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[–] matthew-- ago 

This is silly mate.

The thing about the metric system is that it can be derived and found using things that don't change (like the speed of light), this means that anyone can do experiments to not only find things like a meter and kilogram, but also can gain exact accuracy.

The imperial system cannot be defined this way. It can only be related to other similar systems, ie an inch is X.XX meters.

Here is one way to think of it. If you destroyed every single imperial ruler, measurement tape etc. in the world. Could you recreate the inch or pound as it is known today?

Same thing for temperature. One uses the boiling and freezing points of water, the other uses some weird mixture of water, ice and salt, and human body temperature. And even then, it still doesn't use a logical scale of 0-100 but 32 to 112 because why not.

At this point, you may as well go full retard pick a number you don't like (7 because fuck 7) and have a base 9 number system instead of base 10 like everyone else with 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Actually, fuck thumbs, fingers only. We'll get rid of 7 and 3 and count as such from now on: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10. 'Cause fuck everyone else.