Here's a map of countries that have not yet adopted the metric system

@hingehead,

Australia's "metrification" took many years. 1972 is when they introduced it to you in school, but they didn't withdraw all imperial units till 1988.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Australia

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@Cycloptichorn,

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Here in the States, our cars get 40 Rods to the Hogshead and that's the way we likes it!
Cycloptichorn

I'm sure hoping a Rod is alot farther than I think it is, and a Hogshead is way smaller.

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@hingehead,

"Australia adopted the metric system in 1972 actually"

about the same time as canada

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@Robert Gentel,

And I STILL cannot think of people's height in cm's.

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@hingehead,

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Ah, David, wouldn't reducing key jams increase the typist's speed?

I read somewhere
that ladies in white gloves were chagrined by the need to disentangle jammed keys.
The current evolution of technology has obviated this problem.

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Nevertheless it's a good point.

Thank u

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As a touch typist I've never even thought about using the Dvorak keyboard,

I am also a touch typist,
tho not an especially fast one.

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it might be inefficient but it's what I'm used to.
AH HA! that's why the USA is still using imperial measurements
(rebelled against british imperial rule, but kept their bizarre system of measurements).

Correct me if I am rong,
but I am under the impression that when we adopted the English measurements,
the metric systems was not considered by anyone,
tho obviously a system based on 10 is better and easier.

In my opinion,
students in school shoud be tawt fonetic spelling,
the Dvorak keyboard, and the metric system.

Children shoud be tawt that if David does not like the metric system
(which IS the fact) then SCREW HIM because metric is better.

David

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@dlowan,

I usually think of people's height and weight in imperial, along with car speed.

And I get metric fine and just want the country whose culture dominates the globe to get with it so that we lose old bad habits.

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@Robert Gentel,

Wow - I never saw anything unmetric after 1975 - but then again I didn't buy a house for another 25 years. Although I do remember TV screens being referred to in inches. And I think computer screens still are. Weird.

And mileage still makes more intrinsic sense kilometerage (miles per gallon as opposed to how many litres to travel 100km)

I wonder how many hogsheads you get to a bushel.

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@Robert Gentel,

this is also a map of countries that have put people on the moon, plus burma and the other one.

BURN

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@OGIONIK,

NASA Decides to use the metric system on the moon

Burn harder! Incidentally, that article has the same map I posted.

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@OmSigDAVID,

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Dvorak is clearly the better system.
QWERTY was intended to sabotage the typists' speed,
to reduce key jams.
We shoud abandon the QWERTY layout, in favor of Dvorak.
I 'd love to c Congress outlaw it as a burden on interstate commerce.

What is wrong with choice?

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@Intrepid,

I had a hard time getting used to the imperial way, having learned the
metric system only. It took me years until I could picture in my mind
how big/small 5 feet were, or 500 sqft. - basically I memorized the
major conversions to approx. numbers 2.5 cm = 1 inch, 30 cm = 1 ft,
1 mile = 1.6 km and so on. Same with weight, I just memorized the numbers
1 lb. = 425 gram or 0.026 kg. Dto. for the conversion of Fahrenheit into Celcius. I just memorized the major ones 68 F = 20 C; 86 = 30C; and
for the Arizona residents 104 F = 40C.

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@CalamityJane,

My only rule of thumb is that -40C = -40F. Not that it's especially useful.

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@CalamityJane,

CalamityJane wrote:

I had a hard time getting used to the imperial way, having learned the
metric system only. It took me years until I could picture in my mind
how big/small 5 feet were, or 500 sqft. - basically I memorized the
major conversions to approx. numbers 2.5 cm = 1 inch, 30 cm = 1 ft,
1 mile = 1.6 km and so on. Same with weight, I just memorized the numbers
1 lb. = 425 gram or 0.026 kg. Dto. for the conversion of Fahrenheit into Celcius. I just memorized the major ones 68 F = 20 C; 86 = 30C; and
for the Arizona residents 104 F = 40C.

Opposite for me. I had a hard time converting from Imperial to metric in the '70s here in Canada. I still convert temperature to farenheight and kilometers to miles in my head. Actually, I still order meat by the pound and let the butcher department do the conversion since their scales have both.

For temperature, I just double the celcius temperature and add 30. Smile

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@Intrepid,

Intrepid, we would work very well together converting for each other Very Happy

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@Intrepid,

A VERY GOOD point, there Richard.
U have my thanx.

David

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@dlowan,

Da bunny wrote:

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And I STILL cannot think of people's height in cm's.

I'm 172cm. Everyone else measures up or down from me!

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@margo,

I'm bigger than Margo, but smaller than Bogut.

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@hingehead,

But only in metric

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The problem with acceptance of the metric system is people are always trying to do equivalents---- so many feet is so many centimeters. DON'T do that. Just observe.
You know how big a two liter Bottle of Coke is?
So that's how big two liters of gasoline is.
Flip your bike computer over to KM for three days and you will know how far it is to Boston from New York in KM.
Just use the measurements and don't bother about comparisons.

Joe(I weigh about 88kg)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

I sell metric parts to Amurican midwesterners...

(I can compute)

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