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- subliminali, on 08/13/2008, -43/+2541Burma and Liberia-- America's strongest allies in a war on progress.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -134/+2051This is so ***** embarrassing....
- YodaJones, on 08/13/2008, -63/+1125Multiples of Sixteenths and Thirtysecondths rule! Why in the world would anyone want to have measurements in tenths? That's just crazy.
See, America is not alone. We should make war against all those non inch infidels. Our God is an inch God. - feshmania, on 08/13/2008, -19/+989if you give these metric countries 2.54 cm they'll take a 0.9144 metre.
- thestorey, on 08/13/2008, -91/+843AMERI-CUH! ***** YEA!
- jshadow, on 08/13/2008, -21/+561Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do! - TheR3dMenace, on 08/13/2008, -66/+596The metric system is the tool of the devil!
- poidh, on 08/13/2008, -31/+474I'm British and I think that the metric system is better, even though road signs are still in miles and feet. I try to use it anyway for distances and weights.
However, I believe that we should keep serving beer in pints. There's no way I will ever ask for a "glass of beer" or "750ml of beer" or whatever. - gtluke, on 08/13/2008, -28/+332thats funny, my japanese car has 15 inch rims, 14 gauge sheet metal and tires rated for 44psi
the english also use miles and pints - hmacmil2, on 08/13/2008, -68/+347Already posted a year ago :P
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Nations_who_have_ ... - IphtashuFitz, on 08/13/2008, -8/+269Damn, we've got a long way to go to wipe out the metric system once and for all...
- badsect0r, on 08/13/2008, -8/+233The American Military uses metric. I've trained with the yanks before. Good guys.
- below413, on 08/13/2008, -11/+223Try being an engineer where just because you are in America you have to learn basically two sets of units because in an actual engineering job here you have you use stupid units like "pound-mass." And the Fahrenheit temperature scale is dumb too. Celsius is scaled nicely from water freezing at zero to boiling at 100 (vs. 32F - 212F).
- An800lbGorilla, on 08/13/2008, -9/+214Give them and inch and they'll take a yard?
- xyllar, on 08/13/2008, -22/+218I like to give my friends the temperature in Celcius when they ask how the weather is, then watch their reactions.
"It's 10 degrees outside..."
"Woah, that's freezing!"
"...Celcius."
"You bastard!" - OrangeTide, on 08/13/2008, -16/+201Brits still use Imperial units in their daily life, even if they have officially switched over.
- the5wagners, on 08/13/2008, -0/+178My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it. - Grampa Simpson
- fsweep, on 08/13/2008, -8/+166The US uses the metric system where it counts---- in the medical field.
- breaker01, on 08/13/2008, -4/+143I use the metric system when I buy weed.
That's progress right there. - quickgold192, on 08/13/2008, -3/+142whats wrong with ordering beer by the liter?
- HillerMylife, on 08/13/2008, -0/+132It gets most confusing when you're trying to buy produce and find that it's two pounds per pound.
- solistus, on 08/13/2008, -6/+116Standardisation is the biggest advantage. NASA had a run being the butt of the entire world community's jokes when they sent some numbers for a joint project with European space agencies and forgot to convert them to metric, causing a rather expensive drone to crash into Mars instead of landing on it. That's just one example of the common hitches that come by not using the same units as the rest of the world.
Imagine if the US stopped using hours and minutes and made up its own new units of time. Sure, once people got used to the new units it would work fine... Except every time any information involving time had to be communicated to anyone outside the country. Not using the metric system is the same effect for virtually all other units of measure. - exscape, on 08/13/2008, -6/+114The US uses the metric system in most sciences, because anything else would make them look like asses to almost every other country. ;)
- HaSatan, on 08/13/2008, -4/+110"Our God is an inch God."
That made my day. Dugg. - WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/13/2008, -15/+117Why did you choose an equivalent to 3 feet instead of a mile?
- ghuytro, on 08/13/2008, -12/+114"THIS IS ARE COUNTRY!"
- bernierm, on 08/13/2008, -10/+107I don't understand this map. Is there a version with imperial units?
- sghost, on 08/13/2008, -16/+109Buried as inaccurate. Everyone (including Americans) is in agreement that the metric system is better. The Americans use it. It just hasn't become the "standard" yet. It almost did back in the early 80's. I don't know what prevented that from happening.
- captnkurt, on 08/13/2008, -4/+95He said "yanks" not "jerks"
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -3/+91we still measure our dick in inches though
- zcreem, on 08/13/2008, -0/+87In the other map Britain is on its own as the only country that can't make its mind up.
Roads in miles fuel in litres efficiency in in mile per gallon. Power in horses, according to Clarkson.
Tap beer in pints, bottled beer in ml.
Not bad as they decided on the metric back in 1965 with an expected 10 year change over, still nearly there. - SACubeMonkey, on 08/13/2008, -5/+92That sounds so much like a white house press release that it's scary.
- zcreem, on 08/13/2008, -8/+93That is quite possible the best comment I have ever read here, and so so dry.
- badsect0r, on 08/13/2008, -2/+86Had to google who A-rod was. You crazy Americans and your baseball.
- byronm, on 08/13/2008, -9/+91My guess is you never deal with anything math, science or even travel related. Or have never picked up a tool set or worked on a car, airplane or boat.
- BKpimp, on 08/13/2008, -4/+85This comment just made my day.
- voodoochilli, on 08/13/2008, -8/+89Not really. We know both but younger people now use CM rather than inches.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 08/13/2008, -10/+85Sorry but I've always heard "Give em an inch and they'll take a mile"...
- cthulhukb, on 08/13/2008, -3/+75What about a "goddamn liter o' cola"?
- JeddHampton, on 08/13/2008, -2/+74America did try to switch over once. It didn't go over too well, and many people were confused. The only thing left over from that switch is the two liter soda bottles.
- BossKey, on 08/13/2008, -2/+72Yeah I thought it was "...and they'll take 1.6km."
- Shizlanski, on 08/13/2008, -4/+71Nothing has changed in that year. The point needs to be repeated.
- KeepSwinging, on 08/13/2008, -0/+67My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
- Filipp0, on 08/13/2008, -2/+69THEY TOOK UUHHRR JOBSS
- a_madman, on 08/13/2008, -10/+76Silly noobs.
- TubeDigger, on 08/13/2008, -1/+66The Stonecutters keep the metric system down
- aussiejan, on 08/13/2008, -30/+93You are talking about currency. Most countries use currency other than the dollar. Many European countries use the Euro for example. But the road signs use kilometers for distance and speed limits and weights are in grams or kilograms and gas is sold in liters. Money does not fall into the metric system.
- Desolite, on 08/13/2008, -2/+61who would want to talk about their millimeter peter?
- Panopticism, on 08/13/2008, -1/+59STICK TO IMPERIAL YOU MORANS
- im2emo4myshrt, on 08/13/2008, -8/+65Jesus I was joking.
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