True, I have no idea why americans have to use such a weird system. The imperial measuring system too seems about as stupid as the currency system in Harry Potter.
Edit: Also, I joined on the 13th of March to get 750g as my starter pack.
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We Americans get just as confused between the two…well until the day gets higher than 12 anyway. It feels more natural to write the month first to me than the day first as that’s how I say it, e.g. November 9th vs. 9th of November.
I agree until fractions are involved. Base 12 is easier to quarter than base 10…especially since I do a fair bit of cooking. Otherwise, a base 10 system is much more simplified and easier to remember.
That’s the reason I switched it around, I know Americans do it that way but I still get confused every time.
For cooking though we use grams or millilitres which is easier to fraction.
1 pound = 16 ounces ~ 450 grams. You’ll only get a recipe asking for strange amounts like that if it is directly converted otherwise expect 500g, 200ml, 300ml, 1.5kg etc. Unless you meant inches but that doesn’t have much to do with cooking.
All this reminds me of
Yeah I did it dd/mm/yyyy xD damn Americans having to be different 
haha
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That video was quite entertaining.
I do use inches in cooking actually when divvying up meat, cookie dough, bread, et cetera.
It probably is because I’ve mainly seen directly converted recipes…for instance I have a recipe that calls for exactly 1/4 cup of milk, so 2 ounces which is 59 point something milliliters and if I round up or down I would have to adjust the rest of the recipe to prevent it from being too dry or too wet as consistancy is a huge issue for me. 
Maybe I’m just picky and set in my ways. Though any recipe involving whole numbers in metric are perfectly fine as my measurement tools all have metric as an option as well.
That seems like doing it the hard way to me, I’ve worked with a lot of dough over the years (pizza making) and weighing is the quickest most effective way, same with meats. But hey whatever works for you.
Why not buy some metric measuring cups though, if you are like me you have a whole draw full of cups, spoons (measuring and wooden), spatulas (metal and plastic), tongs, cutters, graters, a pastry brush, a bunch of bottle openers (are they breeding in there?), can openers, one ladle, whisks (wtf do I need a mini whisk for??), plus a bunch of attachments for appliances you threw out years ago and you are slowly replacing everything with a fancy silicon upgrade. 
Weighing would be best with ground meat and dough, but thickness matters more to me with other things. No scale to weigh anything with, however. I had one once…it broke and never got replaced. 
As far as metric measuring cups…got them already…for instance, my measuring cups can do ounces, cups, and milliliters…not sure about measuring spoons, however…
lol…that gets used the most in my house…in fact, I’m trying to figure out the last time I used a regular-sized whisk… 
lol…none of those I think a U.S measuring cup is 237ml…Google says that 8 fl oz is 236.588 ml.
On a side note…I want that massive mug for my coffee and hot chocolate…
I’m glad to hear Americans do it too, I was told only we Brits do daylight savings. it was a remnant of the wars I was told. we recently did it here too so I imagine they’re the same date.
Measuring? Who needs measuring? Just eyeball it.
I was thinking more about the distance measurements, rather than weight. It’s those that make no sense to me.
It’s starts with the inch, then if I remember right it’s 13 inches to a ‘foot’ though how those are related to the human feet I have no idea. Then 3 feet to a yard, which is approximately 1 meter. And I have no idea if there’s something in between, but the next one is the mile, that’s around 1600 yards or something. And I always scratch my head and think “why do they have to make things so damn complicated, when the metric system works perfectly fine, is easy to understand, and most importantly, it makes some goddamn sense”