[llevrok]

I deal with progressive idiologues in some of my hobbies.

I’ve noticed they throw metric units around in conversation like a social climber drops names - to impress.

[Loud Mime]

I worked with the Air Weather Service for a few years, some in Germany.

Some things were coded in meters, some in feet. Weird. Altimeter settings were reported in ins, because of he US altimeters. Visibility was meters, clouds were in feet. Temps in celsius. We had a mercurial barometer that was in MB’s.

When sending up weather balloons, we reported in MB’s.

I’m still mixed up, but can run well with the metric droppers.

[BfloGuy]

I’ve noticed they throw metric units around in conversation like a social climber drops names - to impress.

I notice that in news articles -- some distance expressed in meters, for example. Really frosts me. I mean, I realize that you can multiply by 3 and get the approximate number of feet; but you have to interrupt your reading to do it.

It's like NPR reporters' insistence on pronouncing foreign names in the foreign language. They do it to impress [themselves]. Heh.