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Don't be such a bunch of hipsters America.
Should America Start Using the Metric system?
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The whole, "I think in X therefor not Y" thing doesn't really hold up here. It's not as if the US were to switch to metric, you'd be forced to bring out a calculator or conversion table to continue with life. As Valka noted, your measuring cup would just have both scales -- actually I'd be willing to bet your measuring cups already have both.
What a change would mean is that everyone agrees to use both systems side-by-side going forward, where our kids will learn a much more competitive system the first time.
What a change would mean is that everyone agrees to use both systems side-by-side going forward, where our kids will learn a much more competitive system the first time.
Silurian
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Who are the two traitors who voted against?
Gurubashi, Silurian
Booooo!!!
Does it benefit the EU more by the slight advantage over the US in supplying metric products to the rest of the world compared to the slight disadvantage in supplying products to the US with their old system?
If it helps the EU by putting the US at a disadvantage overall then why am I a traitor for wanting the USA to be less efficient .
Does it benefit the EU more by the slight advantage over the US in supplying metric products to the rest of the world compared to the slight disadvantage in supplying products to the US with their old system?
If it helps the EU by putting the US at a disadvantage overall then why am I a traitor for wanting the USA to be less efficient .
It should be noted that not using metric really does cost America money.
mangxema
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Well, to be perfectly honest, I think that's more a function of you no longer being a small child than anything else.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
The Congress has already passed it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
Does it benefit the EU more by the slight advantage over the US in supplying metric products to the rest of the world compared to the slight disadvantage in supplying products to the US with their old system?
If it helps the EU by putting the US at a disadvantage overall then why am I a traitor for wanting the USA to be less efficient .
All right, your reasons seem patriotic enough, you're pardoned. The other guy will hang though
SKILORD
Insurgent
When you use a metric measurement in America it tends to mean something very specific about you (there is a group of people, who can be prosecuted for possession of scales, who are very familiar with it) and when you make a reference in grams either people "know what you're talking about" or are oblivious, and I would rather keep that going than make metric the mainstream measurement style.
Mise
isle of lucy
Britain changed, for the most part.
Domination3000 said:
What?? That's the easiest one! You actually have a needle pointing at the number! You don't have to think at all!!And yet, even some of these people conduct business in a hybrid scheme: grams, quarters of an ounce, and so onSKILORD said:
As for me, I'm american and I voted Yes. I would almost certainly continue to use Standard Inches at work, but I expect my industry would change as younger people come up the ranks. Since so much is done in AuotCAD these days, it's really a very simple switch.
The Standard system is excellent for dividing units into smaller pieces. I can figure out how to divide a length into an even number of units in my head, usually. But that's where it ends. If I have to divide a board into thirds (or any other odd number of segments), the metric system would be preferred.
Yes. I've been training myself to think metric for some time now, though it is easiest when cooking. When I play Mafia, I have the speedometer changed to reflect KPH instead of MPH. My interest in science makes recommends the system.
Supr49er
2011 Thunderfall Cup
No way. For who? For what?
Look at food packaging, where manufacturers place the metric measurements in parentheses after the terrible Imperial units. You have 12 oz. cola cans with (330 mL) tacked on.
Now's the time to switch the order on that listing. Put the metric first. Let that wait for another decade or so, then take off the Imperial ones completely.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I didn't even realize that the whole teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, etc. system was an imperial thing. I really thought it was a world-wide universal cooking convention.
sigh... teaspoons! Who comes up with this stuff..
sigh... teaspoons! Who comes up with this stuff..
Mise
isle of lucy
1 tsp = 5ml
1 tbsp = 15ml
1 tbsp = 15ml
It's especially awful when you're baking and the recipe calls for a 8oz of flour. Is that 8oz a measurement of mass, or a measurement of volume??
If it's a measurement of mass and you don't have a scale in the proper range then you need to know the density of your grind of flour. I'm not joking when I say that I spent 45 minutes trying to work through an issue like this once.
But then again, I'm not very comfortable in the kitchen
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Yes, considering many countries we do business with use the metric system it would be good to have a universal system of measurements to smooth the wheels of commerce. You don't waste time calculating how many centimeters to the stirlings pace or how many Celsius to wife's armpits.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Naw we already have that. It's called American Football.
You see American's like their sports needlessly complicated so they can sound smart without putting much effort into it!
I could never understand American Football. And despite the fact that I own several baseball bats I have no clue how to actually play baseball
I could never figure out the rules by just watching the game and too lazy to read it up 
Basketball is teh win, though.
