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  • Posts: 231 Member
    While we are at it, whatever happened to esperanto?
  • Posts: 167
    Actually we are doing it right, you are all doing it wrong.
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  • Posts: 1,371 Member
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    Stone is not metric, it's British weirdness.
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    But we like being weird!
  • Posts: 2,576 Member
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    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.
  • Posts: 453 Member
    The United States of America
    Doing what we damn well please since 1776!

    :smokin:

    hahahahhahaha LMAO
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    We like being weird!

    Then stop telling us to not be weird!
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    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.
  • Posts: 1,741 Member
    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.
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    And more organs for donation.

    That too.
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    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...
  • Posts: 1,726 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 763 Member
    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."
  • Posts: 141 Member
    NO MAN NO!!! This country needs the metric system like it needs more fried food...
  • Posts: 6,128 Member
    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."
  • Posts: 151 Member
    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 stubbornness
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    14 in a UK stone, 10 in an American stone

    I was wondering why it hurt so much when I passed that stone.
  • Posts: 4,941 Member
    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:
  • Posts: 1,063 Member
    Be like the Uk and use both ;)
  • Posts: 2,206 Member
    NO MAN NO!!! This country needs the metric system like it needs more fried food...
    It needs it like it needs failed European economic policies too. :laugh:
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    GOD BLESS 'MERICA! You take yer funny measurin' system and crazy talk back to Europe!
  • Posts: 1,741 Member

    Does the United States use imperial in the nutrition facts on the food?

    Yes, most things are labeled with serving sizes in cups or ounces, but then grams are also listed beside those measurements on some things. There isn't a required system for serving sizes, so the manufacturers can use either or both. However, the macronutrients (carbs, fat, protein) are listed in grams and the micronutrients (sodium, cholesterol, etc.) are listed in either milligrams or the % of the RDA. Oh, and when you're looking at the food label and see a % by the nutrients, that is the percent provided by one serving of that food for a 2000 calorie diet.
  • Posts: 17,121 Member
    screw that, if a guy tells me how big his package is in centimeters, I cant automatically hold up my hands and measure that out for myself.
  • Posts: 7,173 Member
    What I want to know is...what do countries using the metric system call a pound cake?
  • Posts: 850 Member
    Be like the Uk and use both ;)

    not sure our tiny American brains can handle that noise
  • Posts: 167
    screw that, if a guy tells me how big his package is in centimeters, I cant automatically hold up my hands and measure that out for myself.

    I prefer guys I can measure in inches.
  • Posts: 2,206 Member
    What I want to know is...what do countries using the metric system call a pound cake?
    Royale with Cheese
  • Posts: 38 Member
    Yes, it would be easier if we used the metric system. But do you know how expensive that would be? Changing all the road signs? Changing every bit of packaging? Not to mention TEACHING people the metric system.


    Seriously, I dont think it's that big of a challenge to ask google how many grams are in x amount of y.

    I went to school in New York State, and I learned the metric system before this crazy "imperial" crap. I remember asking my teacher why we couldn't just use the metric system if it was so easy to use..... Of course the standard response that "adults" always give when they don't know, or think we couldn't possibly understand shot out of her mouth: "Because that's just the way it is."

    An no..., it's not a "big challenge" to look up a conversion (or heaven forbid, LEARN the conversions), but it is a HUGE annoyance and waste of time looking it up for most people when the need arises.

    J/sayin'...........
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    That too.
  • Posts: 1,781 Member
    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.
    Im totally on board. You have no idea how many times I have had to estimate the weight and volume (trunk space) of a dead hooker.
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