by Kitalpha Hart » Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 am
The US uses imperial because pirates kidnapped the ship bringing the metric stuff over and by the time said ship was released the presidency had changed hands and the new one wasn't interested
Also the imperial system, for the small stuff, is easier for an everyday commoner who likely isn't literate than metric's sets of ten. Still gets whackadoodle on the big stuff, but commoners of the 1300s, for example, didn't need to know that kind of stuff