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While we are at it, whatever happened to esperanto?0
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Actually we are doing it right, you are all doing it wrong.0
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Stone is not metric, it's British weirdness.
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But we like being weird!0 -
The same ppl who want us to switch to the metric system tell us to wear seat belts, or we should like soccer or cant smoke in diners...to u I say FU ....WE R AMERICA...
the rest of the world should follow us, not the other way around
Actually, I wish we didn't already compel people to wear seatbelts... then there would be fewer stupid people for me to rant about.
And more organs for donation.0 -
The United States of America
Doing what we damn well please since 1776!
:smokin:
hahahahhahaha LMAO0 -
Stone is not metric, it's British weirdness.
We like being weird!
Then stop telling us to not be weird!0 -
Seriously America, can't we get with the picture and use the metric system like the rest of the world?
I'm sick of having to convert weights and distances and food conversions.
Okay, rant over.
Wait . . . you mean this hasn't happened yet? because when I was school I remember specifically being told that the official conversion would be around 2005 or 2010 and that we really needed to be ready for it.
They changed their minds. I've just gotten use to using both.0 -
Well, since we're taught both systems in school and taught the conversions to and from each system, I don't see what the problem is with America. Why doesn't the rest of the world just learn the conversions like we do? Then we can put something online in either system and the end user can convert it to what they want to use. That's what I do. But then again, I convert back and forth from Imperial to Metric and vice versa on a daily basis, so I don't see what the big deal is when it just takes a few keystrokes on a calculator to do the conversion.0
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The same ppl who want us to switch to the metric system tell us to wear seat belts, or we should like soccer or cant smoke in diners...to u I say FU ....WE R AMERICA...
the rest of the world should follow us, not the other way around
Actually, I wish we didn't already compel people to wear seatbelts... then there would be fewer stupid people for me to rant about.
And more organs for donation.
That too.0 -
The United States of America
Doing what we damn well please since 1776!
:smokin:
Now I feel patriotic. It's our right to bastardize measurement systems to fit our needs.
Hell yea! Screw the Metric system! Wih a big red white and blue..... screwdriver...0 -
The United States of America
Doing what we damn well please since 1776!
:smokin:
:laugh:
And I agree, it would make a lot of sense to use the metric system.0 -
From Big Bang Theory:
Sheldon: "Ethyl alcohol. 40 milliliters."
Penny: "I’m sorry, honey, I don’t know milliliters."
Sheldon: "Ah. I blame President James “Jimmy” Carter. He started America on a path to the metric system but then just gave up. He wonders why he was a one-term president."0 -
NO MAN NO!!! This country needs the metric system like it needs more fried food...0
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The metric system makes me curse. I'm actually pretty sure everyone should switch to my special measurement system. It's the one where you just compare whatever it is to something else. How big was the hole in the floor? Oh, about 3 grapefruits. How heavy was that dead hooker? Oh, about 7 bowling balls. See? It works.
My favorite measurement would have to be when one of my friends was buying his new car. He would always say, "and how big is the trunk?" they'd give some sort of measurement and he'd so "no, in dead hookers . . . I generally like my trunk to be at least large enough to fit 3 dead hookers." He finally bought the car from the sales person who asked "now are we talking whole or in pieces, because that does make a difference in how they fit."0 -
America using cups for measuring food, making people overestimating their portions....
meters, grams, liters, Celsius, that would definitely make life easier for everybody..... but I guess you will have to deal with the stubbornness0 -
How many pounds are in a stone?
14 in a UK stone, 10 in an American stone
I was wondering why it hurt so much when I passed that stone.0 -
But until we decide to change... or not... do what I do.
convert-me.com
it will even convert the british weirdness of stone into the american weirdness of pounds... :flowerforyou:0 -
Be like the Uk and use both0
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NO MAN NO!!! This country needs the metric system like it needs more fried food...0
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