We should have, but have not.

Not just Europe: there are only three countries in the world which have not officially adopted a metric system: the US, Liberia and what was formerly Burma.

We also tried again not long ago, people bitched that they would never understand it.

Truth be told, we are just fucking stupid about some shit.

babelfish RULEZ :thumbsup :thumbsup :drinkup :food-smil02 :Buck:

I feel like hitting someone over the head with a 600mm X 1200mm if I had one handy :mad:

or a 1200mm X 600mm for you Southern Hemishperians

because we are lazy thats why

a lot of American's are too stupid to learn something different!

Even backwards? You've always been such a moron..

How difficult can it be? I mean.. you have 10 fingers.. thats all you need to learn the Metric System.. also you allready use a similar system with the US Currency.. its just a matter of pride I think.. but eventually they will make the switch.. almost all the scientific things are made in Metric in the united states.. and the medicine is all metric too..

(:P star trek uses the metric system.. the also think the future is metric :P )

What's metric? :)

50 shitty systems of measurment

We still use both here, although we should be 100% metric according to the EU bods

We still buy a pint of milk, or a gallon of petrol, or quarter of a pound of your finest ham please !

But you can say 250 grammes also :)

metric rules. it would be such an effort for the Americans to change. cant see it happening.

Yeah, because learning how to divide by 10 is so much harder than learning multiple, incohesive systems of measure.

How many feet in a mile?
How many meters in a kilometer?

Which of the above questions is easier to answer?

First of all we do use metric. We buy our soda in 2 LITER bottles.

Actually ther was a move in the 1970's to have us on the emtric system by 1980. Why it got scrapped I don't know. I just remember having to spend lots of time in 1st-3rd grade having metric shoved up my ass then all of sudden we didn't have to learn it any more.

Why don't the Euros learn our way? Celcius WTF is that? You can't tell anything by that. I can tell 85F is a lot fucking hotter than 55F because it's 30 fucking degrees difference. The difference between 29-12 well doesn't seem too bad yet it the same fucking thing in celcius. If it's 120F degrees in Arizona I know it's WAY fucking hot. Because it's 20 over 100 which is 3 digits instead of 2. 49C WTF, is that hot or not? Who fucking knows?

the same reason why they've only driven their own brand of cars for a long ass time: the idea that everything they use is better.... lately they finally started to realize their cars' quality is way below the level of quality of cars out of all other countries and they slowly start to adapt hahaha...must be hard.
Same thing goes for metric, its so much easier than the miles per hour, feet, inch, elbow or whatever other primitive measuring methods they use now, but they're just too stubborn. (by 'they' i mean the people in charge btw, the working man cant help how his country raises him)

Ronald Reagan cancelled the switchover because he thought it was an internationalist, globalist commie plot.

Red states could never handle it.

Really, how are you going to sell a system with a scientific basis (ie, bases of 10) to a batshit crazy psycho religious fanatic that wants to pump an embryo full of horomones so it doesn't come out gay?

0 degrees celsius is where water freezes.
100 degrees celsius is where water boils.

You are without a doubt the dumbest shit on this forum. :1orglaugh

really .... ??????:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Imperial is what is (was) used in Canada and the UK. A Canadian (Imperial) gallon is actually biger than a US gallon.

and the moon is made out of cheese.:1orglaugh

No, I'd say the average American simply doesn't want to. Call it lazy, or call it simply not wanting to do something.

It's a retarded system, and impossible to properly calculate with.

What's even more retarded is that americans often express concentrations in fluids in g/dL instead of mol/L. How can you ever easily and accurately chemically calculate reactions this way?

Holy shit, this is the dumbest thing I've heard in a while...

We know how long a foot is. we don't know how long a meter is.

Yes. At 60 MPH I am doing 1 mile every minute.

Its all Bush's fault

Ok lets tell the truth. If your in a room and ask about grams, kilos, ect and somebody knows, hey might be a drug dealer.

at 60Km/hour, I am doing one kilometer every minute .... :1orglaugh

Except I have no idea how far a kilometer is, so that doesn't help me much.I see the war movies where they say, "they are about 5 kliks ahead." I never know WTF that means.


Do I need to hop a Jeep, or is it walking distance?

Now those weights I know. And I can convert them to ounces and pounds with ease.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

WHY?

were morons here

Let me help you, how many minutes in an hour? Did Europe change their system of time too? lol

There must be self-satisfaction in pointless posts... or just a troll tendency

You really are dumb ....

Do you know on what the " system of time is based ... "

Try comparing apples with cabbage ... you should be at ease with that.

Wonder if this nick will be banned soon haha.

The pointless troll speak?