What is your preferred system of measurement?

[Acronius]

Metric all the way.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Metric.

[Sebastianbourg]

I guess that's it. I've never been able to get any other form of measurement.

That's because you've never been taught any other form of measurement, and never gone out of your way to learn on your own.

It isn't very difficult. One could easily learn the main units of length and volume in under thirty minutes.

[Bunkeranlage]

Metric, by a long shot.

After all, which is easier?

1. Water boils at 100 degrees and freezes at 0 degrees.
2. Water boils at 212 degrees and freezes at 32.

I know that there was a rationale behind the Fahrenheit scale (i.e. to allow people to avoid negative temperatures), but if you ask me, it's actually easier to go into negative than to use Fahrenheit. This coming from someone who spent a year in America.

[Lydenburg]

I'm currently employed in survey, so I have the unique (and unenviable) experience of having to deal with both metric and a backwards traditional system on a daily basis. This is one of those things that makes me just wish we'd converted to metric a lot sooner. There are farms that haven't been surveyed in nearly a century that are still measured by the morgen. And because people from generation to generation are lazy, most of the tax maps in certain areas continue to reflect it.

Occasionally I have to do the tax office's job for them and spend a day on conversions before we can even start the field work. Our instruments don't recognise eighteenth century Dutchares.

[-The West Coast-]

I guess that's it. I've never been able to get any other form of measurement.

That's because you've never been taught any other form of measurement, and never gone out of your way to learn on your own.

Why would I go out of my way to learn a measurement my country doesn't use?

I guess that's it. I've never been able to get any other form of measurement.

So you couldn't understand there are 1,000 metres in a kilometre?

I get that much about the metric system, but that's where it ends.

[Conscentia]

I use all of them, though I think we should convert to metric for efficiency.

\I also prefer metric, but we would have to replace all of the street signs, our rulers and yard sticks would then be wrong, people would have to be retaught, it would be a confusing mess, not to mention expensive as crap. Maybe over a period of years, but not all at once.

Perhaps if you had not waited so long?

It'd take decades. The UK began converting decades ago, and still hasn't finished entirely.

[Bunkeranlage]

That's because you've never been taught any other form of measurement, and never gone out of your way to learn on your own.

Why would I go out of my way to learn a measurement my country doesn't use?

Because globalisation is inevitable, and the rest of the world uses metric.

[Lydenburg]

\I also prefer metric, but we would have to replace all of the street signs, our rulers and yard sticks would then be wrong, people would have to be retaught, it would be a confusing mess, not to mention expensive as crap. Maybe over a period of years, but not all at once.

Perhaps if you had not waited so long?

It'd take decades. The UK began converting decades ago, and still hasn't finished entirely.

Quite so. RSA didn't start until the 1970s, and as I've said we still have to be familiar with both metric and morgen on a daily basis.

[Conscentia]

So you couldn't understand there are 1,000 metres in a kilometre?

I get that much about the metric system, but that's where it ends.

What else is there to get?

[Solaray]

Some weird combination of the three.

That's Canada for ya.

[-The West Coast-]

I get that much about the metric system, but that's where it ends.

What else is there to get?

Everything else. Its unnecessary to learn a system I'll never use, because even if globalization changes the system in the USA, I'll still use inches, feet, yards, and miles.

Why would I go out of my way to learn a measurement my country doesn't use?

Because globalisation is inevitable, and the rest of the world uses metric.

Luckily I don't belong to the rest of the world, then.

[Bunkeranlage]

Because globalisation is inevitable, and the rest of the world uses metric.

Luckily I don't belong to the rest of the world, then.

Good luck trying to cut yourself off of the rest of the world then. Especially with China's growing economy, you're gonna need it.

To quote Socrates, "I am not a citizen of Athens or Greece, but of the world".

[Imyoji]

Because globalisation is inevitable, and the rest of the world uses metric.

Luckily I don't belong to the rest of the world, then.

You live on this planet. Don't fucking like? Then good bye.

[-The West Coast-]

Luckily I don't belong to the rest of the world, then.

Good luck trying to cut yourself off of the rest of the world then. Especially with China's growing economy, you're gonna need it.

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

[Bunkeranlage]

Good luck trying to cut yourself off of the rest of the world then. Especially with China's growing economy, you're gonna need it.

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

As I said, cosmopolitanism and globalisation is inevitable. Even many American scientists use metric.

So unless you want to put yourself at odds with the rest of the world, then… yeah.

[Imyoji]

Good luck trying to cut yourself off of the rest of the world then. Especially with China's growing economy, you're gonna need it.

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

You still live on this planet. Unless you are already in some other realm.

[Lydenburg]

Good luck trying to cut yourself off of the rest of the world then. Especially with China's growing economy, you're gonna need it.

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

How old are you?

Most Yanks of matric age I've met had to learn both metric and American in high school.

[-The West Coast-]

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

You still live on this planet. Unless you are already in some other realm.

I'm a citizen of the United States, not a citizen of Earth.

[Bunkeranlage]

You still live on this planet. Unless you are already in some other realm.

I'm a citizen of the United States, not a citizen of Earth.

Are you kidding me?

If you live on Earth, you are a citizen of Earth, just as you are a citizen of the United States. Unless, of course, the United States is on Alderaan.

[Conscentia]

What else is there to get?

Everything else. Its unnecessary to learn a system I'll never use, because even if globalization changes the system in the USA, I'll still use inches, feet, yards, and miles.

What do you mean "everything else"?
All the units in SI are derived of 7 base units. You probably won't need to know the Candela, and most people substitute Kelvin for Celsius. So basically, 6 units to learn.
All the other units are derivatives there-of, and are self-explanatory (m^3 as a unit of volume is self-explanatory, is it not?) unless they're given in their named form - the named ones are generally already used by generally Americans already anyway, so it doesn't matter (Newton, Volt - you're familiar with those, right?).

Even if the US did switch over, you wouldn't go with it? That's just being stubborn.

US customary units are defined based on SI units, by the way.

Because globalisation is inevitable, and the rest of the world uses metric.

Luckily I don't belong to the rest of the world, then.

Sure you do. The USA is dependent on our money and resources. We bought you - you're ours now.

[Lakimina]

I prefer the right system of measurement.
Or just traditional Metric

[Imyoji]

You still live on this planet. Unless you are already in some other realm.

I'm a citizen of the United States, not a citizen of Earth.

You live in the United States and are a citizen of said nation, which is in fact on Earth. In other words, you are a resident of this planet.

[-The West Coast-]

I'm a citizen of the United States, not a citizen of Earth.

Are you kidding me?

If you live on Earth, you are a citizen of Earth, just as you are a citizen of the United States. Unless, of course, the United States is on Alderaan.

Earth is a planet, not a country. I'm not a citizen of it, I'm a member of the species homo sapiens sapiens and a citizen of the United States that inhabits the planet Earth. Earth has no world order that binds me to any laws or boundaries.

I'm doing pretty good here in the United States!

How old are you?

Most Yanks of matric age I've met had to learn both metric and American in high school.

I'm 26. I never learned metric in high school because I never took classes that used the metric system. And I'm not a Yank, I was born in the Western USA, Yankees are from New England.

[Bunkeranlage]

Are you kidding me?

If you live on Earth, you are a citizen of Earth, just as you are a citizen of the United States. Unless, of course, the United States is on Alderaan.

Earth is a planet, not a country. I'm not a citizen of it, I'm a member of the species homo sapiens sapiens and a citizen of the United States that inhabits the planet Earth. Earth has no world order that binds me to any laws or boundaries.

You're misinterpreting the statement "I am a citizen… of the world."

It's not saying that Earth is a government, but that it is globalised. And when it is globalised, the need to use an internationally recognised system comes along with it.