Tier List of the DISASTROUS US Measuring System

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Here's a list of questions that get answered in this video:
What is the origin of foot?
What is the history of the inch as a unit?
What is the difference between fluid ounce and ounce?
What is an acre?
How was a mile defined as 5280 feet?
How many pounds is a ton?
Are pounds mass and pounds force the same?
Why were 0 and 100 selected on the Fahrenheit scale?
Can a horse actually generate 1 horsepower?
What is 1 ton of refrigeration?
What is a BTU (British Thermal Unit)?
What is the mass unit slug?
Why was American Wire Gauge created?
What are the units inches of water and inches of mercury?
Is Rankine the same as Fahrenheit?
What are the conversions between teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, pint, quart and gallon?

[JaDroppingScience]

Another episode of 2 Truths & Trash will be out soon! Sorry for the delay, this video took way too long lol

[DazonVA]

"it'd be cool if there was a whole unit system based around this principle" LMAO

[louislelievre]

As a European, i see this as an absolute win and I appreciate that not a single unit made it above B tier.

[jzieba]

At this point i am suprised that 1$ is 100 cents and not something like 144 cents

[Ballacha]

You forgot American octane rating for petrol. It’s absolute lunacy. The rest of the world either uses RON or MON system. But Americans decided to use (RON + MON)/2 as a unit of measurement. Imagine inventing a new system of length measurement that uses (cm + inch)/2 as its unit. This is just pure attention seeking behaviour.

[nathanmays]

I got my engineering degree in America. We were taught the following method when solving problems in imperial units:

1) convert given inputs to metric
2) solve normally
3) convert solution back to imperial

[aliteralmonkey]

The buildup to cooking measurements saying they're all pretty intuitive only to say "I hate them all, F Tier" was hilarious

[isaqkampp]

"A yard is no where near the size of an average yard." Pure gold!

[maxkoller]

Every single unit of the SI system: S tier

[rera]

such a shame there isn't a simpler measurement system, it would make life so much easier.

[Amoeby]

There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling and someone roasting the imperial system.

[robusttadpole]

The best thing about fahrenheit is that you can count how many chirps a cricket makes in 14 seconds, add 40, and that's the temperature.

[capslock]

As a chemical engineering graduate, having to deal with these atrocities was like half the difficulty of the degree.

[farrier]

Personally, I use "Handfulls" for volume; "Bloody Freezin'" to "Effin' swelterin'" for temperature; and "About This Much" for length.
Works for me! 😎👍

[theprinceofawesomeness]

as someone who grew up with metric and more importantly Celsius, hearing someone talk about temperature and saying "60 degrees" - "100 degrees" gives me a whiplash until i remember Fahrenheit exists

[Workof]

"I am 6 slugs"
"In mass?"
"In a trenchcoat"

[KoeiNL]

I lost it when wire gauges went to 00, 000 and 0000. What kind of idiot would invent such a measure system.

[danielcarroll]

I worked in Saudi Arabia for a long time. We got a new employee who was American. He needed a bathroom scale and was happy to see that the digital scale he bought had a switch to change between metric and imperial. The next day at work he asked, "What's a stone?"

[fnanfne]

I used to think the US measurement system was a complete joke. After watching this video, I still do lol. Great video thanks!

[von_rabenfels]

How stupidly you want to measure?
USA: YES!