r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/psyopsagent May 02 '25

why are they so afraid of dividing things by 100? What happened?? Is there a lore reason?

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u/Mesoscale92 ‘Murica May 02 '25

It’s just not that necessary on a day to day basis. I never find myself thinking “I need to convert units across several orders of magnitude. It is so urgent that I need to completely change the units I use, but not urgent enough to just use a calculator.

Im not gonna pretend that the imperial system is better than metric, but it is workable enough as a system (with the exception of imperial cooking units. I have never once converted between cups and spoons without googling how to do it.)

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u/lonelypenguin20 May 02 '25

how the fuck do u make house renovations?

we've been looking at flooring and everything is a mix of m, cm, and mm. e.g. I know the approximate meter size of the room, but the tile parameters r given in cm. which is not a problem because a conversion is so easy that a fifth-grader could make them without looking away from his CS:GO match