Wikipedia talk:Measurements Debate

I don't see why this is turned into a US vs Europe discussion. Metric system is not only used by European countries, but by basically the whole world, except for the US.

And the UK. and Burma. And Liberia.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.202.29.180 (talk • contribs) 11:22, 25 August 2006

Customary is official for US, UK, Liberia, Burna. No reason to exclude, say, Rankine from the scientific pages. 72.74.136.49 (talk) 11:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Half of this discussion is completly non-sensical. I come from a country that uses metric since 1875, in everyday usage. I'm Brazilian, very far from both US and Europe. I've never ever in my life felt the metric units inapropriate, hard or without intuitive sense, for me it's pretty clear what is a kg, a meter, centimeter, ºC, km and km/h. That's because I was born and raised knowing them and measuring things in them without ever having to use other thing, except when dealing with some american product or accessing american products. Saying metric is useless in everyday life is not just wrong, is nonsensical. Saying someone is 6feet 5 inches for me is like saying they're about 7 bananas tall and a couple of fingernails, a nonsensical statement, I mean what's the size of a "standard banana". Also the love for fractions in the inches is not intuitive at all. Stating temperatures in Fahrenheit always makes me think like I'm in the middle of a fire. A Galon I can understand is like 5liters, but what the hell is a pound or a ounce, I have no idea, and once in a while I hear a new imperial unit I've never even heard before. Imperial units aren't closer to human experience, they're just what you're used to. That being said, I do agree a large portion of the english Wikipedia is accessed to people who have no intuitive notion of the metric system, so, it's good to also add them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.150.156.54 (talk) 05:26, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]