Isn't Kelvin just an absolute scale of Celsius?

Exactly!

they teach you basics(of metric) in highschool science and honestly i much prefer it

So because people believe in creationism, that means they're uneducated? When you equate religious belief to lack of education, you make atheists look like douchebags.

The whole internet is basically America.

Someone in my class from school knifed a dog in the arse so he could fit his dick into it. The dog was put down and he was institutionalized.

That's horrible! First they add insult to injury and then they institutionalize the poor dog?!?! We should never resort to giving animals put downs, and I think after some therapy and hot cocoa the dog would have been much better off.

I understand that you appreciate the metric system, but, I don't get why you would use it with your friends, given that they don't know how it works.
I think your friends' reaction is normal if they're used to Fahrenheit...

because every American knows that one degree Fahrenheit is 5/9s of a degree Celcius, and that they would then have to add 32 afterwards.

And you get really offended because seriously, you are NOT one-legged.

Did you just made all the midget thing on your own?

If so, you're awesome!

wat

to be fair, they did use the metric system.

Yea I know, crazy right? How dare those Americans use the metric system.

oh wait.

inb4 moon landing was a hoax

I'm not sure you understand what I'm trying to say with my comment. What I mean is: There will be some monkey, probably anon, to jump at this and claim just what I called out. That is what inb4 means (in before, usually called in before deletion of a thread as if to say "Oi, I was here!"), also you typed it wrong.

There we go.

I may be biased from knowing the imperial system all my life, but it's easier to judge distance and weight without tools using the imperial system. When I look at someone I couldn't say "oh they seem like they're 1.7 meters tall" I would think they're 5' 8".
Again I'm probably biased, but that seems the only legitimate reason to keep the imperial system.

I'm going to have to agree with rockamekishiko. The only reason you experience that is because you're used to it. If we switched, it would be confusing as hell, but we would get used to it eventually.

Yes, but at least you were polite about it.

it's the same shit dumbass. you can't calculate well in metric because you don't use it often. i can calculate and judge weight and distances in metric units precisely enough.

Road to eldarado.

El Dorado*

A month is bigger than a day. 12 months are bigger than 31 days. No matter how you twist it, months are bigger, even if they are in lesser number.

day<month<year

its a time scale, a month is longer than a day and a year is longer than a month

day(shortest)/month(middle)/year(longest)

day/month/year.

why? fuck you that's why

Because there are days within months within years. A day ends before a month does and a month ends before a year does. It makes less logical sense to write months before days. That and it has been an established order for hundreds if not thousands of years and for some odd reason America seems to feel the need to break from nearly every single tradition/rule that the world uses.

That does make a bit of sense.
Well I have an American education meaning it is shitty, but I think we mixed it up because the whole point of America was to make a brand new nation so if they took things from the old country and put them as our national thing it would defeat the purpose.

I suppose that's probably correct. It just seems a bit petty to have this brand new nation and some of the first things you do are to take a note of all the things the way they used to be and then slightly alter them. Admittedly America probably invented several of these things so again I guess it's just prerogative to use them.

I've heard before that the reasoning is because it shortens saying the date. Although originally when the U.S. was formed the convention was day, month year (i.e. End of the 7th Article of the Constitution - "done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America"), as the stating of dates was shortened, the convention on how to say it changed.

January 7th, 2013
7th of January, 2013

But that could be complete and utter bull crap. I wouldn't trust an answer like that if it counted for anything.

fuck yall hating on Kelvin the TRUE intelligent means to measure temperature.

Has it ever occurred to you that freezing and boiling water don't have to be milestones on a thermometer?

Yeah, but this is one of the most common uses

Fahrenheit system
General range of naturally occurring temperatures - 0-100 degrees fahrenheit
Seems kind of useful for weather and temperature.
Obviously it isn't useful otherwise.

I have used both. For daily use, there isn't any difference, at all. For science and shit, Celsius is so much better.