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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:08 PM Original message |
Can anyone give me a good reason why the US has not converted to the Metric System? |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nation of bigoted yahoos? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
51. It's a system promulgated by cheese-eating surrender monkees. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:50 PM Response to Reply #51 |
141. Yeah of course there's a good reason. Who the hell wants to say Royale With Cheese ? |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:52 PM Response to Reply #141 |
142. Baaaahahahahahaha!! |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:29 AM Response to Reply #141 |
171. And what is royale with cheese? |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #171 |
174. These clips will explain |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:49 AM Response to Reply #174 |
175. I'm not watching any you tube crap, thanks anyway |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. please--there are far too many americans who cannot even speak the language, let alone learn the |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. pResident George Walker Bush* will lead the way! |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. That's kind of the point.... |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
170. I think in the US, Canada, and the UK |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
123. to be sure, that counting to ten ain't easy. Really. first |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because better dead then red. |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
4. I find it inexcusable..I was promised when I was in high school we would convert |
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DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Who cares |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:18 PM Original message |
Well, since we a re a 'global community' and even OUR FUCKING |
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DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
81. Why such anger? |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:45 PM Response to Reply #81 |
86. If its 39 C where he is, probably needs a bit more Air conditioning. n/t |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
172. Well, we learned it all in school |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Metric is much easier to use and results in fewer errors |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
94. Standardization is much more effective and efficient |
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DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:59 PM Response to Reply #94 |
100. Make them do it! |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:15 PM Response to Reply #100 |
104. And, besides, those French have a different word for everything! n/t |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #104 |
122. I'll have a shoe with cheese on it |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:26 PM Response to Reply #100 |
111. I'm sure you love your miles much like grandad liked his fathoms... |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
126. It's not just Europe |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
37. The reason it never caught on is because people were asked to learn conversions |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
84. Medicine has gone to metric |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. Americans have a stubborn streak a mile wide |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
31. That's 1.6 kilometers wide, thank you. nt |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:51 PM Response to Reply #31 |
95. LOL!! Thanks! I was about to get out my conversion chart! |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
91. I think that is part of the reason |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
134. Any idea why we got so perverse about this? Did it have anything to do with |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. Ah, please. We don't have enough to deal with now? |
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BridgeTheGap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. NO - there are no GOOD reasons |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
36. Note quite. |
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BridgeTheGap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
74. Touche! |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
80. wouldn't you rather estimate concrete in metric? |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:38 PM Response to Reply #80 |
85. Oh absolutely. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:05 AM Response to Reply #36 |
154. 7 mm is easer to divide in half than 23/64th. |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. A large amount of blame can be given to Bob Dole |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. Anyone in science, medicine, technology HAS... |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
59. People can't find the US on a map? |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #59 |
70. Statistically an amazing percentage of high schoolers can not... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:59 AM Response to Reply #59 |
177. Here she is . . |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
105. I wouldn't pin the failures... |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:31 AM Response to Reply #105 |
161. You're right, but why don't the students want to learn? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #161 |
183. Although I don't have any definitive answers... |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. Cuz I'm proud to be an Amurikan, where at one time I was free. |
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D-Sooner (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. The same reason we don't embrace soccer |
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Link93 (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. We are metric where it matters. |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
15. Whatever happened to adoption of the metric system in the U.S.? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. This is my pet issue - here is my take on it |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
107. Haven't many (if not most) road signs been replaced since 1975? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:23 PM Response to Reply #107 |
110. The ones they are putting in on California freeways have numbers for the exits |
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MUSTANG_2004 (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 04:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
117. Thank you for the common sense |
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Drifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. The same reason ... |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
34. But what about the strippers?!?!? |
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Drifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. Should be using $2 bills anyways - n/t |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 01:17 AM Response to Reply #40 |
152. Oh, right... inflation |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
135. I guess they'll just have to learn to adapt. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 01:16 AM Response to Reply #135 |
151. The bouncers may not approve... |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. the stonecutters! |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
96. LOL!! |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
131. That was my immediate thought. |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
20. We couldn't get the cows to go along with it |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because we haven't had a national ad campaign that says clearly to men that |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #21 |
93. Yeah, especially when some would claim they're "just a silly millimeter longer" |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
22. Inertia, and leadership |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. Hey, give us a break! Most of us haven't mastered feet and inches yet, |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Yeah, that's why we want to convert to metric. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. I personally like the complexities of American Standard. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
26. Cuz it's anti-old testament AND devised mostly by the FRENCH! |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. Simple. Protects our industries. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:31 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. A point of vanishing importance. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:41 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Exported Items usually are made to Metric. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #48 |
65. Exactly: competitive disadvantage. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #65 |
73. And therein is the problem... |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:27 PM Response to Reply #65 |
82. Yep, and the liquor & eine industry did it a LONG time ago! n/t |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #48 |
108. Because there's a more effective and efficient way? |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:52 PM Response to Reply #108 |
121. Is it? |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:23 PM Response to Reply #28 |
136. Hey Waitaminute! |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 09:03 PM Response to Reply #136 |
143. Yep. |
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agent46 (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. money as usual |
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Ediacara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. I'm with you on this one |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
32. When industry sells everything metric and consumers need to calculate |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
33. I sure wish we would. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. Measures by Mass vs weight. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. Mass and weight are equivalent in a constant gravitational field |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:43 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. Makes a big difference in calculations though. |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:48 PM Response to Reply #45 |
52. I don't think most people understand that that's the fundamental |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:30 PM Response to Reply #45 |
83. "most practical purposes" |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:13 PM Response to Reply #83 |
87. Nah, that was just the story they gave us. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:57 PM Response to Reply #83 |
99. I buy a lot more sacks of flower than I do Mars probes |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:07 PM Response to Reply #99 |
102. You buy sacks of flower? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #102 |
109. Busted for Metric spelling! |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
35. Metric is slowly working its way into society. |
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FredStembottom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
39. Funny thing is, if you are my age (50)....... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. I'll be 50 soon - partial list of other things we were supposed to have by 1980 |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:22 PM Response to Reply #44 |
88. hey we got the damn picture phones |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:57 PM Response to Reply #88 |
98. Yeah, in about 1999 |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:18 PM Response to Reply #39 |
106. Years ago my mother was just petrified that she'd wake up one day |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
42. Whats the point? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #42 |
75. It matters a lot in science |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:20 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Exactly. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
43. Remember diversity? |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
46. Because Amerikkkans are shit |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
47. I'd say the US is more metric than not now. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Engineering is not all in Metric. Quite the contrary. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:48 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. I can't get a non-metric part or component anymore. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:58 PM Response to Reply #53 |
58. I'm a mechanical in shipbuilding. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:03 PM Response to Reply #58 |
101. Well, shipbuilders aren't exactly cutting edge |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #53 |
66. Widely |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
56. Ya, I noticed that in micro-electronics |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #56 |
62. I'd prefer metric. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #56 |
67. Electronics is a mish-mash... |
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ozone_man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #67 |
173. Electronics is mostly metric |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
54. The best I can think of is, fewer syllables? |
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flyingfysh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
55. there is a very simple reason |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
57. only if we can kep farenheit. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #57 |
61. No 50 is hot. 50 is the new 30. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:17 PM Response to Reply #57 |
144. Actually that scale makes a lot more sense |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
60. Depends upon your definition of "convert" |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
63. Two reasons, |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
64. The bicycle industry went metric except for companies like Huffy and |
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RobofSWVA (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
68. stonecutters |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
69. birkenstock |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:16 PM Response to Reply #69 |
77. Indeed. My under standing of Life, the Universe, and Everything is certified by Birkenstock |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
71. If Gawd wanted us to be metric, She wouldn't have measured the ark in cubits. |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
72. My very favorite argument against converting to metric ... |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
76. Weren't we about to . . . then Reagan got elected? |
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MUSTANG_2004 (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 04:44 PM Response to Reply #76 |
116. Not as adaptable to change? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
79. Because Hardware stores make out like fucking bandits. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:16 PM Response to Reply #79 |
132. Ain't that the truth |
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KatyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
89. "The metric system is the tool of the devil!!!!111! |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
90. Either way for me. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
92. "America...FUCK YEAH!" Cause we are a super power and don't have to do it |
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razzleberry (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
97. pay more for everything, consider Canada |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
103. Inexpensive calculators |
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Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
112. It's for Communist and it's Unamerican. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
113. Why should we go back to the primitive "Metric" system... |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
114. Laziness |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
115. Let's see.............Nope |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
118. Honey, most of them don't know the English system we currently use. |
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MUSTANG_2004 (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:09 PM Response to Reply #118 |
119. See, that's just so wrong |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #119 |
120. I think it's sad that it's been talked about for 40+ years but never happened. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
124. "Cause it's an attack on FOOTBALL! |
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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:17 AM Response to Reply #124 |
158. Good point! |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
125. Get a life. |
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Fla_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
127. Hey Mike, |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #127 |
128. 2x4s haven't been true dimension in a long time |
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Fla_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:19 PM Response to Reply #128 |
133. true, but |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:36 PM Response to Reply #133 |
145. And while your at it, get me a spoon sharpener. n/t |
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Fla_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:15 AM Response to Reply #145 |
157. Haven't heard that one before |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
129. Not a good reason- but it was the ignorance of Ronald Reagan |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
130. If the Brits and Canadians can, why can't we? |
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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:19 AM Response to Reply #130 |
159. Brits use a mixture |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
137. just stubborn... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
138. If it weren't for our system of measurement... |
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Nimrod2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
139. Metric would be like France and we hate the French!!! lol.... |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
140. It allows the auto industry to build junk. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
146. Because we don't need to? |
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Gretchen (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
147. Metric system was invented for illiterate people. I think Americans can handle it. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:52 PM Response to Reply #147 |
149. Aaahh... another sucker... Betting against the stupidity of the American public. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
148. We have, in the places that count. Universities. |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
150. We seemed only inches away from making the change back in the 70's and early 80's |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
153. A Big Reason is SPORTS and all those records...in inches/feet/yards/miles |
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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
155. Millions of speedometers that measure miles per hour |
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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
156. Thousands of roadsigns showing distance in miles |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
160. Distance In England Is Still Not Metric, Either |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 08:57 AM Response to Reply #160 |
168. mph is speed, not distance. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:24 AM Response to Reply #168 |
169. Duh! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #169 |
176. :) What I was getting at is that the units for speed doesn't furnish *another* example.... |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #176 |
178. I See |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:17 AM Response to Reply #178 |
179. They really don't have *a* system, it appears, but rather a melange of several. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #179 |
180. Yeah. Kind Of Weird |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #180 |
181. I also use meringue, but for rather different purposes. :) |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
162. I expect we'll switch to Celsius to make global warming more palatable |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
163. Did you see little Miss South Carolina? Case closed. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 07:56 AM Response to Reply #163 |
164. LOL! |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
165. Why should we? It's more than money (conversion signage, e.g.); |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
166. Ben Franklin was a big supporter of a metric system - likewise Jefferson and Quincy Adams. |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
167. Officially the US IS still converting to metric |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
182. The Metric System is poorly scaled to human beings and their environment... |
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