Until you notice they're obsession with decimalization (which I love, they might have gone a bit too far with it during that brief period of the French 10 hour day, but I adore it)... Doesnt extend to their numbers. Quatre-vingt-dix-sept, anyone?
@Olympus-ep8qv
18 күн бұрын
@@Stephen-Fox 97
@christinedu5211
18 күн бұрын
And ...The "quatre-vingt dix sept" and the "soixante dix" (or worst "soixante treize "!!) is only in Metroplitain French. Not in North of France + Belgium + Switzerland + Quebec !! There is a start of explaination with some invasion by the Celt by the north of France, but they never have the other area... If it's simple, then it's less fun !!
@sergeykish
18 күн бұрын
@@Stephen-Fox 10 hours day would be great. It is not much different: 1 Decimal second = 0.864 seconds 1 Decimal minute = 1.44 minutes 1 Décime = 14.4 minutes (quarter) Transformation from km/h to m/s or km/day would be much easier.
@O_Lee69
18 күн бұрын
All hail to the french revolution of 1789.
@kueisun
18 күн бұрын
“I have a very small yard” - very accurate.
@Tenebris616
18 күн бұрын
Yeah, breeding address to 12 inches in his foot, that’s a really big foot
@kieranknigge5012
18 күн бұрын
Bro definitely lives in new york
@AdventureCJ
17 күн бұрын
My yard is 5feet x 5 feet
@4421gdhkgg
16 күн бұрын
😂
@TNTYOD
16 күн бұрын
@@AdventureCJso your yard isn't one yard
@ryanrg1545
13 күн бұрын
Us: "Oh thats very neat dad, i will be using it" Uk: "maybe the french one wasnt that boring"
@NotSteveP
11 күн бұрын
Canada: Uhhh I'm gonna use the french one... but also the american one... but not often...
@oliverknagg5109
11 күн бұрын
UK: But also how many stones am I?
@macewindow149
6 күн бұрын
Also UK: "Let's sink the French ship carrying the units over to the US :D"
@DemLep
5 күн бұрын
US: Also, some times instead of using my feet I'm going to use my hands.
@jonasklose6472
4 күн бұрын
@@oliverknagg5109I think you wanted to say: "How stoned am I?" 😂
@neohex6663
13 күн бұрын
The best "WHY" that makes so much sense ever!
@IbadassI
12 күн бұрын
And pound in weight is lb 🤣
@LinaSanchez-rz5yb
18 күн бұрын
This is my European brain every time someone says they’re 6,2
@thorvaldrvargeblod4603
18 күн бұрын
Same! I have this trouble when American tourists ask how far something is. So I often just give them an estimated time it takes to get there, since distance in metres or feet will only confuse both of us.
@SadaEKE
18 күн бұрын
inch and foot are easy to convert. I can even convert pound to kg quite easily. My problems start with ounces (sl or fl), stones, and last but not least, Fahrenheit. This is the formula: (212°F − 32) × 5/9 = 100°C How on earth does it make sense?
@SchultzDorinda
18 күн бұрын
Personally I just created programs in my calculator that convert between our system and the American system. Saves a lot of times when watching American Media or commanding stuff from America.
@SadaEKE
18 күн бұрын
@@SchultzDorinda care to share them?
@Windsurfman
17 күн бұрын
Oh, you mean... 6'2 :smirk:
@cenk82
18 күн бұрын
- what's an inch? - this is an inch. 😂😂😂
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
3 barleycorns in an inch.
@joakimmoller
16 күн бұрын
We call inch 'a thumb' (tum) in Sweden.
@dschoene57
15 күн бұрын
@@joakimmoller That's basically because the definition of an inch is the length of the upper part of your thumb.
@joakimmoller
15 күн бұрын
@@dschoene57 I know
@filapo4211
15 күн бұрын
in french too "un pouce"@@joakimmoller
@meeepteh_potate7759
12 күн бұрын
Canada: So, can we just have french?
@vighnesh153
11 күн бұрын
Entire world (except USA)
@lyricist71
11 күн бұрын
@@vighnesh153 UK: How many STONE do you weigh? (clue: there are 14 pounds in one stone)
@KokoalaTheIII
10 күн бұрын
Your profile pic is my favourite animal
@justoad
8 күн бұрын
@@vighnesh153What about Liberia?
@Tuaron
7 күн бұрын
Nah, for some reason, human height makes more sense in feet and inches, while weight makes more intuitive sense in pounds...most likely through societal influence from the US/older generation who original learned those.
@epicguy_playzz6519
13 күн бұрын
Don't forget that pounds are shortened to "LB"
@theshlauf
11 күн бұрын
It's because the word "Pound" comes form "Libra Pondo".
@firasatef528
11 күн бұрын
Still can't be LB 😂 @@theshlauf
@user-lr9ul5gq6y
4 күн бұрын
Which means lots of bullshit
@davedunne5907
4 күн бұрын
@@firasatef528 lb/libra. Oz/onza(medieval italia
@vyacheslavzgordan6725
4 күн бұрын
@@firasatef528😂😂😂
@pasananthony
14 күн бұрын
He'll have a stroke when he hears the abbreviation for pounds.
@AdmarilDarius
12 күн бұрын
Wait until he hears about stones (14 lbs). Even the Americans struggle with that one.
@arnold2011
12 күн бұрын
I love slugs.
@ColScoob
12 күн бұрын
It's pretty basic once you realize the Roman word for pound was Libra.
@ChileSpiceNinja
12 күн бұрын
@@ColScoob right, ok, but the English weren't the Romans, nor do we speak Latin
@mattking9220
12 күн бұрын
@@ChileSpiceNinjaThe upper classes in England used to speak Norman French, which is a descendant of Latin, and Latin was a liturgical language until the Church of England left the Catholic Church.
@GrahamLikeTheCrackers
18 күн бұрын
Canadian English: "we started using French's system in the 70s but the boomers didn't want to learn it so now we always have to convert between the two."
@corinna007
18 күн бұрын
Except for outside temperature; everyone agrees that C is much easier than F.
@MizuMint00
17 күн бұрын
And Quebec decided ' F that, were doing the opposite' as usual
@Diriector_Doc
17 күн бұрын
Canadian here. Can confirm, this is accurate.
@SooLooG
17 күн бұрын
What?? 😅😅
@miminitiwuygbffan3653
16 күн бұрын
@@corinna007 f is for the pool, c is form the outside
@betelguse16
12 күн бұрын
I looked at my hand and thought, how many of these would fit on a horse? 😂
@hushie_LT
13 күн бұрын
"IT IS MY REVENGE UPON YOU FRENCH!!!!" -English stated calmly
@IsaacGamer74
18 сағат бұрын
*calmly*
@theirishpotato3948
15 күн бұрын
Length, volume and mass are also connected. A cube of 10cm ×10cm ×10cm is a litre. Fill that cube with water and you have a kilogram.
@JeSt4m
13 күн бұрын
Roughly a kilogram And don't forget to mention it have to be water since volume and weight is not the same thing. If you fill that cube with cooking oil it'll weight like 850 grams. I have to say this because some idiot actually weighted a litre of oil found it less than a kilogram and shame themselves on twitter
@theirishpotato3948
12 күн бұрын
@@JeSt4m yes I hope I was specific enough that the density of water is 1g/cm³ Edit: what @nyeeeofthestarz1804 said
@nyeeeofthestarsz1804
12 күн бұрын
@@theirishpotato3948you mean cm³ ?
@borttorbbq2556
12 күн бұрын
Thats only water. Thats actually the base idea
@monkeygamer_yt54
12 күн бұрын
Tis is at 4°C btw
@rebeccab7662
18 күн бұрын
When I (French) was working in the USA I had to ask for the guests personal info like weight and stuff. They were really shy and I always said “you know what? You don’t have to be afraid, I have no idea what this means. You could be 3 or 7 feet tall and 300 pounds that I still wouldn’t be able to describe you in my head” that worked well. But once an English man told me “is it easier if I give you stones instead?” “If you give me WHAT?” 🤣🤣🤣
@hannahpaul1988
15 күн бұрын
14lbs = 1 stone, so he was offering to simplify the maths for you (in a way that wouldn't help you, but I understand it coz I'm British 😅) ... Yeah the UK is still a muddle of metric and imperial. Eg: your destination is 5 miles away, I am 5ft 6 & 12st 6... And yet I weigh cooking ingredients in g and measure furniture in cm 🤦🏻♀️ I still have no idea what heights and weights (of people) are in metric 😂 ... I'm hoping my son's generation will go purely metric, and not get all confused like us 80s/90s kids!
@shanellemurrey9300
15 күн бұрын
@@hannahpaul1988I was born in the late 2000’s, so whether that a 2000’s kid or not idk, but it’s still the same here, no sign of changing yet. We still in the middle 😂
@FrogeniusW.G.
15 күн бұрын
@@hannahpaul1988 I think 90s kids are confused everywhere. 😂😂
@herrbonk3635
14 күн бұрын
@@hannahpaul1988 And what the actual f*ck is "lbs" then?
@AlphaFX-kv4ud
14 күн бұрын
@@herrbonk3635pounds
@ameliaderosa7144
10 күн бұрын
“then we have pounds” “oh, like sterling?” *”…like sterling..?”*
@btf_flotsam478
7 күн бұрын
Fun fact: back when currency was based on weights of precious metal, the pound Sterling got you a pound of sterling silver.
@aoibhinquinn7310
5 күн бұрын
Imperial measurements are a roughly formalized version of "about yay big" They're basically a holdover from when we didn't have good measuring tools so we needed measurements to be easy to estimate. A league (3 miles) is about how far a person walks in an hour. A yard is about the length of a big step. A teaspoon is roughly the volume of a small spoon. I'm a physicist, and I absolutely agree that metric is far superior, but I still find myself using imperial when i need to eyeball a measurement
@DrewLevitt
9 сағат бұрын
Traditionally, it's spelled "about YEA big." It's true that imperial measurements are often reasonably useful for eyeballing, but - who uses leagues anymore? And isn't 5 km/h a reasonable ballpark for walking speed? I bet if you'd grown up using the metric system, you'd eyeball stuff in metric units.
@keane4464
16 күн бұрын
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that french didn't invent feminine and masculine units?
@mchess6141
16 күн бұрын
What a glorious idea ! Merci beaucoup ! 🤩
@asheep7797
13 күн бұрын
I have an idea! kila, hecta, deca, decia, centia, millia kilite, hecete, decete, decite, cenite, milite we play limbo, switch things up, and add one. millia, deca, hecta, decia, kila, milite hecete, kilite, decete, domile, cenite, millia and then we add animate and inanimate versions (obviously without consistency). milliata, decata, hectadeux, deciata, kilata, militeta heceteta, kiliteta, deceteta, domileta, ceniteta, milliata milliano, decano, hectanom deciano, kilano, militenoni heceteno, kilitemon, deceteno, domilio, ceniteno, millan Slap on the labels now! (Inconsistently.) Female Inanimate: milliata, decata, hecadeuxtal, deciata, kilata, militeta Female Animate: heceteta, kiliteta, deceteta, domileta, ceniteta, milliata Male Animate: milliano, decano, hectanom deciano, kilano, militenoni Male Inanimate: heceteno, kilitemon, deceteno, domilio, ceniteno, millan Someone else can do plurals, I'm too tired.
@sfisabbt
12 күн бұрын
What do you mean? In french meter, kilogram, ampere and kelvin are masculine while second, candela and mole are feminine.
@munjee2
12 күн бұрын
They are gendered though
@TheVoodooMaker
12 күн бұрын
Ofc we did. Units are masculine except the (metric) ton, which is feminine.
@corster8221
14 күн бұрын
If you wanna be real, the imperial system started with a barley corn, then said 3 barley corns makes an inch
@hollyingraham3980
10 күн бұрын
No, the Imperial system started in the mid-1800s with the Imperial gallon. The Imperial system is younger than the metric, and the USA has never used the Imperial system. It was strictly in the British Empire. The USA uses a form of the traditional European systems, and before 1800, the French version was a howling mess. Their pound varied from one city to another!
@allyndeimos
9 күн бұрын
What in heck is a barley corn
@polyhedraldreams9905
9 күн бұрын
@@allyndeimos It's what defines English and American shoe sizes. It's a grain (actual plant seed length, not the unit of measurement measurement for weight smaller than an ounce that explains why so many medications are dosed in increments of 65mg).
@warny1978
8 күн бұрын
@@hollyingraham3980 That's why, during the revolution, some wanted to make a standard measurement system. It has to be repeatable (anyone could recalculate it with the same definition) and simple (anyone should use it without too much math knowledge). They choosed earth as stalion : the meter is a 10 millionth of the distance between the equator and the pole.
@AtarahDerek
7 күн бұрын
@@warny1978 Actually, a cartographer wanted to make it easier to convert miles to arc degrees. Now, a mile is supposed to be 1,000 steps. Somewhere along the way it became 1,000 strides (two steps is a stride), so the cartographer set it back to 1,000 steps. Now, the average man's step is 30-40 inches, depending on leg length and the individual's casual pace. That step defines a yard, and the standard yard is 36 inches. The cartographer added three inches to make his yard better align with his conversion system. He then called his yard a meter, making his new mile a kilometer. And, based on measurements of earth they had at the time, the poles were 10,000 kilometers from the equator. With the new "mile," it suddenly became much easier to figure out how far you traveled on a map based on your starting and ending latitude and longitude. The REAL reason America didn't adopt this cartographer's new system was because its origin and purpose were hidden from us, and Britain's entire pitch was, "You should adopt the metric system to be more like us." You can guess how well that went over. So you can stop criticizing us for not conforming to the rest of the world and instead criticize Britain for making us think the metric system was just another new and pointless means of subjecting us to the crown.
@causalitygaming5160
13 күн бұрын
Fun fact! The imperial system is almost entirely made out of convenience for construction. 12 (inches:foot) is easily divisible by 2, 3, and 4, and 3 (feet:yards) is easily multipliable for places where necessary. It required minimal math and minimal counting for maximum efficiency.
@TheKobiDror
2 күн бұрын
If it only would be consistent....
@marikothecheetah9342
13 сағат бұрын
Fun fact: in metric system EVERYTHING is divided by 10, no matter how big numbers you take. I think this trumps imperial convenience any time. :D
@HeinrichDixon
14 күн бұрын
"This" is not an inch. Three 'barleycorns' is an inch! 🍌😂
@MCMarvel616
18 күн бұрын
As a wise man once said, “Imperial measurements were made by some drunk mathematicians rolling dice.” No idea who though.
@majinjason
15 күн бұрын
It's actually a TON of old measurements taken throughout time and different countries smashed together. Acre I English. Mile is Roman. Inch I believe I read was French. I think foot I German or something. They just took really popular units from around Europe and put them together. So Italians were using a mile. And the French were using the inch. And someone said, well how many inches are in a mile? Then a few hundred years later they standardized all of them to the inch. Then a few hundred years after that they ditched them for the hot new thing from France.
@formes2388
15 күн бұрын
And they would be wrong. The principle of the old measurement (imperial / english / whateveryouwanttocallit) is one of useful aproximations for the age to which they were more commonly used. A Foot: Literally your foot - that's a foot. Gets standardized at some point, but generally speaking get a group of people in a town, and the foot would have been pretty close to the average foot size. A Yard - has to do with stride length (two strides maybe? I forget exactly). Furlong: Has to do with the land clearance capability of an average ox. Useful for dividing land between farmers, and maximizing yield of crops. A mile: Roman mile was defined as 1000 paces, the english was 8 furlongs. League: While no longer in use, was a celtic? unit defining aproximately the distance a person could walk in an hour or something akin to that. All of these measures adjusted, and altered slightly over time - but they certainly had a purpose, and were informative in their day. It's just, things of the day were less exacting, and they didn't need to be exact. Its' really only with the advent of industrialization that standardized measurements become necessary - and, the French going through a massive revolution wished to revitalize and be a powerful centre for commerce+trade, and figured that standardizing weights and measures in a means that were more precise, and less dependent on esoteric approximations would benefit France, and the world. Thus the metric system was born. But it should be noted, the metric system came to be only after calculation, and validation of certain presumptions were made, and they simply again: Did their best to achieve accurate results. What is interesting the polar circumfrance of the earth is defined by the Metric system - as north pole to equator is defined as 10 million units, or 10,000km - making the polar circumfrance 40,000km.
@bushcraftbasics2036
15 күн бұрын
I still like the idea of drunk math nerds better.
@FrogeniusW.G.
15 күн бұрын
I think they were just drunk. No mathematicians. 😂
@louisrobitaille5810
15 күн бұрын
@@majinjason Inches were French, but British inches and French inches were different length. That's why Napoleon being 5'2" is misleading. In British inches, he was about 5'7".
@pandamilkshake
16 күн бұрын
"And what about bodyweight?" "So I found a stone..."
@atsilv
12 күн бұрын
As an American, don't ask me. I'm not sure either.
@MaiZera-dl2vk
11 күн бұрын
Man I blame all of you, non of you opposed it XD, why we still use it today? I read somewhere someone made the funniest excuse on how to remember how many feet in miles, and its rhymes with tomato, bruh how is that better than 1000m to 1km XD.
@atsilv
11 күн бұрын
@@MaiZera-dl2vk Sorry, I was busy not existing in 1824
@futurestoryteller
5 күн бұрын
Sometimes I think the real answer is to bottleneck educational progress by introducing kids to confusing and dysfunctional "systems" instead of making them easier and more practical to understand. Then conveniently we're told to accept things as they are, and not to question the logic, which is then applied to greater socio-political issues. It feels very conspiratorial, but functionally I can see it operating that way.
@Redstonefox7245
12 күн бұрын
“I have a very small yard” I’VE SEEN BIGGER PlANT POTS!!!
@Gulgathydra
18 күн бұрын
I just want to see the look on Universal's face when he finds out what English did with volume measurements! 😂😂😂
@Tjalve70
18 күн бұрын
Not to mention the difference between troy pounds, which has 12 ounces, and avoirdupois pounds, which has 16 ounces. And the ounces are also not the same.
@AsuraSantosha
17 күн бұрын
I work with food data and there are SOOOO MANY food workers who are like: "Well it says 12fl oz, so it just weighs 12 oz! Duh!" And then they look at me like I'M the stupid one. 🤦♀️
@Gulgathydra
17 күн бұрын
@AsuraSantosha Well, one fluid ounce of water is pretty close to one ounce of weight (1.043, officially, although it will depend on the temperature of the water). The system breaks down once you stop talking about water, though.
@user-zw6pn3ql7y
16 күн бұрын
Don't forget gallons. US-gallons are different to GB-gallons (at least in the context of car efficiency, i.e. "miles per gallon" uses different volumes for US- and GB-gallons.)
@AsuraSantosha
16 күн бұрын
@Gulgathydra Yes! That's the origin of confusing UoMs that sound the same but are not. But whenever I have this conversation with people, we are never talking about water. Lol.
@rachelpie1621
18 күн бұрын
You should compare English vs. American units of measurements. The British use pounds, ounces, stones(????), miles, km, meters... they like all the measurements!
@Ro99
18 күн бұрын
Don’t forget pints, millilitres, litres, UK gallons and °C
@Ro99
18 күн бұрын
I can actually explain this though: - when you are a baby you are measured in pounds (lbs) and ounces (oz). When you are an adult you are weighed in stones (14lbs) and those too. Except medical where it’s done in kilos and most people know kilos unless you’re old or a bit posh. - Height is done in feet and inches but people I know all seem to know feet and inches. - Precise measurements of length are done in metric (mm, cm etc) - For shoe sizes we use both European and our own weird system - Now onto volume: for most drinks we use metric (mL, cL, L) except for beer which is in pints and milk which is normally sold in pint increments in litres (so your 1pint milk would have a 0.568L label and your 4pint milk is actually 2.272L). -More liquids (you shouldn’t drink these though) are petrol (gas in the States) and diesel. These are sold in pence per litre which is a very nice metric measurement but when you go into your car it will say miles per gallon (mpg) for efficiency. - That takes us nicely onto speed and long distances. We use mph and miles here but cars often have the km/h as smaller numbers underneath too. On the approach to a junction you will see slashes on rectangular signs (motorway is blue, green for (primary) A road and black and white for a non-primary route) there are three signs all 100 yards apart but people do tend to use metres (not to be confused with meter which is a device that measures things). - Another unit on cars is your tyre size. This is done in inches diameter for the metal wheel itself, mm for the width and a % of the width for the sidewall so cars seem to like to be mixed between the units. - On the railways they use miles and chains (80 per mile) and mph except on HS1 I think (bc of link between France and Britain) where they use km/h and trams use km/h too.
@svennoren9047
18 күн бұрын
@@Ro99 The "UK gallon" is the proper Imperial Gallon. US uses the older Queen Anne's wine gallon.
@Stephen-Fox
18 күн бұрын
And while petrol is purchased in litres, distance in the context of car journeys is measured in miles, meaning the unit for fuel efficiency that would actually make sense for how we deal with the act of driving would be... Miles to the litre... Which... Is an abomination that thankfully I've never seen anyone use. But km to the litre and miles to the gallon don't translate to distances and fuel purchases here and WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS
@arthanor9631
18 күн бұрын
Sounds like Canada.. what's worse than a terrible system? Two systems, including a terrible one...
@2_art
5 күн бұрын
bros gonna have a heart attack when he hears the abvreviation for pounds 😭
@DragonfoxShadow
11 күн бұрын
And the best part is... Inch is defined by the metric system. Inch is defined as 25.4mm
@gegessen159
16 күн бұрын
Don't forget that an inch is defined as 2.54 cm! So all imperial units are based on metric, just a quick reminder :)
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
As are all US Customary units.
@estherpettigrew3042
11 күн бұрын
Just because there is a conversion factor doesn’t mean that imperial units are based on metric. They are two separate measuring systems.
@gegessen159
11 күн бұрын
@@estherpettigrew3042 you might want to look into it a bit more. The USA defined an inch as 2.54cm in 1959, therefore it's more than a conversion factor
@sebastianwittmeier1274
9 күн бұрын
On the other hand the SI definitions frequently change, when a new better (more precise) physical measurement method is found. In daily non-scientific practice nobody goes back to the SI definitions.
@irmatroll
4 күн бұрын
@@gegessen159 nope sorry that's wrong. An inch is not 2.54 cm. By the transitive property, an inch is actually the length a photon will travel in 1/11,802,852,677.165 seconds. Seems kind of stupid and arbitrary, no?
@ideasasopiates3129
17 күн бұрын
As a pharmacist in the United States, thank goodness we use the metric system. People don’t understand for small measurements, we would be hearing the use of grains and scruples instead on milligrams.
@jonathancaballeros3408
11 күн бұрын
Wouldn't we just use thousands of an ounce? US Customary is based off of metric.
@ideasasopiates3129
10 күн бұрын
@@jonathancaballeros3408 Good question. We could use one thousand of an ounce. The problem lies with time of calculations and typing without error. In my profession, I have to calculate dosing quickly. It's easy to say 1 thousand of a gram is 1 milligram. Is there a word for one thousand of an ounce? I would have to type out .001 ounce. This would eventually lead to errors. Causing errors in dosing will eventually lead to harm and me being sued by the victim. I can tell you that you will not find a pharmacist who do frequent calculations would want to use Imperial measurement in healthcare. I hope this helps. Feel free to question me again.
@Sqwan2
5 күн бұрын
Once you get used to grain, it isn’t complicated. Just don’t mix it up with grams or even milligrams
@ideasasopiates3129
4 күн бұрын
@@Sqwan2 I agree. It’s just like how we use feet and inches. If used a few times it becomes easier. For my profession, it’s impractical. Grains is the smallest unit in the apothecary system. Because measurements are so much smaller than a milligram, we have to use micrograms. For example, an effective thyroid dose (levothyroxine 100mcg) would equal to 0.00154324 grains. If I had to use grains, it would drive me crazy.
@Sqwan2
4 күн бұрын
@@ideasasopiates3129 I am used to the metric system. It is easier most of the time. But I will get along with imperial, too. You just get confused if try to convert it. Most likely it is similar with grs and mcg. If medication would have been in grain, you would think mcg is stupid. The customer would get 0.0015 grain.
@RaidHossain-9910
11 күн бұрын
That "WHYYY?!"🤣
@panachevitz
13 күн бұрын
I have never met anyone who described how many yards are in a mile before. Ever.
@WarmongerGandhi
9 күн бұрын
Well, of course not. You're skipping a few steps: There are 5.5 yards in a rod, 4 rods in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, and 8 furlongs in a mile. :P
@panachevitz
9 күн бұрын
@@WarmongerGandhisurveyor detected. ;)
@belladonnaRoot
17 күн бұрын
English, how many ounces are in that pint of beer? "Ounces like the weight, or fluid ounces?" "Why do you have the same measurement for both volume AND weight? You know things have density that isn't that of water's". "Oh, and did you mean pint, or an imperial pint"
@Flexsan
13 күн бұрын
Also the same name for mass and weight, pounds.
@KeljuIvan
12 күн бұрын
And money. :)
@rafaelvidaldupuy119
12 күн бұрын
Or maybe a gallon, or a quart of gallon, or even an imperial gallon or a quart of imperial gallon.
@creative_carrie
12 күн бұрын
I'm English and I've never heard of Imperial pints and gallons. Is that an American thing?
@AxR558
11 күн бұрын
@@creative_carrie Imperial is the traditional British weights and measures, US Customary Units are what the US uses. Weights and lengths are identical (except Imperial includes stones), volumes are different, Imperial pint, quart and gallon are larger than the US counterpart (all by a factor of 1:1.2). The US fl oz is larger than the Imperial version but they only have 16 fl oz to a pint instead of 20.
@PalauJules
18 күн бұрын
Je suis français et ça fait longtemps que j'ai renoncé à comprendre le système de mesure anglais
@sophiesencen
18 күн бұрын
Pareil 😂 Same 😂
@maryloupetty6455
18 күн бұрын
Native born American here. I only understand it because it’s what I grew up with. I can’t imagine how confusing it is for all of you.
@LMay11037
18 күн бұрын
I’m English and use metric, Americans use imperial (though us British do use it occasionally but only for bodies and cars)
@AkiraS.A.Z
18 күн бұрын
@@LMay11037pretty much the same here in canada. Km/h, kg for store food (usually) but lbs and feet for measuring people (ounces for babies and metric at the doctor's office)
@sophietakashima2306
18 күн бұрын
Je suis totalement avec toi sur ce point
@DenethorDurrandir
2 күн бұрын
"Why." is the perfect response to an explanation of the freedom units.
@Voidmercenary
13 күн бұрын
What's funny is that King David (Scotland) made the measurement by using his foot.
@aaronking4074
18 күн бұрын
Just to note. This is the Americans. In Britain we do use the metric system. EXCEPT when measuring height (feet and inches), long distances (miles) and speed (mph). It makes no sense.
@AntjedePantje
18 күн бұрын
IT INDEED DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, yet my British boyfriend still tries to convince me that it does 😂
@zomby2d
18 күн бұрын
Canadians are similar, we use a weird mix of metric and imperial measurements.
@ericherde1
18 күн бұрын
You guys invented the stupid system that we use, so I think it’s fair to blame the entire language.
@aaronking4074
18 күн бұрын
@@AntjedePantje 😂😂
@aaronking4074
18 күн бұрын
@@ericherde1 yes, we just decided to use both. And it's confusing sometimes tbh.
@simonnading
18 күн бұрын
As a carpenter in America, I hate this every day. Worse is when some old timer tries to defend it.
@benziongoldsmith7388
18 күн бұрын
no need for defense, it's tradition.
@bryantaylor948
18 күн бұрын
they both have their place much easier to do fractions with imperial simply because it's already a fraction system
@Tschuschka_Ichwillitsch
18 күн бұрын
Having moved to Canada, the worst is that you can’t buy some stuff in metric. Like drill bits, where do I get a 5mm?! They only have 7/32 or some sht like that
@gylfie7
18 күн бұрын
@@bryantaylor948 by imperial you mean the inches feet measurements ? i don't get it at all actually. Wouldn't it be easier to do fractions with a decimal system, where everything is regularly augmented by 10 ? genuine question, i just can't wrap my head around that system
@PatriceFERLET
18 күн бұрын
And what about Fahrenheit 😜
@reedjasonf
5 күн бұрын
French said "we already screwed up counting. We better not do that again."
@finkelmana
8 күн бұрын
British people I talk to, say the Imperial system is dumb and we should use metric like everyone else. Same British people then proceed to use Imperial measurements for everything.
@laceyclarence7293
18 күн бұрын
As an Aussie I’m extremely confused. (In Aus we use weight: milligrams, grams, kilograms, distance: millimeter, centimeter, meter, kilometer)
@hermionelovegood9814
16 күн бұрын
That is because this is not really "the french system" vs "the english system" but the metric system vs the imperial system. Nearly every country uses the metric system. I think the USA, Myanmar and Liberia are the only ones who use the imperial system. And the UK uses the metric system most if the time but for some things they still use imperial.
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
The USA (and presumably Liberia) use US Customary, not Imperial.
@vizender
15 күн бұрын
@@hermionelovegood9814 Metric system was invented by France in around 1790, hence why this sketch. France then exported this system all over the world and almost everyone adopted it
@StixFerryMan
14 күн бұрын
Not always though. My grand mother still uses imperial and gets confused with metric, even my mother uses both interchangeably. And I work in a place that uses a lot of food products and some of the imported pre packaged foods, more then you would think, only are in imperial, which makes it very confusing to me when we have to collect items by weight.
@ellenh5468
14 күн бұрын
Australia is a very successful example of switching to metric. The US and UK are officially both metric but the customary units are imperial for a lot of people
@AmunDeus
18 күн бұрын
Forget Rousseau and all those other philosophers, the metric system is by far the best thing to ever come out of Enlightenment-era France.
@nicolasc2269
18 күн бұрын
Thanks to Napoleon to put it in place in the past.
@delta-7operativeAK
17 күн бұрын
Except for the fact that the earth doesn't have an exact circumference of 40,000 km.
@AmunDeus
16 күн бұрын
@@delta-7operativeAK Close enough for 18th century standards
@bentels5340
16 күн бұрын
@@delta-7operativeAK Doesn't matter. The meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
@delta-7operativeAK
16 күн бұрын
@@bentels5340 yes
@tozzasque
9 күн бұрын
French is that kinda guy that put his focus, effort and clarity in only one specific thing. The rest of his life? Utterly chaos
@Realturboterrapin
4 күн бұрын
French measurements: uses a French accent. English measurements: uses an American accent.
@quelqunderandom6143
17 күн бұрын
"What's an inch" "This is an inch" Fair enough
@Myar-Alsharif
18 күн бұрын
“And then pounds we will abbreviate as lb” 😭
@smily4
18 күн бұрын
That abbreviation actually comes from the Latin word Libra and "libra pondo" for pound weight. That is not by choice of Americans
@lyndaek99
17 күн бұрын
The Americans CHOSE to go with pounds and chose to use the Latin abbreviation for it. They didn't have to - like everyone else.
@smily4
17 күн бұрын
@@lyndaek99 The British didn't have to use the pound for their currency and use the fancy L for the "logo" (which also comes from Libra/Lira) and use the word "pound" either, but they chose to as well. I'm sure lots of countries and languages take things from Latin - they (and their culture) controlled most of Europe in their time. And then Europeans colonized America. Although we do denote both imperial and metric measurements on most items and we learn both in school.
@olivierdk2
13 күн бұрын
And they say French makes no sense.
@erikvidal9732
13 күн бұрын
@@smily4In Spanish both are called Libras tho
@williedavis9465
11 күн бұрын
Challenge, measure a kilometer without any tools. Because for a mile, count your paces, once you've reached 1000, you've reached exactly one mile. Every time.
@eviwl6576
5 күн бұрын
well no because everyone has a different feet length, and if you have big ones your mile could even be 50% longer than the one of someone with smaller feets
@williedavis9465
5 күн бұрын
@@eviwl6576 well within the tolerances of the use cases for a mile.
@alexdavidson7498
7 күн бұрын
Yards and miles aren’t things you’d typically convert between. Miles are the length they are because of surveyor equipment.
@shanazmohamed2487
18 күн бұрын
When he said OZ my immediate thought was wizard of OZ 💀
@mirayoon1992
18 күн бұрын
same here....
@reeceytaylor
18 күн бұрын
Wizard of Ounce
@donuts44830
18 күн бұрын
Funny, I though "weird choice, I would have talked about the pound which has neither l nor b and yet is abbreviated lb..."
@LittleWriterSquirrel
18 күн бұрын
Same!!🤣
@mymsoup
18 күн бұрын
Funnily enough, the Wizard of Oz is called like that because of the abbreviation (referring to ounces of gold). It's a very interesting topic, I recommend you read a bit on it ^^
@a.cuddle2514
18 күн бұрын
As an American in school to become a chemist, I genuinely forgot that in general, we don't use meters and grams 😅. It's all we use in labs, so for most of my time, I'm constantly thinking of measurements in grams and meters
@_heloangel_
18 күн бұрын
See the fact that the whole scientific world decided to use metric/kilo/°C systems tells a lot about the imperial system in my opinion 😄
@a.cuddle2514
18 күн бұрын
@@_heloangel_ As much as I agree that the imperial system isn't the greatest, the science community physically has to be standardized because of the vital information we share and how important it is for things to be exact, which is hard to get when doing conversions, and sometimes it can lead to a lot of confusion that can bring on other issues. In all honesty, though, I really couldn't care less about what system we use because I'm so bad at directions and distance perception (thanks neurodivergency) that I only base things off of how long it'll take 😂. Plus, the only measurements I ever need are for labs, so the only thing I need to really know is how height and body weight works, which I just base off of knowing my own height and the heights of the people around me, and the second someone's out of sight, I kinda forget how tall they are in comparison anyways, so oh well 🤣. As for weight, I literally only know my own and the typical range that I should be in, so it doesn't really affect me. I will say, though, I'm so used to Fahrenheit that I can't make the switch in my head to Celsius that easily. I know the temperatures I need for my labs and what to measure, but I couldn't tell ya the temperature outside. It's a whole other thing since measuring it in a small flask and knowing the temperature of that is different than being outside and feeling the temperature and just being able to tell
@a.cuddle2514
18 күн бұрын
I am so sorry, I just realized how long that was, and editing it will only make it longer 😅. TLDR: science needs to be exact and avoid confusion, so standardized measurements are a must. Also, I couldn't care less about what system we use because I'm bad with both anyways and have to look up everything because neurodivergency makes perception hard :)
@atmosfear667
18 күн бұрын
@@a.cuddle2514 "the science community physically has to be standardized because of the vital information we share and how important it is for things to be exact" Yeah, just ask NASA and Lockheed Martin about the Mars Climate Orbiter...
@a.cuddle2514
18 күн бұрын
@@atmosfear667 yeahhhhhh we've learned our lesson many times 😅
@Adriennepitzini
Күн бұрын
😂😂😂 I love the metric system❤️ "... I went outside into my back yard and I looked at it and thought how many of my feet would fit in my yard, 3, I have a very small yard." 😂😂😂😂
@ThatAnArchyDude
10 күн бұрын
He didn't even make mention of how ounces are used for volume AND weight. I wish the world would just fully accept the metric system & celsius already. I mean, why have water freeze at 32°F when 0°C makes so much more sense?
@lmrandlette
17 күн бұрын
My family emigrated from Europe where I learned metric to U.S. in the sixties. Still waiting for the upgrade to a system that makes sense….
@danielablumetti4943
17 күн бұрын
As an architect that was born in a metric country, but works for the US, I feel this revolt everyday.
@seanmurphy3430
13 күн бұрын
“Also I couldn’t think of a name for my base unit of volume, so I just reused ounce.
@kellyevans3254
6 күн бұрын
One thing that may bring some relief is that the imperial measurement system is actually around 20 different ancient measuring methods that have all been squashed into 1.
@tashnahtv6098
18 күн бұрын
The episode that tips French into the "absolutely all adorable" category and English into the "absolutely psychotic" category... regardless of all the previous French confusion. This cancels it all.
@sarahglover3286
18 күн бұрын
As a Brit I'm with French! Also fun fact Queen Elizabeth the 1st invented the length of a mile as there were multiple different ones around what is now the UK! Welsh miles and English miles weren't the same, never mind London miles!
@aaronking4074
18 күн бұрын
Yep, there were Scottish miles as well and possibly Irish I'm not sure.
@stormveil
17 күн бұрын
There were dozens of different lengths for miles all over Europe because they kept drifting and then getting re-standardised by different kings and empires over thousands of years. Since almost all of them are gone people have no idea how confusing it used to be before Metric. But for example, a modern Swedish mile is 10 Km!
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
The US mile and the Imperial mile were different until the late 1950s.
@douglaswolfen7820
11 күн бұрын
That's the most incredible "why" I've ever heard. I need to cut that audio out and save it for future use
@lisastenzel5713
8 күн бұрын
LOVE❤❤❤❤ I officially love you dude!😂 This is so so true and so good a video to show how crazy it is. And...respect for the french part😮I would have bitten my tongue like 20 times😂
@obelix2545
15 күн бұрын
Literally the whole world: metric system Uk and usa: BoORinG
@h-t.p.24
12 күн бұрын
WE switched over to metric in about 1972 we are just slow to adapt!
@fryloc359
11 күн бұрын
@@h-t.p.24we did, but it wasn't made mandatory. The US federal government is all metric, though.
@fryloc359
11 күн бұрын
We'd be on metric, too, if it wasn't for pirates.
@btf_flotsam478
7 күн бұрын
@h-t.p.24 Very slow. As an Australian, we adopted very quickly- did you keep the morons with the penal colonies?
@PaintingWinterMusic
18 күн бұрын
It could have been worse. I'm just glad we ended up with "feet" and not "earlobe" or "eyelash."
@PaintingWinterMusic
18 күн бұрын
It would've been too bad if we had to measure things by nostril-length. Also--shameless plug--I'm hoping some of you might like the music I make too :)
@svennoren9047
18 күн бұрын
You think that's bad? How about furlong and beard-second? Yes, they are (somewhat) real, check Wikipedia.
@Gulgathydra
18 күн бұрын
Let's not forget hands and rods. Or "stone" for weight. Or "hog's head" for volume.
@skchabauzinha7118
18 күн бұрын
Don't give them ideas
@brainybunny13
18 күн бұрын
It could be worse like measuring stuff by rectum, scrotum or the like. Lol 😂
@NotJRB
2 күн бұрын
Let's talk about how the French silliness with numbers. Seventy-nine is soixante-dix-neuf, that is 60-10-9. Yeah, that's not silly, not silly at all. 🤣
@lordzombieboy
6 күн бұрын
This is the personality of English that did not receive the shipment holding the metric system because it was raided by pirates
@timcrushcounter7100
18 күн бұрын
First time french is that logical
@trwn87
18 күн бұрын
Real!
@JumKrozBow
18 күн бұрын
It’s not French, it’s Europe I’m pretty sure
@timcrushcounter7100
18 күн бұрын
It is french ... (1791 for metres and 1793 for gramms)
@quentind1924
18 күн бұрын
@@JumKrozBow It’s basically everywhere outside of the Usa Edit: But French was indeed the first country to use them
@JumKrozBow
18 күн бұрын
@@timcrushcounter7100 the fact that I am French and I don’t even know that… I feel so dumb, but thank you
@racheljensen1823
18 күн бұрын
"Why"?!?! Hahahahaha Same question I have lol :)
@adamwnt
13 күн бұрын
Same question for almost all the world 😂
@Cheesesteaks4Life98
8 күн бұрын
wait till Universal Language hears about English abbreviating pounds to "lbs"
@Twillek1019_
3 күн бұрын
U could have had a joke where after he says “why” English says “no, OZ”
@MJSherwood
18 күн бұрын
French been real quiet about how they count 1-100
@oenrn
16 күн бұрын
96 = "four twenties and sixteen" The "four twenties" part is there because you have to be high to think this is reasonable.
@hermionelovegood9814
16 күн бұрын
@@oenrnI had french in school and I still remember the lesson when we learned how to count to 100😂
@ocupersgmail
15 күн бұрын
so someone with ADHD decided how to count in French 😂
@MZRandom
15 күн бұрын
96= nonante six @@oenrn
@TeknoPhil84
15 күн бұрын
@@MZRandom Romand :-)
@jordan_cagle
18 күн бұрын
As an American, this system sucks. I would rather be able to measure in things that are divisible by 10 than to have to remember 1760 or whatever it was for a mile to yards, which yards are never used, we just say so many inches or feet. With one exception, sports.
@almswell
18 күн бұрын
Sewing definitely uses yards as well.
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
I weigh 12st 11lbs.
@ashleyhamman
9 күн бұрын
Don't forget ounces of weight vs fluid ounces. Also for some reason we decided to have a mile be different from a nautical mile, the latter of which is a nice arcsecond, or 1/60th of an arcminute, which the arcminute is 1/60 of a degree. Base 60 and it's 1/5th unit base 12 are the two constants in imperial, except when they aren't.
@micromillions7845
10 күн бұрын
Correction, that is American English 😂. In the UK at least, we use very similar measurements to what the French use..
@LadyEden1337
18 күн бұрын
I had support staff who likes doing metric, and his comment about "the Imperial system" is that it's like a drunk guy rolled dice to get the numbers necessary for distance, weight, volume, etc. 😂
@sanazafzali
18 күн бұрын
One of the most important reasons why I decided not to immigrate to USA and chose Germany, even with words like Streichholzschächtelchen in thr Germab language!
@mikelytou
18 күн бұрын
There are just too many reasons to not immigrate to the US. Health care. Gun violence. Maga. The maga supreme court. Voter suppression. Hurricanes. Tornados. Paper houses. Wildfire season. Lack of privacy die to complete surveillance. Untamed Corporate greed & capitalism. Christian fundamentalism. Karenism.
@benikujaku4567
16 күн бұрын
Just for my culture‚ what does Streitchholaschächtelchen mean?
@malcolmdarke5299
16 күн бұрын
...little wooden, uh... My German isn't good enough to decipher that, but it is at least theoretically possible to understand what it means from the individual parts of it.
@hermionelovegood9814
16 күн бұрын
@@benikujaku4567 In the German language we often pur together several different words. "Streichholz" is Put together of the words "Streich" which comes from the Verb "streichen" and "Holz". It could be translated hast "rubbing wood" wich actually is a match. "Schächtelchen" comes from "Schachtel" which means box and by adding the "chen" and changing the a to an ä it becomes a small box. So a Streichholzschächtelchen is a small match box.
@sanazafzali
16 күн бұрын
@@benikujaku4567Matchbox :)
@Timeisirrelevant
2 күн бұрын
And don’t forget a pound sign is called a hash tag everywhere else. 😂
@Zivalene
12 күн бұрын
My favorite thing I ever learned in school..... I am unfortunate enough to live in the only country that refuses to conform with the rest of the world in terms of measurements, and we can't because we can't convert our entire country and everything we have built into Metric without royally fucking ourselves up and having eternal inconsistency.
@user-vr9nh3si4q
18 күн бұрын
In a parrellel universe where french finally makes sense and english is even more confusing than before😂😂😂
@bernhardwall6876
18 күн бұрын
"And then, we go up to pounds, which we abbreviate as 'lbs'." The French word for "an inch" is "une pouce". But that is also the French word for "thumb".
@Kamiyu97
17 күн бұрын
Yeah, because we also used to measure things with an imperial system of ours, which was based on our king's body part measurements... It would change with each new sovereign... And that's when we decided to stop with that bullshit and created the metric system!
@oenrn
16 күн бұрын
Because the original definition of an inch is the width of a thumb.
@ilghiz
13 күн бұрын
lbs means loads of bullshit Heard this from Trevor Noah, a standup comedian from South Africa when he started his first experience with American messurements
@heikachan8052
10 күн бұрын
how I remembered unit for weight: lbs = Lot of Bull Shit but I still don't remember it's "pound"
@snowwhitehair485
5 күн бұрын
I remember in the mid 1960's our 'Edwardian' primary school teacher telling us how much more sensible the Fahrenheit temperature scale was in comparison Centigrade because 'it had many more divisions'. 🙄
@igel9316
17 күн бұрын
America is using the metric system, just with a conversation factor, to spicy things up a bit. Look it up, they're all defined by the metric system, the inch for example is defined as 25.4 mm.
@LetsJustin
18 күн бұрын
The imperial system is literallly the reason, a multi-million Dollar NASA project crashed into the surface of Mars.
@survivordave
18 күн бұрын
I mean yes, but it's not anything inherent to the system itself, just the fact that two different systems of measure were in play.
@tommerker8063
16 күн бұрын
@@survivordave it actually is related to the imperial system itself having no coherent relation between units.
@booposreal
16 күн бұрын
@tommerker8063 no it's not ? Something was wrong bc the European measurements were used and the other person thought it was imperial. That's not the fault of the imperial system.
@jibern
16 күн бұрын
Correction, the US Customary unit system
@hermionelovegood9814
16 күн бұрын
@@booposreal The NASA is only using the metric system and they're doing that for a reason! The metric system is way more useful in science because it is really easy to convert one unit into a different one which is not the case in the imperial system.
@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
12 күн бұрын
I love when I find products that say "Net wt. 75ml e 2.5 fl. oz" … so they estimated the net weight in milliliters and fluid ounces?!
@JonBrase
Күн бұрын
"...oz" "WHY?!" I believe you can blame the Italians for that one.
@galaxielbreizh3475
18 күн бұрын
As a French living in the States, I am still confused with distances, I just know a km = 0.6 miles, but for cooking, having a cheat sheet with how many spoons equal a cup on the fridge is super helpful!
@Kamiyu97
17 күн бұрын
Tell me about it! I HATED cooking during my year in the States!
@queenofthecapes
17 күн бұрын
A lot of cooking is based on 4. 16 (4*4) Tablespoons in a cup, 4 cups in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon. Half-gallon is self-explanatory.
@galaxielbreizh3475
16 күн бұрын
@@queenofthecapes It's not precise, complicated, It's subpar. (If you make pizza dough, they will advise you to use the metric system to measure) On the other hand, Fahrenheit is a superior measurement system, much more precise than Celsius.
@jojough8283
16 күн бұрын
@@galaxielbreizh3475 Honestly glad that both temp systems exist, but it can be a little frustrating to have to convert to the one you don't know intuitively.
@Bruno.GCF05
14 күн бұрын
@@galaxielbreizh3475 What do you mean by defining "precise"? It's a stupid off-balanced scale, totally UNUSABLE in scientific means whatsoever, unless you're a maniac. Kelvin is the best measure in general, but celsius simply removes 273 degrees in order to make things simply understandable (0 for water freezing point at normal circumstances, and 100 for boiling). Celsius can also be fractioned however you like, keeping it's precision thoroughly, therefore, usable in both scientific and daily means.
@rndargis0
18 күн бұрын
Fun fact : for easy French to American length conversion you can directly convert 1 Metre into 1 M16a4 rifle.
@teally-bop
15 күн бұрын
Ohhhh
@XakoWako
14 күн бұрын
now that's a real freedom unit
@MariannaXrss
4 күн бұрын
OH MY GOSH I WATCHED WADE AND GAB PLAY THIS YESTERDAY BECAUSE I THOUGHT MARK WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO! I'M SO GLAD HE DID! I hope he does another video. Can't wait for him to realize he can call the apartments as well
@Retrogradez90
4 күн бұрын
The classic saying. Give them an inch, they'll take 1,760 yards
@jimmyandersson9604
18 күн бұрын
Nice when the French is the most logical one😅
@annanymous03
16 күн бұрын
And then you have the English starting to literally throw stones into the discussion 😂
@hypsyzygy506
16 күн бұрын
And the hundredweight (cwt), which is obviously a hundred weights. Imperial: 1 lb = 16 oz 1 stone = 14 lb 1 cwt = 8 stone = 112 lbs 1 ton = 20 cwt = 2240 lbs US Customary: 1 lb = 16 oz 1 cwt = 100 lbs 1 ton = 20 cwt = 2000 lbs
@gamebugz-blockstrike842
4 күн бұрын
bro doesn't have a small yard, he has a massive foot💀
@arslybra
13 күн бұрын
My struggle. inch, foot, yard, mile, ounches, absolutely i also say "WHY?!"
@lillithdv8
18 күн бұрын
man is gonna cry when Lbs spells POUNDS [ps it's Latin for Libra]
@carultch
16 күн бұрын
And the kind of pounds we use, are a French unit. The Avoidupois pound.
@smokerjoe5231
18 күн бұрын
And Americans use football fields, olympic pools and empire state buildings as measurement units
@rdoursenaud
17 күн бұрын
And don't forget boulders. Especially the "large boulder the size of small boulder". If you haven't heard of it, look it up, it's worth the laugh.
@blub5117
17 күн бұрын
That's normal you can do it in metric too. In germany we use cars, football fields, parking lot and Saarland (our smallest state) for area. No one has a clue how big a Saarland is but for some reason we seem to need a unit for exactly 2569km².😂
@ScottTrolls
13 күн бұрын
at least the Olympic pool is a metric unit
@ClonedGamer001
7 күн бұрын
Reminder that miles come from an entirely different measurement system than feet and yards which is why the number of yards in a mile is such a seemingly random number
@Grisha...
13 күн бұрын
I want to live to the day when there will be an international law for publishing any measurements, forbidding using imperial or any other kind of non-SI units. Imagine if every country starts using their own measurements (and believe me most of the countries have such) in public. Everyone will just laugh and turn to the SI anyway. It's just that we live in a time when the USA is still "the cool kid in class".
@Paradox806
17 күн бұрын
As non-french speaker i use French measurements Nanometer , Micrometer , millimeter , centimeter , meter , kilometer & same for grams
@roma540
15 күн бұрын
Pretty much the whole world does. It's historical variant between British Empire and France way back in a day.
@SquishEESpark
14 күн бұрын
It’s called metric, most of the world uses it.
@__Mist__
13 күн бұрын
It isn't french, it is universal measurement system, every body uses it except for USA and England
@hoangminhnguyen435
12 күн бұрын
@@__Mist__ 1s of google search would give you the answer of who invented the metric system: the Frenchs
@__Mist__
12 күн бұрын
@@hoangminhnguyen435I know that, I'm french, I just meant it was not used only by French
@Grimtass
18 күн бұрын
- WHY!? Exactly my thoughts.
@dinoeebastian
11 күн бұрын
I still hate that the meter isn't exactly 1/40,000,000th of the Earth's circumference
@Lynwood_Jackson
12 күн бұрын
Fun fact: the reason we abbreviate pounds to lbs is that it's short for Libras because the symbol for Libra is a scale.
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