SI or die, that's what I always say. (Not actually, but it rhymed, and I prefer SI)

Yes, it is.

"1900s"

a big group of people have always liked feet. It's one of those kinks accidentally caused by our anatomy - the nerves going out to your feet connect to the spinal cord close to the nerves going out to your genitals, and sometimes the signal travels along both lines.

It's such a close connection many people, myself included, can feel a particularly strong orgasm in their feet. It's a very distinct feeling as if electricity running down through your leg, into the foot, and "climaxing" in your ring toe, making it curl and twitch a bit (i also suspect this is the exact reason why the ring toe is associated with love [though idk how farspread this factoid is]). I don't have a foot fetish but I can definitely see how it'd be very easy to create an association between strong arousal and feet

and per the popularity part - people are just much more open about the kinks they have. To the point where even vanilla people start getting curious about soft kinks like spanking, blindfolds, or fluffy handcuffs

I'm bi and I don't know anybody with a condom fetish lmaoooo. Almost everybody is on PREP now specifically so they don't have to use condoms lol. Maybe your understanding is poisoned by the fact that you call us "the gays" and don't actually seem to interact with any lgbt people on the regular.

One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".

If the standard is written in Metric, the factory that makes the parts uses metric, and the place where the parts are used uses metric, why don't they just use 2cm screws instead?

Your argument for the convenience of imperial is that the standard uses imperial. No shit. It would be just as hard to cut something to 0.787" inches if the standard were in metric.

Also the reason metric makes more sense is I don't need a calculator to convert centimeters to kilometres. You need a calculator to convert inches to miles. AND you have to memorise the conversion factor! What a waste of brainpower

What is your professional opinion on decimal feet? I had to use such a measuring tape at work, it took me half a day to figure out what was going on with that abomination.

Edit: to clarify, feet were divided in 10 units, not 12, so one and a half feet was at the "5" mark between 1 and 2 ft, not the "6" mark.

This is where the French messed up not using base 12. We could have had the best of both worlds.

For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.

Americans keep saying this shit as if the vast majority of the world doesn't use grams for baking, celcius for temps, and cm for height daily - nobody is imposing anything on you guys, but you are going to continue to be ridiculed for using the dumbest measurement system. Yes, some systems absolutely make more sense than others - having even division of all orders of magnitude is a good example of that.

One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4". This is purely a skill issue. You're also clearly being biased by picking a rounded imperial fraction as the basis of comparison, and complaining the metric equivalent is unwieldy. (50mm is 1.968504 inches - oh wow! oh no! how will anybody figure it out?) Of course they don't neatly line up, they're not meant to - it doesn't make working in metric harder because I'm not using both systems? If I need hardware, I have M3 through to M8 for normal screws, bolts, washers, etc. - trying to use imperial is a clusterfuck - they don't even use the same fucking denominator, thread pitch is not standardised, nothing makes sense, it's a garbage system.

How many inches in a foot? thats easy - how many feet in a yard?....uh okay a little weirder, yards to a furlong? the fuck - furlongs to fathoms to miles to -...... its inconsistent unpredictable garbage because it's not in any way related to the units above or below it. That's all WITHIN DISTANCE - good fucking luck if you want to convert that to volume or energy or anything else. mm > cm > m > km - all base 10. Predictable, consistently divisible.

There is no persecution here - you can use fucking apples to measure distance if you like - but please stop portraying SI units as this scientific conundrum which is incompatible with daily life or professional ease. Imperial isn't actually any easier, americans are just familiar with it All but 2 countries in the entire world have switched over because the benefits self-evidently outweigh the costs....america acts like using dumb dumb units is a patriotic holdout but it is such an ongoing own-goal.

I mean, 1m is ca. 1 step. My dad is farmer, uses that a lot.

Well it is blender

Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can't wrap my head around stone....which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all....

I like the wording customary alot more then people spoutn' "standard"

Why? What's so special about aviation that it benefits from imperial units?