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Dunno if there are any others but I-19 from Tucson to Nogales Arizona is signed in metric. They wanted to keep the Mexicans happy I guess. Near as I can tell I-19 begins in Tucson and ends at Nogales for whatever that;s worth. You go to my local Walmart and probably half of Nogales Sonora are there shopping. Gets a bit interesting at times.
Paul B.

I always found it funny that the military uses metric system for their weather forecasts, but standard (statue miles)for weather observations when stateside. Civilian sector is all standard measurement in the US. Working as a contractor now, we used meters, but our Eastern European military that work with us, all want to used kilometers for everything.

We going to change our language too?

Well, heck, if the Russians do it, we should to.

First, we'll starve 20-30 million of our own citizens...

What system is a [bleep] hair under?
K u n t hair?

That's pretty funny when you dig into it a little:

http://www.us-metric.org/origin-of-the-metric-system/


Since 1893, the internationally adopted metric standards have served as the fundamental measurement standards of the United States. Our non-metric units have been defined in terms of these metric standards ever since.


Jerry

Thomas Jefferson was an early proponent of the metric system but let cost nix it. Here's some interesting info. Reference to Jefferson on page two.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system.htm

That is a good point.......Should we start with the cities or just registered Democrats?

I don't care.. I positively HATE metric..

I have to agree, that is funny. It seems to me that all the distances I see on roads are miles, all building materials are in feet and inches, annual rainfall is measured and recorded in feet and inches, altitude is measured by feet or miles, the amount of water in a lake is measured by acre/feet...on and on

I would guess, you get your measurements and information from people that drive Subarus and Volvos...

That's a little too vague. Be more specific. Red? Blond? Brown?
Then you need to do a conversion to knat's azz.

I don't want to push 1 for English on the phone or change to metrics to suit other countries

If this is what the country wanted they should have said so when the use of metric was proposed. Initially the US said they would adopt metric then reneged a short time later. The inability to keep your word is one reason the US is distrusted by much of the world. Flame away.

Jim

Now that is HIGH

Exactly right... no inches used.

We turned the foot into the metric system and made base 10

Building materials is probably one of the hardest parts of the conversion. Plywood sheeting is currently 4x8. Metric dimensions dont fit that easily. If we go metric, we have to build the odd ball stuff that allows us to match what is in use everywhere else already, and build new sizes so that eventually the old stuff will be phased out. Pipe culverts for roadways... a 36" diameter culvert would not match up to a 1 meter culvert, so we would have to produce both... which is expensive, duplicates machinery and storage space etc. Its too expensive to make the switch, not to mention how confusing it would be for this generation as we suffer through all of the things not fitting right when repairs need to be made to things.

The metric system is very nice and we would all like it if we could start over that way. One of the nicest is the simple conversions from units of volume to units of weight (using water) etc. Its a better system than we are using now.

How many remember the old song "I love you a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck"? I'll bet Wabigoon does.

Now consider that a bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds while a bushel of wheat or soybeans weighs 60 pounds.

How confusing is that?

If you want some more humor, look up the definition of a mile:

https://www.britannica.com/science/mile

It started as a thousand paces, but changed a few times over the centuries.

Or an acre: the area of a piece of land that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen and a wooden plow.

I do know someone who drives a Volvo, but he is a salesman so you can't believe anything he says.

Jerry

Used to come in fifths. You're getting gypped out of 7.08236 mL nowadays.

Geno