Wait, not like that

Hold on, that’s not fair, we also use it to measure how much Coca Cola is in the bottle…hmm never mind that’s not helping… let me start over…we also use it for drugs! Wait, shit…

Drugs too!

I recently converted all my recipes to metric and now I dump everything in a bowl on a scale. Total game changer.

Metric was too confusing for bullets, so we use both, and but neither of them are actually the diameter of the bullet, most of the time.

.223" is the same diameter as 5.56mm (which is 5.7mm across), but if you use 5.56 in a 223, it might kill you.

223 in 556 is fine, might fail to cycle.

Americans use the metric system.... to define the true values of the entirety of our customary measurements!

That's not fair. We also use it to weigh drugs

You must think us Americans are just really stupid because we still use imperial, and violent because we'll only modernize our units for weapons, but you're wrong.

We also use metric units for dispensing soda, and measuring engine displacement.

So we're fat and we're obsessed with cars too!

That's not true. We also use it in medicine. To measure, in mm, our progress to universal healthcare.

I wish the US had made the switch to metric back in the 70's. I remember having to learn it in grade school, and there seemed to be a push for it, but never went anywhere. I now work as a chemist where everything is done in metric, but then go back to US measures once I punch out for the day. Would be nice to have a single system instead.

And only some of the bullets.

Chad rest of the world: We only use imperial system to measure pizza, height, body waist and dicks.

If you're gonna start somewhere; it makes sense to start with the schools...

Hey we also use it in medicine to treat all those bullet wounds!

We also use it for engine displacement.

It's also used in measuring soft drinks like the 2 liter bottle

Also, bullet holes.

Nah, we just use it to define inches and pounds and the like.

To be fair, we mostly just did that for the European bullets

.500S&W and .50 Browning would like a word.....

as a non gun person, how much are we betting that we use metric sizing, and the load them based on imperial standards (for the ammo manufacturers that work in the US)

This is a pretty good video explaining why the imperial system in the U.S. isn't as bad as it seems: https://youtu.be/iJymKowx8cY?si=wcyG7yM150e71Rn4

The United States has been on the Metric system since the late 1800s like every other Western country.

let me just pop my 10 mg pills.

That's not how that happened.