Yes, it's from a book called "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" and that book was resting on a closed toilet seat in a nation that only kind of uses the metric system in certain situations... however, you'd be surprised how much you can learn after a single visit to any local fast-food joint!
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rautapekoni 6 points 7 days ago
I think the inch and foot are great lengths to use on a daily basis, they feel quite natural.
Well that would be because you use them on a daily basis. I find meters and centimeters perfectly natural too, and would be hard pressed to think of a situation where the scale of inches and feet would be strictly better.
Rossphorus 0 points 7 days ago
Nice try! I live in a metric country and use exclusively metric units.
rautapekoni 3 points 7 days ago
How do you know how it feels to use imperial if you exclusively use metric? And daily!
Rossphorus 3 points 7 days ago
Because I have had to work with American companies as part of my job for the past couple years. For the entirety of my personal life and the rest of my professional life I use metric. I'll grant you I should have said 'almost exclusively' in my previous comment, but I think that's just splitting hairs.
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The metric prefix system is a fantastic invention, akin to the arabic number system. Honestly it's surprising no one came up with it sooner... but (and I'm sure I'll catch some flak for this) the metre is an awkward length - it's too big for human scale measurements. The decimetre is not as bad but still not very good, and it's also not commonly used. The centimetre has the opposite problem - it's too small for the human scale but too big for precision work.
Don't get me wrong, the horrible conversions between imperial units make the system unusable for me, but the unit lengths themselves are scaled to humans because they weren't initially defined arbitrarily by some committee (why should the distance from the pole to the equator be used as the baseline for a measurement used by humans?). I think the inch and foot are great lengths to use on a daily basis, they feel quite natural.
What annoys me the most is that we could have had the best of both, since the foot and inch are only a factor of 12 apart, so we could have had a metre measuring about one foot and a decimetre measuring about an inch.
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