Why is the U.S. still refusing to switch to the metric system?

[Pad_Foot]

A furlong is 1/8 of a mile. A furlong by a chain (66 feet) is 43,560 square feet, or one acre.

OK.............. but a MILE was 5000 FEET for the Romans. The English adjusted it to fit their furlongs.

5280 feet makes NO FUCKING sense. You can't even do fractions with it unless you know what the FUCK a furlong is.
No one has known that since the streets were all covered in horse shit.

AMERIKKKA... will never adopt this Globalistic measurement crap. No one is any good at Maths anyways!!
We don't even know what MATHS are!!

Science?!! There ain't no science just what it in the GOOD BOOK and what we know from FLAT EARTH FACTS!
According to Scripture, it was ten cubits across and 'a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference' (1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chron. 4:2). This implies that the value of π (pi) is 3, but that is incorrect. We know that π is an irrational number slightly greater than 3.14159.” There you have it!! Irrational numbers. Transcendental CRAP. We just won't teach that stuff!!

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
A furlong is 1/8 of a mile. A furlong by a chain (66 feet) is 43,560 square feet, or one acre.

OK.............. but a MILE was 5000 FEET for the Romans. The English adjusted it to fit their furlongs.

5280 feet makes NO FUCKING sense. You can't even do fractions with it unless you know what the FUCK a furlong is.
No one has known that since the streets were all covered in horse shit.

AMERIKKKA... will never adopt this Globalistic measurement crap. No one is any good at Maths anyways!!
We don't even know what MATHS are!!

Science?!! There ain't no science just what it in the GOOD BOOK and what we know from FLAT EARTH FACTS!
According to Scripture, it was ten cubits across and 'a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference' (1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chron. 4:2). This implies that the value of π (pi) is 3, but that is incorrect. We know that π is an irrational number slightly greater than 3.14159.” There you have it!! Irrational numbers. Transcendental CRAP. We just won't teach that stuff!!

The furlong and the cubit are just quaint antiques. π being transcendental is a much more modern thing, though.

 

[Levorotatory]

Cooking for the most part would be fine in grams and is far more effective than anything in Amerikkka

How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?

How many tablespoons in a cup ?

I figure those things out by remembering the (approximate) metric conversions, and I convert US unit recipes in my head while cooking.

1 tsp = 5 mL (or 5 g of something with a density similar to water)
1 tbsp = 15 mL
1 Oz = 30 mL or 30 g
1 cup = 250 mL
1 US quart = 946 mL
1 US gallon = 3.78 L

The latter two I remember to higher precision because of the widespread use of American sized packaging in Canada.

 

[Hel_Books]

What's cool now is that the kilogramme is officially defined in terms of the Planck Constant, the speed of light and the hyperfine transition frequency of Caesium 133!

 

[Pad_Foot]

Its ok.. there a sacred yard stick someplace to keep the American System constant.

 

[HisArpy]

Its ok.. there a sacred yard stick someplace to keep the American System constant.

It's not a yardstick, it's a very carefully machined metal block called a gauge block (or Jo Block after their inventor.)