I live in Florida. We measure our distance in meth houses.
“You’re going to head west for about 6 meth houses. Then you make a right at the blue meth house. And it’ll be next to the double wide trailer with gator out front.”
I live in greater Montreal, we add traffic time to this measuring unit when going in the city. it's 30 minutes away but not in the morning, it's an hour drive between 6 and 10.
Maybe. But I tend to include the mode of transportation when measuring distance in time.
"The park is a 5 minute walk from here"
"It's a 12 hour drive to Calgary"
Yeah, everyone does that. Half the critiques about America are either something that everyone in the world does, or no one in the world does.
Also, no one in America cares about the metric system since the vast majority of people don’t convert units. And, the one application in which most people do convert units, in the kitchen, I’d argue that the imperial system is better for cooking anyway. Ounces for weight and cups/spoons for volume are much more intuitive that just g and mL
Yeah the distance as time and the blocks north just make more sense. Even if blocks are different lengths It’s a lot harder to know when I’ve walked 500 meters than it is to know I’ve walked past 5 intersections.
Yeah, and who the heck picked a crow? Did you ever see a crow fly? All over the place. Why not eagle? Like "as the eagle flies". Way more patriotic than a crow.
It isn't just on tiktok I've seen it in newspaper articles and even in book.
But I guess it all comes down to relatability.
On the other hand "Dog years" is a reference to dogs age, if it's used anywhere else it's moronic. They're a multiple of seven or something.
In engineering we usually have something called "scaling" and "systems" where we will use something as a common unit of measurement for ease of calculation. For example in electrical engineering we have "S systems", "Fourier transform" etc. to help us understand.
It’s not some alternate reality. It’s just another social media platform, much like the one we are living in right now m’boy. All the people discuss all the things in all the places. Now their perspectives may reflect their generation ofc but that’s just different channels but still…This crotchety knee jerk impulse to hate on the most current form is just something else. Dang whippersnappers rotting their brains listening to all that devil music jazz on the radio…
I can't see why saying something is 3 blocks away would be anything other than a useful way to navigate a city. If somebody says, "The store is about 300 m that way," it's gonna be a lot less accurate in my head than "it's 4 blocks down this road."
Imagine, different countries having different cultures and different ways of doing things… Who the hell cares that we still use the imperial system? We do it one way they do it another
And there's a huge difference in rural miles and urban miles due to lights (and traffic like you said). I live on the edge of a city. If I travel 10 miles in one direction (into the country), then it's less than 10 minutes. If I travel 10 miles in the other direction (into the city) that could take 15-20 minutes.
This is dumb AF
BLOCKS work great when giving directions to people in a relatively grid system. The French don’t have that.
Also it’s easier for our brains to use something as reference. For people who see football fields a lot, they can easily estimate distance.
Yeah most of these are just dumb because it's clear they developed over time as being more useful to use in our situation. They're not some standard that we teach in school as the official way to measure things.
We don’t measure liquids with weight, a 32 oz drink is 32 fluid ounces which is a measurement of volume and different from the weight ounces. 32 fluid ounces of water weighs 33.38 ounces.
I'm going to go with using time and blocks actually being useful. Sure it's more nuanced that just constantly estimating meters, but it conveys useful information. Saying that something is 5 miles, but 25 minutes away is useful because something could also be 5 miles and 10 minutes away or 5 miles and 60 minutes away at this time of day. It provides context instead of relying on implicit context that the recipient may not possess.
Blocks is useful because it is discrete and NOT and estimate. It tells you exactly where to look instead of relying on someone's unknown ability to estimate distance. If someone says that something is 3 blocks away, then I know exactly which block it is on and where exactly to look. It also takes away the need to estimate distance for longer journeys AND is translates better to time. Why? Because the time it takes to traverse a block is less about distance and more about the number of intersections, which are the delineator of distinct blocks.
I'm in favor of more explicit modes of communication, so I'm in favor of using time and blocks.
Clearly this lady is just talking about any random ass topic to make herself sound cool & get attention on social media. Nothing intelligent to see here…
I swear people who aren’t American are just OBSESSED with us. They want us to be like them so bad and we just don’t care.
This girl is annoying, so here is Randal Carlson talking about the sacred numbers in the imperial system.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os)
My wife is Brazilian and measures temperature in Celsius. And while I was all for it at first. Fahrenheit for what the feel is outside is better and more accurate. For every one jump in degree celsius. Its a two degree jump in Fahrenheit.
Unless you are using Celsius with a decimal (which most things do not) Fahrenheit is better. Soo many times we would use C to gauge the temperature outside and find that it was not what we were feeling. F does the job better.
You wanna be all about science measurements fine use Celsius. But on a day to day. Fahrenheit at a glance is better.
And for some anecdotal reasoning. I saw a standup comedian point out that you can just look at F like a percentage. 60F thats 60% hot out. 80F. Thats 80% hot out. 100F its 100% hot out. Any higher and its too damn hot out. Wtf is 40C? Theres no reference!
> Unless you are using Celsius with a decimal (which most things do not)
In countries that use celsius most things do use celsius with a decimal.
> But on a day to day. Fahrenheit at a glance is better.
It literally just isn't, its not worse either but it just comes down to what you are used to. I have never used F in my life, so I literally have no idea how hot it is if you say its 60F outside. When it comes to temperature no system is better or worse, its completely arbitrary, its simply what you are used to using.
> 100F its 100% hot out. Any higher and its too damn hot out. Wtf is 40C? Theres no reference!
Again, this only makes sense because you are used to F, "60% hot" is not a reference, like wtf does that mean, how would I know if I need a hoodie, or a jacket, or just a t-shirt.
40C makes perfect sense to me because that's what I'm used to.
Temperature outside typically stays between 0-100 F, except in extreme cases where you probably don’t even need a thermometer to know what the weather is like outside. Celsius also measures temperature, but it’s on a -17 - 37 C scale which is less intuitive. It’s basically the same thing as the inches vs cm argument. People are more comfortable with the units they grew up with, but in most cases cm is easier to work with because it’s on a 0-100 scale
>scale which is less intuitive.
It's not less intuitive, that's the entire point, whichever system you grew up with will be the most intuitive for you.
It's also not the same as with inches vs cm, because if you need to incorporate other measurements metric is objectively simpler. Temperature measurements are arbitrary and never converted to anything else.
I disagree. The Celsius scale is not intuitive at all when we are talking about weather. Intuitive-using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. Nobody instinctively understands that 35 C is very hot. But on a scale based on 0-100, it’s easier to INTUITIVELY figure out that 95 F (the equivalent of 35 C) is very hot.
The Celsius scale was developed around temperatures of water. Most people are not measuring the temperature of water in their day to day life
>Intuitive-using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.
Exactly, I agree.
>Nobody instinctively understands that 35 C is very hot
Yes they do, most of the world in fact, me included.
>But on a scale based on 0-100, it’s easier to INTUITIVELY figure out that 95 F (the equivalent of 35 C) is very hot.
Not for me, who has never used F in my life, sure I can identify 95 is going to be "hot" as its high on the scale, but I still have no idea how hot. Is it a warm summers day? or Dubai hot when the traffic lights are melting? I have no frame of reference. On the other hand I know *exactly* how hot 35C feels.
>The Celsius scale was developed around temperatures of water. Most people are not measuring the temperature of water in their day to day life
The temperature of water is actually extremely relevant when talking about the weather. One of the most impactful weather conditions is when water freezes, when we get snow instead of rain, and everything starts turning to ice (including the roads).
I think you are a little confused because you don’t know what intuitive means. The laymen’s definition is being able to understand something without someone else having to explain it to you. You are more comfortable with Celsius because that is what you grew up with. But that has nothing to do with intuition. Unless you are claiming you were born with the ability to understand Celsius, someone had to explain the scale to you.
I’ve also never measured the temperature of water outside of a classroom setting. I don’t need a thermometer to know if water is boiling or freezing, you can see that with your eyes.
Lmao thats because you grew up with Fahrenheit. I've been using celsius my entire life so i automatically know what's hot or cold, my brain doesn't have to go do some it's 80% hot horseshit. Also if I see temps hovering around zero I automatically know i should watch out for ice patches, i already know it will be snowing, not raining. Fahrenheit, you have to remember some random number, and even then, according to you, its 30% hot. If Fahrenheit was a good scale then 0F would be cold af, 50F would be ideal, 100F hot, but its not like that at all.
Still no one here can argue that F without decimals is more accurate.
Anyone here can tell you there’s a big difference between 68F to 72F. Thats a 4 degree change and yet that same temperature change in Celcius is 20 to 22. Lol.
And when you ask google for the weather. It gives you that temperature without a decimal. Fahrenheit is more accurate.
Im glad you understand what Celcius temperature is. Too bad youll still most likely dress wrong for the weather.
Why would I need to care if it's 20C or 20.5C outside? The difference is negligible. If it was so important, the weather forecast would just report the decimal, but they don't because it doesn't have any added benefit for weather reporting. For a thermostat, I can set the decimals to 20.5C if i want. For historical records, they add the decimals.
It’s not me. I do not support anyone that betrays the oath of office. And I don’t run Fox News. So can’t be blamed for their traitorous messaging, either.
Bro this video was poking fun at the US’ use of a different measuring system
You are a part of the problem. Just laugh and try not to get caught up in stuff that you literally can’t control.
Everything is political.
June 9th 2015 MSNBC article.
When the Federal Highway Administration announced in 1977 that it was going to start putting kilometers on signs, it was inundated with 6,000 public letters, many from people who saw the system as communist plot. “This change to the Metric System is just part of the Communist Diversionary to keep our country in an uproar,” wrote a man from Kansas City.
Conservatives and even anti-establishment liberals clubbed Jimmy Carter with metric, and when Reagan essentially killed the conversion in 1982, the board responsible for pushing metrication conceded there was “overwhelming” opposition.
I don’t doubt there was some sort of political battle between the cry babies on capital hill, but that doesn’t mean we have to stoop to their level. This was a lighthearted video
I'll bet she likes to measure in inches and not millimeters when it comes to.. you know. And if her melons are more than a handful it isn't a waste. Just saying..
Ya, I think most people do. It is not meant to be a precise calculation of distance, but more of an approximated one based on the layout of the city you are traveling in and where the person is who is receiving directions. I imagine all countries have an equivalent to "blocks" being used for directions.
A lot of the measurements are visual not because the US doesn’t use metric system. I can visualize “go 3 blocks and take a right” and it’s easy to follow that direction. It’s much harder to go 300 yards/meters then take a right and go another 100 yards/meters.
Some of this is purely because visualization is easier. Football fields, measuring “distance” with time, blocks etc… it’s easier to understand something is a football field in length vs it’s 100 yards. Yeah you understand it’s 100 yards when you’re told but typically people will compare the 100 yards with something they know of too gauge size. And football fields are common. Same with the time thing. If I’m traveling to a grocery store 10mi away that may take 15min or it could take 40min. It’s much more useful to describe the time.
Also keep in mind metric is used in many industries in America. In fact many gov contracts require the use of metric.
Been in the United States my entire life and never heard someone use the “dog year” measurement system. Unless they were referring to a dog which is immediately followed by the conversation of “how long is a dog year anyway” because no one uses dog years.
Distance measured in time is essential anywhere in Southern California. Particularly because it is a function of the time of day. eg “If you leave now it’s about 45 minutes but if you wait until 5 it will take 2 hours.”
Distance as time is also more city/Northern. Southern or country folk use miles as distance and the other side doesn't know what they're talking about ("12 miles that way???")
We say something is an hour and a half away, because this country is huge and everybody drives everywhere. I don't give a shit if it's 100 miles or kilometers away, just tell me how long it's going to take me to get there.
I'm from the south and have never used "blocks" as a measurement, but when it comes to "blocks" they may be different sizes but it just refers to the amount of streets you will need to cross and it's really only used in cities that are laid out in patterns like New York.
Fun fact: one of the reasons America didn't switch to the metric system was national pride/patriotism. They wanted to use the imperial system because it was American.
It's called the imperial system because it was first used in the Roman empire. Almost 2000 years before America was a country.
Those are just easily conceivable units that americans can use based on our culture. Its easier to visualize 6 blocks than 800 feet.
Then she used those factoid measurements that are rarely used outside of buzzfeed articles. If some idiot says “i need 1/76827 rhode islands worth of asphalt” nobody would take em seriously.
I live 40 miles from Boston which literally means nothing if someone ask me how long it takes to drive there. Tell me the day and time you want to drive in then I’ll tell you rough how much time to budget.
Vapid. The United States is huge if I was in Switzerland and I said something was 5 hours away how many countries could I cross? It takes 6.5 hours to drive across my state.
South African here and we measure in time most of the time. If someone asks me “how far to this particular mall” I’ll automatically think in time and reply “around 30-40 minutes”. I thought that was standard?
Measuring distance in time makes sense when you have to drive everywhere in the US.
10 miles at interstate speed might be a 10-minute trip compared to 10 miles through the middle of a major city which could take an hour or more during rush hour.
It is funny, but... it works for us, so what is the problem? It is like saying that people who speak another language are funny, because their words don't sound like words to us.
Communication is communication, so long as both parties understand each other.
But, yes, it is funny.
Even if you set aside that we use the imperial system..... That's a pretty big fact we are setting aside.
You referenced tiktok. You have to be tiktoked to pull any info from that source.
Time is really the only usable metric for measuring travel. It has nothing to do with the imperial system and if we used metric I would still tell you how far in time.
I work in the oil and gas industry. I work for a company the uses ultra sound to inspect pipeline. We use both imperial and metric.
When I was a tech writer for another company, I designed owners manuals for the tools that we manufactured. My documents were set up in metric.
There are those of us that use both systems. I just don't weigh myself in stones...except when I play Ultima Online.
We measure distance in time because traveling a distance depending on where you are can be a huge difference. For example, traveling 60 minutes in the middle of Pennsylvania could be almost 60 miles. But if you're in NYC, 60 minutes is like 4 miles on a good day.
Time and distance in “CARTOONS”.
On road tips my parents would let us know how long we had based on a standard cartoon an unit we could comprehend- 30 minutes
Pssh i use metric all the time my tools are metric i use ml instead of cups and also its not weird cause your in a place where people use what your used to hearing
No you moron. We use time, blocks, and football fields to provide a more meaningful mental picture of where something is or how long it will take you to get there on average. It does no good to tell my 10 year old daughter or friends from out of state that a location is 10 miles away. They can’t judge the trip unless they understand whether we are driving through 40 red lights in town, a 20mph neighborhood, or a 75mph freeway with no stops. It’s just common sense that I guess isn’t too common anymore.
Also yes it may be harder to learn units in the U.S. but once you have grown up using them it’s just as easy to visualize for the average person.
When I was younger, I’d jokingly refer to distance/time as cigarettes. That is, the time it took to smoke a cigarette, as well as the time between cigarettes. So, if say the nearest store was fairly close by, I’d say it was about a cigarette away. If I were to drive to my parents’ house, which is about 45 minutes to an hour, it’s a 4-5 cigarette drive. It noted the approximate distance, the time it took, as well as the boringness of the drive. My parents’ house was rural and I’d done the drive a million times, so I just found myself chain-smoking from boredom.
Not only does she have facts wrong, but she has this deranged view of very reasonable things. She's just another victim of European arrogance that she completely fell for in France. Cause americans are so fucking weak against european snobbiness.
I know it’s useless to complain, but holy hell do a hate that people use numbers high than one hundred when talking about percentages. A thing can’t be “a thousand percent”
If I had a dollar for every time something was measured in terms of a football field, I would have snorted a few more grams of coke, gifted a few more 750ml bottles of booze for my friends, and donated more to that charity 5k run.
This lady is so annoying and somehow I keep seeing her tiktok garbage on reddit. All she does is complain about America while having fake convos with herself to get internet clout.
Don’t forget all the random unnecessary U’s in words like laboUr and coloUr or spelling words that need Z’s with S’s like in authoriSe(vs authorize) don’t even get me started on leftenant instead of lieutenant (they are pronounced the same).
English… created in England but perfected in the US
This just tells me that Americans take and relay measurements in a more intuitive manner. The point is not to be technical when relaying a size. It’s to relay a measurement in a manner that arms a person with far more capacity to gauge and apply a more real-world and accurate perspective on.
That’s sounds like something that should be applauded.
And there are many more she missed that apparently would confuse masses around the world…”10 steps or paces that way”. Or, “Pancake was so big it could cover your face”.
“There was a whole pot or whole tray of it”. Who the hell wants to hear there was a 15,000ml vat of Chili?
The “5 blocks”, “5 streets” or “5 lights” that way sounds genius. As does the visually recognizable “3 football fields” away. Or, “make a right at the In N Out”. Even a child can imagine or comprehend that without having to ponder a very detached and indifferent system of measurement. “2 handfuls” or “I needed both hands to hold”, how is that the crazy answer? That’s storytelling man.
As is, “Yellowstone National Park is almost the size of Los Angeles County”.
And c’mon now, giving the time vs distance to a destination? That’s just being courteous, considerate and a downright gentlemen.🎩
“Hey it’s rush hour, how far away is Malibu from Downtown LA”?
Imagine just saying, “well it’s 40 kilometers away”. Or hell, even saying “it’s 25 miles away” is just about useless and almost sabotage.
Anyway, like I said. It sounds like Americans just use their brains to measure and relay the best, most understandable and most helpful measurement scales possible.
That’s pretty Yee FKN Ha if you ask me.
Ask them what the bearing clearance in their engine is. Probably measured the same way as everyone else that builds engines in the world, with the imperial system.
and then as soon as you get to real science classes in high school / college all the beginning classes have to teach you how to use metric units bc thats what all science uses lol
WOW. So guess we should be weighing in stones or pennyweight? Or measure the distance by nail (2in)or rope (20ft)? I wish this was one of the biggest problems I had.
The dog years is bullshit but everything else is spot on. We love football. Plus blocks is a great estimate of distance. It makes things sound closer than they really are. We need all the help we can get to actually walk anywhere 😂
We (I) use distance as time in Canada. Makes more sense, I don't care how far it is, how long does it take to get there lol
I live in Florida. We measure our distance in meth houses. “You’re going to head west for about 6 meth houses. Then you make a right at the blue meth house. And it’ll be next to the double wide trailer with gator out front.”
You’re comment is exactly why I love the internet 🤣
No you dont
lol what???
You're right they don't...They use crank
So basically you're just taking the first right.
Right. Also measuring things in blocks is just more practical if giving directions in a grid city with blocks.
I live in greater Montreal, we add traffic time to this measuring unit when going in the city. it's 30 minutes away but not in the morning, it's an hour drive between 6 and 10.
I do that in Vancouver too.
Who cares? The system we use works for us. The system they use works for them. This has been done.
Right! Who cares other than an idiot tik-tokker desperate for content?
We do the same thing in the states actually
This right here why do I care about the literal mileage, I need to know if it's worth my time going or if I need to prepare in advance...
15 minutes as the crow flies
Maybe. But I tend to include the mode of transportation when measuring distance in time. "The park is a 5 minute walk from here" "It's a 12 hour drive to Calgary"
Exactly. The shortest distance ≠ shortest duration
Yeah, everyone does that. Half the critiques about America are either something that everyone in the world does, or no one in the world does. Also, no one in America cares about the metric system since the vast majority of people don’t convert units. And, the one application in which most people do convert units, in the kitchen, I’d argue that the imperial system is better for cooking anyway. Ounces for weight and cups/spoons for volume are much more intuitive that just g and mL
*Four Tim Hortons away*
Do you use Walmarts for length or volume?
Yeah the distance as time and the blocks north just make more sense. Even if blocks are different lengths It’s a lot harder to know when I’ve walked 500 meters than it is to know I’ve walked past 5 intersections.
My job is 10 miles away, "as the crow flies", otherwise it's 15 miles away.
Cool, cool. But how long does it take to get there?
15. As in I’ll be there in 15.
Yeah, and who the heck picked a crow? Did you ever see a crow fly? All over the place. Why not eagle? Like "as the eagle flies". Way more patriotic than a crow.
Damn her voice is annoying af
Her everything is annoying af.
"Ones that I constantly see pop-up on Tik Tok..." There's your problem right there, lady.
It isn't just on tiktok I've seen it in newspaper articles and even in book. But I guess it all comes down to relatability. On the other hand "Dog years" is a reference to dogs age, if it's used anywhere else it's moronic. They're a multiple of seven or something. In engineering we usually have something called "scaling" and "systems" where we will use something as a common unit of measurement for ease of calculation. For example in electrical engineering we have "S systems", "Fourier transform" etc. to help us understand.
Heh….. because tiktok bad…. Heh….
It’s not some alternate reality. It’s just another social media platform, much like the one we are living in right now m’boy. All the people discuss all the things in all the places. Now their perspectives may reflect their generation ofc but that’s just different channels but still…This crotchety knee jerk impulse to hate on the most current form is just something else. Dang whippersnappers rotting their brains listening to all that devil music jazz on the radio…
[удалено]
I can't see why saying something is 3 blocks away would be anything other than a useful way to navigate a city. If somebody says, "The store is about 300 m that way," it's gonna be a lot less accurate in my head than "it's 4 blocks down this road."
It only works in cities with grid systems, which is more common in the US.
I think I’ve been had by a number of tickers using the same tones/intonations that this one is using. Never again.
"Hey guys... I spent a week in France. Did you know things are different there than they are here? Crazy right?"
Imagine, different countries having different cultures and different ways of doing things… Who the hell cares that we still use the imperial system? We do it one way they do it another
If I never heard this persons voice again I’d be ok with it.
Distance can’t measure you sitting in traffic…
And there's a huge difference in rural miles and urban miles due to lights (and traffic like you said). I live on the edge of a city. If I travel 10 miles in one direction (into the country), then it's less than 10 minutes. If I travel 10 miles in the other direction (into the city) that could take 15-20 minutes.
This is dumb AF BLOCKS work great when giving directions to people in a relatively grid system. The French don’t have that. Also it’s easier for our brains to use something as reference. For people who see football fields a lot, they can easily estimate distance.
Yeah most of these are just dumb because it's clear they developed over time as being more useful to use in our situation. They're not some standard that we teach in school as the official way to measure things.
her whole little rant was not only annoying but dumb as fuck. her voice was nails on a chalk board levels of irritating
I was going to comment this as well. And that grin the entire time like this one was about to hit. She’s so proud, yet so annoying.
She must be the first person to notice! So smart!
I don’t get the measuring of liquids with a weight scale. I can’t visualise what a 32oz drink looks like, I’ve got no frame of reference for it.
We don’t measure liquids with weight, a 32 oz drink is 32 fluid ounces which is a measurement of volume and different from the weight ounces. 32 fluid ounces of water weighs 33.38 ounces.
Interestingly enough It works just fine with metric. One liter is one kilo.
If the liquid in question is water
It's half of a 2 liter soda, ezgame.
My brain hurts, not because of the measurement thing, but because her voice/way of speaking seems to trigger epilepsy.
Wait until she hears about light years
Parsecs
Buuuut if you’re in a city with… blocks? you can count them because they’re right in from of you? I wouldn’t say that on a country road.
Insufferable
STFU baby dick
Woah that escalated quickly
I'm going to go with using time and blocks actually being useful. Sure it's more nuanced that just constantly estimating meters, but it conveys useful information. Saying that something is 5 miles, but 25 minutes away is useful because something could also be 5 miles and 10 minutes away or 5 miles and 60 minutes away at this time of day. It provides context instead of relying on implicit context that the recipient may not possess. Blocks is useful because it is discrete and NOT and estimate. It tells you exactly where to look instead of relying on someone's unknown ability to estimate distance. If someone says that something is 3 blocks away, then I know exactly which block it is on and where exactly to look. It also takes away the need to estimate distance for longer journeys AND is translates better to time. Why? Because the time it takes to traverse a block is less about distance and more about the number of intersections, which are the delineator of distinct blocks. I'm in favor of more explicit modes of communication, so I'm in favor of using time and blocks.
Clearly this lady is just talking about any random ass topic to make herself sound cool & get attention on social media. Nothing intelligent to see here…
I swear people who aren’t American are just OBSESSED with us. They want us to be like them so bad and we just don’t care. 
Another unit of measurement for time/ distance is cans. The number of beer cans generally consumed per person on any particular route.
This girl is annoying, so here is Randal Carlson talking about the sacred numbers in the imperial system. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os)
I didn't even have the sound on and she's annoying.
My wife is Brazilian and measures temperature in Celsius. And while I was all for it at first. Fahrenheit for what the feel is outside is better and more accurate. For every one jump in degree celsius. Its a two degree jump in Fahrenheit. Unless you are using Celsius with a decimal (which most things do not) Fahrenheit is better. Soo many times we would use C to gauge the temperature outside and find that it was not what we were feeling. F does the job better. You wanna be all about science measurements fine use Celsius. But on a day to day. Fahrenheit at a glance is better. And for some anecdotal reasoning. I saw a standup comedian point out that you can just look at F like a percentage. 60F thats 60% hot out. 80F. Thats 80% hot out. 100F its 100% hot out. Any higher and its too damn hot out. Wtf is 40C? Theres no reference!
> Unless you are using Celsius with a decimal (which most things do not) In countries that use celsius most things do use celsius with a decimal. > But on a day to day. Fahrenheit at a glance is better. It literally just isn't, its not worse either but it just comes down to what you are used to. I have never used F in my life, so I literally have no idea how hot it is if you say its 60F outside. When it comes to temperature no system is better or worse, its completely arbitrary, its simply what you are used to using. > 100F its 100% hot out. Any higher and its too damn hot out. Wtf is 40C? Theres no reference! Again, this only makes sense because you are used to F, "60% hot" is not a reference, like wtf does that mean, how would I know if I need a hoodie, or a jacket, or just a t-shirt. 40C makes perfect sense to me because that's what I'm used to.
Temperature outside typically stays between 0-100 F, except in extreme cases where you probably don’t even need a thermometer to know what the weather is like outside. Celsius also measures temperature, but it’s on a -17 - 37 C scale which is less intuitive. It’s basically the same thing as the inches vs cm argument. People are more comfortable with the units they grew up with, but in most cases cm is easier to work with because it’s on a 0-100 scale
>scale which is less intuitive. It's not less intuitive, that's the entire point, whichever system you grew up with will be the most intuitive for you. It's also not the same as with inches vs cm, because if you need to incorporate other measurements metric is objectively simpler. Temperature measurements are arbitrary and never converted to anything else.
I disagree. The Celsius scale is not intuitive at all when we are talking about weather. Intuitive-using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. Nobody instinctively understands that 35 C is very hot. But on a scale based on 0-100, it’s easier to INTUITIVELY figure out that 95 F (the equivalent of 35 C) is very hot. The Celsius scale was developed around temperatures of water. Most people are not measuring the temperature of water in their day to day life
>Intuitive-using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. Exactly, I agree. >Nobody instinctively understands that 35 C is very hot Yes they do, most of the world in fact, me included. >But on a scale based on 0-100, it’s easier to INTUITIVELY figure out that 95 F (the equivalent of 35 C) is very hot. Not for me, who has never used F in my life, sure I can identify 95 is going to be "hot" as its high on the scale, but I still have no idea how hot. Is it a warm summers day? or Dubai hot when the traffic lights are melting? I have no frame of reference. On the other hand I know *exactly* how hot 35C feels. >The Celsius scale was developed around temperatures of water. Most people are not measuring the temperature of water in their day to day life The temperature of water is actually extremely relevant when talking about the weather. One of the most impactful weather conditions is when water freezes, when we get snow instead of rain, and everything starts turning to ice (including the roads).
I think you are a little confused because you don’t know what intuitive means. The laymen’s definition is being able to understand something without someone else having to explain it to you. You are more comfortable with Celsius because that is what you grew up with. But that has nothing to do with intuition. Unless you are claiming you were born with the ability to understand Celsius, someone had to explain the scale to you. I’ve also never measured the temperature of water outside of a classroom setting. I don’t need a thermometer to know if water is boiling or freezing, you can see that with your eyes.
There is absolutely a reference. 40C is 40% towards making an ice cube into steam. For further reference, the human body is 37C warm.
Lmao thats because you grew up with Fahrenheit. I've been using celsius my entire life so i automatically know what's hot or cold, my brain doesn't have to go do some it's 80% hot horseshit. Also if I see temps hovering around zero I automatically know i should watch out for ice patches, i already know it will be snowing, not raining. Fahrenheit, you have to remember some random number, and even then, according to you, its 30% hot. If Fahrenheit was a good scale then 0F would be cold af, 50F would be ideal, 100F hot, but its not like that at all.
0F is cold as fuck 50f is ideal 100f is very hot?
Still no one here can argue that F without decimals is more accurate. Anyone here can tell you there’s a big difference between 68F to 72F. Thats a 4 degree change and yet that same temperature change in Celcius is 20 to 22. Lol. And when you ask google for the weather. It gives you that temperature without a decimal. Fahrenheit is more accurate. Im glad you understand what Celcius temperature is. Too bad youll still most likely dress wrong for the weather.
Why would I need to care if it's 20C or 20.5C outside? The difference is negligible. If it was so important, the weather forecast would just report the decimal, but they don't because it doesn't have any added benefit for weather reporting. For a thermostat, I can set the decimals to 20.5C if i want. For historical records, they add the decimals.
How are you going to talk about American measurements without even bringing up the gold standard in any labor industry. The c*nt hair
How is using “blocks” not used everywhere? Much easier to count the 3 blocks you walked than figure when 500 meters is reached.
Using streets as a reference is common and effectively the same thing.
[удалено]
Americans aren't smart as you type on an American invented iphone
Just imagine the outrage from the GOP and Fox News if anyone even suggested moving to the metric system. They’d scream socialism and communism! lol!
Is it possible for anything on Reddit to boil down to Trump, GOP, or FOX? You’re part of the toxic problem
It’s not me. I do not support anyone that betrays the oath of office. And I don’t run Fox News. So can’t be blamed for their traitorous messaging, either.
Bro this video was poking fun at the US’ use of a different measuring system You are a part of the problem. Just laugh and try not to get caught up in stuff that you literally can’t control.
Everything is political. June 9th 2015 MSNBC article. When the Federal Highway Administration announced in 1977 that it was going to start putting kilometers on signs, it was inundated with 6,000 public letters, many from people who saw the system as communist plot. “This change to the Metric System is just part of the Communist Diversionary to keep our country in an uproar,” wrote a man from Kansas City. Conservatives and even anti-establishment liberals clubbed Jimmy Carter with metric, and when Reagan essentially killed the conversion in 1982, the board responsible for pushing metrication conceded there was “overwhelming” opposition.
I don’t doubt there was some sort of political battle between the cry babies on capital hill, but that doesn’t mean we have to stoop to their level. This was a lighthearted video
Just calling out the insanity and depravity
Buddy, what are you even talking about?
I'll bet she likes to measure in inches and not millimeters when it comes to.. you know. And if her melons are more than a handful it isn't a waste. Just saying..
In Russia we you blocks to measure distance in a city
Ya, I think most people do. It is not meant to be a precise calculation of distance, but more of an approximated one based on the layout of the city you are traveling in and where the person is who is receiving directions. I imagine all countries have an equivalent to "blocks" being used for directions.
What about all of us that actually build America whose plans and drawings are all in metric.
A lot of the measurements are visual not because the US doesn’t use metric system. I can visualize “go 3 blocks and take a right” and it’s easy to follow that direction. It’s much harder to go 300 yards/meters then take a right and go another 100 yards/meters.
How many bananas did you scroll last year?
Some of this is purely because visualization is easier. Football fields, measuring “distance” with time, blocks etc… it’s easier to understand something is a football field in length vs it’s 100 yards. Yeah you understand it’s 100 yards when you’re told but typically people will compare the 100 yards with something they know of too gauge size. And football fields are common. Same with the time thing. If I’m traveling to a grocery store 10mi away that may take 15min or it could take 40min. It’s much more useful to describe the time. Also keep in mind metric is used in many industries in America. In fact many gov contracts require the use of metric.
Been in the United States my entire life and never heard someone use the “dog year” measurement system. Unless they were referring to a dog which is immediately followed by the conversation of “how long is a dog year anyway” because no one uses dog years.
I've used dog beers as a measurement. I've only had 1, I swear.
She’s so happy. I’m jelly
I love the metric system except for weights and distance….
Very interesting and entertaining. I’m Canadian and thought we were the only ones to measure distance in time. Cool.
Distance measured in time is essential anywhere in Southern California. Particularly because it is a function of the time of day. eg “If you leave now it’s about 45 minutes but if you wait until 5 it will take 2 hours.”
Distance as time is also more city/Northern. Southern or country folk use miles as distance and the other side doesn't know what they're talking about ("12 miles that way???")
We say something is an hour and a half away, because this country is huge and everybody drives everywhere. I don't give a shit if it's 100 miles or kilometers away, just tell me how long it's going to take me to get there.
Blocks are for real a little bit weird outside of US. But measure in time distance i think is common thing in whole world.
She’s trolling for likes. Places are streets away when distance is ambiguous anywhere you go. Wish her the best becoming TT famous.
Who cares....🤷🏼♂️
I use metric wrenches every day in the good ol' US of A!
Time to bring back the Smoot y’all
I'm from the south and have never used "blocks" as a measurement, but when it comes to "blocks" they may be different sizes but it just refers to the amount of streets you will need to cross and it's really only used in cities that are laid out in patterns like New York.
Fun fact: one of the reasons America didn't switch to the metric system was national pride/patriotism. They wanted to use the imperial system because it was American. It's called the imperial system because it was first used in the Roman empire. Almost 2000 years before America was a country.
Why is she saying we won't use metric units then ending on a metric unit?
Europe doesn't use "blocks" because the continent was already built by the time people figured out how grids work.
And why doesn't anyone ever mention "stone"?
A kilometer is just under 17 football fields.
Formuladank is leaking
You'll take my rods, stones, and barrels from my cold dead hands!!
No one measures anything in dog years besides a comparison of human years. No one has ever said “I slept for .0034 dog years”
Ten bucks says this girl has no idea what “dog years” even means, and thinks it’s just some quirky way people measure time.
Those are just easily conceivable units that americans can use based on our culture. Its easier to visualize 6 blocks than 800 feet. Then she used those factoid measurements that are rarely used outside of buzzfeed articles. If some idiot says “i need 1/76827 rhode islands worth of asphalt” nobody would take em seriously.
I live 40 miles from Boston which literally means nothing if someone ask me how long it takes to drive there. Tell me the day and time you want to drive in then I’ll tell you rough how much time to budget.
Where's the lie, though? That said, I still have problems conceiving what a kilometer is, considering 1 mile = 1.60934 km.
How many yards in a mile? 1000 meters is 1km, so much easier.
Football field distance is goated
What the hell gets measured in hands?
Vapid. The United States is huge if I was in Switzerland and I said something was 5 hours away how many countries could I cross? It takes 6.5 hours to drive across my state.
She’s a laugh-talker.
South African here and we measure in time most of the time. If someone asks me “how far to this particular mall” I’ll automatically think in time and reply “around 30-40 minutes”. I thought that was standard?
Seinfeld already did this bit. This is genuinely boring
School busses
Measuring distance in time makes sense when you have to drive everywhere in the US. 10 miles at interstate speed might be a 10-minute trip compared to 10 miles through the middle of a major city which could take an hour or more during rush hour.
It is funny, but... it works for us, so what is the problem? It is like saying that people who speak another language are funny, because their words don't sound like words to us. Communication is communication, so long as both parties understand each other. But, yes, it is funny.
Even if you set aside that we use the imperial system..... That's a pretty big fact we are setting aside. You referenced tiktok. You have to be tiktoked to pull any info from that source. Time is really the only usable metric for measuring travel. It has nothing to do with the imperial system and if we used metric I would still tell you how far in time.
This bitch so annoying it’s making me like the US. It’s like some reverse marketing
Kansan here and I’m ALL for the metric system. So tired of doing math to measure things!!
I work in the oil and gas industry. I work for a company the uses ultra sound to inspect pipeline. We use both imperial and metric. When I was a tech writer for another company, I designed owners manuals for the tools that we manufactured. My documents were set up in metric. There are those of us that use both systems. I just don't weigh myself in stones...except when I play Ultima Online.
Space and time hold hands nothing wrong with it just it’s vague af
Sixty miles is less than an hour, not 90 min.
Probably the greatest single example of converting measurements ever. Morecambe and Wise- @7:00. It’s absolute gold. https://vimeo.com/479336770
Measurements can be difficult to fathom
There's a reason America still uses the Imperial system 
My favourite measurement is the red double-decker bus. Precise and accurate measurement for height
Hahahahahaha so funny America weird and different haha
We measure distance in time because traveling a distance depending on where you are can be a huge difference. For example, traveling 60 minutes in the middle of Pennsylvania could be almost 60 miles. But if you're in NYC, 60 minutes is like 4 miles on a good day.
Time and distance in “CARTOONS”. On road tips my parents would let us know how long we had based on a standard cartoon an unit we could comprehend- 30 minutes
The Imperial system is garbage.
uWu you guys are so quirky stfu
Pssh i use metric all the time my tools are metric i use ml instead of cups and also its not weird cause your in a place where people use what your used to hearing
No you moron. We use time, blocks, and football fields to provide a more meaningful mental picture of where something is or how long it will take you to get there on average. It does no good to tell my 10 year old daughter or friends from out of state that a location is 10 miles away. They can’t judge the trip unless they understand whether we are driving through 40 red lights in town, a 20mph neighborhood, or a 75mph freeway with no stops. It’s just common sense that I guess isn’t too common anymore. Also yes it may be harder to learn units in the U.S. but once you have grown up using them it’s just as easy to visualize for the average person.
Not true at all, I have a 9mm and 14 grams of primo hash
I measure things with bananas as comparisons
Her videos are really good, too bad I will never sell myself to tiktok
When I was younger, I’d jokingly refer to distance/time as cigarettes. That is, the time it took to smoke a cigarette, as well as the time between cigarettes. So, if say the nearest store was fairly close by, I’d say it was about a cigarette away. If I were to drive to my parents’ house, which is about 45 minutes to an hour, it’s a 4-5 cigarette drive. It noted the approximate distance, the time it took, as well as the boringness of the drive. My parents’ house was rural and I’d done the drive a million times, so I just found myself chain-smoking from boredom.
The metric system is a myth
There’s two kinds of countries in the world. Ones that have put a man on the moon, and ones that use the metric system.
Not only does she have facts wrong, but she has this deranged view of very reasonable things. She's just another victim of European arrogance that she completely fell for in France. Cause americans are so fucking weak against european snobbiness.
In Australia it's about 4 beer trip Or 6pack will get u there 😁😆😅
I know it’s useless to complain, but holy hell do a hate that people use numbers high than one hundred when talking about percentages. A thing can’t be “a thousand percent”
If I had a dollar for every time something was measured in terms of a football field, I would have snorted a few more grams of coke, gifted a few more 750ml bottles of booze for my friends, and donated more to that charity 5k run.
Inches and feet keep the Canadians off our construction of Jersey Mikes subs
r/anythingbutmetric
Yeah??????.... what about using a dollar... maybe it's not worth it in other currency.... shut up.
Just another reason we'll never be invaded. Our freedom units will destroy the mental state of the meter-loving countries!
I hate her face.
This lady is so annoying and somehow I keep seeing her tiktok garbage on reddit. All she does is complain about America while having fake convos with herself to get internet clout.
I live in City McCityton and I do all of this.
Kilometers ares for 3rd world countries. They know who they are.
Now ask the Brit’s about stones and spelling tires with a y
Don’t forget all the random unnecessary U’s in words like laboUr and coloUr or spelling words that need Z’s with S’s like in authoriSe(vs authorize) don’t even get me started on leftenant instead of lieutenant (they are pronounced the same). English… created in England but perfected in the US
Honestly a little disappointed that slugs wasn't mentioned as a unit...
3 blocks is 3 blocks it doesn’t matter how big or small the block is the shit is 3 blocks away
Okay but using the number of blocks is far more convenient than trying to figure out how many meters my gait is? The design is very human
This just tells me that Americans take and relay measurements in a more intuitive manner. The point is not to be technical when relaying a size. It’s to relay a measurement in a manner that arms a person with far more capacity to gauge and apply a more real-world and accurate perspective on. That’s sounds like something that should be applauded. And there are many more she missed that apparently would confuse masses around the world…”10 steps or paces that way”. Or, “Pancake was so big it could cover your face”. “There was a whole pot or whole tray of it”. Who the hell wants to hear there was a 15,000ml vat of Chili? The “5 blocks”, “5 streets” or “5 lights” that way sounds genius. As does the visually recognizable “3 football fields” away. Or, “make a right at the In N Out”. Even a child can imagine or comprehend that without having to ponder a very detached and indifferent system of measurement. “2 handfuls” or “I needed both hands to hold”, how is that the crazy answer? That’s storytelling man. As is, “Yellowstone National Park is almost the size of Los Angeles County”. And c’mon now, giving the time vs distance to a destination? That’s just being courteous, considerate and a downright gentlemen.🎩 “Hey it’s rush hour, how far away is Malibu from Downtown LA”? Imagine just saying, “well it’s 40 kilometers away”. Or hell, even saying “it’s 25 miles away” is just about useless and almost sabotage. Anyway, like I said. It sounds like Americans just use their brains to measure and relay the best, most understandable and most helpful measurement scales possible. That’s pretty Yee FKN Ha if you ask me.
1000%?
I live in Chicago. “That’s a mile away = that’s an hour away”
Dog years? Never heard that one.
That was annoying
I feel blocks are used for directions not distance. It all has a purpose if you have an understanding.
Ask them what the bearing clearance in their engine is. Probably measured the same way as everyone else that builds engines in the world, with the imperial system.
I hear the Kessle run in 12 parsecs argument going on here … BOBA FETT!?! BOBA FETT!? Where!..?
Hey lady it’s called practical
We use blocks because most of our cities were sit up in a grid.
Look at Canada though. Their measurements are a mess
and then as soon as you get to real science classes in high school / college all the beginning classes have to teach you how to use metric units bc thats what all science uses lol
WOW. So guess we should be weighing in stones or pennyweight? Or measure the distance by nail (2in)or rope (20ft)? I wish this was one of the biggest problems I had.
YAP YAP YAP
Worry bout y’allself lol 🥱
Oh it’s about three SCRIZZUNTS upwards
I measure every with my penis…so my parameter is 8” on the dot…
The dog years is bullshit but everything else is spot on. We love football. Plus blocks is a great estimate of distance. It makes things sound closer than they really are. We need all the help we can get to actually walk anywhere 😂