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Mizmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:44 AM Original message |
Anyone remember "The Great Metric Conversion"? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. I hold it against him that we never made the full conversion to metric |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. I absolutely agree with you. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I remember it and I agree we should have done it |
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Lethe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. why are soft drinks served in metric sizes |
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Pool Hall Ace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 09:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. What? You're saying that the Big Gulp, Super Big Gulp, and |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. GIve me metric any day. n/t |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. I wish he succeeded. |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
6. Yes, I learned everything in metric and now |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. It was very confusing at the time. |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Where I was at, a lot of the confusion came from people trying to |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Same with me |
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Left_Winger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. I prefer metrics, but can use either |
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Ivan Sputnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
9. Metric system = Godless European socialism |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
12. It's much worse in England. |
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miss_kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. A stone is 14 lbs |
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Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
14. I wish the US used metric. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. We're metric everywhere that matters |
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