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O/T Metric vs Standard Rant for Today!

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Posted by John B. on February 27, 2013 at 07:25:49 from (38.114.64.177):

Ok I've been off work too long and just sitting around the house and have too much time on my hands. So here's my rant for today

When I was in my last 3 years of grade school they were just hitting on teaching us the metric system. I should say they introduced it to us. I believe it's much easier.
Any way my point is why do we have signs saying 100 miles/62 kilometers or a quart 32oz of liquid vs liter 0.946.
I don't need to be told that a container contains 0.946 of a liter when you never taught me what a liter is. It's like telling me what 9'4-3/4" is when you never taught me what an inch or foot measures out to be.

Example I love is the 2-Liter bottle of soda is very popular and no one ever questions it being metric. It's just two liters and we learned it quite quickly.
My beef is why dont' we just convert and be done.

I think that measurement or distance is where everyone has the biggest problem. They can't visualize what a kilometer is because they were never taught. But if odometers only read metric imagine how fast we would catch on. Yes new cars do have the option of standard or metric display but how many people actually use the metric display? Not too many from whom I've talked to, just because it's not needed and hard to relate to others in conversation.
They say the expense to switch over would be tremendous such as in road signs, building trade which I understand. My argument is we don't have much to gain as an individual but more so as a country if we switched.
Comparing the two systems we now have is where most have problems. They're told a kilometer is less than a mile. We can visualize a mile but not a kilometer yet.
I have taught myself the metric system and I know there are conversion tables but there's one conversion we haven't taken yet and when we do there won't be a need to compare one to the other.

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