Any Plans to abolish the US Imperial system in favour of metric?

[DeeJ]

Somebody in Europe says you guys in the US are going to ditch the pounds & ounces, pints and quarts, feet and inches in favo(u)r of metric?

any truth in said rumo(u)r?

[NT!]

yes, we also plan to stop brushing our teeth or bathing

[Quicksilvre]

Already done in the military and partially done in the soft drink industry.

Otherwise, nope.

[blinden84]

Metric IS our official system of measure, if it hasn't happened yet, it probably will when we start using the Euro currency.

[AceLuby]

Never going to happen in my lifetime. Not saying that we won't know both (I do), but our measurements are always going to be powers of 2 instead of metric's powers of 10.

Also,

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it probably will when we start using the Euro currency.

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a) when is this going to happen and
b) why would it have anything to do w/ how we measure?

[XXXNoahXXX]

I heard it is currently scheduled to be implemented in tandem with the 2+2 forum updates.

[BigPoppa]

Welcome to 1979.
Tried, nobody played along.


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Already done in the military and partially done in the soft drink industry

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Also the illegal drug trade

[mrkilla]

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a) when is this going to happen and


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the way the dollar is headed, 3-4 months

[Kneel B4 Zod]

in northern Vermont, some highway signs are in Kilometers!

[XXXNoahXXX]

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in northern Vermont, some highway signs are in Kilometers!

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i was in vermont a couple weeks back and there was one sign that had kilometers and was written in french. ON A US HIGHWAY!

NOW THAT BELONGS IN THE UNAMERICAN THREAD!