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[calzephyr]

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[fozziewriter.livejournal.com]

What is this Metric? (Tongue in Cheek). I remember a very concerted push to convert over to Metric in the U.S. It failed miserably.....

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't understand the holdout...when Canada converted, and for years after, we would get little pamphlets in the mail, or goodies like metric measuring cups and spoons. Maybe free stuff was the key to success :-)

[fozziewriter.livejournal.com]

Oh yes definitely, free stuff is always the key to success. Our push was just through school with some media. It just died down and went away. Obviously though, all of our medical communication is Metric.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I noticed that when I was looking at nutritional values in recipes! I can't imagine using imperial for minute quantities. Even "1/8 of a teaspoon" is crazy.

[fozziewriter.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it but I'll bet we have more variability in recipes than you do due to this....

[twospotz.livejournal.com]

... or simply realize that the metric system is based on the number 10 - 10 fingers, 10 toes, 10 meters - 1 meter - 100 centimeters - 1 centimeter is 10 millimeters. Ten all over the place. Simple, easy and not full of 67/8, 33/4ths etc. gosh how That system totally makes no sense. ;-D *irony bigtime plzkthanx!*

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Totally, I love the simplicity of metric, especially for math challenged people like me. I couldn't memorize the twelves times table at all.

[cyanus-fire.livejournal.com]

were are half imperial half metric. we use miles and pints, and measure in pounds but the government made it illegal and attempted to bring metric in. people wrote in metric with the imperial at the side and they eventually gave up just this year in fact. I still dont understand litres and ml. I measure small things in centimetres but use feet from 30cm onwards. I prefer metres to yards though but never kilometres. I use celcius for small temperatures because it makes it sound colder and fareinhight for big because it sounds hotter :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Metric is really well suited to small quantities - I find it easier to use inches or feet for large things. Trying to visualize "155 cm" is harder for some reason. Maybe it's because we all have a couple of feet handy :-)