Do americans not use the metric system because ...
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
This deserves a big hand!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I found this video way too funny... :D
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I found this video way too funny... :D
To quote Bill Bryson ("The road to Little Dribbling"): 'Of course they make sense,' the British person will sniff. 'Half a firkin is a jug, half a jug is a tot, half a tot is a titter, half a titter is a cock-droplet. What's not logical about that?' We have traces of funny units in the metric world, too, such as measuring thickness in grams. Plated silverware (not silver through) is usually referred to as "60 grams", but not until recently did I know the true meaning of the "60 grams": If 60 grams of silver is used to plate 24 pieces of cutlery, 12 forks and 12 (full size) spoons, then the silver layer has a thickness of 60 grams. Earlier, cheaper silverware was only 40 grams. Some years of use might wear off the silver so the cutlery got brownish spots where the underlaying copper comes out. Today, 60 grams is the standard; that is enough to stand many years of wear. None of my sources said a word about how many micrometers thick layer 60 grams of silver would make on 24 pieces. I was thinking of measuring the surface area of a spoon and a fork to get a rough idea (I know of no good way to measure the surface area exactly), but I never got around to it. If anyone around here knows the answer - how many micrometers is 60 grams? - I'd be happy if you would reveal it!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I like the pun. :) Americans have used the metric systems for many decades. In my rural, Southern, high school, way back in the ancient late 1960s/early 1970s, we learned metric units. In Naval Nuclear Power School, we used both metric and Imperial units, as appropriate. Given the daily use, mentally converting between the two was quite easy (repetition is a good teacher). European nations shifted to metric (which makes sense since they have such interdependencies, are geographically close, and together were not the dominant manufacturing engine that the US was). The US did not have that kind of pressure to change radically. Instead, Americans simply did what has been a part of our culture going back before our founding as a nation - we adapt to current needs and overcome whatever obstacles they present. Americans use metric when they need or want to, and Imperial when they need or want to. And we are reluctant to change for change's sake.
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I like the pun. :) Americans have used the metric systems for many decades. In my rural, Southern, high school, way back in the ancient late 1960s/early 1970s, we learned metric units. In Naval Nuclear Power School, we used both metric and Imperial units, as appropriate. Given the daily use, mentally converting between the two was quite easy (repetition is a good teacher). European nations shifted to metric (which makes sense since they have such interdependencies, are geographically close, and together were not the dominant manufacturing engine that the US was). The US did not have that kind of pressure to change radically. Instead, Americans simply did what has been a part of our culture going back before our founding as a nation - we adapt to current needs and overcome whatever obstacles they present. Americans use metric when they need or want to, and Imperial when they need or want to. And we are reluctant to change for change's sake.
Member 16239143 wrote:
Americans use metric when they need or want to, and Imperial when they need or want to.
Parsing error at 'use metric when they need or want to'.
Member 16239143 wrote:
And we are reluctant to change for change's sake.
Speaking a language different from the rest of the world cannot be counted as argument for change. Using the same tools, nuts and bolts as the rest of the world doesn't count. Radically simplified conversions doesn't count. Not if you don't wan't to go along with the rest of the world. And USAtians seemingly do not want to.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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... they have a foot fetish?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
No, we use it because the Britsh are ashamed of the system they invented. CQ de W5ALT
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