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It needs to be taught at an early age. I'm too old of a dog for it to be relevant to me. A 4:00 mile is meaningful to me. A 5k is 3+ miles and a 10k is 6+ miles. The kilometers mean nothing to me unless converted. A 60 meter discus throw will need to be converted to feet to mean anything to me.
It needs to be taught at an early age. I'm too old of a dog for it to be relevant to me. A 4:00 mile is meaningful to me. A 5k is 3+ miles and a 10k is 6+ miles. The kilometers mean nothing to me unless converted. A 60 meter discus throw will need to be converted to feet to mean anything to me.
But metric really is more logical.
Again -- repeating myself but having been through it in Canada and then moving to the USA and flipping again -- it really isn't that hard. You'd be fine.
I remember the move to introduce metric when I was young, it failed then and would fail today. Not worth the time or money those that need to use it are doing it already without any national mandate. What's the difference if I drive 55mph or 80kph in a 35mph zone, i'm still speeding...
It’s easy enough for drug dealers and their clientele as soon as they need to start thinking about grams and kilos. I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter started trying to get us to learn. He should have just shipped a couple of pounds of Maui Wowwie to every school in America and told the kids to divide it up into eighths. That’s a lesson we could have wrapped our brains around back in ‘79-80.
I don’t like the metric system. I’m always spending that extra step converting metrics so my brain can understand it.
I don’t know how fast 120KM really is, it doesn’t mean anything to me, but 75 mph, I get it completely.
That’s just one example of thousands.
I absolutely refuse to change.
But I’m surprised that leftists haven’t made this a major political issue yet? Surely, this could be another way to divide us? Probably not too many Trump supporters want the metric system.
I'm up there with you. When we went on a cruise, we were in Mexico and they use km. My wife was like, how far is that? I said something kilometers away. I was confused as much as her! And we're always ignoring the km/h on speedometer. I tried going with that in the states but it got annoying when people kept passing us by and honking. The km/h also made a lot of people wave to me though. Always with a finger and I figured they wanted me to go just 1 more km/h. So instead, I use mph. People don't wave anymore. I guess they're not friendly or they don't think we're tourists from out of country. Also those numbers were small too. Hard to see at times.
we already use it in some things like a liter of coke. so theres' that.
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