Happy Cinco de Mayo y'all!!

[Sage]

I like not caring enough to look it up because I forgot about all you Americans and your crazy non-metric ways.

The government once tried back in the 1980s to switch to metric, but people complained, and we switched back.

They tried to do it gradually, the idiots! If they'd just pulled the rug out from under us and changed everything overnight, we'd have just dealt with it. It worked with soda bottles, after all.

one time our class discussed us and we said pretty much the same thing

[TyVulpine]

I like not caring enough to look it up because I forgot about all you Americans and your crazy non-metric ways.

The government once tried back in the 1980s to switch to metric, but people complained, and we switched back.

They tried to do it gradually, the idiots! If they'd just pulled the rug out from under us and changed everything overnight, we'd have just dealt with it. It worked with soda bottles, after all.

Yeah, and it would work about as well as "New Coke" did...

[Tom Flapwell]

One key difference is that you won't replace car speedometers overnight. If a 35 mph zone starts having signs that say "Speed Limit 60," drivers will get confused.

[nickspoon]

One key difference is that you won't replace car speedometers overnight. If a 35 mph zone starts having signs that say "Speed Limit 60," drivers will get confused.

In the UK, all our speed limit signs are in mph but practically everything else is metric. It seems to work just fine. I'm not sure there'd be widespread confusion about changes on our speed limit signs either. People know what is unreasonably high, and they have km/h markings on their speedometers. It's why you don't often get tourists in Europe misunderstanding km/h roadsigns.

[TyVulpine]

One key difference is that you won't replace car speedometers overnight. If a 35 mph zone starts having signs that say "Speed Limit 60," drivers will get confused.

In the UK, all our speed limit signs are in mph but practically everything else is metric. It seems to work just fine. I'm not sure there'd be widespread confusion about changes on our speed limit signs either. People know what is unreasonably high, and they have km/h markings on their speedometers. It's why you don't often get tourists in Europe misunderstanding km/h roadsigns.

Up in Canada, road speed limit signs are in Km/h, so Americans visiting would probably speed without realizing it. (I know, I was up there back in July 1994)

[osprey]

They all say KM/H under them however.

Edit: At least, all the ones I've payed attention to here in BC do.

[Sage]

Good thing cars have both KMH and MPH then

Seriously, though, it seems that metric seems to be better... It would take some getting used to but still..

[TyVulpine]

Good thing cars have both KMH and MPH then

Seriously, though, it seems that metric seems to be better... It would take some getting used to but still..

Metric is all "base 10", whereas the English System, well...it's nuts.

[klimt]

Good thing cars have both KMH and MPH then

Seriously, though, it seems that metric seems to be better... It would take some getting used to but still..

depends what your doing. i dont know anyone who uses just metric.