AKA cheese-eating surrender units

Wisconsin? Imperial units are what the US uses.

Ironic considering the origin of SI units.

I can see why we don't call it that anymore

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I call it AFUs, American funny units.

I found the word when I was reading the foot notes in one of the chapters of Herodotus, and it blew my mind lol

Just as well Americans don't use that awful French metric system.

Viva la Avoirdupois!

/s

Not so much irony as that was the joke. But clearly not a good one.

We also don't use imperial units, since we're not British after that tiny revolution in 1776.

Why on Earth would you think anyone except the British would use British imperial units?

I have heard British people use these measurements as well, though informally.

Just means "to have some pounds" in English:)

Shame ,you ended up with girly pints

And yet your former empire is a shadow of itself while we put boots on the moon. Catholic boots, even.

Still got girly pints though

No, you were just wrong. Pounds and ounces are not SI units.

> No, you were just wrong.

No, I wasn't.

> Pounds and ounces are not SI units.

I know.

Which empire do you think the imperial system came from?

Go ahead and reread your original comment buddy.

The British officially are on the metric system…

The US is "officially" metric as well, per the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. That doesn't mean people actually use metric units in daily life.

In the UK they use both. Many people in the US think they do not use imperial at all.

A. It's "The United States of America", not "America" that uses the the ridiculous system

B. The USA actually uses the metric system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSJXC6_qQ8&), and converts dumbwards to freedom units

Au revoir to the avoirdupois.

I know what I wrote, chum.

Also the US Customary system's weights.

No, they are not. The US uses US customary units (technically, it doesn't have a name - the code simply specifies it as "traditional systems of weights and measures".

There are significant differences between British Imperial and USC.

At least our beer doesn't taste like warm piss.

> Many people in the US think they do not use imperial at all.

Because they don't. The US never adopted Imperial measures, which are adopted in Britain 50 years after the American Revolution.

The United States customary units are similar to Imperial measures, and in many places identical, but only because they are both based upon earlier English units. There are significant differences between the systems.

(unless you mean that people in the US think that the British don't, and that's just untrue - we regularly make fun of them for using 'stone')

> A. It's "The United States of America", not "America" that uses the the ridiculous system

The colloquial name of the United States of America in English is 'America'.

The only people who care about this are people who originate in cultures where a continent model is used that doesn't distinguish North and South America as continents (and thus really shouldn't care about what it's called in English), or people who want to be edgy. There is zero ambiguity in English - nobody refers to 'America' as a continent because there is no single continent in the system English-speakers use. They use 'North American' or 'South American'.

> B. The USA actually uses the metric system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSJXC6_qQ8&), and converts dumbwards to freedom units

I find it utterly bizarre that anyone ever posts YouTube videos as evidence of anything when you can literally just link to the US Code instead. You're not wrong, but your argument is dumb... and you provided the stupidest source possible.

But what can be expected from someone who wrote A?

Your last paragraph is what I meant. Many Americans are not informed about how and when English people use which measurement systems.

It’s not a big deal. It just is what it is. I’ve never heard of English people being teased for using stones. But that’s purely anecdotal

As one of my employees always says, there are two kinds of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system and those that have put a man on the moon.

That's a weird way to spell "Freedom Weights"

Have you tried Bud, Coors, or Natty?

>warm piss

Avoirdupois is a system of measuring weight based on the fact that sixteen ounces are in a pound. The metric system is based on grams, and the avoirdupois system is based on pounds. - That's freedom units they're talking about.

And from the Avoirdupois System Wikipedia page - In 1959, by international agreement, the definitions of the pound and ounce became standardized in countries which use the pound as a unit of mass. The International Avoirdupois Pound was then created. It is the everyday system of weights used in the United States. It is still used, in varying degrees, in everyday life in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and some other former British colonies, despite their official adoption of the metric system.

And those freedom units are a part of the USCS.

And the US doesn't use Imperial still. Imperial was only used in the Empire and Commonwealth.

Except for the fact that the computers on the Apollo spacecraft used the metric system internally, then converted it for display so the astronauts could read it. Considering how precious every bit of processing power was on those computers, it makes that statement even more ridiculous. And yeah, I hear that silly statement made often here in the US. Those that use that ignorant meme tend to also use the phrase "measure twice, cut onc...shit" because it's a pain in the ass to subdivide.

With the metric system.

Of course.

Budweiser ,cold piss

Again: warm piss.

I don't drink Bud, and that's a German Belgian company regardless.

Please keep up.

Czech not German,that’s Budvar

We're quite happy you still think of yourselves as a colony of the British Empire :)

AFUU is also appropriate

We are 'officially' using a mixture

Pints of beer, litres of milk

Pounds and ounces for babies, kg for food

Barleycorns for shoes, cm for hats

Miles for distance, litres for petrol

Fahrenheit for summer temperatures, Celcius for winter (this is the one likely to die away first)

They are, regardless of what phrase they use, more likely to do "measure once, cut twice"

Fixed above after further research.

What a serious response to a lighthearted comment geez. You must be fun at parties

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The original Budweiser is Czech,which is a good beer,the name was appropriated by an American company which makes a fizzy brown liquid

> Britain is officially metric, in line with the rest of Europe. However, imperial measures are still in use, especially for road distances, which are measured in miles. Imperial pints and gallons are 20 per cent larger than US measures.

https://www.visitbritain.com/us/en/plan-your-trip/practical-information/weights-and-measures#

You are “officially” on the metrics system. You’re just restating my original point, and arguing semantics for the sake of arguing.