(Sorry to go off topic and for British citizens, please understand I really am just kidding
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ROTFL as a scientist I totally agree with the logic of the metric system and use it daily in my professional work. The metric system was made legal in the US, but not mandatory in 1896. While not defending the "unique" US system of standard measures, take quick look at the some of the intuitive measures in the British Imperial System of standard measures.
For example:
chain "The distance between the two wickets on a cricket pitch" = 22 yards huh???
link "1/100 of a chain"
rod The rod is also called pole and equal to 5.5 yards
perch 1 rod × 1 rod
rood 1 furlong × 1 rod = The rood is 1,210 square yards. (however it is not square since a furlong is 220 yards) I think it's the only non symmetric standard unit of area measure in the universe
gill (gi) = 142.0653125 ml
fluid scruple = 1.18387760416 ml
fluid drachm = 3 fluid scruples 3.5516328125 ml
drachm (dr) = 1.7718451953125 gm
stone (st) 14 pounds
hundredweight (cwt) = 8 stone
Makes the American system seem downright simple
While further investigation is necessary, I'm pretty sure the American Revolution was not really caused by the objection to taxation without representation, but because no one wanted to divide the country into 220 yard x 5.5 yard segments....