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Very useful for my work - always problematiocal for me converting pounds to long or short tonnes.
Thanks.
Sorry Gary, I was only laughing at the cartoon. I don't mean to criticize the system. No offence!
Being from a metric country, when I was in US I find it little difficult to adapt to the system. Thought one of you will give a plausible explanation.
rroad,
The most plausible answer I would have given would have gone like this....
If it is working don't break it.
Not hard to switch over but must start in pre-school and the change over would take years to accomplish. Our government is working on creating joba and learning how to stop spending our money.
I didn't mean to offend you or anything. Don't get me wrong, the conversion tool is perfect especiakly for non-windows 7 systems due to the lack of it.
I don't criticize the tool itself. I'm just expressing the feelings I share with the author of theoatmeal.com in regards to the whole imperial-metric system issue :)
Only partly true! We are schizophrenic about it:
- We buy beer in pints but petrol in litres (though if we are talking about fuel efficiency, we still use miles per gallon);
- When I say we buy beer in pints, that's draught beer - bottled beer is usually sold in 500 mL bottles;
- We buy meat by the kilogram except in McDonald's, where you can still get a quarter-pounder;
- We weigh ourselves in pounds but weigh vegetables in kilograms;
- We use Celsius for temperature, but everyone my age converts it back to Fahrenheit so we can work out whether to wear a coat or not :)
Even in the U.S. we do have a few types of items measured using the metric system -- e.g. many canned/bottled food and liquid items.