C and F

I'd rather not be browbeaten into using whatever system Europeans think is better simply because they use it.

Holy shit tarotnathers. It's what the whole world uses. And there are many reasons it is better, you're just too stupid to see them I guess

I don't personally care about either system, but until the president of the united states makes it the official system, I'm fine either way. Even if Americans do use the imperial standard, there are plenty of scientists/engineers/designers who use the metric in it's practicality. What gets me is the act of people posting on and on about it until it becomes less of what is the better system, and more about who is suddenly superior because of how long tall, heavy, or hot/cold something is according to their system.

Also, "Too stupid to see them" is a lazy attack on character.

I didn't say the people were superior, I said the system of measurement is. Can you read?

I'm stating why I dislike people on the internet shit talking every little thing about a country. People do THINK they are superior because they use a much simpler and nuanced system.

Don't you think it would be stupid to transfer everything that currently depends on Fahrenheit to Celsius? I've used Fahrenheit my entire life and I'd rather not switch. Maybe other people don't have the same opinion as you, cannotwin.

The US tried to encourage a switch a while back, but instead of instituting an official change they just kind of suggested it and nobody did it. Quite frankly, it's the same as language. If you know it and function in it, it works. If somebody who doesn't understand it comes along, they translate it. Obviously the US is doing fine with its system, and the rest of the world is doing fine with theirs. A huge percentage of American citizens will never leave our borders and will never need Celsius.

@fbi, look at the Reporters Without Borders press freedom/freedom of speech index. Notice how the US is #49.

I was in the US last summer and an american girl I lived with told me that the american system sucks major balls (not only temperature but distance and so on as well), and she also told me about the switch as envius said, and apparently the problem was that the adults, especially the teachers who are responsible for teaching the system to the next generation, just couldn't do it. (Hell, they even tell the kids that Czechoslovakia still exists! Someone should really update their curriculum...) The kids would have no problem but the adults were too stuck in their way of thinking and too stubborn to re-learn, so it didn't work. I don't know much about american schools but she also told me that they use C°, grams and centimeters in chemistry and physics anyways, so at least high schoolers already know about it, just not enough to be able to use it in real life, I guess.

Siriously though, our president is a stupid cunt

Don't you mean prime minister?