Adopting a new system is never easy when the current one has been used for so long.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

3/196 sounds like something out of the imperial measurement system. I bet it would have been called something weird, like a //rail//. It would have been used as a small unit of length. 36 of these would have been equal to an inch. "Three rails of vulcanised rope!" one would say. "I have a quill needing the repairs!" "That is two pounds twenty-three," replies the shopkeeper. And they will both go on their merry way.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't forget it's the same amount of courses the Queen has at her daily meals.Or some shit like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ummm it says 3/196 because there are 3 countries that use it, out if 196 counties in the world...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that the number looks like it would be a common number in the Imperial system. They use weird numbers.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I live in America so of course I've grown up using the imperial system but each year we are taught at least some about the metric system & in chemistry we do conversions with it so I can at least do basic math using the metric. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, most scientists prefer to use the metric system because it easier to write report and understand other countries reports easier :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I live in the United States and I use both. Which one I use depends on what I'm talking about. Metric: Length, Distance (due to this, speed as well), Volume. Imperial: Temperature, Weight/Mass

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's annoying that I have to waste time in school learning to convert metric into imperial because Americans refuse to stop using King Henry's foot as a unit of measurement.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Telling someone's height in feet and inches, or construction workers measuring cut sizes in inches....over here, it's as much ingrained into our culture as using a toilet. We will never, ever, ever, start saying things like "I'm 1.6 meters tall," or, "I weight 87 kilograms." We're comfortable with our system and we love it.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

But I agree that it's retarded that your curriculum thinks YOU need to learn the Imperial measurement system, just because Americans use it. We wouldn't care if it was necessary to translate numbers with Germans. We love Germans. Almost as much as we love measuring dick size in inches.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It's a habit we can't shake. Here in Canada we switched decades ago, but c'mon. Pounds, feet, inches....measuring the human body in centimeters and kiliograms is just not heard of. It's weird. The important thing is that our scientists use the metric system, which improves their productivity. Do Germans measure their dick size in centimeters?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I'm working on my degree, online, from a cheap house in a rural village. I wish pal, I wish.

by Anonymous 10 years ago