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Bourbonkers
Because Americans are stubborn idiots.
3142
And once again , murica is 12th on the freedom index. Even the fucking UK is in 11th place.
OddOod
There are several small countries that use pure imperial. And quite a few former commonwealth states have a heavily mixed system
SlyeFox
Current Commonwealth nations also use mixed systems.
Lemonsandwichs
In world war II French fries in America were called freedom fries, so yea freedom fries get a mouth full of freedom at your local BurgerKing
cousteau
WWII? Wasn't it during 9-11 when they got mad at France for something
quade
F° is for "FOOOOOOOOOM! We're taking off in our rockets and going to the moon!"
DamnedAustin
As long as they use Metric when they build the rocket. Otherwise you go BOOOOOOOOM!
LETHARGICpancake
Fahrenheit is better for measuring earth's air temperature, there I said it and I'm not sorry.
TheZulthar
Celsius is better for measuring water temperature
QuantumEntangler
You know what else starts with F ? RACISM
DerogatoryDegenerate
Fascism
QuantumEntangler
Fommunism
RedCamaro
flawless logic. C is for Communism.
IStoleYoCookie
Communism is the right way to life
Obsession88
Things that will happen before the US drops freedom units: Gay president, gun control, Microsoft and Apple merging. That's all I got for now
AmericanGrit
Also patently untrue, there are 5 countries who use Fahrenheit.
eviljoka
There are more countries than represented using f, I live in one.
Anonsy
And Celsius starts with a C and you know what else starts with a C? COMMUNISM
JapaneseStudentTadashii
We aren't the only country that uses this are we?
drinkup4
Countries that have put a man on the moon, countries that haven't.
MaxPowah
With the use of metrics and celcius...
nick11570
Do one for a country where there's no starving children
ViciousOtter
Countries that could have make astronaut burn mid air because of conversions mistakes between inches and centimerters ( source : 1/2
ViciousOtter
one of my biologie teacher worked with the NASA ) 2/2
DavidBrooker
Isn't that a bit like saying "I just ran a mile so I deserve this cake"?
LikeABonerInSweatpants
Well it's more like I crossed over half a million miles round trip and I deserve mad blowies
kuckhouse
Blowies all round gents- Neil Armstrong
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kuckhouse
Yes they forgot Russia because they never landed on the moon.
jackofalleves
well, they landed a robot on the moon
kuckhouse
Russia did not. You are thinking of the U.S.S.R which is no longer a country
KeiranNightly
I'm pretty sure Belize is still working on the Moon thing
3dartwork
That would be unbelizeable if they succeeded!
abracadabrajahbuloneymahaboneyahyahyah
I belize I can fly, I belize I can touch the sky
WeirdOnions
Countries that have a paid maternity leave and countries that don't.
IStoleYoCookie
http://imgur.com/DLB2c1G
DisgruntledFerret
You do understand that landing on the moon is a bit farther and more complicated than breaching Earth's atmosphere, right?
IStoleYoCookie
THe USSR could've easily went on the moon bit they didn't for some reason
DisgruntledFerret
(The soviets were able to land a robot on the moon 3 years before the US because they crashed it, which would have killed any humans.)
CheetahFart
This joke is so old now
helgur
It's not a joke. They really put a man on the moon.
kuckhouse
Greatest Country in the world- Orange. Europe or Something- Other color
RGBCAMERA
pretty sure the brains behind the engines was German! Von Braun,,,,
MaxPowah
Hahahaha, nailed it!!
SaintMaceToTheFace
With the American production ability and thousands of other specialists
RGBCAMERA
the point being don't take sole credit for others contributions
Habs24
Nasa used metric I think
Last1toKnow
NASA, most cases use metric. With space programs being more joint operations with other countries that use metric, it's just universal.
kerms
Not at the time. At least not exclusively.
DavidBrooker
NASA has always and to this day uses mixed units (including units neither imperial nor SI). Generally, science has always used SI 1/2
DavidBrooker
while the industrial-dominated aeronautics groups use Imperial. 2/2
TheFlyingSatan
Both metric and imperial, actually. These days they're switching to metric entirely, which would be weird if imperial units were that great.
cousteau
Yep, AFAIK the computer used metric internally (because the engineers weren't insane) but was able to get both as input/output.
DavidBrooker
There's controversy about a total switchover because of the cost of replacing existing tooling and rectifying old designs.
IOnlyPostWhenIDrink
Lol rectum
namiasdf
Standardization of units is not gonna make you any less free. Just makes you more accessible and work-with-others-able.
sapyro
The imperial system is based of the foot of some king (I think it was a British king, ironically)
cousteau
He had DAMN BIG feet.
sapyro
Yup. 12 fucking inches
UngratefulNoob
That's one of the things that caused the challenger to explode I believe. An incorrect conversion regarding fuel.
TheFlyingSatan
It generally seems terribly unpractical to have different systems used on the same project, but then again, I'm no rocket scientist.
RightInThePleb
Nah that wasn't it there was an actual fault with it.
UngratefulNoob
Well yeah the O-Ring was faulty, but I thought there was a fuel component too?
Optamiss
No that was a Mars rover that crashed into the surface because according to a conversion error it had another km or something.
UngratefulNoob
Ah yes that was it. I'm getting my space catastrophes mixed up again. My bad.
DavidBrooker
Lockheed Martin provided software for the Mars Climate Orbiter outputing thrust data in pound-seconds when Newton-seconds were expected 1/2
DavidBrooker
The craft entered orbit shallow, and was destroyed by aerodynamic forces in the Martian atmosphere. 2/2
ImClearlyInsane
countries that drive on the left.. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/driving-on-the-left-1024x650.jpg
Pyrolime
Countries that drive on the correct side of the road can be seen in orange
HaYouForgotTheSubjunctive
Counterargument provided by Lindybeige: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWnpmL_w4c
jackofalleves
i like this guy
ImClearlyInsane
What a silly brit.
HaYouForgotTheSubjunctive
But doesn't he make a good point?
mathematicalmole
Aw, it's missing borders! What looks like mere India stretches from Pakistan to Myanmar.
GavinScreaming
I'll never understand why people from other countries give a fuck what we use
Madcowdsis
So is Faggot...
StarryPlough
Do Americans even try to justify Fahrenheit and their retarded date format?
Starkiller02
Ello brit fag
cousteau
All date formats are retarded except year month day.
snufl
"What you do is literally retarded because it's not exactly like what I do!"
StarryPlough
What you do is retarded because it objectively makes no sense
snufl
To you. Objectively, F is useful as a temperature feel standard, with 0-100 defining most of the average human comfort range.
PartyParrot
What date format do you use?
StarryPlough
DD/MM/YY which makes logical sense as it is in order of unit size (days go into months which go into years)
cousteau
It'd make sense if you did seconds:minutes:hours as well. (By the way, when the Arabs invented our numbers they started with the smallest)
PartyParrot
International standard is YYYY-MM-DD so get off your high horse, you use the wrong one too. Also note the MM-DD after the year.
StarryPlough
"note the MM-DD after the year" .... because it is in reverse order you moron!
PartyParrot
Reverse order according to whom? You? Because you put the year at the end? God you're pathetic. It's the proper international order, "moron"
matchstickmetropolis
Also fail, fuckup, false, faded, flaccid, fixture, fanfare, fun, fury, furry, fart, friendly.......
registeredtoproveimawesome
Also fucktard, fatty and fuckwit
DocVolt
You got me at furry
GandalfTheCrunk
Frankenfurter, Fahrvergnugen, Freakazoid,
GodApollo
Shut up, uh, uh uh, uh, oh i got it. Faggot.
TikiScott
Fat fucks!
MarcUK
A rare fact, when Mr Celcius invented the scale, he had 100 for freezing and 0 for boiling.
ManufacturedMannequin
I don't get it. What's the problem?
Ralter3
Despite living in America all my life, I have a problem with our measurements being stupidly hard to convert from one to another.
DeadMeatRunning
Thank you. It doesn't bother anyone else, so who cares? It's reaching for something to use to call Americans dumbasses
plzwhateverisokforme
It's annoying when we have to make the effort to convert for your lazy ass.
ManufacturedMannequin
We convert when needed, and I follow the idea "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". You're right. It's an attempt to scrutinize the US
DeadMeatRunning
I understand the US isn't popular right now, but I don't understand why all of us are called stupid and narrow minded because of it. Thanks
ManufacturedMannequin
I agree. They use tabloid outliers to summarize our country as a whole. And I'm sure other countries are perfect in everywhere
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BasisPoints
My wife is from Europe, we live in USA... trust me, it's a daily problem every morning as we discuss what to wear
TheInfamousPenguin
Because you're wrong and she's right.
ManufacturedMannequin
Aren't most sizes small, medium, large, or are you referring to getting things tailored?
Telruin
Does this make America the "genderidentity person" of the world?
TheZulthar
Yes, yes it does
SimplyWillis
Use metric if you're a scientist, and most people aren't. Imperial makes more sense for non-scientific purposes and every-day measures.
cousteau
Yeah, best is to use seven hundred different systems depending on what you're doing, makes so much sense.
6ft1DickC
Fahrenheit is based off 0-100 on a human scale, not water scale https://imgur.com/pckJQEs
cousteau
Yeah, 100 being he temperature you have when you have some fever, and 0 being...?
RaZorwiresc2
How cold is it outside? Celsius: Cold enough for water to freeze. Fahrenheit: I dunno man, but like REALLY cold.
AmbroseFerber
I'm so glad I'm not the only person to evangelize this. People get really upset when I try to explain.
selfmadecurve
Human body temperature was actually his wife's armpit, fun fact
Mithi
Bullshit, it is bases on a brine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
6ft1DickC
No, that's just a 0 baseline used because that specific brine self stabilizes at the lowest ambient temp of his town. Aka "really cold"
6ft1DickC
Re-read your link you posted
RikkordF
Boiling and freezing water also relies on air pressure so tbh metric scale is still earthly subjective
DavidBrooker
Which is why it's not based on either. The scale is defined by absolute zero and the triple point of water.
RikkordF
Kelvin you mean?
DavidBrooker
Both are defined by the same two points, just given different numeric values. Freezing and boiling points ceased define the scale in 1954.
RikkordF
Then there's no issue because Fahrenheit is just a different set of different numeric values where freezing and boiling points blahblahblah
DavidBrooker
That makes no sense. Many places regularly drop well below 0F (and above 100). All units are arbitrary.
mathematicalmole
That's like saying measuring tallness in meters is made for humans. 6'2" is 187cm but 6'3" is 190cm. 1/
mathematicalmole
You can't account for those 3 centimetres in imperial measurement. Yet if I tell you my friend is 5'4", you instantly know how tall that is.
AHartMurmur
They measure temperature on the moon in Fahrenheit too.
dangermint
Shout out to the Lunar-Americans!
doucher
Burn
jcraig919
Took me a few minutes to get this. Haha
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
This may be the greatest comment I've ever seen on Imgur.
ThatNigerianPrince
America the only country to waste billions to go to the moon, just because they could.
icantgotoprisonroytheyllrapetheflipoutofme
I assume in your tiny mind, you have an image of a rocket filled with money being blasted into space.
ThatNigerianPrince
Oh sorry i didn't realize the moon landing was free. i was under the obviously ignorant impression that it cost around 25.4 billion dollars.
icantgotoprisonroytheyllrapetheflipoutofme
It did, however that didn't mean sticking $25.4bn in the rocket. It was used to fund the whole mission incl employing staff and R&D.
Leeloothedog
one day alien life will study dead civilizations who made the sensible more cost effective decision to not explore the stars
ThatNigerianPrince
You don't think maybe the world you live on now should have priority?
Leeloothedog
so when the world is perfect, then we look to the stars? ETA on that?
ThatNigerianPrince
We can look at the stars we have been doing that for ages. The moon however is a big rock, not really useful to be standing on it.
Davidnfilms
hahahahha nice
Janusha
We do?
spx39
NASA uses the metric system.
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
Oh just play along for fuck sakes.
Kaler
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan were also measured in Fahrenheit!
0x1CEB00DA
no it's not ... NASA uses the metric system ... so did the Germans, wo built the moon rocket (Wernher von Braun)
badalalala
NASA didn't use the metric system until 1990.
0x1CEB00DA
irrelevant, Wernher von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, mastermind of the US space program calculated in the metric system, like for V2
badalalala
http://i61.tinypic.com/m7x89t.jpg
0x1CEB00DA
and how he drew it some years before that
0x1CEB00DA
at the end of the war, they knew they will be captured ... they were forced to make a choice: US or Russians ... they chose the lesser evil
dontclockme
We'll stop using Fahrenheit when the other 33% of the world drives on the right side of the road.
ShiroeTheStrategist
But you see, driving on the right side of the road isn't advantageous in any way. So your point is invalid.
LikeABonerInSweatpants
Boom
Thethingfromtheshadows
When it's 1 in 3 though they might have a good point.
ronronner
The left side is the right side.
solairepraises
Now see you just contradicted yourself. This is why you'll never have the freedoms
HarbingerOfDownvotes
Holy shit. How does this have -60 points? I thought that was actually pretty funny.
LongoloidFartExplosion
It's not funny, it's true. We have on coming traffic on our dominant side.
TheBlackMambaApproves
Wat
ronronner
solairepraises
Now see you just contradicted yourself. This is why you'll never have the freedoms
ronronner
Bloody waste of tea ! #never4get
solairepraises
No need for tea on the moon.
ronronner
Red wine goes better with cheese I guess..
grootybooty
We do drive on the right side.. it's just when we're going the other way.
Sydonis12
Throw in inches, yards, miles and other nonsense
Rognin
So umm, about the USVI?
JDam27
USVI was Danish until the US bought it from Denmark on March 31, 1917. Which is why they drive on the left 1/2
JDam27
the fact that kills me is that they are US cars so left side drive cars on left side drive roads. Makes it a little weird.
Rognin
Weird?! Weird is the only adjective you could come up with? Dangerous, idiotic, asinine are more apt if I were in suggest some.
JDam27
nah, just weird, for people that have a brain and can drive.
goldensky
Shots fired
intenseboat
Wait what about Burma
Ifyourenotfirstyourelast
And Hawaii
wahshujah
It'll always be myanmar to me
Napukin
It is literally Myanmar to everyone else. It was formerly Burma.
Buhbee
So glad someone else thought this
mclarenf1buff
Burma's a war zone - Rambo, probably.
johnson21
Starts with a B.
toyobaru
For bitch b
Affriction
F is for friends who do stuff together
epsiloncrow
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fbUH722hVVo/U_Muyxg-g5I/AAAAAAAB3-8/Ub_tR1Vk-Cg/w474-h346/1.gif
KnightswhotilrecentlysaidNi
U IS FOR URANIUM...BOMB
TheLastImgurian
N is for no survivors when you-
SmokeTiresNotDrugs
Plankton! Plankton!!
vlramos214
F is for frolic through all the flowers
ThatOneIndustrialElectrician
U is for you and me
xblacknredsocks
N is for anywhere and any time at all
AnEvilLemon
*chorus* Down here in the deep blue sea!
Kamayak
F is for fire that burns down the whole town
iwasraisedonreallybadpuns
U's for uranium
krisspy451
Mom's spaghetti
bitmapx
F is definitely more intuitive for AIR temp. 100 = hot, 0 = cold. C is better for WATER temp. 100 = boiling, 0 = frozen.
cousteau
Depends on the part of the world. Here it'd be 100°F=quite warm, 0°F=OH MY GOD MY BALLS ARE FREEZING PLEASE SEND HELP!!
DavidBrooker
Neither are inherently intuitive for anything. Intuition comes from use.
bitmapx
Could you agree that teaching a kid 0-100 as a scale for temp is easier (more intuitive) than say -17 to 32?
DavidBrooker
The corollary would be of -20 to 30 isn't more intuitive than -4 to 86, convenient round numbers show up in both.
bitmapx
Agreed. But don't we use temp to describe the air more often? In my everyday life I don't usually need to know water temp beyond hot/cold.
bitmapx
So as to say, it's "easier" ergo more "intuitive" to wrap your head around a 0-100 scale than a -20 to 30 scale. Neither is wrong, of course
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
Can you imagine if Ray Bradbury named his book "Celsius 234?"
Mithi
He would have called it "240 Celsius", because one arbitrary number is as good as the other, and the number goes before the unit.
cousteau
It wasn't arbitrary AFAIK; 451°F is the temperature at which books burn.
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
Then HE wouldn't have called it that because you're making fun of his frivolous title.
CrazyCatLad
Google is showing Fahrenheit 451 is Celsius 232.778.
cousteau
...guess they'd have rounded it to 233 though, or was it actually 451.000?
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
I got 233.77777 somewhere else.
CrazyCatLad
Windows Accessory Calculator conversion shows: 232.7777777777778 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
YoureTheBIGmarriageExpertOhIMsorryiForgotYourWifeIsDead
Fuck it. Who cares. Amirite?
CrazyCatLad
If we're in the book burning business, I must know so I can properly regulate my paper burning furnace!