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**SerycegeBunny** · 05-11-2007, 07:53 AM

Try to find one good reason why imperial would beat metric that is not based on "we have always used imperial" and I'd be surprised.

That's a perfectly valid reason, though. For example, if you want to renovate a house that's built in imperial dimensions, it's stupid to try to force metric measurements onto it. If you've got a bar with an investment of thousands of dollars into imperial-sized glassware, telling them they've got to throw the lot out for metric is a waste of money.

One of the other advantages of imperial over metric is that it is based somewhat on human proportions. So while you may scoff at a foot being the length of some old king's actual foot, the scale is human. The metric stuff fits a little wrong. A metre is too long to talk about height. A kilogram is too heavy for cooking, a litre too big. People in Canada adapted readily to km and degrees C, but for human-scale measurements there was a natural resistance, so that even now that we're on the second generation of kids growing up metric, people still use imperial measure around the house.

05-11-2007, 07:53 AM	#14
SerycegeBunny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 590 Senior Member	Try to find one good reason why imperial would beat metric that is not based on "we have always used imperial" and I'd be surprised. That's a perfectly valid reason, though. For example, if you want to renovate a house that's built in imperial dimensions, it's stupid to try to force metric measurements onto it. If you've got a bar with an investment of thousands of dollars into imperial-sized glassware, telling them they've got to throw the lot out for metric is a waste of money. One of the other advantages of imperial over metric is that it is based somewhat on human proportions. So while you may scoff at a foot being the length of some old king's actual foot, the scale is human. The metric stuff fits a little wrong. A metre is too long to talk about height. A kilogram is too heavy for cooking, a litre too big. People in Canada adapted readily to km and degrees C, but for human-scale measurements there was a natural resistance, so that even now that we're on the second generation of kids growing up metric, people still use imperial measure around the house.
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