[2muchcoffeeman]

I suppose you’d get used to it eventually. But the first line of this post is silly. Another reason the author doesn’t like metric is base ten.

Do you know how many feet are in a mile? The answer is: Who cares.

The fact that you could pick a better base is irrelevant. They had their chance and came up with some silly numbers to scale from an inch to feet to yards to miles.

Metric: Just remember the base unit. Want a new unit? You change the prefix and move the dot appropriately. You can now scale down to atoms or up to galaxies with a single base unit.

[jprete]

The imperial units were basically picked for usefulness in commerce. They're not as arbitrary as they seem.

[pessimizer]

Maybe my favorite thing is that auction prices were set in guineas (21 shillings), and the payment was made to the person who auctioned the item in pounds (20 shillings), fixing auction house fees at 4¾% which is basically where they've orbited to this day.