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Metric System...long overdue.

The Dutchman
Many American industries have been working with the metric system. How long until the rest of the country sees the light? Would you rather switch or stick?
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  • Odawgp
    counting in 10's instead of 16,32,64,128,256ths is alot easier.
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  • youngsparkey
    Switch and get it over with. Doesn't our military mostly use metric already?
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  • He Dog
    If god wanted me to go metric, I would have been born with 25.4 centimeters instead.
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  • Mk 19
    I just wish we would stick with one or the other, it is a real pain to convert inches into milimeters.
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    I just wish we would stick with one or the other, it is a real pain to convert inches into milimeters.
    Amen!!
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  • charliemeyer007
    When I was in school I really liked the SI system. Now I think it's one more step closer to one world government. I vote for we make things in the USA, like we did a long time ago. I want quality not junk made in China or eleswhere. Except for tolet paper nothing should be to use once and throw away. English/Metric/Wentworth I couldn't careless if it was well designed/manufactured.
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  • jonk
    The real nutjobs are the UK and Canada- they use some of both- i.e. you drive 100 km/h, but buy a shirt with a neck line of 16 inches.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    jonk...

    In Canada, the shirts are marked with BOTH, for ppl who dont use the metric system and need to buy a shirt...
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  • mond
    metric is useful, but not good, we used to pay ?1.00 a gal(4.55 litres)for petrol...now its ?1.00 a litre

    [xx(]
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  • beneteau
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    I just wish we would stick with one or the other, it is a real pain to convert inches into milimeters.


    It's easy as long as you use a internet calculator.

    Here's one
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  • Blade Slinger
    we are forced to use whatever the customer is accustomed to using, just convert it X .03937=
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  • buschmaster
    I'd rather keep it the way it is. I spent 7 years in college doing everything with the metric system, but if I had to read road signs and weather forcasts in km/H and celcius it would drive me bonkers.
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  • dcon12
    It is a hell of a lot easier to package pot. Don
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  • SuburbanNoize
    Grams 10, Eights 20, Quarters 35, Halfs 50, Ounces 95-100
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  • He Dog
    I'd like a kilo of pecans and 100 milligrams of Lebanese please.
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  • SuburbanNoize
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    I'd like a kilo of pecans and 100 milligrams of Lebanese please.


    Yellow_Lebanese.jpg
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  • jonk
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    jonk...

    In Canada, the shirts are marked with BOTH, for ppl who dont use the metric system and need to buy a shirt...
    I JUST bought a shirt at Sears in Canada (Guelph) two days ago as I was there on business and forgot to bring an extra shirt- and slopped curry on the one I was wearing.

    It was not marked in centimeters.
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  • spurgemastur
    Go metric.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by SLING BLADE
    we are forced to use whatever the customer is accustomed to using, just convert it X .03937=


    that does not aply to all metric conversions
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  • Permanently deleted user
    All USA plumbing pipe and fixtures are still in "inch" measurements.

    A lot of the oil tanks and septic tanks we get are made in Canada...which are rated in Us gallons, liters, and Imperial gallons...

    Does non-Frog Canada still use "Imperial Gallons", or is that another term consigned to history's dust bin??
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  • MDSRUGER1
    Didn't the Hubble get messed up because the Europeans used Metric and NASA thought it was inches? Or something like that?
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  • jethro
    I vote for our old standard! I am not a big fan of metric measurements. I had to learn all of those fractional equivalents; my kids should have to learn them too!![}:)][:D]
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  • Zebra
    Metric by all means! It's alot more precise for close tolerence blue print specs in millimeters.
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  • LaidbackDan
    Should I give up on the use of Rods, Fathoms, and stones as measurements then?
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  • SG_Niner
    quote:Originally posted by MDSRUGER1
    Didn't the Hubble get messed up because the Europeans used Metric and NASA thought it was inches? Or something like that?

    I thought it was the mars prob?
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  • Zebra
    Pull out a Standard tape measure and add 15/16 + 3/8 + 3/32 (you usually have to grab a pencil and paper)

    Now pull out a Metric tape and add 100mm + 60mm + 40mm

    If you've ever worked in a shop with metric prints, you would agree with me.
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  • Rack Ops
    We should go metric....sure beats learning two systems
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  • catpealer111
    The aviation industry is predominately standard but we use some metric for high temps and some volumes.
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  • Blade Slinger
    its not the good or the bad, its about getting people on board,never gona happen, never!
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  • greeker375
    This topic of conversation has been going on since I was in 1st grade and that my friends was more than 55 yrs ago!

    I doubt it will ever occur.
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