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Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?

Poll: 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 29, 2013 at 11:30 am (This post was last modified: December 29, 2013 at 11:35 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 28, 2013 at 10:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote: In a perfect world, yes, but I work in manufacturing, and it would be an absolute pain in the ass. Sure, the conversion factors I have to use can be a bitch, but it's far simpler than switching over the whole process to metric.

Chas pointed out that Canada switched with little trouble, but Canada doesn't have the manufacturing that we do.

So I guess the exodus of American manufacturing to china is part of grand communist conspiracy to put us on the slippery slope of metric conversion, then.

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RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system? - by Anomalocaris - December 29, 2013 at 11:30 am

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