I loathe the metric system. At work, I am forced to use it. I constantly remind my associates that:
When we Americans walked on the moon nearly 40 years ago, we didn’t get there through use of the metric system...
Don’t get me started.
When we Americans walked on the moon nearly 40 years ago, we didn’t get there through use of the metric system...
Don’t get me started.
Agreed on all counts. Although the metric system has advantages in some areas, those who try to force it down the throats of vast numbers of people who have been accustomed to the Imperial system (or others) for generations or more overlook numerous advantages of leaving well enough alone....among them being that it's really no big deal to mathematically convert from one system to another, and to force such a change and all associated retooling on a multi-trillion-dollar economy would tend to wreck things, but hey, Good Socialists don't need to care about such mundane things as destroying an entire nation's economy.......