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Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?

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Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
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Re: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 7:25 pm
The metric system makes more sense. In the UK we use an odd combination of metric and imperial. For example, most of us use metres for shorter distances, but miles for long distances or feet for height, and for fluid measurements we tend to use litres for most things, unless it's a pint of beer or milk. It's a bit of a mess really, but my generation learnt both in school and can use them interchangeably for the most part.
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:04 pm
I don't know. I was raised to say miles and fahrenheit. I don't really care.
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Hell, yes. Booze in liter bottles is a no-brainer.
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:18 pm (This post was last modified: December 28, 2013 at 8:21 pm by pocaracas.)
(December 28, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fuck No.....I'm too old to learn that commie shit.

Wasn't the metric system made up by the French?
Anyway, as an European, I think it would be nice if you guys across the pond would just follow suit and use the better system... your fellows down south... And north... have been using it for a while and they seem to get along ok!
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Speaking as a mechanic the metric system is way fucking easier.
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:37 pm
I'm a Canadian living in the States. The English/Imperial system is clumsy. There is nothing intuitive about it, people are just used to it.

Canada switched over with hardly a problem. The U.S. is just being its usual parochial, ignorant self.
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:48 pm
The US educational system just sucks all around. I'd much prefer to have been taught metric. Its obviously the universal medium, so why are we still memorizing 5,280 ft =a mile?

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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 8:56 pm
We should all adopt it.

Time calculations would be so much easier if our clocks were metric.
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Re: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 9:07 pm
I've thought that about clocks, too. I don't think there is a way to make that work, however.

On a related note, people who still use the 12 hour clock... What are you doing? There are 24 hours in a day, why the fuck would you go back to 1 half way in???
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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 28, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Wait a minute.. are you telling me that when I move to AU, I will have to learn a whole new clock system??! 24 hours at that--you might as well just bury me, that seems tricksy!
I can't be expected to learn all this stuff, I'm old.
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I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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