“who wants to help me finish the whiskey?”
I’m assuming we can have whiskey in Pakistan?
This happened to me twice recently in San Francisco, except, instead of boulders, it was car drivers coming at me full speed at me while I was crossing legally in the crosswalk.
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Holy shit indeed! 
What kind of ounces, exactly?
large boulder on mt spanknix
I remember smuggling a bottle of cheap Indian scotch into Pakistan in 1977 very shortly after General ZIa banned alcohol as contrary to sharia law. Apparently you were allowed it if you were a foreign tourist, so not quite ‘smuggled’, but I’m sure it would have been confiscated if found.
Spent a worrying half an hour or so trying to find a local at the main train station once we arrived, and eventually sold it for several times what we paid.
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That Irish “Holy Schiit” warms my heart.
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“At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie.”
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Well, the USA does not use Imperial measures.
Our money is metric, our temperatures are Fahrenheit, and most of our other usage is traditional US measures. The US traditional system was standardized well after the metric system was determined (by Thomas Jefferson, no less) to be inappropriate for most of our uses (that situation has since changed - metric is very appropriate to the DNA labs and suchlike that we didn’t have in the 18th century) and well before Imperial units were created.
As for the guy’s question, sixteen is an OK number - three whole divisors not counting itself and one, and one of the divisors is 2, so you can make a measure or scale extremely easily without lab equipment or electrical power. A bit more practically useful in the field than base ten, which has only two such divisors, but far less useful than base 12, which has four whole divisors including three, which is super useful since it’s commonplace to need to divide by three for creative/constructive purposes.
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I bet that guy Schist himself.
Laundry day, amirite?
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The link I posted quoted a Scot. I am Canadian. And Thomas Jefferson was a rapist racist hypocrite. The US system of measurements is just as fucked and moronic as the Imperial system. Thank God the UK and Canada have had the good sense to convert to metric, leaving you backwards colonial rebels as the only major country in the world still clinging to a ridiculous and antiquated system of measurement.
“Throw away every book, table, instrument, and start over? I know that some of my ancestors did that in switching from old English units to MKS–but they did it to make things easier . Fourteen inches to a foot and some odd number of feet in a mile. Ounces and pounds. Oh, Bog!”
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Holy Schist!
Tell us how you really feel! I think you’re holding back for fear of hurting my feelings! 
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I still sometimes wonder how the Florida Man made out with the Whitworth spanner set he stole from me.
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In many ways, the American system is like trying to use Roman numerals for solving a long division problem.
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Ugh, British plumbing. Why does the pipe dope always reek like rotting herring?
An excellent example of using the wrong tool for a job. Roman numerals are optimized for chiseling in stone, not for long division. Do the long division in Arabic notation, then carve the triumphal arch in Roman notation.
Roman numerals are still used today, BTW, for their intended purpose, and work quite well. When I reconstructed my shattered stable, the beams were all marked and numbered with chisels by expert craftsmen (Hi Bruce! Hi Kirk!). Roman numerals were the optimal solution for the specific problem, absolutely the right tool for the job.
People who think that their use case is the only use case typically see the work of others as unimportant and will often proclaim the tools optimized for the work of others are backwards and dumb. Everyone is subject to Dunning-Kruger syndrome, after all!
So you agree that most cases of using SI for measurement is akin to using “Arabic” numerals and decimal notation instead of the old-fashioned “Latin”, leaving miles and inches and pounds for when one wants an old-timey feeling?
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