Kilometers are dumb

Nope. Metric is King!

Kilometers are better because you get 1.609 of them for a mile.

Furlonga, rods, and chains! Oh my!

Op is dumb not kilometres.

You must have very short legs?

For me a kilometre is exactly 1000 strides.

1 meter per stride is tiny…

1.609344

That's even better!

It’s got a nice, clean definition.

It’s 10,000 kilometers from the equator to the North Pole.

Or you can say it’s 6,213.7 miles.

Not when you're walking. But if you wish to compete, I will wager one hundred guineas I shall outstride ye walking up a steep hill.

Ok, now just go and convince 95% of the world to switch over to the system used in the USA, Liberia, and Myanmar which are the only countries in the world to fully use a non-metric system.

The mile is a measure of distance while the kilometer is a measure of length. Two totally different things and you can't really compare the utility of the two. It's like arguing about whether a hammer or a screwdriver is a better tool.

Theres two types of countries:

1. Those that use the metric system.

2. Those that have been to the moon.

And the UK?

"fully use a non-metric system". The UK uses a bit of both plus some other units that are only used in the UK.

I have raced a bunch of marathons in Europe and I like getting feedback every 1km. When you are bonking, waiting +7-8 minutes for a split sucks. If your wheels are coming off, that next mile split is like an hour away. But with kilometers, you get feedback every four minutes. It is much easier to "reset" and get back on pace after a 1km split. I like them.

1. NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings.

2. Liberia and Myanmar never have been to the moon.

This thread is about miles, which the UK uses (and indeed invented).

Kilometers are the finest product of the souless rationalist Western society.

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