It's easier for handling real things.
Try doing woodwork in feet and inches for a day. Try it in metric for a day. You'll see what I mean.
It was crafted for the human-scale, whereas metric was worked out on paper by French philosophers.
I am willing to bet that you are simply more used to the imperial system.
I am not convinced that it has any objective advantage over the metric system.
My foot is about 50% larger than my SO's, but I can perfectly invision 30cm whenever I want or need to.
Cooking too. Try baking a cake in the two.
Pounds-and-ounces is all like "two eights is sixteen", "three threes is nine". Nice and handy multiples is what it's made on.
I'm about equally familiar with the two.
It's easier for handling real things.
Try doing woodwork in feet and inches for a day. Try it in metric for a day. You'll see what I mean.
It was crafted for the human-scale, whereas metric was worked out on paper by French philosophers.
I am willing to bet that you are simply more used to the imperial system.
I am not convinced that it has any objective advantage over the metric system.
My foot is about 50% larger than my SO's, but I can perfectly invision 30cm whenever I want or need to.
Cooking too. Try baking a cake in the two.
Pounds-and-ounces is all like "two eights is sixteen", "three threes is nine". Nice and handy multiples is what it's made on.
I'm about equally familiar with the two.