Metric is just as great for everyday life as imperial units.

This is what the metricians say to feel better about themselves, but they never mean it.

"Oh yes, I'll have a 236.588 milliliters of tea, thank you for offering"

"The kids are out playing in the back 0.914 meters"

"Doctor, I think I broke my left 30.48 centimeters"

Do you see how silly you would sound if you didn't use imperial?

That's easy, 14 5/32

(Yes, I did it in my head. Yes, I am chaos)

1 1/8 inches + 5 27/32 inches + 7 3/16 inches

1/8 = 4/32
3/16 = 6/32
4 + 6 + 27 = 37
37/32 = 1 5/32
1 + 5 + 7 + 1 = 14
Total: 14 5/32

I wouldn't call it chaos, it's a straightforward algorithm:

1. Identify the largest denominator
2. Multiply each other fraction by [largest denominator divided by current fraction's denominator] (e.g. 32/8 = 4, so 1/8 * 4/4 = 4/32)
3. Determine the sum of every numerator
4. Divide and simplify the number if necessary
5. Determine the sum of the integers, including any integers added in the previous step

This works for every measurement because the denominator is always a power of 2.

With that said I absolutely prefer metric.

Wheeeeeeee fractions!

But after multiplying, 8 + 54 + 3 over 64 is just clean fun, you end up with 14 1/64 inches and wanna die because you accidentally cut the material at 14 inches and now your whole day is ruined.

If someone were adding those figures they would switch to decimal. I built furniture for 2 years, 64ths are almost never used over thousands of an inch. If you need to be finer than 32nds you use thou. And that pretty much only for wood. Machine shop I worked in used thou exclusively.

Having done my share of automotive and carpentry work, I've never in my life had to go down to 64ths. 32nds is the smallest fraction I've ever had to use and the amount of times I've had to get that small could probably be counted on one hand.

Chaos? Just normalize to a denominator of 32 and it's simple