Tier List of the DISASTROUS US Measuring System
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Published 2023-11-01
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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?
All Comments (21)
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Another episode of 2 Truths & Trash will be out soon! Sorry for the delay, this video took way too long lol
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As a European, i see this as an absolute win and I appreciate that not a single unit made it above B tier.
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"it'd be cool if there was a whole unit system based around this principle" LMAO
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At this point i am suprised that 1$ is 100 cents and not something like 144 cents
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"A yard is no where near the size of an average yard." Pure gold!
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such a shame there isn't a simpler measurement system, it would make life so much easier.
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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
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Loved the Thou "if only there was a measurement system that used this principle" Metric system: S-Tier
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Human brain: great at detecting patterns Weight and volume of water in Earth's gravity and the speed of light in void in a specific sexagesimal unit casually fitting all together in a easy scalable system of adding 0s: Americans: Freedom/Shelby, cows², Miles Morales, Feet kink
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The buildup to cooking measurements saying they're all pretty intuitive only to say "I hate them all, F Tier" was hilarious
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I used to think the US measurement system was a complete joke. After watching this video, I still do lol. Great video thanks!
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Every single unit of the SI system: S tier
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As a chemical engineering graduate, having to deal with these atrocities was like half the difficulty of the degree.
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There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling and someone roasting the imperial system.
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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
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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.
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I lost it when wire gauges went to 00, 000 and 0000. What kind of idiot would invent such a measure system.
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Personally, I use "Handfulls" for volume; "Bloody Freezin'" to "Effin' swelterin'" for temperature; and "About This Much" for length. Works for me! 😎👍
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As someone who grew up with the international unit system, every single unit in this video and its logic made me rage
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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.
