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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 183906" data-attributes="member: 2013">Oh, come on...Oh, come ON, now... the Imperial system is so cool... all the cool countries are using it.&nbsp; The United States uses it, along with other world superpowers such as... um... er... um... Trinidad and Tobago?*ahem*Actually, I've lived in Europe and my area of study was Physics so I have no problem with the metric system - I can envision one liter of milk, three deciliters of soda, one kilogram of ground beef, sixteen meters, and so forth.The fact is that the United States is too stubborn/lazy to change... probably more lazy than stubborn.&nbsp; I had hoped that the infamous &quot;Mars Probe&quot; incident (you know, the one where the stupid American scientists thought they were using foot-pounds when they were really using Newtons and wound up smashing their probe into Mars) would have convinced the US that it really *IS* more expensive to stick to the Imperial system.&nbsp; Alas, no.&nbsp; I love the U.S., but we do a lot of really stupid things - our copyright laws get held hostage by a mouse, our judicial system is the laughingstock of the Free World thanks to both the O.J. Trial and the 2000 presidential election, and of course, we use the Imperial system.&nbsp; Bleah.&nbsp; We just have too darn many stupid people with too darn much money and too darn much power running our country.&nbsp; Other than that, it's a great place. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 183906, member: 2013"] [b]Oh, come on...[/b] Oh, come ON, now... the Imperial system is so cool... all the cool countries are using it. The United States uses it, along with other world superpowers such as... um... er... um... Trinidad and Tobago? *ahem* Actually, I've lived in Europe and my area of study was Physics so I have no problem with the metric system - I can envision one liter of milk, three deciliters of soda, one kilogram of ground beef, sixteen meters, and so forth. The fact is that the United States is too stubborn/lazy to change... probably more lazy than stubborn. I had hoped that the infamous "Mars Probe" incident (you know, the one where the stupid American scientists thought they were using foot-pounds when they were really using Newtons and wound up smashing their probe into Mars) would have convinced the US that it really *IS* more expensive to stick to the Imperial system. Alas, no. I love the U.S., but we do a lot of really stupid things - our copyright laws get held hostage by a mouse, our judicial system is the laughingstock of the Free World thanks to both the O.J. Trial and the 2000 presidential election, and of course, we use the Imperial system. Bleah. We just have too darn many stupid people with too darn much money and too darn much power running our country. Other than that, it's a great place. :) --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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