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why is the US not Metric
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stefan_trekkie:
The real reason US is not metric is that US is self contained too. For the most part they had everything self produced. That includes resources, machines, goods, energy etc even you can include the culture in that .. They can use totally different 3rd system and called a day.   
SilverSolder:

These days, the US GDP is what...  24%?  That is a big economy, for sure, but it does need to interact with the other 76%...
paulca:

--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on January 16, 2020, 02:43:15 pm ---But democracy is delivered in US customary units. >:D

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You mean 500lb JDAMs?
GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: schmitt trigger on January 14, 2020, 08:32:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on January 11, 2020, 10:02:29 pm ---

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!   


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This is such a beautiful poem.
Between it and the song "Land Down Under", have made visiting Australia one of the objects in my bucket list.

Right now, all I can do is enjoy a Vegemite sandwich.



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Now THATS making some sense now!!  (This post is going round & round in circles!!!)
Americans need to be 'edurmicated' about 'Vegemite' !!   ;D
The way I explain it to foreigners is that it is NOT something disgusting like Monkeys brains and Bears Bile
or what ever, and nor are we poisoning you. It is just made from Vegetables. I tell them...
  Do you have vegetable Stock-Cubes, like you would use in soups/stews etc... ???
  Well, Vegemite is just like a vegetable stock cube, but in the form of a Paste!!
Every Aussie kid (and adult) in Australia can not be wrong, & have it from 1-years old or earlier!!
There's also Marmite & Promite. (Not to mention the English 'Bovrille'...   8)
vwestlife:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 16, 2020, 09:54:16 pm ---I would assume that the reasons we haven't leaped to metric here in the US are very similar to the reasons that almost no one on this forum speaks Esperanto.  Arrogance isn't number one on the list.  The only difference between Esperanto and metric is that metric does have the advantage of widespread utilization.  But if widespread utilization is the dominant reason for adopting something, why doesn't everyone speak English?  Or Chinese if you want to go by numbers instead of breadth.

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Or, for that matter, why hasn't the rest of the world adopted the English spelling reforms that were pioneered and have become commonplace in the U.S.? I.e., "centre" -> "center", "gaol" -> "jail", "plough" -> "plow", "manouevre" -> "maneuver", "programme" -> "program", etc.
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