r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Inside-Size-8253 • Sep 17 '26

Video Extreme load-bearing test to see how much weight a ring of raw chicken eggs can withstand before crushing

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u/thatvoid_ Sep 17 '26

Like the rest of the world

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u/ferminriii Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

There's only two countries left on the planet using imperial as their official measument units.

EDIT: customary (slightly different indeed)

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

The UK uses miles and pints, that's about it.

The USA doesn't use Imperial. They use US Customary Units, which are slightly different

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

Also stones! But I've noticed that is being phased out for kg

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

Not really in any official capacity.

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

To parrot what I said elsewhere, I don't expect the change to spread to the public right away. Older people will always use what they grew up with. The difference will come when they teach this to the next generation in schools, who will in turn grow up using this system, unlike their parents. That is where the change will solidify.

I've noticed it creeping in. These things will take time. I imagine by the time I am a true old fart we'll have probably switched over fully to metric.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

They'll never take our pints, though!

Although technically they are metric servings of 568ml.

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u/malpaiss Sep 17 '26

In the UK newborn babies are measured in kg and it's silly because everyone immediately concerts it to lbs instead. No one's ever told me what their baby weighed in kg

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

It the people that are being silly there, not the NHS. The NHS is a serious institution, obviously they are going to operate in metric.

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u/00Kench Sep 17 '26

The point of the comment is to highlight the disconnect between actual spoken English and what the government says spoken English is supposed to be.

If your government says that you use metric but the people say that they use whatever the fuck they want, that's not using just metric, and that's the point of the guy you're talking to.

In fact, all of the US Customary Units have legally, internationally recognized precise conversions to Metric Units. If you really wanted to insist that government trumps people, then technically you can say that the US Government does in fact use metric, just a very specific and rare subset of metric units, and you can see how obviously dumb that way of thinking is.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

It's not the point I was making though. I was saying that in official terms it is pretty much just yards and miles for motoring, and pints for buying beer, cider, and milk.

Yes, there are more units in use by the general public. We tend to give people's height in feet and inches, and their weight in stones and pounds. Cannabis is sometimes still sold in Imperial units too, it depends.

But I think even this is changing, with even those holdouts dropping away.

They'll never take our pints, though. Although as you say that is technically defined metrically as 568ml.

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u/00Kench Sep 17 '26

Had to reread for a moment there, and I realized that I misinterpreted both comments.

First one, 'cause of the word "official" I thought you saying "not really" was a response to the usage of stones, not to the phasing out. Like, "we don't use stones, not really, because the government doesn't." Didn't consider that it could have been "we aren't phasing out stones, not really."

Second one, I thought you were calling the people wrong for not going with what the NHS says. Especially after I primed myself on the first comment, I didn't consider that you might be using the "having fun" meaning of silly, instead of the "dumb and childish" meaning of silly.

That's completely my bad, and I gotta apologize for that.

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u/Responsible-Donut283 Sep 17 '26

He already said it was the people not government using the silly measurements in a non-official capacity.

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u/00Kench Sep 17 '26

Yeah, I misinterpreted what he said. I read it one way when it could have been read another, and then got too sure that I was interpreting properly. Summed up my mistake in another comment apologizing to the other guy.

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

I mean, I don't expect the change to spread to the public right away. Older people will always use what they grew up with. The difference will come when they teach this to the next generation in schools, who will in turn grow up using this system, unlike their parents. That is where the change will solidify.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Sep 17 '26

Haven't they been teaching the metric system for several generations now?

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

They never use Imperial and never have. They left that empire before it was standardised.

They use US Customary Units or metric depending on context.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

They are both standardisations of traditional English units, so both have the same names.

They are mostly the same, but the distinction between the two can be important to remember, such as when measuring a car's fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Is that an American gallon or an Imperial gallon?

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u/SkellyboneZ Sep 18 '26

You could have given at least one example of the difference in measurements lol.

An Imperial gallon is about 20% larger than an American gallon

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 18 '26

I did. I mentioned the gallons.

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u/Ok_Initiative_5024 Sep 17 '26

Freedom units, please.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

The world's most free countries all use metric.

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u/Ok_Initiative_5024 Sep 17 '26

I know, it was a joke.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

I know.

Doesn't mean I can't make that point.

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u/Rowmyownboat Sep 18 '26

Pints are only for beer. For all other drink and food it is metric. Road distances are in miles, other length/distances are measurements are metric.

Buying fuel in litres, but rating vehicles in terms of miles per gallon is silly, really.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 18 '26

Cider and milk are also sold in pints.

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u/Rowmyownboat 28d ago

You are right, some is metric. Cider might be served in pints, but shop bought cider is metric. Some milk is metric, some not, depending on the supplier.

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u/SparkyCorkers Sep 17 '26

I use them all interchangeably. Litres, pints, centermeter, inch, stones, Kilogram, mile Kilometer, imperial and metric rounds in archery. Its all good in the UK. I dont use lbs, cups or °Fahrenheit those are rubbish.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

So you use stones but not pounds? Strange. That's like using feet but not inches.

I've nothing against cups for liquids or stuff like flour and sugar. Got to be careful though because an American recipe will give it in American cups and not Imperial ones. I also think it's bonkers to use it for something like butter. How are you supposed to properly fill the cup?

Agree with you on Fahrenheit.

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u/SparkyCorkers Sep 17 '26

Yeah its mad init? Ive no idea what a lb is for some reason. But I do use lbs in archery to measure how much I pull. So I must have some concept.

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u/JackAndCaffeine Sep 17 '26

Our butter comes with a wax paper wrapper that has a ruler printed on it. An average stick of butter is 4oz or half a cup. There are 8 table spoons in 1 stick of butter. Usually there’s a separate mark to denote 1/3rd a cup.

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u/HumanContinuity Sep 17 '26

The imperial ones

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u/Fantastic-Ad-1578 Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

I've read that even the imperials are moving away from the imperial system nowdays, only it's deranged emancipated offspring overseas still use them officially.

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u/So_many_things_wrong Sep 17 '26

The US officially adopted metric decades ago. All their imperial measurements are standardized as metric units.

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u/Important-Friend3423 Sep 18 '26

Yet they still use miles on roads and pounds for weights?

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

They've also never used Imperial.

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u/Prune_Tracy_ Sep 17 '26

Correct, the US uses the the US customary system, but I for one, wish we would just adopt the true metric system. The metric system just makes way more sense.

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u/Prune_Tracy_ Sep 17 '26

Nope, just someone who appreciates common sense approaches. And the US system is neither common nor sensible.

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u/HombreMan24 Sep 17 '26

Haha, this totally reminds me of that hilarious SNL skit Washington's Dream - SNL

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u/EamonBrennan Sep 17 '26

The US under the Constitution predates the invention of metric by 6 years. The US used British Imperial measurements before then, and only in 1893 did the US even pin their system to the metric system.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

The US has never used Imperial. The Imperial standard was created in 1824, by which point the USA was already independent.

They used non-standardised English units, which were standardised into US Customary Units in 1832.

I made no mention of metric. That's not relevant to the point.

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u/EamonBrennan Sep 17 '26

It appears we're both a bit right. The US used their own system for volumes, but used the Imperial system for length as a basis for the Customary system. Mass is somewhat the same in both. The modern Customary system was decided during international conventions in the 1960's, with part of it adopting the definitions from the Imperial system.

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u/Prune_Tracy_ Sep 17 '26

User name checks out

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u/Drow_Femboy Sep 17 '26

No, they're right. If you look it up, all our measurements are officially defined based on metric ones. For example, a yard is defined as 0.9144 meters. We don't have another definition of yard (anymore), it's literally just a disguised metric unit.

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u/narf007 Sep 17 '26

Yep. We do metric to customary then those of us that are not heathens go back to metric. It would've been better if they had flipped a switch a few decades ago and just forced the switch to metric for everyday things.

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

No, there's definitely more than two. US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand at least all use it to some degree.

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u/theserthefables Sep 17 '26

nope Australia & New Zealand are metric all the way, been metric here in NZ since 1976.

boomers like my parents still know imperial & can translate it back & forth, the only thing I've still heard as pounds here is baby weights lol.

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u/uncommonrev Sep 17 '26

I'm from the US and can convert kilos and pounds easily because its easy. Feet and meters is harder if you want to be accurate but a meter is approximately a yard and 60mph is approximately 100kph so thats easy enough. If I lived somewhere that used the metric system for 50 years I'd probably forget the imperial system .

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u/Jefflehem Sep 17 '26

If I lived somewhere that used the metric system for 50 years I'd probably forget the imperial system .

That's the reason America doesn't use metric.

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u/LetsFuckOnTheBoat Sep 17 '26

are you sure it's not you can convert kilos and pounds because of a misspent youth like most of us

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty Sep 17 '26

Three numbers make it pretty easy: 1.61, 2.54, and 454. I can navigate most of the way from stupid units to sensical units with those. Fahrenheit to Celsius, however, still breaks my brain no matter what. 😢

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u/OptiGuy4u Sep 17 '26

And then everything else became a number of "babies". I dropped some weight, I'm down to 22.6 babies.

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u/Key_Proposal_1004 Sep 17 '26

Yup, babies and burgers aye

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

nope Australia & New Zealand are metric all the way, been metric here in NZ since 1976.

That's fucking crazy because the US passed the Metric Conversion Act in 1975.

So the US has been using Metric longer than Aus and New Zealand.

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u/theserthefables Sep 18 '26

how come you don't use it in the US then?

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 18 '26

I use both, like most people in the US.

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u/SquirrelFluffy Sep 17 '26

I'll bet most construction still uses Imperial

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u/Redditenmo Sep 17 '26

20 years ago, you'd be right. 10 years ago the split started to be real noticeable, now it's mostly metric.

You can kinda break it down by age groups:

  • Under 40 = fully metric
  • 40-55 = The only common imperial references left are timber sizes and screw lengths. But we mostly default to metric now even with these.
  • 55+ still using imperial by default.

Source me: Have been an electrician in NZ for 25years.

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u/SquirrelFluffy Sep 17 '26

So when the young guys are talking on site to the old guys, what do they use? Are you speaking from an electrical perspective or a structural perspective?

For reference, I'm a structural engineer in Canada.

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u/Redditenmo Sep 17 '26

I mostly work in resi and commercial construction, so both perspectives.

The above ages default to what they know. There used to be an expectation that they understand each other's measurements. Though its fairly quickly changing towards older guys solely being expected to understand and convert their measurement to metric now, especially as their numbers on sites are decreasing.

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u/madjohnvane Sep 17 '26

As an Australian, apart from people casually measuring height with imperial, what else is there? If a form asks for my height, its in metric. Babies were the last holdout and now thats all metric too. Honestly, if it wasn’t for american media i suspect we’d have stopped using feet and inches for height as well. That’s literally the only imperial measurement I can think of that we use and even then it’s mixed.

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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Sep 17 '26

In Germany we use the imperial unit inch (Zoll in German) for rims (cars, motorcycles, bikes) and TV, monitor, and other screen diagonals — I have no clue why, guess that’s how it always was and we do not like to change things.

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u/rivv3 Sep 17 '26

We do too here in Scandinavia. With out being certain it's probably common in Europe.

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u/negativelift Sep 17 '26

early tire production was in america (ggodyear) or scotland (dunlop) and they kept it because those manufacturers dictated the dimensions to a degree

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Sep 17 '26

Although it's interesting because it's just wheels that are measured in inches, not the tires themselves. Even in the US the tire sizes are all metric.

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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Sep 17 '26

Makes sense! The same counts for TV screens, I just checked it. Even though we used standardized centimeter measurements during the 70s, 80s, 90s. But we switched back to Zoll (inch) beginning 2000s, when flat screens became the standard and production switched to Asia with US as the main market.

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u/skylmingakappi Sep 17 '26

TVs are all measured in inches. In fact, I think anything with a screen is measured in inches

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u/zimkazimka Sep 17 '26

This always infuriated me. WHY???

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u/YoungBockRKO Sep 17 '26

Because 65 inches sounds better than 165.1cm tv

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

Does it really, though? 165 is a bigger number than 65, so it could make it sound bigger.

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u/YoungBockRKO Sep 17 '26

Just say it out loud, having to say “my tv is one hundred and sixty five centimeters” just doesn’t roll off the tongue as nice.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

'One six five' or 'one sixty-five'.

I'm a joiner. If I am saying the measurement 1328mm out loud I don't say 'one thousand three hundred and twenty-eight', I say 'thirteen twenty-eight'.

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u/Brian-Heder Sep 17 '26

165 cm sounds better and is under selling what are you talking about

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u/YoungBockRKO Sep 17 '26

Agree to disagree?

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u/Brian-Heder Sep 17 '26

Please tell me how 65 inches sounds better do you just like the sound of the word inches because to the average person bigger is better

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u/zimkazimka Sep 17 '26

You know what sounds better? Meuw. Let's call it that. Because I have no idea what 65 inches mean and I have no reference whatsoever, as that's the only time I see inches in my life (outside Reddit), and I'm not buying TVs often.

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u/ShittyCkylines Sep 17 '26

We do. Car wheels. Acres (occasionally). Screen sizes. Feet for altitude. Nautical miles.

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u/skerrickity Sep 17 '26

Ordering a pint, then going back to your mates place for an ounce. He'll throw in an 8 ball if you can sell a pound for him.

Yeah, okay. Maybe it's only substances that we use imperial for

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

Ironic because the US uses grams and kilograms for substances.

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u/skerrickity Sep 17 '26

That's hilarious 😂

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u/McTerra2 Sep 17 '26

Surfboards and fishing rods.

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

That's my point. You use both. So do Americans. People in the USA don't only use Imperial (actually, Americans don't use Imperial at all, but US Customary Units which are named the same but measure differently than Imperial).

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u/ksheep Sep 17 '26

US Customary is mostly the same as Imperial, except when it comes to volume. The US Customary gallon is based on the Queen Anne Gallon (or Wine Gallon), which is defined as 231 cubic inches (or appx. the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches across). The Imperial Gallon wasn't defined until 1824, and is defined as the volume of 10 pounds of water at 62° F with an atmospheric pressure of 30 inches of mercury.

The other units of volume are then derived from the Gallon, except for the Ounce (so 1/4 of a Gallon is a Quart, half a Quart is a Pint, etc). This holds until Ounces, where Imperial has 20 Ounces in a Pint, vs 16 Ounces in US Customary, which results in Imperial having a slightly smaller Ounce. Since the Imperial gallon is larger than the US Customary, that means that if you get a Pint in the UK, it will be noticeably larger than a Pint in the US.

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Sep 17 '26

Australia is metric. Source: live there.

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

I've been to Australia. The country uses both. It is not exclusively Metric.

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Sep 17 '26

Oh yes, tell me how it's done in the country I live in lmao.

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u/Renverseur Sep 17 '26

Could think of monitors and TV's using inches but that's mostly it 🤔

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u/Flimsy-Passenger-228 Sep 17 '26

No Aus and NZ are metric for very most things like engineering, construction, temperature, pressure, civil, basically all the most important stuff.

But you're not wrong about anything with screens, is this a worldwide thing? Some other small things too but I think that's just because of a natural carry-on upon taking up something popular from an old fashioned imperial country

NZ formally switched to metric many decades ago, maybe the 70's? Thankfully

Edit, accidentally answered the other person too 🤦 you didn't mention screens lol

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

No Aus and NZ are metric for very most things like engineering, construction, temperature, pressure, civil, basically all the most important stuff.

So is the USA, in literally all of those things. What's your point?

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u/Flimsy-Passenger-228 Sep 17 '26

? USA uses fahrenheit, pounds, inches, feet, yards etc - they're imperial, not metric

Most of the world uses millimeters, centimeters etc, kpa, Celsius, kilograms etc, they're metric not imperial.

The amount of confusion from having Americans working with me whilst they struggle to use our metric system for structural engineering is quite a learning curve for them when they're fresh arrivals over here

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Sep 17 '26

The Americans you talk to must not be structural engineers, because in my experience, whenever they're talking in exact quantities, they're always using metric. Customary units are for casual contexts or estimations.

I'd be surprised to learn that an American engineer struggles with metric. Struggles with conversions possibly, because that's just rote memorization of silly ratios. But I doubt an engineer would be lost if you described something in meters or kilograms.

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u/heckztik Sep 17 '26

have you tried to buy sheet metal? you order in gauge, not in mm. same with a lot of other structural materials. lumber is still imperial as well for example

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

The legal standard in the US is metric and has been since 1975. So over a half century.[1] It was passed into law as the Metric Conversion Act. The US does law, trade, all science, etc. in Metric. The fresh arrivals you're talking about are working off of personal preference, not any legal standard.

By the way, the US has never used Imperial units. Imperial units are a British measurement system. The United States uses US Customary Units, which are named the same but measure differently[2]. For instance, a pint in the UK/Canada is 568.26125 mL (Imperial), but a pint in the US is 473.176473 mL (USCU). This divergence happened because GBR's Parliament burned down and destroyed the standards, meaning they had to redefine them and created the Imperial system to replace their old measurements. [3] The US did not have to do this because it already had the old British standard intact. But, despite this, the US chose to redefine those units in 1832 off of the Metric system while GBR did not.

So not only has the USA never used the Imperial System (it was created well after the US's independence), it defines the units it does use off of Metric.

Sources:

  1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-6/subchapter-II

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems

  3. https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/estatehistory/reformation-1834/destruction-by-fire/

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

UK is slowly phasing out the last of it. I've noticed KGs are creeping in now for body weight (instead of stone and pounds). The only one that hasn't changed is MPH for speed limits, and probably because if you did that it would cause chaos with drivers who are used to the MPH system. Everything else has been metric for as long as I can remember.

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u/kikimaru024 Sep 17 '26

The only one that hasn't changed is MPH for speed limits, and probably because if you did that it would cause chaos with drivers who are used to the MPH system.

Ireland is still phasing out MPH but all our signs now use KPH.

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

My apologies, I didn't know! That's really interesting. Have there been any accidents yet?

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u/kikimaru024 Sep 17 '26

I'm not sure what kind of accidents you could have?

Everyone still drives the same.

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u/BritishBlue32 Sep 17 '26

In my mind I'm just picturing people seeing the new signs and just assuming they are still mph and going way too fast for the road 😅

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u/gutter-rat3001 Sep 17 '26

I much prefer driving 80km. Rather than 50 miles. The Km seem to pass so much quicker and you instinctively think youre devouring the tarmac!

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Sep 17 '26

The one advantage with miles is you travel about a mile a minute at highway speeds. So if you see on a sign you're 45 miles away you know it takes about 45 minutes.

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

I don't think switching from MPH to KPH would cause chaos. At least, as an American immigrant to Germany, I was overly cautious because the numbers were bigger. 130 KPH limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit) sounds very fast until I realized it was just 80 MPH and people regularly go over that illegally in the US.

I feel like the opposite is more dangerous: metric to USCU. Like someone is "it's only 5 mph over the speed limit" not realizing it's 8-9 MPH over. That sounds like a small difference but when speed cameras trigger at 5 KPH and they're used globally...

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u/thegovernmentinc Sep 17 '26

Canada is officially metric, but we’re hybridized across both systems.

Examples - We drive kilometres and buy in litres, and measure ourselves in feet and inches and weigh ourselves in pounds. Our chips are sold by the gram, but we bake in cups and teaspoons. We use the inferior Philip’s driver when a Robertson would work far better.

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u/doctor6 Sep 17 '26

Nope, we don't use them in Ireland

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

You don't drink your beers by the pint?

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u/doctor6 Sep 17 '26

500ml

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

Plenty of pubs still go by the 568mL old pint. At least a few did in Cork and Galway when I visited 3-ish years ago. People still use stone for their weight and feet for height.

I also just googled 'land for sale in Ireland' and all the websites show it for sale by the acre, not km2. Like: https://www.daft.ie/commercial-properties-for-sale/ireland/agricultural-land

I'm not going to pretend Ireland hasn't Metric-ified but the Imperial system isn't dead and people shouldn't similarly pretend the US doesn't use Metric either.

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u/kikimaru024 Sep 17 '26

Depends on which beer.

You can get beer as 225ml, 250ml, 330ml, 400ml, 440ml, 454ml (1 pint), 500ml, 660ml, 1L...

But the standard "pint" is usually overfilled to 500ml.

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u/ferminriii Sep 17 '26

There's plenty of places that still use it the same way that the US uses metric.

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u/Redditenmo Sep 17 '26

New Zealand has been metric only for ages.

Hell, you're not even allowed to sell pints here anymore:

https://trademeasurement.tradingstandards.govt.nz/for-business/packaging-andor-selling-goods-by-quantity/

General quantity labelling requirements

Goods sold by weight, measure or number must have their quantity marked or labelled using one of the units of the metric system.

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u/SuperCruisePanther Sep 17 '26

That's the same in the US. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 set Metric as the standard for trade and business in the US. All food sold in the US will have labeling of weight in Metric. Manufacturers just optionally put US Customary Unit measures next to it because customers prefer it.

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u/Gold-Lake8135 Sep 17 '26

Fark No mate.

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u/ferminriii Sep 17 '26

Are you sure it's three? I think one of them recently changed. I don't know, I haven't looked it up in a while.

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u/akatherder Sep 17 '26

Wow really? Cuz you never think of those other two as having their shit together.

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u/Captain_Futile Sep 17 '26

Three. The US, Liberia and Myanmar.

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u/Western-Honeydew-945 Sep 17 '26

canada uses a hybrid of imperial and metric. Cars do KM, boats do M. Weight for human is lbs, weight for food is in kg... my oven is in F despite Canada having adopted C years ago. but even new ovens are in F. so on ...

at least I don't need to do temp conversions from American sites when cooking.

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u/XkF21WNJ Sep 17 '26

Which is interesting as one of the first thing the U.S. did was abolish the imperial system of measurement (before they had a new one even).

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u/That1_IT_Guy Sep 17 '26

You can blame/thank the British for the US not using metric. The French were sending us the measurements, and British privateers stopped them.

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u/AuroraFinem Sep 17 '26

The official unit of measure in the US has been metric since the 90s, anything government related needs to include metric. Imperial is just wedged into our society and no one cares enough to force a nation-wide change when it comes to consumers/business and the government still typically includes both so there’s even less incentive.

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u/tofubeanz420 Sep 18 '26

Countries that have been to the moon and countries that haven't?

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u/thatshygirl06 Sep 17 '26

You drive on the wrong side of the road

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u/NotSeriousbutyea Sep 17 '26

America is the smartest, greatest, best example of a country in the world, so maybe the rest of the world should...checks notes... take notes.

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u/Sythrin Sep 17 '26

NASA and every other big company and organization in the US uses the metric system. Maybe listen to your brightest instead of your dumbest

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u/Chemieju Sep 17 '26

Lets not forget NASA did use imperial that one time when they crashed a marse probe

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u/SumsOfAnyKey Sep 17 '26

I think of this quite often to remind myself if I make a mistake at work it could always be significantly worse.

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u/NotSeriousbutyea Sep 17 '26

Name more American organizations that are the leaders in the world.

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u/Sythrin Sep 17 '26

Basicly every chip designer? (Nvidea, Microsoft, AMD) use the metric system to design their chips.
Tesla uses metric for its vehicle engineering and coverts it to imperial for customer usage.
For fucks sake. I have seen in US stores, that you sell CocaCola in liters. You already do a ton of in metric and only the stubborn people refuse to change for this much more convenient and mathematicle easier system.

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u/NotSeriousbutyea Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

Yes, alas you realize Americans use both.

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u/Sythrin Sep 17 '26

Right!
The smart ones use metric.
The dumb ones imperial.

I am glad we agree

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u/NotSeriousbutyea Sep 17 '26

We don't agree.

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u/Sythrin Sep 17 '26

Are you sure?
So you do not disagree that US organizations are not bad?

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u/Trevzz Sep 17 '26

Not at rage baiting its not, obviously

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u/fqh Sep 17 '26

This is what I love about America. The smartest americans are using metric for their work, while the least educated keep on harping nonsensical imperial units. When I was a kid, I always wondered why american documentaries like to use football lengths, statue of liberty heights, swimming pool volumes for comparisons in measurement.

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u/SenorDuck96 Sep 17 '26

r/shitamericanssay

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u/CloudyLikeNoOther Sep 17 '26

I was wondering if someone put this on there lmaoo

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u/I_Love_Peen Sep 17 '26

You stink of cholesterol.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

Gr8 b8 m8. I r8 6/8.

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u/Groundbreaking_Bad Sep 17 '26

Good one!!! A real knee slapper! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Mastasmoker Sep 17 '26

Ok russian troll

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u/Carson_BloodStorms Sep 17 '26

There are two types of countries in this world, those that use the metric system, and those that have been to space.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd Sep 17 '26

Absolute colossal ignorance on display here.

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u/Active_Scallion_5322 Sep 17 '26

It's a joke not a dick. Don't take it so hard

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u/WeSaidMeh Sep 17 '26

I'll respond to this lame argument with the usual lame response: Guess what NASA uses.

Also, you mean the moon. Several countries have been to space.

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u/MindTheFro Sep 17 '26

Are you claiming the US is the only country to have been to space?

Further proof how fucking stupid Americans are.

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u/Skruestik Sep 17 '26

Yuri Gagarin would like a word.

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Sep 17 '26

It was a stupid claim when Yellow Goblin made it. Still a stupid claim - NASA uses metric...