[Standing Wolf]

Basically a dirty snowball from the fringes of the solar system, scientists had pronounced Comet ISON dead when it came within 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of the sun Thursday.

I avoid kilometers like the plague. Realistically speaking, the French so-called "metric" system is for people who are stuck with doing arithmetic on this many fingers.

[Windflier]

I avoid kilometers like the plague. Realistically speaking, the French so-called "metric" system is for people who are stuck with doing arithmetic on this many fingers.

I cringe every time I hear some American describing something in meters.