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Yippee Skippy. If I wanted to be like the rest of the World, I would be living in one of those Liberal, Socialist, Nanny Countries where they hold your hand and coddle the population cradle to grave. And tax the crap out of you to do it. Not saying the metric system is the reason, just saying if we are going part way, why not all the way like everybody else. No Thanks!
Nothing personal, but it's attitudes like this that makes the rest of the world scratch its head and ask: how can a nation as sophisticated as the U.S. be such a bone head?!
Maybe we should complicate the dollar, too. It's metric!
Seems like only about 3 countries in the world do not use the metric system as their official system of measurement: Burma, Liberia and the USA. Anyhoo, pulled up some interesting info I thought people might be interested in reading from:
"As previously mentioned, the United States has been influenced by metric over time through international trade and standardisation. The use of the metric system was made legal as a system of measurement in 1866[22] and the United States was a founding member of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1875.[23] The system was officially adopted by the federal government in 1975 for use in the military and government agencies.[24] In 1985, the metric system was made the preferred (but
predominantly voluntary) system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce (see Metrication in the United States). It has remained voluntary for federal and state road signage to use metric units, despite attempts in the 1990s to make it a requirement.[25] A 1992 amendment to the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which took effect in 1994, required labels on federally regulated "consumer commodities"[26] to include both metric and U.S. customary units. As of June 2007, all but two US states (New York and Alabama) have passed laws permitting metric-only labels for the products they regulate.[27] Likewise, Canada also legally allows for dual labelling of goods provided that the metric unit is listed first and that there is a distinction of whether a liquid measure is a U.S. or a Canadian (Imperial) unit.[28] Today, the American public and much of the private business and industry still use U.S. customary units despite many years of informal or optional metrication.[29] At least two states, Kentucky and California, have even moved towards demetrication of highway construction projects.[30][31][32]"
Seems like only about 3 countries in the world do not use the metric system as their official system of measurement: Burma, Liberia and the USA. Anyhoo, pulled up some interesting info I thought people might be interested in reading from:
"As previously mentioned, the United States has been influenced by metric over time through international trade and standardisation. The use of the metric system was made legal as a system of measurement in 1866[22] and the United States was a founding member of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1875.[23] The system was officially adopted by the federal government in 1975 for use in the military and government agencies.[24] In 1985, the metric system was made the preferred (but
predominantly voluntary) system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce (see Metrication in the United States). It has remained voluntary for federal and state road signage to use metric units, despite attempts in the 1990s to make it a requirement.[25] A 1992 amendment to the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which took effect in 1994, required labels on federally regulated "consumer commodities"[26] to include both metric and U.S. customary units. As of June 2007, all but two US states (New York and Alabama) have passed laws permitting metric-only labels for the products they regulate.[27] Likewise, Canada also legally allows for dual labelling of goods provided that the metric unit is listed first and that there is a distinction of whether a liquid measure is a U.S. or a Canadian (Imperial) unit.[28] Today, the American public and much of the private business and industry still use U.S. customary units despite many years of informal or optional metrication.[29] At least two states, Kentucky and California, have even moved towards demetrication of highway construction projects.[30][31][32]"
We're set in our ways and just don't want it! Now we're stuck with a perverted half and half system!
I have spent my life repairing things. When someone decided it would be a good idea to introduce an different system I had to buy thousands of dollars worth of new tools and tool storage to hold additional items. It would be interesting to figure how much fuel has been used by mobile technicians driving to places with the additional weight of metric tools and hardware. It's all a plot by Snap-on, Matco, Cornwell and Craftsman.
My car nearly ran out of gas in the middle of Mexico because of the metric system.
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It's all a plot by Snap-on, Matco, Cornwell and Craftsman.
