriorcatsofficialfacts]

"the europeans" did you know that most of the world uses kg and meters including south America. unitedstatians are not beating the uneducated idiot burger allegations.

all these anons are doing is proving america truly is the greatest nation in the world, as it is becoming more and more apparent that we are in fact the only nation where people make jokes! god bless

#i'm sorry to all the followers i get like five of these a week and i delete them but like #the sheer dumbass condescension of europeans (because it is damn near universally europeans who make these comments) is so funny #you may not be the only continent who uses the metric system #but you sure are the only continent who gets this pissy when people make fun of it lmao

[o-kurwa]

#merica #metric system