Imperial vs Metric?

[☠djb204☠]

What does everyone prefer when it comes to calculating weight and distance? Meters,Yards, KG’s, pounds
etc? What is everyone’s preference?

[CrumbleCat]

I wasn't aware it was a preference, and more what you grew up using. Metric for me. The imperial system seems like a kind of wishy washy measurement you shoot by the eye.

[Nite69]

Imperial

[☠djb204☠]

Originally posted by MasterCrumble:

I wasn't aware it was a preference, and more what you grew up using. :tongue: Metric for me. The imperial system seems like a kind of wishy washy measurement you shoot by the eye. :beatmeat:

I was referring to your ingame preference. It’s an option in-game so it’s pretty simple, which do you use?

[Nyksta]

metric for everything, its hard to switch from what youve been taught, but metric is better.

[TarjaS]

If you tell me something in yards, I have to Google how much a yard is and then calculate it. Say it in meters and I know exactly how far it is. Same with kg and pounds.

[A TIN OF JAR]

Originally posted by TarjaS:

If you tell me something in yards, I have to Google how much a yard is and then calculate it. Say it in meters and I know exactly how far it is. Same with kg and pounds.

Yep. Me too.

[RamMack]

Originally posted by TarjaS:

If you tell me something in yards, I have to Google how much a yard is and then calculate it. Say it in meters and I know exactly how far it is. Same with kg and pounds.

And for those of us in USA and other countries that use Imperial, it is the same. If it is not in yards , feet, or inches, it is not familiar to us.

[PicSoul]

Imperial for me since that is what I was taught and have become used to.

[afwsi]

Imperial here.

[insert coin]

Metric (because I'm familiar with it).

[Ogami]

Originally posted by RamMack:

And for those of us in USA and other countries that use Imperial, it is the same. If it is not in yards , feet, or inches, it is not familiar to us.

You mean the three countries in the world that use imperial? USA , Myanmar and Liberia?

Every other country uses the metric system as standard.

[PicSoul]

Obviously, this question has a clear answer. Whichever measurement system you were taught is most likely going to be the measurement system you prefer. LOL

[KaiEr]

Even though I live in a "metric nation", I grew up in the US with the imperial system, so I'm just more comfortable with it.

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by RamMack:

And for those of us in USA and other countries that use Imperial, it is the same. If it is not in yards , feet, or inches, it is not familiar to us.

You mean the three countries in the world that use imperial? USA , Myanmar and Liberia?

Every other country uses the metric system as standard.

Not really - it's "official", but not standard.

As I pointed out in another post that went towards this discussion, those other nations have "gone metric" simply by making it "official", and that's for trade and regulation purposes, but most still use a lot of their own regional/traditional/cultural systems for many things outside of that. Most "colonial" places still use gallongs, pounds, miles, and even stones for many things. And then there's the catty being used in Asia. Here in China they use traditional, metric and imperial at the same time, with a preface word to differentiate each.

I mean, if someone in the UK is driving 30 miles per hour while they are "metric", or someone in Canada is buying 5 pounds of beef while they are metric, and someone in China can be talking about a "Li" (which could be a mile, kilometer or the Chinese equivalent) while it is "metric"... then what's REALLY the difference when the US basically does the same thing in reverse? People in the US are buying medicine using metric, their food packaging all contains metric, their cars have both imperial and metric spedometers, and a host of other areas are standard metric now (electricity, sciences).

Edit: Ironically, I was just watching a guy calling rabbits in the UK on YouTube, and he mentioned the rabbits being 25 yards off.

[IDerpedYourMom]

Metric. What's 1/32 of an inch? I grew up using both though.

[insert coin]

By the way, what does it matter, with this inconsistency. You'll miss or fail by inches or centimeters and you'll don't even know, why you haven't hit any object. Proof? How?