I do find cooking easier in grams. Just put the bowl on the scale and add ingredients until it hits the number. No measuring cups to wash. But it would life changing if woodworking switched to metric. Doing any sort of exact math is annoying as hell. What is 12’7” divided by 4? How many 1/8” is 0.55 inches?? It is my own personal hell.

I was born in the US and have switched by myself. My brother thought I was weird until one day we went to the hardware store.

I needed to buy a 15/64 in drill bit, but they didn't have it. So then we thought, fine, maybe we can use the next closest size...

...

Except WTF is the next size up or down from 15/64??!!! Neither of us could figure it out. Internet wasn't great. Sales people didn't know. We left because we weren't sure what to buy.

In metric, it's trivial. 5mm drill bit, 4mm is smaller, 6mm is bigger.

After this, he stopped thinking I was a weirdo for using metric measurements. But he still uses imperial because murica.

Also, interesting, I learned that he thinks imperial units were invented by the US. I told him they were British units and I stopped caring about British units in 1776, but he didn't seem to believe me.

We went from posting Twitter screenshots as memes to posting reddit screenshots as memes

It's so nice the US and Liberia are the only two countries to share both Ebola AND the imperial system. They're buddy buddy.

And Celsius? And 24 hour time?

Mfs don't realize we already fuckin use metric for all kinds of shit.

When I was 6 in 1980, they told us we would be switching in a year or two.

It’s so nice to measure fluid in milliliters and grams, it all works so well.

tespoons? That's what tsp means?

Yeah what'd you think it meant, Eugene?

...ten square pounds?

Calzone explodes

Jazz music intensifies

Please, baking is such a pain in the ass because measurements are never consistent

I personally fucking hate ounces. Recipes could mean volume or weight.

5ml vs 15ml.

The A* paper standard and the metric system. A Pythagorean can dream.

Boost screenshot, a fine vintage.

I dunno about tables, but I've been known to munch carpet

Super selfish reason but as an architect in the US, I deal with nice round imperial numbers all day. Door frames, typically 2”. Standard commercial door, 3’x7’. All the codes are based around imperial too. ADA door width, 3’. Masonry Dimension, every 8 inches. At this point, it would be hard to remember that ADA turning radius is 1525 mm (not the easy 5’…. And yes, I know that’s changing to 67” soon). There are literally hundreds of dimensions I would have to relearn. I suppose it’s probably for the best to switch over and rip that bandaid off, but damn, it would be a headache and take me much longer to review drawings in metric (in the short term).

There is no spoon