We are only one of the three countries in the world that don’t use it. What do you think about switching to it?

No, too old for me to change.

The dopers already do.

Truth be told we already do to a degree. The aforementioned dope, medical and scientific fields metric is mandatory.

The rest of us that are stuck on imperial are pretty much already doing mental calculations if we do any sort of research and reading of instructional texts.

But no, I am adamantly opposed to surrender the use of imperial. Particularly as an ex carpenter who has 16@c ingrained on muscle memory. Seriously, I can still trot through attics because my feet still know 16@c.

This is a hard topic for me.

Yes, I like the metric system; cause I suck at math and it makes figuring easier.

On the other hand, I think there may be something sacred about our system, that I don't want to see lost.

easy math,,,,

We are about there already with all the crap we buy from China!

And Warrior's right. Nearly every chemical I buy for applications, I have to convert from grams/milliters to ounces.
Confuses everything.

I use it all the time and I work with people in other countries that do use it

but just like here if you tell some one they are looking for a 7 inch wide by 1 3/4 inch tall black box with lights on the front , or a 17.8cm wide box 4.5cm tall they still won't have any clue what you are talking about.

the thing is anyone who can work multiple number systems can do all of them
although I guess there is a simplicity to base 10

most of my recipes are in grams

people who put measurements to use regular know what a 13mm wrench looks like at a glance or a glance at the bolt and the say I bet that is a 13 and grab the 13 from the tool box

people who don't measure stuff often , just see a thing with no size definition in any measurement.

Well, its BS that we can buy American brand equipment (John Deere); and have to use metric to work on them Ticks me off.

That is why I like Truax Equipment. American made 100%, and everything on them is standard!

Many of the salt of the earth and good Americans still call MN there home.
They make good stuff too!

Its just math -- who cares what system is used - you will (mentally or by calculator) convert it to the system you are most comfortable with. I deal with both daily the only ones I have to sit down and think about a little arethe volume ones -- cubic meters per second and cubic centimeters.

all civil engineering is done in 10ths
That did not come from china

As a farmer, I find myself going in our metric tool box more and more. Our John Deere combine is all metric, as is most of the newer equipment. So we’re already switching over, little by little.

Yep. Every piece is going that way. I use more metric sockets than standard on 90% of the equipment I use. And they are all John Deere; except my seed drill which is standard.

every metric socket is turned by a standard size ratchet

when building a Toyota plant the prints were in metric. being youngest guy on the job at the time I figured it out quickly but often found myself telling the older guys to look on there standard metric tapes and have to give them the standard measurement saying it's close to 7' 6" for example and they would them look and ve able to figure out what metric slash they needed.
funny in elementary school they said the US would be fully switched over over 25 years ago.

We should have switched over but too many stuck in a rut types to change. It's easier.

I guess it will be hard for the world to unite in harmony and be one world without having one language and one measurement. Whether we have 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute time will always be set up by how long it takes the earth to rotate and 3651/4 days to go around the sun. I guess for many tens make sense because most have 10 fingers.
Babel didn't happen for no purpose! I guess the positives chasing the negatives and the boys chasing the girls is what makes the world go around, lol.

our system works just fine. I have no interest in trying to to remember how many centimeters equal one foot.

I remember being drilled by me teachers in the 70s that we needed to learn metric because "the US will be adopting it by 2000". Here we are in 2024 and that didn't happen yet.

25.4 no biggie either way!