Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 20, 2014

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    LeoAutodidact  over 10 years ago

    Amazingly recent work shows the "English System to be MORE integrated that the Metric System.

    Search for “Megaloithic Pint, Anyone?” by Lomas and Knight, Eye opener!

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    vars35  over 10 years ago

    actually give him an inch and he’ll take 1.61 km.

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    PICTO  over 10 years ago

    I’m for going metric every inch of the way.

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    Jonathan Mason  over 10 years ago

    Don’t get me started on non-metric measures. Why are some Imperial measures different from US measures? Why do Americans use cups as a measure? Give me metric any day – a litre is a litre in every country (apart from the US where it is misspelt).

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    billmccuskey  over 10 years ago

    As an American who has lived and worked overseas for many years I find it amusing that only two countries in the world, USA and Liberia in Africa, don’t use metric! It is so much easier to use than USA measurements.

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    jancyclops  over 10 years ago

    @Leo Autodidact The problem is imperial and US pints and gallons are not the same. Even the fluid ounce is different. The English system is imperial not the US version.Metric is more consistent. BTW, a “gramme” was originally defined as a weight.

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    King_Shark  over 10 years ago

    It does give me a lot of pleasure deliberately misunderstanding Americans when they use their so-called units and confusing them with my replies. That’s one form of trolling I have no apologies about. Hey, Americans, when over 99% of the world uses one system, either switch to it or be made fun of. Your choice.

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    dkoch59  over 10 years ago

    Hectares of happiness.

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    flyertom  over 10 years ago

    Metric, schmetric. It’s those damn little lines on the ruler that get me.

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    flyertom  over 10 years ago

    And here’s another regarding temperature:

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    YokohamaMama  over 10 years ago

    It’s TOE the line. Did you get auto corrected?

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    ChazNCenTex  over 10 years ago

    Poorly.

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    2578275  over 10 years ago

    If there’s an area in which I’m a liberal, it’s this. I believe the only reason the U.S. hasn’t converted to S.I. is to keep the public stupid. Big business isn’t going to do any favors for anybody because more money can be made this way.

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    timtribbett  over 10 years ago

    Ha, clever!

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    patiodragon  over 10 years ago

    BOTH systems are based on the arc of venus. Freaky. http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-One-The-World-Thought/dp/1907486097

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 10 years ago

    “Sorry, you just didn’t measure up”..I think the imperial system is more accurate and easier to use than metric when it comes to temperature. It’s surprising that seconds, minutes, and hours weren’t changed. Give them time. 28 day months work out better and we could have an Old Year’s Day off.

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    gammot12  over 10 years ago

    Always liked “Why does England use a dozen eggs”? That ain’t metric.

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    comicpat65 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I remember in junior high school science class (in the late 70s), we were warned that soon the whole country would be converting to the metric system and we better better get use to it. Weathermen use to give the temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit, measuring cups had both units of measurements and sodas were sold in liters. Well flash forward 40 + years and guess what. Seems we stubborn Americans never got use to the metric system. I think if this country really wanted to commit to change, they should have thrown out the archaic English units of measurements altogether and just converted everything to metric.

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    lookwhatbobfound  over 10 years ago

    ypoons, i remember that. they were to start teaching metric in the 1st grade then as that grade advanced, they’d continue with them as they went into 2nd & start the new 1st graders in metric. within 12 years all the kids would know metric. but the adults were so bent on the imperial system the plan was dead in the water.

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    benbrilling  over 10 years ago

    The metric system is ⅓ phony. Time is still measured in values of 60, 24, 28(29)/30/31, 365(366). Stupid system.

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    Seeker149 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    “My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!”—Abraham Simpson

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