Imperial Measurements Explained 🤣🤣🤣!!!

This is still a thing!! HAHAHA!!

[@muzzaball]

Finally, a simple way to understand the Imperial measure! UNFORTUNATELY, I live in Australia - so I have to deal with METRIC! So hard remembering Powers of Ten.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

UK has just brought back imperial... It's going to make life harder here.

[@Makowako_]

Honestly imperial isn’t that bad. I can’t think of the last time I had to convert between feet and miles, we always use just decimals of miles, like 8.3 miles if we want to be more precise. Metric is better but imperial isn’t all that bad. The reason the conversions are weird is not because of some crazy mathematician. They are completely different measuring systems. They all got kinda grouped in as imperial, but miles are a different system than feet and yards. Base 12 is better than base 10 for math but unfortunately most of the world uses base 10 only because we have ten fingers. It’s really not a very good counting system. I still agree metric is better, but really imperial works 99% of the time.

[@charliep1973]

​@@Makowako_ Yes, base 12 is great, but very, very few Imperial units are actually subdivided by 12! As can be seen in the video.

[@jackwhitbread4583]

​@@Robert-cu9bmthe UK never dumped imperial in the first place, sometimes we use imperial and sometimes we use metric and it's always been that way.

[@Antroid1]

Powers of Ten was a great album, btw.

[@Black_Kakari]

At 4000 gallons of bald eagles per mile, you can get 8200 freedoms per horse.

[@lashlarue7924]

hoo-rah! 🇺🇸❤

[@Redwan777]

freedom/guns*

[@bobogus7559]

‘Merica

[@magpie.314]

Today I finally learned how the imperial system works, and I'm an American, who needed an Australian to explain it to me

[@sleepssbm2035]

How did the Aussie know about it? We don't use it here haha

[@magpie.314]

@sleepssbm2035 dunno, correspondence course?

[@jbullforg]

For part 2: Weights.

[@vincentstrange2071]

My Dad has tried to explain old school pound sterling from when he lived in the UK as a kid. 😳

[@dacake1844]

And temperatures

[@janemorrow6672]

Waits....

[@masheroz]

@@dacake1844 there's only 4 of those. And two of them a essentially degenerate.

[@trevorkirby3781]

I always used to love the old req.food.cooking faq comment. "Whoever said a pints a pound the whole world round obviously never met the Americans"

[@NikonErik]

Neil Armstrong was talking to the evening news from orbit. He reported his speed in meters per second. The reporter asked if he could put that in units people could relate to. He then said he was traveling at however many Furlongs per Fortnight!

[@VoidVerification]

It was a relevant question even in metric terms. Kilometers per hour would have been much more relatable to us laypeople.

[@ladislavseps4801]

​@@VoidVerificationmultiply by 4 and if you need it precisely then take 1/10 out..

[@FlockeDerBoss]

​@@ladislavseps4801lol that's so what of incorrect :D m/s * 3,6 = km/h

[@davidpiehler7850]

@@VoidVerification The funny thing is, time is the only thing without the nice powers of ten, but it’s the one thing we agree on with Americans 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ Also, m/s * 3.6 equals km/h. So, 100 m/s is 360 km/h.

[@diannehogan7605]

"THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TOOL OF THE DEVIL! My car gets 10 rods to a hog's head and that's the way I like it!" -Abe Simpson

[@open_world_media]

I use this quote everytime imperial system comes up in conversation ☺️

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

In metric, we usually express fuel consumption the other way around. Volume per distance makes more sense.

[@lemuelwonah7076]

​@@olmostgudinaf8100both make sense to me

[@beepbop6697]

​@@lemuelwonah7076 Agreed, both make sense. One answers "how efficient is the vehicle if it can go X distance with a single unit of fuel", the other answers "how much fuel do I need to go Y distance" (which requires the answer to the first question to answer the second).

[@teapouter6109]

@@olmostgudinaf8100I disagree. Knowing how far I can go based on what I have makes more sense than knowing how much I will consume to go somewhere. Knowing if I need to refuel is more important to me that knowing how much of a cost travel will incur.

[@nightw4tchman]

I had an argument years a go with some old guys on a heritage railway (I live in the UK) where I was volunteering. Our Railways are measured in Miles and Chains, even now. These old guys were telling me how Yards, Feet, Inches and Miles were perfect and Metric is a joke etc... Finally I asked "Ok 22 Yards is a Chain, how many Chains are there in a Mile?" They couldn't work it out. Surely it's simple guys... 1760/22 gives you an easy answer... Anyways, they all voted for the man who's now planning to return the UK back to this nonsense to distract from his law breaking. Wish I was Irish.

[@ryanaiden]

A very fair wish 🙏

[@thomaskositzki9424]

@@ryanaiden Emmigrate to Scotland, help them secession, join EU. Ezpz. 😂😭 Greetings from a flabbergasted German

[@sarumanork-orphanage5612]

Ah... don't we all ^^

[@thomaskositzki9424]

@@sarumanork-orphanage5612 Don't know about that Irish thing, but I do know that your nickname is glorious! 😂

[@sarumanork-orphanage5612]

@@thomaskositzki9424 Thanks man! Much appreciated!

[@desertdog8006]

I remember Australia changing to metric in 1973. Had to relearn everything. Had conversions printed on the back of every exercise book

[@petrograd4068]

@Andrew Powter What was it before? :o

[@onomatopoetisk]

But you made it! 🙌

[@thelibraryismyhappyplace1618]

@Andrew Powter Not L.s.d. like the poms? I'm from South Africa where it was L.s.d. prior to switching to Rand, but it was before my time.

[@pitersi]

​@thelibraryismyhappyplace1618 what is L.s.d?

[@glennmcc64]

My school changed in 1970, I did reception (1969) with inches and feet, and year one with centimetres and metres.

[@reganshepherd5650]

The guy who decides which KZbin ad you'll see

[@AmixLiark]

...make up to $800 dollars a month donating sperm. Me: "Good God! How often would you have to donate to make that much money?" 😅

[@1000teresa4ever]

Ok, now do the guy who decides women's clothing size.

[@citybeatdisco19]

That'd be a person who is very nice to everyone, since a size 8 is equivalent to about what 10 was - Australian sizes. Even nicer, that size 10 is a 6 in U.S. ..

[@JenOween]

Jason, Jason, Jason, women don't need pockets! They have bras!

[@vikj1255]

Dont even mention a size zero.

[@jittmet7766]

LOL!!! What a daring suggestion!!

[@moony2703]

Someone give me clothing in cms already. Also I’d like another half pocket to go with the all the half pockets I already have. Actually I literally went through most of my pants and added the missing half pocket onto my dominant hand’s side, bonus that since I was doing it for a phone I could just add a rectangle to the end of the existing half pocket and call it a day instead of having to unpick where the pocket meets the pant leg seam to add a curved pocket extension.

[@Genxr66]

I saw an article about a sink hole that opened up in the U.S and they described it as 12 washing machines wide. WTAF???

[@heijxje]

Top loaders or front loaders?

[@Makowako_]

@@heijxje LMAO

[@MV-tw9ku]

Maybe it opened up under a laundromat.

[@slyman1969]

Tennis scores always confused me. There is no correlation between one score to the next figure. Perhaps 'this guy' was the one who decided how they go.

[@thirdwheel1985au]

Never get into a relationship with a tennis player, love means nothing to them.

[@eswnl1]

I heard that they used to use 45 (3/4 hour), but they changed it to 40 for some reason. Easier to pronounce?

[@grpvids1834]

Serious answer coming up. They used a clock and moved it quarter way round each point. 15. 30. 45. But then somebody got lazy and said 40 instead of 45. I am told this is true. Love comes from "L'oeuf", French for the egg, which is shaped like a 0.

[@eydorian]

It comes from a very old French game called "jeu de paume" ("palm game"). Each player started at 15 steps from the net, then 30 steps for the 2nd point, and for the 3rd point 45 steps were a bit too far away so they started a bit closer, at 40 steps, hence the 15-30-40 counting.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

​@@grpvids1834Is it? My whole life has been a lie. I always assumed tennis "love" came from "low".

[@theunboiledfrog1258]

Jason, Jason, Jason! What a lot of research you had to do for that one! Even better than I thought it would be!

[@TheRoark85]

As a draftsman in a metric country I feel sympathy for my draftsman colleagues in America.

[@robertsomerville5377]

Years ago , I had to machine components to American drawings. Here is a example of what we had to put up with 17 " 15/16 tolerance + 1/32 -1/64 . All your measuring equipment measures it decimal to .001" or .01mm . We found it easiest to convert all sizes to metric . If your working on a building site you can get away using fractions of an inch , but everywhere that needs finer measurements it is terrible to use.

[@Goatcha_M]

I know the Yanks do use Metric for Engineering now, probably as a result of mistakes like planes running out of fuel and Mars rockets being off course.

[@RoachDogg_JR]

It's really easy when you learn to think in 1/32nds of an inch

[@jessmd2678]

@@Goatcha_M yeah, imagine that.. what a wakeup call for them! The imperial system should disappear.

[@christianwithers7335]

The French use Imperial for Sondes and well logging

[@thirdwheel1985au]

Imperial: When I need to remember the number of feet in a mile I think "five tomatoes" and I remember it's 5,280. Metric: When I need to remember how many metres in a kilometre, I think 1,000 because our measuring system wasn't invented by drunk mathematicians playing with dice

[@lach6288]

Love that line drunk mathematicians playing with dice

[@natashagoode501]

It wasn't a mathematician, but rather his toddler who got stuck into his rum and dice.

[@thirdwheel1985au]

@@natashagoode501, makes sense 😂

[@cagey_87]

that only works if you say tomatoes with an american accent, took my far too long to figure out why that would actually help, we say tom-ah-toes not tom-ay-toes.

[@thirdwheel1985au]

@@cagey_87, true. I just assumed it relied on the American accent given it was talking about imperial units

[@nisrasha6842]

"What kind of stupid country would ever use that" I completely understand and I'm stuck living there

[@Anonymous-df8it]

sh1t

[@thomaskositzki9424]

My commiserations. Seriously for NOTHING in the world would I want to live in the USA. Greetings from Germany

[@landrypierce9942]

@@thomaskositzki9424Get off the internet. Things are pretty good here, except for random minor stuff like the imperial system. Well, and basically every major city. Yeah, other than that it’s pretty good though.

[@jsquared1013]

Nobody is making you stay here, you're free to leave

[@GamingNationShm]

​@@jsquared1013Doesn't it cost a lot to leave(travel), find a home, make sure all your family leaves, get a job and stuff?

[@dawnthomson9269]

God I need to lie down after that, well done Jason, Jason, Jason 🤣

[@dianerafaniello4068]

Brilliant!

[@brendanowen7563]

This video would make a great maths lesson at school.

[@cfa345]

I am SO tempted to make this a math lesson. Great for multiplication & division 😂

[@tanyabrown6191]

You got that right

[@-paulmp]

Unless of course the school is in a proper developed country who uses the metric system...

[@lemonlover1206]

So true.

[@mariannehansen2691]

It would be a total waste of time for school kids outside the USA. :-)

[@aussiepie4865]

The sad thing about this comedy sketch is that it’s true.

[@Makowako_]

It’s not really a big deal tho

[@NeroAngelo0669]

Nautical Miles have a reason for existing, guys! I wouldn't lump them in the same boat as imperial measurements, they're still used world-wide by countries under the metric system for navigation. Navigation, in most cases, simplifies the Earth as being a perfect sphere (which isn't true, but it's close enough). This gives rise to the concepts of Latitude and Longitude, which are measured North/South of the Equator, and East/West of Greenwich Observatory, respectively. Lat&Long are represented by circles passing through the Earth, which allows us to measure distances as an angle - for example, let's say you are at the Equator and you move ten degrees West without changing your latitude - you multiply 10 by 60 and you have travelled 600 Nautical Miles. This is because 1 nautical mile is one minute at the Equator, and there are 60 minutes in one degree. This gets more complicated at different latitudes, especially if you're trying to find the shortest route between two points. P.S. Minutes can be further divided by 60 into seconds, but nowadays, it's accepted that it's difficult and impractical to be more accurate than 0.1 nautical miles in most cases, which is why I didn't mention this earlier I felt I'd have to put it here in case a deckie like myself decides to correct me :)

[@nyuraki_industries]

NERRRRRRRRRD

[@FIcantchoose]

At this point I'm convinced that people who use the imperial system are victims of sunk cost fallacy cause it's so fucking hard to learn it

[@Anonymous-df8it]

lol

[@Makowako_]

It’s honestly super simple. There are only four that are actually used, the others aren’t actually part of the imperial system. Inches, feet, yards, and miles. (Miles aren’t even part of the same system originally which is why the conversion is weird) the thing is we never convert miles to feet. We just use decimals to be more specific with miles.

[@Makowako_]

All of the other things aren’t imperial and are rarely learned

[@markarmage3776]

@@Makowako_ Nope, that's just to measure length, you also have Imperial units for temperature, pressure, mass, force, energy, which are insanely weird because nobody that does scientific work uses those units.

[@purplecowadoom]

@@markarmage3776 I _do_ prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius for temperatures. When you think about what the temperature is like outside (relative to yourself), what makes more sense for a mid-range temp: 50F (on a nice 0 to 100 scale) or 10C? What makes more sense for an upper limit of human tolerance: 100F or _37.78C_ ? We say that 32F is cold enough to freeze water, but things *can* get colder, and if the cold is really bad we're going to switch to *negative numbers* to really emphasize the point (but *only* after things are *already* cold enough to make you hate life). There's some nuance. With Celsius, we only care about what the water is doing. Profoundly unhelpful. If you're outside in late spring/early summer, and the forecast says the temp is going to be 70-75F, you intuitively know that that's going to be nice.

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

Actually, this shows the original use of imperial units. People didn't have standard units of measure before interchangeable parts so we made do with things that were relatively consistent and related to how the unit was employed.

[@3_14pie]

yep, it isn't one system, but all the "yep, that's what we got" stitched together does it still holds up today? the hell no

[@doesntmatter9524]

But they could have just take a feet and then divide it or multiplice it by ten istead of sometimes three, twelve, eleven or ten. I mean money has been countet in most of the countries in steps of 100. 100 cent make a dollar. Except Britan of course. They just messed around with mathematics. I mean why the hell do you need to multiply a Pound with 1,05 to get an Guinea. Theres no real reason to have a Coin which is worth five percent of a Pound plus a Pound...

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

​@@doesntmatter9524Ok, but the system has been around for over a thousand years. And most people didn't get paid more than 10 pounds a month until the 19th century. In that sort of environment, you come up with loads of shorthands for exchange.

[@mustluvseinfeld4444]

Haha, love the shameless promo of merch ;-)

[@zrh8185]

I'm so lucky to live in a country with the metric system!

[@fluffymittens24]

And I'll bet universal health care.

[@zrh8185]

@@fluffymittens24 yes that's right

[@JenOween]

Same. And with the universal health care, too.

[@maxfish4770]

Only three countries still use imperial. Myanmar, Liberia and the US bahahaha.

[@histoomuch]

@@maxfish4770 UK, and Canada mix both of them

[@petermildren5326]

Great video as usual. I'm old enough to remember learning the imperials system, but young enough to remember it being replaced by the metric system before we got too far!. .... Oh, and gotta get me one of those "Jason, Jason, Jason" hoodies!

[@larrykelly-kf5pp]

👍Feet and stones still useful, no idea how long a mile is 😁

[@nixonn3]

How yanks hold onto this system is incredible..it's as though it's a gun

[@_stayoung_]

And ironically they measure their bullets in millimetres

[@0ctatr0n]

@@_stayoung_ Or bullets per square child

[@ricecrash5225]

@@0ctatr0n 😂🤣🤣😂

[@dj1NM3]

@@0ctatr0n First of all, imagine a spherical child (which isn't that hard with Yanks)...

[@bendgeddes]

…and they made it to the phucking moon!🤯

[@iggypryde7453]

Fun fact, the imperial system was not in fact one unified measurement system, it was in fact a complex combination of a hunch of different measurements for different things used at different times codified into a single group of measurements. The system was also created by the English, which isn't relevant but it is very funny.

[@andrewpinedo1883]

Thanks. That is something that a lot of metric advocates aren't aware about.

[@laurac2440]

Love it, Jason Jason Jason 😂😂

[@simmerelise]

There is a reason that there are only 2 countries in the world that haven't started officially converting to the Metric system (Myanmar and USA. For those that don't know Liberia is in the process of officially changing to the Metric system )

[@imac1957]

I think the USA is actually official metric, but decided not to mandate its use. Because, you know: FREEDOM! Consequences have been multiple and at times dire, as well as expensive (don't talk about Mars probes).

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

And even the USA is officially metric.

[@DoritoBot9000]

In reality there are more. Canada still uses imperial for almost everything in your day to day life (groceries, furniture and clothing measurements ) it’s so frustrating!

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Good for Liberia!

[@Fightre_Flighte]

Yeah, you say that. But you look at anything engineered in the U.S.A. and *suddenly* it's almost all in metric. Astonishing. But the people will use it in day to day. Legacy or something.

[@catherinehanrahan6619]

we HAVE to see Jason take over the guy who decides

[@cognitor900]

Great idea! How about Jason explains how decisions are made..... a deep dive into cognition but hey! That Jason is a very cluey chap....

[@nathansharma87]

Nothing more confusing than watching an American read tyre depths. "Twelve thirty seconds here, eleven thirty-four here".

[@evansjessicae]

It's a good thing we don't have any "tyres" here to measure. 😉

[@rileybourke]

#RespectForTheMetricSystem

[@jessicam6881]

Oh it gets worse. In rural areas we have "over yonder" "up/down the way" "up/down the road a spell" & "as the crow flies" to name a few. The exact measurements of those very from person & situation. It's a wonder we're not all lost.

[@ddanielsandberg]

Hahaha! :) Nautical miles and knots is the only thing in this that makes any sense. As far as I know one NM is the length of one arc minute of one degree at the equator and knots is just NM/h. Nautical mile = 40,000km / 360 / 60 = 1.85km (ish). I mean, initially the meter was just defined as the length from the north pole to the equator divided by 10,000,000.

[@villepore7013]

You are correct on the nautical mile, and the exact length is 1.852km, which, as described in the video is then divided by 10 to get a cable.

[@harrybritten1880]

Well obviously sailors know what their doing or they would get lost.

[@1dgram]

​@@harrybritten1880and aviation pilots

[@TheKobiDror]

Cause they live in the real world 😂

[@karl-linusamsler836]

Which means there is one Kilometers per centigon or 10 microgons for a Meter

[@reznovvazileski3193]

Yeaahhhh I'm just gonna remember the number 10 and call it a day thanks :')

[@naturegeek33]

Jason Jason Jason, cant wait for part 2 all about cups and tablespoons

[@aussie405]

And pinches.

[@TheScratchingKiwi]

Oh lord... don't mention cups... Imperial Cup Metric Cup Japanese/Korean Cup and one that's no longer in use: the Canadian Cup. And those are the formal ones.

[@naturegeek33]

@@aussie405 yes! The fuck is a pinch? Is it a large pinch, are my fingers the average pinch size? Ahh

[@kelljA]

Is that a tisbiz or a tusbiz?

[@naturegeek33]

@@kelljA what? Like tbsp?

[@carpevinum8645]

Jason Jason Jason The new "not happy jan" 😂

[@BaMenace]

Lol wow that's an old throw back!

[@gavanhill5132]

It’s an older code, but it checks out.

[@machinerydoctor]

Only Aussies wil get that 😆

[@andrewdegozaru74]

How am I meant to fathom all of that?!? Under water Jason.

[@blobfishking9143]

Being a surveyor I can really appreciate this.

[@margaretbrown2568]

A grandma here, no wonder my eyes use to glaze over in arithmetic. Yes I’m with you Jason, and yes Jason, it was called arithmetic. The young uns don’t know how easy they have got it! Metric, sooo much easier!

[@jakebrockenshire9057]

Boomer comments saying "kids have it easy these days" is the new Souths guy 🤣

[@tsab398]

Are you alive?

[@nielsbrinchsimonsen7712]

Best part is that this is just for length😂

[@angelpuss3155]

Jason is very well adjusted considering his parents and his boss😋🤣👍👍

[@wishuponastar3179]

Girth, length, quality...action! You're fantastic!!!!

[@NNightSShade]

Jason, Jason, Jason. Love it

[@benchapman5247]

I love how an inch is now officially defined in mm

[@Raida7]

oh my god, SO GOOD to hear all the older ones

[@AzraelBloodstorm]

When the people who actually live in a country with the imperial system are getting confused....then you know something's not right lol

[@Anonymous-df8it]

lol

[@dawnmichelle4403]

As an American I'm a little worried that I could follow along. Makes sense to me! 😁😱

[@chlorineismyperfume]

You could follow along?! That's pretty cool. It's all just gibberish to Australians. We understand inches, feet, and miles, but we don't use them.

[@thefluroaussie1004]

🤣🤣

[@anubis0217]

Same lol

[@sherirm777]

But, of course!

[@vikj1255]

that's not something to be sharing with people.

[@alexaliennerd3990]

A centimeter - 10 millimeters A decimeter - 10 centimeters A meter - 10 decimeters A kilometer - 1000 meters ... You can't really get simpler, the most complex it gets is when you convert back to a mile, a kilometre is 0.621 of a mile, because imperial measurements are only a step above measuring in cubits for everything.

[@James-ep2bx]

As odd as many imperial measures may seem now, most(basically all) make sense in their historical context, for instance barley corn where primarily use to measure small lengths, like for fitting shoes, and made sense as they where a readily available object of appropriate number and size. So while yes no two where exactly the same, nothing really was at the time, they where consistent enough to more readily allow something to tell any cobbler the measure the their last cobbler gave them and get shoes fitted close enough, which was the standard at the time, then the alternatives. This also plays a role in why shoe sizes vary from nation to nation Ps; on the use of decimal scaling, we need to remember decimals are (key word)relatively(key word) new in math with fractions being the older and more wide spread option. Thus the value of an easily divisible base was more pronounced, and even now some question if base 10 is the best option for similar reasons Edit added the post script

[@C0lon0]

Here in Brazil our shoes numbers are exactly 1 number lower than the european standard.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

I live in Mordor and we also had a number of weird measurement units, fortunately they got replaced with the metric system and now only historians and people reading old literature know what these corresponded to. Good riddance. Sometimes you just have to let go.

[@James-ep2bx]

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul letting to could apply to either side, also the argument 'you should do [insert subject] because everyone else does` is the definition of an appeal to numbers/popularity, which is a logical fallacy, as are appeals to novelty[new means better], and appeals to tradition[tradition means better]. All other arguments I've seen on the matter lead to less clear cut results often depending on how one looks at them

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

@@James-ep2bx well, if the numerous existing reasons to switch to metric are somehow insufficient for you, you're welcome to carry on. I mean of course you can eat with your fingers, it won't kill you (most of the times), nobody is going to force you to eat with a fork.

[@ShDynasty_Comma_To_The_Top]

For all of you people with a reasonable meausring system, the only ones of these we actually use (or that people usually know) are inches, feet, yards, miles, and (maybe for people who spend time on the water) nautical miles (maybe fathoms, I’m not sure).

[@jessmd2678]

Hahaha, this is hilariously true!!! Such a confusing measurement system! Whoever created it definitely was drunk! LOL

[@kassandrajeffery7035]

I find it a little funny how we still measure a newborn baby's weight in pounds and ounces before kilos and grams, even on the birth announcements in the paper. Imperial measurements still pop up here and there, depending on what it's for and how we're taught (as in, with work, etc), but the metric system is definitely easier to get more accurate measurements and conversions to larger or smaller units are a lot simpler, too.

[@rowanbrown5541]

Feet for height too

[@Dan-to9hl]

Metric isn't more accurate its down to the granularity of the instrument you are using or the accuracy you chose to record. The accuracy of inches is infinite as is metres. I'm assuming you mean the smallest increment of commonly available measuring devices when you mention accuracy. But that's not really a fault with the measurement system.

[@megablaps]

@@Dan-to9hl true, this is why 'thousandths of an inch' is still a very common measurement used even in incredibly right tolerances in machining.

[@Dan-to9hl]

@@megablaps i find that argument so illogical, the accuracy thing. The divisibility sure, but imperial is just as accurate as metric.

[@gchecosse]

We announced our daughter's weight in kilos only. But it's true, the NHS nurses measure in metric and tell you the figure in imperial, you have to insist on metric.

[@binaryglitch64]

As a fully matured American for over two decades, I endorse this message.

[@WhyWouldYouDrawThat]

Thank you. You’re just brightened covid lockdown for me. Love it. And very very well done. 😅

[@whatupyo7260]

I learnt more here than I did at school 🏫👨‍⚕️😧 📏 LOL 😝

[@framedlizard0362]

This reminds me of an episode of Horrible histories, where Elizabeth 1 got fed up after asking one of the people she was travelling with how far it was to the next town. And they all asked in which feet and in which miles, which she literally told them to pick a number between 1 and 10 and that would be the new standard mile.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

But 5280 isn't between 1 and 10 though

[@manuelfriend4060]

Oh man I loved that show.

[@enzodiegosno1devoutfan531]

O....M......G...... I'M SO CONFUSED MY HEAD IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE.🤯 OR GET A HEADACHE 😵 LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 but gotta love the "JASON JASON JASON" - "The Guy Who Decides" videos ......... perfect giggles for a Monday thanks mate 👍

[@golgotai2938]

As an engineer I utterly despise the imperial system. Screwthreads gave me so much headache over the years. Insane how some people think the imperial is better.

[@thirdwheel1985au]

One person measures their rage in inches.

[@kerryannmoor5908]

Bloody brilliant!!!

[@Haggisking]

I was waiting for the "grab me a pint" at the end there... 😅

[@luciegrace8435]

"Jason, Jason, Jason!" OMG so funny :D

[@xanimefankingdom659]

Showed my American friend this. She thought it was hilarious

[@TreasureHuntingNana]

Too funny! You lost me at barley corn :P

[@fariesz6786]

literally every single European power: yeah, we'll do something like that BUT adapted the shoe size of our current ruler

[@Walleyedwosaik]

It took me way too long to realise you were jimmy giggle

[@kelljA]

I still say a bees-doodle, and a poofteenth are reasonable measurements....

[@akwyld2545]

And this is why the metric system is better.,..all straight forward🇦🇺

[@garycpriestley]

"Jason, Jason, Jason!" 😄 I'd buy that shirt 😉

[@Nsane182]

This is so perfect. Thank you

[@deanstephens3163]

Wow just wow. Awesome

[@joebloggs6131]

"What kind of stupid country would ever use that" 😂😂😂 Had me rolling

[@Voodoo_Robot]

I read an article about the diameter of space shuttle's booster. The author went through some interesting mental gymnastics to prove how genius the imperial system is. He ended up literally by the horse butt.

[@jsquared1013]

That isn't about imperial measurements, is about origins of measurements and the butterfly effect on other things down the line. I.e. Roman roads were made for the width of two horses, so carts had similar track widths, which led to routine widths for cargo, and then later train gauges were based on the common cargo width, and finally the width of the booster was limited by the gauge of the train tracks that transported them from factory to spaceport. I am sure I left out some intermediate steps, but you get the idea.

[@michelq29]

I really like imperial system because it's exotic, a relic of the past, funny because excessively complicated and confusing (as trying to understand a foreign language). I like it as long as it's not in my backyard, only when in holiday in foreign countries. For all day life I use metric system of course, let's be serious.

[@kenanirocks]

Hahahaha!!!! I always wondered how the hell the imperial system came together. I remember when we learned about the metric system in school and I was like thats so easy. I asked my teacher why we don’t use that system. Lol she just rolled her eyes and shook her head while she said I don’t know

[@Anonymous-df8it]

lol

[@Makowako_]

There’s just not enough reason to go through the hassle of switching. In day to day life imperial really works just fine

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@Makowako_ No.

[@Makowako_]

@@Anonymous-df8it good point

[@Kadoshiun]

​@@Makowako_The world being as internationally connected as it is, it might be worth it! I mean...the US has sent a multi-billion dollar orbiter straight into Mars' atmosphere once because ONE american company didn't get the memo that measurements were to be done in metric....yeah that orbiter wasn't very good at orbiting after that xD

[@Laura-on9ft]

To be honest was already saying it (Jason, Jason, Jason) before the merch came out!

[@OmnivorousReader]

😅🤣😂 This totally reflects my personal experience of trying to figure out WTF imperial was all about...

[@samanthadunn7142]

“carry the 1…”😂 I’m South African, we use the metric system. My brain was short circuiting trying to follow an American recipe (was in the US at the time) with imperial measurements. I needed a drink after all of that mental gymnastics.

[@j_sum1]

Oh yes. Next please weights. And then volumes. And don't forget areas. Ther are a few of those too. How many barns in an acre? I forget.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Depends on the size of a barn. Or you could just measure it in football fields or cow cakes.

[@TheFilmCouple_]

This is gold!! And to think, so many people still use it to this day, and still don't know metric!

[@Makowako_]

Honestly imperial isn’t that bad. I can’t think of the last time I had to convert between feet and miles, we always use just decimals of miles, like 8.3 miles if we want to be more precise. Metric is better but imperial isn’t all that bad. The reason the conversions are weird is not because of some crazy mathematician. They are completely different measuring systems. They all got kinda grouped in as imperial, but miles are a different system than feet and yards. Base 12 is better than base 10 for math but unfortunately most of the world uses base 10 only because we have ten fingers. It’s really not a very good counting system. I still agree metric is better, but really imperial works 99% of the time.

[@Makowako_]

It’s just to much of a hassle to switch with such a small comparative benefit

[@nokzep8118]

@@Makowako_can you explain why you think base 12 is better than base 10? is it because 12 is more divisible than 10?

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

And 4 hands is 1 possum.

[@AngelSBolander]

I laughed so hard on my way home I don't think I'm allowed to ride the bus anymore 😅

[@MaddMystro]

These video's are to make Jason's drinking a tax right off?

[@obi-wankenobi1233]

How about... The Guy who decides countries? The Guy who decides social rules and norms? The Guy who decides the school systems? The Guy who decides the human body? The Guy who decides diseases?

[@favorit-kritter]

Guy who decides the human body: We'll put the smallest, most vulnerable toes on the outside, so we can keep an eye on them at all times! The smallest toe: I'm in danger

[@cheese4793]

SHuT uP JaSoN

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

As long as plywood in Canada is still 4 x 8 feet and framing lumber is still 38 x 89 mm, (or 1.5 x 3.5 inches), I'm gonna keep building my houses in barleycorns.

[@damientherk6256]

I may be a bit late. But an interesting reference for an inch by the "National Institute of Standards and Technnology. U.S. Dept of commerce" is 25.4mm. LOL

[@AleksPTA]

Where does one get to buy that fantastic hoodie? Thanx Dzimi

[@BenjaminRonlund]

Before the decimal system was invented it was important that things could be easily divisible without remainders. That's how we ended up with weird numbers like 12 and 1760, they had the most factors compared to other numbers their size.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

But 1760 isn't a highly composite number though

[@LionsShareYT]

I think the number of feet in a mile (5280) is the better example here, since I’m pretty sure that the mile’s length was defined initially by the number of feet, not yards. The prime factorization of 5280 is 2⁵ × 3 × 5 × 11, which is highly composite, as it therefore has 48 factors it can be evenly divided by. Since 1760 for the number of yards is obtained by dividing 5280 by 3, its prime factorization is 2⁵ × 5 × 11, which is still highly composite, as it has 24 factors.

[@Vendavalez]

Now THIS is a good reason for some of those arbitrary numbers that makes sense! I was raised on metric and couldn’t fathom why some of these numbers were chosen.

[@rynominnie83]

"Before the decimal system was invented..." Oh, so you mean 2300+ years ago?

[@LasseGreiner]

At least 1728 would have made some sense.... Just sticking to some base would have. I think the old pound is a similar nonsensical idiocy but this did at least not survive, did it?

[@TheRoostersGarage]

That sounds about right! I always imagined the conversation would go something like this. Which random things used to determine the imperial system

[@Felipemelazzi]

This video made my blood pressure rise

[@jessicaharris1608]

I'm slowly converting my older family recipes to grams. I have a great kitchen scale for weighing ingredients, but sometimes a recipe will call for THIRDS OF AN OUNCE. My scale doesn't measure in thirds, nor is it easy to divide a recipe in half or quarters or less when the flour is measured in cups! (Have fun with the math when you want to make a half batch of something that calls for 3/4 of a cup of an ingredient!) Baking is more vulnerable to failure due to imprecise measurements so I just don't bother working with the wacky US volume based measurements... convert to metric for the win! No one will pack a cup of brown sugar to exactly the same amount as someone else so if I measure by weight instead of volume I can be sure I've measured accurately EVERY TIME! I'm not quite ready for mL liquid conversions yet, but I DEFINITELY find grams vastly more useful in cooking/baking measurements. mL are written on the same liquid measuring cup, so there's less pressure to adopt mL.

[@bishop8958]

Why not just use grams for the liquids too?

[@jessicaharris1608]

@bishop8958 I don't mind the liquid measurements. mL and liquid ounces are on the same liquid measuring cup, so it hasn't bothered me much yet.

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

Your cooking must have no soul. I rarely even bother measuring.

[@seth094978]

Well thankfully a third of an ounce is very nearly 10 grams. Easy!

[@jessicaharris1608]

@seth094978 With cooking, that's fine. Baking is a precision based endevor, so I'd rather be convert to grams to get that precision. My husband enjoys cooking creatively. He's wants to get into baking, at least for a few projects, also. He has lots of ideas, and I need to slow him down and say, "Please start with a recipe we know is reliable, and then we can see how to tweak it." Baking is a sensitive chemistry based endeavor, so you're at much higher risk of epic failure if you do the "pinch of this, cup of that measurement method."

[@anthonyberent4611]

No mention of the rod (or pole or perch)? Maybe a measure equal to 5 1/2 yards is too strange for even Jason!

[@Anonymous-df8it]

And the link.

[@afrog2666]

Actual history lesson right here 😂

[@arcagebuttons5987]

Inch is a pouse in French which is a thumb. That's the length.

[@niccikorff8233]

Jason Jason Jason 🍸

[@gofreely]

Is that merch??? I need it!

[@citybeatdisco19]

A youtuber that didn't put link to the merch, in description box? I'm shocked lol. Video re Jimmy's merch, & the link is below it kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGSTf3-njJmSqNU (I'm waiting for a Melb/Vic one top - lol)

[@jonathonschott]

This man cracked the code. I dont even want to know how his girlfriend measures, but i bet she is impressed............

[@Me_Caveman]

This comes to mind when my wife explains her clothing sizes to me.

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

What about rods, poles and perches?

[@maggiewidows2218]

Yes!