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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/31/24 07:21 AM
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I doubt the US will officially change to the metric system. My teachers in high-school were telling me the change was imminent back in the 70's already.
I personally believe the imperial system is superior.
As a carpenter I love working with fractions and math comes easy to me. I can and do use the metric system when I have to but I don't like it.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Manfred]
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08/31/24 07:35 AM
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Not using the advantages of the metric system is st...
The longer the US wait to adopt it, the higher the expenditure.
It's better to make a painful break than draw out the agony.
For the elderly who are not willing to change, it will still be some decades of transformation. They likely can keep using imperial for the rest of their lives.
And don't forget imperial meassures are a relic of the British Empire. Even the Brits themselves have moved on and startet to switch to metric in 1973.
the British are also disarmed. Can't even have a pocket knife on them so not a country I want to emulate.
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/31/24 07:46 AM
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I use a 7/16 instead of a 13 mm because I love freedom! Pee on man buns, mom jeans, and the metric system.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/31/24 07:51 AM
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We are only one of the three countries in the world that don’t use it. What do you think about switching to it? (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) Fargen No !!!  The globalist tried that crap back in the early 1970's just after I had finally learned the British Imperial system of weights & measurements in elementary school !!! Myself, and my fellow American Citizens soundly rejected that NATO metric system B.S.in favor of our traditional White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heritage & culture. Let BOCO & his fellow Canadian Numb-Skulls embrace that B.S. !!!
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/31/24 08:45 AM
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Try to find a sourdough recipe in English. It's all grams. It used to be all volume (cups) now to weight (grams). More accurate, yeah but who needs it? Maybe I need to find a scale online.
Man who mistake shillelagh for fairy wand; see pixie dust, also.
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Leftlane]
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08/31/24 09:07 AM
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I use a 7/16 instead of a 13 mm because I love freedom! Pee on man buns, mom jeans, and the metric system. Right on Brother. I have thousands of dollars worth of precision tools, masured in imperial. Metric sucks. Charlie
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: jalstat]
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08/31/24 09:14 AM
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Never let them change to our system Why wouldn't we allow "THEM" to change to our system ? 
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: walleyed]
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08/31/24 09:26 AM
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Never let them change to our system Why wouldn't we allow "THEM" to change to our system ? Because everything they touch turns to crap. lol
-Goofy-
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Re: Should the United States go to the metric system?
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/31/24 09:39 AM
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Fun fact......entire base 10 metric system of volume, weights and measures is based on the distance between equator and north pole. 10,000,000 meters. Then 100 centimeters in a meter. 1 gram is weight of 1 cubic centimeter of water. 1 milliliter volume is also 1 cubic centimeter. Seems arbitrary, but that was the origin of it.
Origin of most of our US weights and measures falling down funny when you find out what they were.
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