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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a child of the 80s too--and learned metric alongside Imperial. I can visualize either, but prefer imperial--as a PP said it's easier to visualize smaller distances in inches and feet. I don't have an issues when I visit other countries because I know a meter is roughly 3 feet, I know 90 KMH is roughly 55 MPH, and an inch is roughly 2.5 cm. I can convert F to C and back again and have be relatively accurate. I just don't see what the point is in using metric for everything--do is really matter how many nanometers or micrograms something is? No. For day to day life, whatever system you're used to is perfectly fine. If the entire world used Imperial and the US used metric, you'd be complaining about that.

Oh, and BTW, the US wanted in on the metric system, but Napoleon was mad at us about something, and blocked us and UK from getting in on it from the beginning--so we did try![/quote]
I never heard about Napoleon preventing US and England from getting the Metric system? How is that even possible? Can you tell us more about that or point us in the direction of something to read about it?[/quote]

As you wish--I listened to it quite a while back so I might be misremembering some of the details, but here it is: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/sysk-selects-why-isnt-the-us-29467378/[/quote]

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