[Clinging Bitterly]

>> I remember in the 70's how America was "doomed" if we didn't convert to the metric system ...

Yeah. British subjects were only recently forced to adopt the metric system, in the name of "globalism". It's not highly publicized outside of the country, but the Brits hate the metric system probably more than we do. We dodged a bullet there, I think.

Several years ago I bought some knocked down particleboard cabinets that were made by an outfit called Sturdi-Craft in Klamath Falls Oregon. On the package it stated the weight and dimensional information of the product, in lbs. and inches, of course. The last line of this decriptive info added the statement, "Metric is un-American". Gotta love an outfit like that.

Dave in Eugene

[patriciaruth]

Makes me glad Hamilton had the foresight to change our monetary system to metric over 200 years ago. However, on Jaywalking there was still a student teacher who couldn't answer the question "How many dimes in a dollar?"

I don't get what you all have against metric.

[Bobby777]

haha ... owning a British car, a Japanese car, two American cars, and a Japanese motorcycle, my toolbox is a random mix of metric / SAE wrenches and sockets ... the only thing I'm certain of when I pick up a tool is: I don't have the right one ... just changed the battery in my '86 Corvette and I think it is a Communist Conspiracy how they put that thing in there ... of course the easy way is to drop the panel behind the tire, BUT it wouldn't start ... so I couldn't move the wheel too good ...