Ranting About Metric vs Imperial with a NYC Cabbie

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

**Tries to make fun of the metric system** **Ends up ranting about the imperial system instead** Canadian Confirmed.

[@gnju9xd]

You're right hahahaha. I forgot he was supposed to be from NYC

[@owenhammond1880]

Im American and even I didn't even know we had stuff in-between inches, feet , yards and miles. I'm happy my parent taught me some metric so I got the basic idea of it.

[@randomcontentgenerator2331]

@@owenhammond1880 Yeah pretty sure nobody has ever used the word "Furlong"

[@Sauvenil]

@@randomcontentgenerator2331 or fathoms, that he didn't even mention!

[@fingmoron]

@@randomcontentgenerator2331 horse racing, still use it in the UK for that.

[@Fradhm]

Simply magically, I never thought a Canadian, impersonating a New Yorker, driving around the streets of Canada shouting about the metric system would make me laugh so much I woke my wife up

[@dmv2ks]

How to tell if he's Canadian. Step 1. Knows more about the imperial system than the average American does anyways.

[@Udontkno7]

2. Snows a lil too white for NYC

[@jamesczhang]

@@dmv2ks Ah that's just the basic Canadian skill of juggling imperial AND metric systems. Even the French ones can do it.

[@jeffdaniel772]

Stop flexing that u have a wife 😔

[@klidthelid8361]

So sorry to hear about your parasite infection

[@zethz161]

"if im setting up my tinder profile, 10 centimetre sounds a hell lot better than 4 inches" hands down best quote of the year

[@Vyrkhan]

100 likes ;)

[@78garo]

No. It’s still sounds poorly.

[@JohnSpike8888]

Not, if she’s used to metric :-)))

[@Habtholomeu]

"God, in dog years I'd last about 3 and a half minutes in bed"

[@Halo_Legend]

This makes sense only to an american, as you have to be used to inches to even consider 10 cm big for a pp size.

[@yellowstonethepony7769]

The US adopted the Metric system in 1975 as the official way to measure things. But nobody ever just took the time to implement it anywhere.

[@Tjalve70]

Except NASA.

[@GH-oi2jf]

Yellowstone The Pony - Metric units were adopted long before that, though. Metric and Customary units have equal standing for most purposes, even after the 1975 act. In 1992, President Bush ordered federal agencies to implement metric conversion where feasible. That does not affect private commerce.

[@victormartins8654]

there's a road somewhere in arizona or new mexico idk, that uses the metric system

[@Tjalve70]

@@victormartins8654 I think it's actually called "The Metric Highway". Possibly an unofficial name, but anyway. But this is actually even more stupid. The least they can do is to be consistent within the country.

[@grandetaco4416]

I'm a US citizen and I've got a lot of metric tools laying around.

[@Trinity-wm8sm]

Im taking french right now so i can wholeheartedly vouch that "i am mad" is "i am mad croissant"

[@theorghal]

@@jewishonion5030 I have to disagree It's only noises

[@kitsdos5325]

Technically we’re all animals so English is also animal noises

[@Mayhem_77100]

I'm french, and I just want to know how do you know we say "I'm mqd croissant"? It's supposed to be secret

[@kattharsismic]

Careful or you're gonna make us go crazy baguette!

[@anneaunyme]

@@kitsdos5325 that's deep. also factually true. which makes it deeper.

[@petfama4211]

Why don’t people who’re 6ft say they’re 2 yards tall?

[@zedaddy3530]

⠀

[@brightmaxe]

Who dont they say i am 72 Inches?

[@brightmaxe]

´cause nobody asked

[@UnePintade]

Why don't they say that they're 1,8 m ?

[@zedaddy3530]

@@UnePintade some actually do lmao it's kinda dumb ik

[@LordChesalot]

Acre is based of how much wheat one person can harvest in one day with a medieval sythe . It was very useful , not so much anymore

[@somebloke3869]

Is that how much a fit 18 year old could harvest , or a diseased malnourished 30 year old? Or someone in between?

[@IrvingIV]

@@somebloke3869 lets use a diseased malnourished 18 year old as the base

[@user-qx7tm5df8j]

@@somebloke3869 or an average adult

[@gggabriell]

what you mean 'not so much anymore'? its pretty much nonsense

[@LordChesalot]

Average peasant

[@aroddo2953]

3:22 "anyone who uses the imperial system should use dog years instead of regular years" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@FFFF-mb4qm]

Europeans don't say "I'm 188 cm tall" we say "I'm one-eighty-eight".

[@Rebius]

No, Europeans say I'm "almost-one-ninety" :D

[@FFFF-mb4qm]

@@Rebius True!

[@Knez_Pavle]

Or meter eighty eight

[@LentPanic7]

Except the French, they say “I’m one-four-twenty-eight.”

[@FFFF-mb4qm]

@@LentPanic7 danish* having stroke

[@eshayadav9791]

"35 bald eagles long" bruhhhh 😂😂😂

[@SO-Negative]

That was so good quote he threw I guess next one would be like this street is 0.2 grand canyons long and my house is 5 nascars tall or 632 hot chicken wings

[@rossbrumby1957]

The strength of 10 Morgan Freemans. Favourite saying from Southpark......

[@gibbsm]

In Canada, a kilogram is the mass/weight of a cubic foot of maple syrup, odd huh?

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Gets upset about Brits using "stone" for weight. Uses "feet" for distance.

[@haavard1989]

And WHAT FOOT? A childs foot? A grown persons foot? What if they only used "Shoes" instead, based on a size 40 shoe or something. Even THAT would make more sense...

[@Tapio86]

And stone...isn't metric.

[@TremereTT]

@@haavard1989 The best thing is that Brittish and American foot are actually not the same length. That's why using these units is even more dangerous. You never know wich one it is exactly.

[@jizzmonkey9679]

@@TremereTT yes they are the same.

[@TremereTT]

@@jizzmonkey9679 You could have asked Wikipedia before you answered. A foot are 12 inches . yet UK standard inches and US survey inches have differnet sizes...so have US feet and UK feet! Quote from wikipedia: In fact, 12.7 kilometres is exactly 500,000 standard inches and exactly 499,999 survey inches. US-UK-Space missions have failed because there are Americans who have studied on American universities and yet still think a US survey inch, -foot, -mile is exactly the same size as a UK standard inch, -foot , -mile. Jizzmonkey, I hope you are advocating for metrication as you are apparently overchallanged by the imperial units...And to your excuse, imperial is overly complicated for no reason, most people won't be able to know how it works without wikipedia. That's why metrication happened. people want a system that works.

[@namelessnavnls8060]

"Who measures their weight in rocks?" Cavemen! "Ooga booga am 10 rock."

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

and then he measures his own weight in an equally-ridiculous unit 😅

[@ay-leck1369]

@@Lapantouflemagic0 hahahahahahahahahahthjahahassshahahahahahahshjsfdjashahahjdkahahahahah so funny laugh fun hiliarous

[@lred1383]

That's basically what Imperial units are: a caveman system. The only reason they are still used is pure laziness from the US authorities

[@colinwelsh2874]

I'm 13 stone 12 pounds.

[@Nick-lx4fo]

Brit: Who measures their weight in money?

[@Lucky-xq7dz]

Baby Blub is salty

[@Jasuta123]

@@omarsheriff51 who is Le Mao ? Le Mfao's friend ?

[@lemonke3774]

I’m your 600th like! What an honour!

[@AndreasDelleske]

He would say „T‘es con!“

[@oliverdruce5448]

This had me Crying

[@linagonia5653]

mdr

[@MrX-xi9ul]

I lost 30 pounds! Americans: :D British: 0.0

[@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme]

Rest of the the world except liberia ans Myanmar : keskse

[@haroldinho9930]

@@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme and Myanmar

[@anteeklund4159]

Lol

[@Vincrand]

You could buy some good food with that :)

[@adriansmith9972]

Congratulations

[@clarinethro1695]

As a person who lives in America, I would like to learn the Metric System, but the Imperial System gives us the ability to walk outside when it’s 69 degrees and say “nice”, and preheat our ovens to 420 degree without burning the house down

[@noahmugan354]

@@Wicked_Toast Except it is?

[@JoelLinus]

@@Wicked_Toast Degree Fahrenheit is Imperial, Degree Celsius is Metric

[@a_pond_full_of_coins]

The only valid reason to prefer imperial

[@clarinethro1695]

*I stole this joke so if anyone randomly is all “oh u stole this joke without admitting” I admit

[@olsirmonkey]

Fahrenheit would be great, is just that the freezing point is 32 degrees, not 0

[@神の人-f2k]

As an Englishman myself, I actually find it rather irritating when people use stone. Like wtf?

[@andrecamarao543]

Wtf is stone

[@laarons7723]

@Tara S. Nope.

[@hoixthegreat8359]

@Tara S. Yeah, a stone is just 14lbs. So someone who is, say, 10st2 is just 142lbs.

[@Jin-Ro]

Remainer detected

[@神の人-f2k]

​@@Jin-Ro Well, I'm not that rare to find. Just go to London and you'll find plenty of people like me. In my opinion, I wouldn't mind having some bloke in Brussels installing minor fishing laws if that meant that I could potentially, travel, work and live in the majority of Europe without a visa.

[@celestinopulcoto8702]

1 liter of pure water = 1 kilogram, very useful for cooking

[@MisanCuber]

This is not physically correct. (You must consider density of substance.)

[@stephanweinberger]

@@MisanCuber for cooking (and most other practical purposes) it's close enough.

[@8b8b8b]

It is 1,000 kg/m^3 at 3.98 °C, and 997 kg/m^3 at room temperature

[@1pcfred]

Why are you weighing a liquid? Here we just use measuring cups. And we measure fluid in wait for it, cups! If we don't just use fluid ounces.

[@stephanweinberger]

@@1pcfred maybe because sometimes to have to transport liquids and need to know the weight.

[@ryanxin1848]

YOU WANNA HOW MANY ACRES ARE IN A SQUARE MILE?!?! Yeah sur- 640!!!

[@1pcfred]

That's all survey inch isn't it?

[@roadhouse6999]

"Americans don't use the metric system" Scientists, gun nuts, and potheads: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

[@gibbsm]

caliber fucks it up tho, back to imperial, and potheads tap out at a pound then use imperial after that.

[@roadhouse6999]

@@gibbsm the most commonly used calibers in the US are usually referred to by their metric units: 9x19mm and 5.56x45mm. Plus a lot of people measure shot distances in meters, since optics and sights are all set up for meters since they're meant for the military, but sold on the civilian market.

[@gibbsm]

@@roadhouse6999 I know all of this, was military, and own guns, I was making a joke.

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

Totally wrong about American gun nuts American and British calibers are in imperial. .22lr .38 special , 45 acp ,30-06,308 win, 300 win mag, etc. also we use yards to shoot and inches it measure accuracy. I never heard meters used unless is FPS Russia.

[@mariostar13]

You’ll all soon feel my wrath!

[@kyahgoold4744]

I’m STILL laughing at the “ I AM MAD. Croissant”😂😂

[@schmid1.079]

A friend of mine once was part of a student exchange in the US. He returned with an american exchange student, who always complained that german is such a hard language. My friend just replied "well at least you dont need a doctors degree to understand our measuring system."

[@Liggliluff]

Metric transcends language. As long as you can say the numbers, you can use the measuring system, since the name of the units are basically the same. That is unlike Imperial units where "inch" in German is "Zoll", which is completely different. At least Germany don't have their old Zoll unit around, that would make it even more annoying.

[@nassima4676]

I'm french and i laughed so hard to "I'm mad CROISSANT" 😂😂😂 But don't worry guys, in France, when people are mad, they just insult your whole family tree 👌

[@ThePixel1983]

Things like "sh**hooker" and "fu** your mother/your race" (or both in one insult) ...

[@yeehaw693]

c vrai 😔

[@ayyylmao101]

Dishonour on you, dishonour on your COW, your father smells of elderberries, and I fart in your general direction. - The French, probably

[@DauragonC.Mikado]

and we send people to have a shit (I'm Belgian, not French)

[@Tvngsten]

Actually, people from Paris don't need to be mad to insult your whole family tree

[@Aaronit0]

You forgot to talk about Celsius VS Fahrenheit (which is screwed up)

[@Am_L1]

Add kelvin to that 🤣

[@Mitaka.Kotsuka]

@@Am_L1 His brother Kelvin? no, he lives in chicago now

[@Katya_Lastochka]

Now thats where I take the Fahrenheit any day. It's way more accurate.

[@cebokhumalo602]

Honestly, Fahrenheit is a mess, at least Celsius is somewhat consistent and has a simple relationship with Kelvin... Everything about Fahrenheit makes my head hurt 😂😂

[@cinamontoast2555]

@@Katya_Lastochka I think kind sir, that 0 degrees c(freezing point) to 100 degrees c(boiling point) is more sensible than 32 degrees f(freezing point) to 212 degrees f (boiling point), plus learning Fahrenheit is very hard for us non Americans and non Burmese and non Liberians , while learning metric is very easy for anyone as all the numbers are just multiplied by ten. ex. 100centimetre = 1metre 1000metres = 1Kilometre ex2. 1000millileters = 1litre Although, i have to say metRE is just stupid and should be metER

[@kapuccinno1163]

Masterful sequel

[@RichieLarpa]

Miło widzieć Polaka na nieznajomym kanale, ciekawe zaskoczenie!

[@MonkOrMan]

2:59 “First of all an acre sounds like something that I’d find on the underside of my foot!”

[@elliewilliams9893]

It’s been a whole year? I’ve been subscribed to you for roughly a year....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!

[@JaceGarrdok]

I read about an article the other day where a massive hole appeared in the middle of a road after an earthquake/landslide/sth like that and its gaping size was measure in washing machines. Americans are truely fascinating lmao

[@woowooNeedsFaith]

Did they tell which side of the washing machine they used as a measurement? Width, height, depth? Or was it a volume measurement? Was it a industrial size machine or smaller household one? And what should I do if I only hand wash my laundry?

[@loljptrollergami7325]

@@woowooNeedsFaith I think they said wide, so I guess, the widest side(?)

[@woowooNeedsFaith]

@@loljptrollergami7325 You think? You read the same article?

[@axelavila231]

What's the model of the Washing machines?

[@loljptrollergami7325]

@@woowooNeedsFaith I haven't, maybe

[@patricklush4363]

The nice thing about Canada is that, instead of knowing one system or the other, you get to be learned in both. I had a cousin in Sweden (who speaks three or four languages btw) ask me how I could do that. I was dumbfounded and just explained that we use hours to measure distance, instead of distance to measure distance. Mind you, they didn’t really get time constraints as a problem since they live a country that you can cross in five hours. I can’t even reach my grandparents in that time.

[@gibbsm]

US is the same as far as measuring in time. Time can also include traffic, which is nice, as distance does not account.

[@8888k]

Liked for “My brother Kelvin? Nah he lives in Chicago now”.

[@Mitaka.Kotsuka]

my feelings exact

[@ilikeboys2944]

I laughed so hard when he said He was French so he said I’m mad croissant 😂

[@derwolf158]

Went into this video thinking you made a mistake by making a sequel to your viral video but it was pretty DAMN good. Pleasantly surprised at it and I loved that joke about Kelvin at the very end!!

[@anerdwithaswitch9686]

Personally what I really like about the metric system is how you have the units defined by universal constants and then a bunch of units defined using those units. One second is the time that passes in 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation in caesium-133. One meter defined such that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. One kilogram is defined such that the Planck constant is 6.62607015×10^-34 kgm^2/s. One coulomb is 6,241,509,074,460,762,607.776 elementary charges (though it is impossible for something to have a charge of 1 C or -1 C because you can't have 0.776 protons or electrons). One mole is 6.02214076×10^23 things. One kelvin is defined such that the Boltzmann constant is 1.380 649×10^−23 kgm^2/(Ks^2). One newton is the force required to accelerate a 1 kg object at 1 m/s^2. One joule is the work exerted by a force to move an object 1 m using 1 N. One watt is the power output caused by a change of 1 J/s. One volt is the electric potential caused by an electric field that imparts 1 J/C on the charges passing through it. One ampere is an electric current of 1 C/s. One ohm is the resistance of a wire such that the potential difference must be 1 V/A of current. One farad is the capacitance of a capacitor that can hold 1 C/V. One weber is defined such that a change in magnetic flux of 1 Wb/s produces a potential difference of one V; 1 Wb = 1 Vs. One tesla is defined such that a particle with a charge of 1 C moving perpendicularly through a magnetic field of 1 T at 1 m/s experiences a force of 1 N; 1 T = 1 Wb/m^2. One henry is defined such that an inductor of 1 H will have a potential difference across it of 1 V when the current is changing at 1 A/s; 1 H = 1 Vs/A. One pascal is 1 N of force applied across a surface of area 1 m^2. One liter is 1 dm^3. Molarity is defined such that 1 M = 1 mol/L.

[@martincerveny2284]

Do you know how is defined one inch? 25.4mm :-D

[@anerdwithaswitch9686]

@@martincerveny2284 Yep--US Customary and Imperial are at this point based on metric! Of course, the second benefit of metric is that it allows for easy conversion, since everything that's not based off of a fundamental constant is based off of either the number 1 or other powers of 10.

[@martincerveny2284]

@@anerdwithaswitch9686 I know and agree. Therefore are imperial units funny.

[@JandCfilms1]

I hope they start measuring race tracks in bald eagles. "Hey Ron, how long is Daytona International Speedway?" "Eh, about 2,200 bald eagles Billy."

[@benjidu78440]

Cleetus McFarland approved

[@thekennys8000]

When you said "My brudder Kelvin?" my husband said "Jeez, what a Newfoundland sound for a New Yorker." Looked on your About, and whadda ya know? This was hilarious, thank you!

[@hansphilipsen8498]

This guy talks incredibly similar to the scout from tf2

[@beefyblom]

Both from the same general region

[@Kebbab.213]

Damn now that you say it

[@Jack-hy1uu]

So glad you bought back the NYC accent, my prayers have been answered!! Go Colbo, go Colbo, go, go, go Colbo.

[@eatthatass9727]

Americans: I'm 7 carrots and 3 potatos tall. Me: Im 182cm. Americans: Jeeez thats so confusing

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

lol That was HILARIOUS!!! We need more NY Traci driver! Thanks.

[@WideoWatcher19]

I could listen to you rant over random things for hours and hours on end. Brilliant stuff, Matt! As a European with lots of friends from the U.S., this hit home really well. Thanks for the laughs! ^^

[@Pseud0nymTXT]

fun fact all imperial units are legally defined in metric...

[@1pcfred]

And do you know why that is? Factoids by themselves without explanations are not terribly useful.

[@thepiratepeter4630]

@@1pcfred Because the world choose to use metric units as the sample units (actually defined on some real world constant), so any other unit has to be based on metric units to be useful

[@1pcfred]

@@thepiratepeter4630 but the world did not choose to use metric. Metric is based on whatever anyone says it is based on today. They've gone through so many definitions it makes the word standard meaningless. Metric used to be based on the circumference of the world. But they missed that by a good 40 kilometers. Was actually supposed to be the distance of a line from the equator to the North Pole drawn through Paris. Now what do I care about Paris? I hate the French! Now they base metric on the speed of light passing through a metric proponent's head. Which is a hard vacuum.

[@thepiratepeter4630]

@@1pcfred Metric is not "based on whatever anyone says it is based on today". While its true that standards change with time (better instruments, better samples), its obvious that only one standard is true at a certain time, and the pratical difference between two standards is virtually zero for the average person.

[@yrosan]

​@@1pcfred What you fail to understand, is that metric is not based on the things you cite, only defined by them. Metric has pretty much always been a fixed lenght, only the way we define it has changed, to make it so the original lenght can be based on an universal constant. For meters, the speed of light. It could have been a fraction of the lenght between new york and the south pole for all we care, and they would come up with a fraction representing the original meter. Now originally imperial was based on absolute nothingness. Like the head of an imperial proponent's head. Thankfully, now it's based on metric.

[@isaachiew676]

imperial systems are funny, how heck you guys gonna do the math it's a version of the french counting numbers think about it

[@8b8b8b]

99=4*20+10+9

[@IrvingIV]

we just internalize the size of the most common ones and reckon by that for instance, a lot of people have to walk/jog/run one mile laps in school several times, which builds an idea of how long a mile is. And we have a general idea how large a foot is, and just go by that for most person sized things.

[@alittlebitdissapointed6834]

@@IrvingIV well,in metric if you wanna know how long is that road by meters you just times 1000. How do you guys count miles to feets? Not that easy eh

[@IrvingIV]

@@alittlebitdissapointed6834 You sound pretty smug for somebody replying to a guy who was explaining how he and his peers do their best to cope with an inferior measurement system.

[@alittlebitdissapointed6834]

@@IrvingIV that exactly why i mocked them,because for some reason they still use the inferior system rather then the obviously easier one. It just a joke tho,i just find it funny how they use random measurement like football field and feets lol.

[@vatsalpurohit3933]

United States switched from imperial to metric units overnight.. There would be mass confusion.

[@isaachiew676]

yeah imagine you buy 2 KG instead of 2 pounds of meat, you will wonder why your fridge getting stuffed. or try refill gasoline using liters instead of gallons

[@TheGreatPurpleFerret]

@@isaachiew676 we buy gas by the dollar and meat by the amount of pain and suffering the animal went through to feed us.

[@Rogsnutle]

@@TheGreatPurpleFerret If only that were true. Meat would be so much cheaper. ;^;

[@mreese8764]

And people would by American hardware. Wait a second. I guess Silicon valley and software, Google, etc. Only happened because Americans don't have metric; because their hardware sucks.

[@PhillipParr]

@@TheGreatPurpleFerret Gotta think about that gas too - only in America would you call a liquid a gas!

[@faramund9865]

When you started naming chains and furlongs I thought you were making stuff up lol!

[@christianmelton735]

Dude, starting watching your videos a month ago, and now I can’t stop

[@thomas984498]

A cube with a side length of 0.1 m full of water weight 1 kg. Checkmate

[@SeeTv.]

And it's a liter And water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius

[@UnePintade]

@kayemm86 nope it boils at 100 centigrade

[@victor-vr9px]

That's one of the best parts, we measure density with the help of water and it's easy to know that 10 cubic centimetres is 1kg

[@panda4247]

10cc is not 1kg. 10 cubic centimetres is 10ml, which for water weighs 10g. I think you meant a cube with 10cm edge, which is not 10cm³ but (10cm)³ = 10³cm³ = 1000cm³ =1litre. This isssue is of course not related to metric, the same mistake can be done with imperial. Let's do the same for a similar cube. Cube with edge 4in does not have volume 4in³, but 4³in³ = 64in³, etc

[@darthplagueis13]

@@UnePintade Centigrade is just an outdated term for the celsius scale. It's no longer in use because centigrade is also used as an angular measurement in various languages and it just caused confusion, specifically because both temperature and angles were measured in degrees. But I can assure you, water freezes at 0 degrees celsius and boils at 100 degrees celsius.

[@fmjkevlar]

You need to make this "your thing" its freaking brilliant!

[@sabraidrhdour4106]

Dude, I hope you go viral, you are really funny and gosh darn smart specially the "your mom" jokes. Keep it up boy.

[@MattColbo]

That's very kind of you Sabra, thank you!!

[@asenfilipov]

I need more videos like this one! The world needs more ranting cabbie.

[@vit.budina]

Just in case anyone was curious about Czechia, for height, we round up to tens of cm and say that we are a meter (or two meters, if you're lucky) and add the rounded up digit of cm behind, so instead of 188 cm we say "I'm meter 90." Nice and quick. And don't look for the guy who asked, I don't know him either.

[@Wineblood]

I've always done height as metre and centimetre, so instead of saying 188 centimetres, I say 1 metre 88. It's got a similar rhythm to 6 ft 2 and still metric.

[@1pcfred]

And it still sucks too. Because metric has no popular equivalent to the foot. There is the decimeter but it never really caught on. Something a bit less than 4 inches isn't terribly useful really. Not unless you really got shortchanged in life.

[@eddydrouet1888]

@@1pcfred what do you mean it has no popular equivalent? It is the default in most of the world except your special little bubble that likes to think they're the shit lmaoooo, like why would the rest of the world have to bring themselves down to y'all's level of stupidity like jesus give me a break lmaooo

[@Vengir]

​@@1pcfred ​ Because people living in metric countries don't feel the need to measure things in an unit of that particular length. It's not a big deal to say 30cm or 0.3m, and few things are made of that specific length anyway in the metric countries. The few things that are measured in US units are things where Americans (or the British) imposed some standards that everyone decided to just roll with. Hence the few oddities like screen sizes, vehicle wheel sizes or airplane altitude. But hey, if you are curious how we measure specific everyday things, just ask, and I might be able to tell you.

[@1pcfred]

@@Vengir we did invent screens, wheels and flying. So we got to size them too. The less I know about foreigners the better I like 'em. You all look funny, act funny and talk funny too. Sometimes it is funny ha ha. But not often enough. In an international act of goodwill we bomb you folks with metric these days. So you're welcome.

[@cd8048]

@@1pcfred Dude, have you really been going around this comment section for a few months justifying the imperial system with nationalism and xenophobia?!

[@firstname_lastname]

The metric system actually has more specific denominations for measurements of length. There are: 10 millimeters in 1 centimeter 10 centimeters in 1 decimeter 10 decimeters in 1 meter 10 meters in 1 dekameter 10 dekameters in 1 hectometer 10 hectometers in 1 kilometer They fit very nice. There are even some smaller (micro, nano, pico) and larger (Mega, Giga, Tera) denominations, but those are typically too big or small to be useful.

The thing is, nowaday mostly we have 10 fingers, so counting in metric is fairly comfy, but back then in medieval times, you never know with how many fingers you end up with when you turn 30. Although 12 tends to be an expectation a little too high. :-D

[@mrgforces]

@ Good one 😂

[@zakir2815]

There are lots of useful uses for the larger and smaller ones

[@firstname_lastname]

@@zakir2815 Sorry, you're right. I just meant for everyday use.

[@Karl-me4mh]

the bald eagle house length got me

[@seanterri]

my favorite cabbie is back!

[@Squiggleywiff]

Well check out Mr I can last 30s in bed, leave some women for the rest of us will ya!

[@Mercilessonion]

If you are talking in dog years then he needs to do something but if upure talking in human years then he lasts 30 seconds too lol

[@NiLi_]

EN: "I am mad" FR: "I am mad, croissant" xDD

[@julius8491]

I have no idea why, but for some reason there is something very calming in a cab driver ranting about stuff. Gotta go and watch the French number one too now.

[@sstuckonapuzzle]

finally! he's back!!!

[@SappyDuder]

Matt, I love your videos so much I am sharing this with my Anerican friends

[@MattColbo]

glad to hear Sappy, I appreciate that :)

[@Marhathor]

In Europe, we generally say something along the lines of "one eighty-eight", as in one meter and 88 centimeters, flows a bit nicer than one-hundred-and-eighty-eight-centi-meters. Also, stone is a very obscure thing, I have no idea what a stone is either, as a Dutchman, never used the unit, not even sure it's metric.

[@SO-Negative]

Matt you need to rant more this is so good everything coming straight from the heart when you rant

[@andreadragna7724]

I like the idea of measuring things in a tangible way that I can picture. If you say "it's 20 meters away" I can't really picture or imagine that. But if you say "I'm as tall as 3 Walgreen's receipts end to end" that is something I can picture in my mind and relate to. :)

[@MrTurbo_]

A little overview of the metric system, basically if you can divide and multiply by 10 then you can use it *_Distance_* 1 kilometer = 1000 meter 1 meter = 10 decimeter 1 decimeter = 10 centimeter 1 centimeter = 10 millimeter 1 millimeter = 1000 micrometer 1 micrometer = 1000 nanometer *_Volume_* 1 liter = 1 cubic decimeter 1 liter = 10 deciliter 1 deciliter = 10 centiliter 1 centiliter = 10 milliliter *_Weight_* 1 liter of water = 1 kilogram 1 kilogram = 10 decigram 1 decigram = 10 centigram 1 centigram = 10 gram 1 gram = 1000 milligram

[@Villle89]

No its way better to use washing machines and cheese burgers. Btw: a news article in usa actually used washingmachines to mesuare the width of a sinkhole LMFAO😂😂😂

[@powerpc6037]

Convert metric values to other metric values is simply moving the comma in the value and you're done, no math needed. 2.519km is 2519 meters, or 2519000 millimeters. With imperial, you have to know the conversionrate for that specific set of measurements you wanna convert and do math. Convert 2.519 miles to inches or feet or whatever and you need a calculator. nothing is the same to convert from one value to another. To go from yards to feet, you have to multiply by 3. From feet to inches, you need to multiply by 12. That's alot harder to do compared to the metric system where you multiply or divide by multiples of 10 (or just shift the comma).

[@bhavyekohli2119]

Mannnn you just kill it with every video let’s make this viral y’all

[@mariaordal2510]

Legitimately laughed so hard that I cried. I have literal tears in my eyes right now

[@jensstolt1656]

An acre ( coming old german "Ager", meaning field) is actually a very reasonable measure, for farming. It is the area of land that it takes a barrel of wheat to sow. And at harvest time, you can go out in the field and count the kernels on a straw, and a "Tallyman" can such easily calculate how many fold (manifold) you are going to likely harvest. Yes, Im metric, Denmark. But its nice to know such historic explanations. Another thing. Not adapting the metric system, is also a mechanism that suppresses people, making it hard to calculate and transfer measurements into other fields of work. Like not allowing slaves to read.

[@Saintlukas123]

no one says 188cm we all say 1,88 meters

[@emilyscloset2648]

that comma is blasphemous

[@fahrenheit2101]

@@emilyscloset2648 Agreed,

[@Liggliluff]

I actually say 188 cm. It's a mix of both. But in spoken form, the unit is not included. So that's just "hundred-eighty-eight".

[@Liggliluff]

@@emilyscloset2648 that comma is part of the official ISO 80000-1 standard, and grouping by thousand is done by space. 12 500,05 £ would be the proper ISO 80000-1 way of doing it.

[@emilyscloset2648]

@@Liggliluff Well you just killed the fun out of it. You must be real fun at parties

[@DjClarky78]

Apparently, the US don't actually use true Imperial, they use the US customary system, which was derived from earlier English systems used in the middle ages. The imperial system is British, and was not defined until 1824, after the USA has left the empire. I got most of this from Wikipedia. Apparently, some of the fluid measurements are different between US Customary system and imperial. Stones are imperial. 1 stone = 14lbs.

[@ChristelleSamson]

I've missed NYC cabbie so much!! How about some liquid unit measurements? In 🇨🇦 we use cups for cooking and baking, pints and ounces for drinking and milliliters for everything else

[@jakubkabelka]

1:40 "What is this, medieval times?" also 15 seconds later telling us about conversion of inches, feet, yards, chains...

[@xonxt]

Out of all this, the "Anyone who uses the imperial system should have to use dog years instead of real years" made me laugh the hardest. That's brilliant!

[@haythamfpv]

and he didn't even mention fractions of inches, man that's messed up

[@shaunbowen]

Yeah, it's like "just cut this block seventeen eighty fifths of an inch from the end"

[@mnorth1351]

Yeah, metric really shows it's strength in there. Fractions are a nightmare to work with in an age of computers and calculators.

[@GH-oi2jf]

@@shaunbowen - Nobody does that. You could use a machinist’s rule and specify hundredths on an inch.

[@supersonicgaming3236]

1:40 who measures their weight in money?

[@CadenMcMullen]

The amount of absolute one-line bangers in this video is astounding

[@luke2393]

The reason it lbs is because it’s Latin for pounds, pretty stupid lol. Honestly as an American I just want us to completely switch to the metric system. I actually learned the metric system by myself so I’m not confused lol.

[@Filip586_SK]

Cube of water with 1cm x 1cm x 1cm has volume of 1cm3 (cubic centimeter) and that equals to 1ml (milliliter) which weights exactly 1 gram.

[@DAI.H4RD]

Australian here. I like that imperial uses fractions. Also brits are just guys that pretend to use metric but use imperial.

[@chocothebananacat7686]

The british just use all at the same time

[@FalconFlurry]

Fractions are great until you have to do math with them

[@laufert7100]

i still prefer decimals, they are easy to convert to fractions when you want a fraction and easy to do math with

[@Kewonerdk]

This is a masterpiece. I love it! From Denmark 🇩🇰✌️

[@math1as751]

Ayyyy

[@wohlhabendermanager]

I should start using furlong more often. Instead of saying "he's doing 100mph in a 55!" I should say "Oh, he's doing 800 furlongs an hour in a 440!"

[@SeriousApache]

The only thing they use metric system: guns caliber. _Ironic_

[@georgefuters7411]

Most USA industry and sciences use the metric system, many yanks use it without knowing: gun nuts and hash heads, and others use it deliberately - measure their dicks in cm read it in inches 😂🤣

[@GH-oi2jf]

Some are metric, some are not.

[@amandapreval2284]

"Who mesure their weight in rocks" took me out😂

[@oddacity5883]

“Who measures wight in rocks” Who measures the moon with football fields

[@1pcfred]

Until someone else finally gets there the Moon remains a quarter of a million miles away. Approximately.

[@imperialspy3457]

@@1pcfred until someone finally gets there? Ever heard of the space race?

[@1pcfred]

@@imperialspy3457 I said someone else. Meaning we Americans have already been there. I watched Apollo 11 land live. So not only have I heard of the Space Race I lived it. I also got to ride on the training rover once too. The 1970s were pretty cool.

[@generaalnaarling]

@@1pcfred So how did you enjoy your trip to the moon? Please tell us all about it! And how generous of you to allow others to redefine the distance to the moon when they finally manage to follow in your footsteps. I've heard a little-known organisation called NASA had ambitions to go there, using the metric system. I wish them the best of luck.

[@1pcfred]

@@generaalnaarling ambitions that got paid for with US tax dollars. So every American contributed to the project.

[@asdrubalegirolamo660]

And he didn't even arrive to the * f l u i d o u n c e s * part !

[@boahneelassmal]

So, the metric system indeed has more than just mm,cm,m and km. for instance there's the dm (deci metre) which, as the name suggests, is a tenth of a metre: 10cm. Then there's a few more (they're not used at all and the existance of them is rather not existant) the dam (deka metre) which is, you guessed it 10m, the hm (hecto metre) = 100m and the Mm (mega metre) = 10.000m. basically all units you know from storage capacity (mega, kilo, giga, peta, terra etc.) is also applicable to lengths and weights.

[@gamertagboakan7417]

In the US: "It's Imperial vs Metric" In the UK: We hear "US Customary vs Metric" We do "Imperial AND Metric" *We have a solution, maybe not the best solution but a solution nonetheless.*

[@venmis137]

Still, every time someone measures their weight in stones or measures distance in miles, I feel physically sick inside. I wish we would just switch properly to proper measurements and leave our ancient system behind.

[@noneofyourbusiness5134]

I really like pints but if we upgrade to selling beer in litres I'm in.

[@gamertagboakan7417]

@@venmis137 honestly it's nice to have variety, and using both makes the conversion info readily available in my mind to use whenever

[@dinamosflams]

The best is Just stop being stuborn and using metric

[@henning5783]

Venmis wait the stone thing is real?

[@virtualrealitea]

Collapsed into laughter at '35 bald eagles long', thank you XD

[@Iknowthismeme]

Metric system: you multiply or divide per 10 Imperial system: ok, we will need a football field and a random number generator...

[@Iknowthismeme]

@Joeseph Smith as I was saying, we need a football field and a random number generator...

[@mariafe7050]

@Joeseph Smith No it's not all base 12 because there are 22 yards in a chain and 10 chains in a furlong and 8 furlongs in a mile.

[@mariafe7050]

@Joeseph Smith Nope, 22 doesn't evenly go into 12, neither does 8 or 10.

[@woowooNeedsFaith]

And @Joeseph Smith exits the conversation. I guess he imploded.

[@Iknowthismeme]

@@woowooNeedsFaith now it's time to rate your mass system

[@CrippleX89]

"uuuh it's about 35 bald eagles long" brought me to tears, thanks!

[@MrTheWanz]

As a Canadian, imperial when refering to people measurements (weight, height), metric for everything else

[@MultiTomas00]

3:05 all I can think is "Repeat after me: An acre is the area of a rectangle whose length is one furlong and whose width is one chain"

[@Zachyshows]

I forgot how much those were already

[@atla5263]

0:39 how dare you disrespect our beautiful and complex language by simplifying it. Our language is so much more than what you put it out to be. I'm mad, *CROISSANT* !

[@MrPerser]

Meter is the path light travells through a vacuum in a certain time. Feet is the size of King Henry I's foot.

[@waterblonk]

I hate it when people gauge their heights using Centimeters. You’re not 188 centimeters, you’re one meter eighty-eighty. Would be akin to a cashier telling you: “That’ll be three-hundred ninety-nine cents, sir”

[@1pcfred]

I hate it when people use commie units period. That's what the metric system is. The units of communism!

[@MrMattie725]

Don't forget that all these metric measurements link nicely: 1 liter water = 1 cubic decimeter = 1 kg and freezes at 0°C

[@lop1657]

No one actually says 188 centemeters We say 1.88 metres tall

[@robinferket1059]

Yeeees I've been waiting for this for soooooo long

[@csx_cat5893]

i was born in america, i live in america, i use the metric system and i cant understand the imperial system anymore god help me

[@clifisboring]

We need more of this guy

[@Empyric]

I'm British, and even I have no idea how heavy one "stone" is.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

I don't even know how much a lb is It's amazing how quick metrication is happening

[@user-by7hj4dj9s]

@@Alucard-gt1zf i guess a pound is a pound.. there is nothing inherently wrong with it, its just that it is not connected to anything in a meaningful way

[@GH-oi2jf]

@@user-by7hj4dj9s - Neither is a kilo, for that matter. They are equally arbitrary. If you buy food in a conventional size, then that is the connection to something meaningful. In the USA, we commonly buy butter in a one lb package, so everybody knows what that is. I suppose in other countries there are some foodstuffs conventionally packaged as one kg.