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Originally Posted by Plankton
Trust me BD, I've had to * or / by 25.4 for over 20 years. It's a pain when you get drawings from other countries that need changes right away, or they spec out that things HAVE to be in metric.
The thing is that Imperial is so embedded in our country that changing the standard would cripple some industries... for a while anyway. I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to go metric.
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Many people in Canada still use imperial for lots of things. Mostly older people (like 40+ let's say) who learned imperial in school. Canada only started using the metric system in the 80's. People got used to it pretty fast, but yeah both kinds of measurements are still used in some cases.
It's funny how the US still uses imperial, but they see themselves as a progressive superpower in terms of globalization. A bit ironic.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
See what it says? IMPERIAL. WE are the empire, so we use what is appropriate. YOU are our empire so you use that other crap.
And Thailand and Liberia's insurrection shall soon be crushed.
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lol, that's not Thailand, it's Myanmar/Burma. You're right on track with a military police state
I believe it's called Imperial because it was invented by the Brits to standardize measurements in the empire, of course the US was once part of that empire so I guess they just stuck with it. The UK is officially metric now though, (according to that map).