What happened??? - AR15.COM

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:52:26 PM EDT

Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:55:03 PM EDT

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Edited to by PC. Sorry.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:08:57 PM EDT

[#2]

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Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

Haven't you noticed, the metric system is here! Somewhere around Louisville the huge highway signs are shown in KM with miles in parenthesis. Have you noticed that bottles of water come in 500mL, 750mL, and 1L bottles?

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:11:04 PM EDT

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Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

Haven't you noticed, the metric system is here! Somewhere around Louisville the huge highway signs are shown in KM with miles in parenthesis. Have you noticed that bottles of water come in 500mL, 750mL, and 1L bottles?

Yep, gradual changeover. You don't hear about it because nobody notices, and nobody is pushing for a full-up abandonment of the Imperial system.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:26:54 PM EDT

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All cars have engines in liters now not cubic inches.

What I hate is the tape measures with both unit of measure on it.

Bobwrench

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:27:56 PM EDT

[#5]

Somone set us up the bomb!!!

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:31:34 PM EDT

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Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

Because we are too dopey to accept that it is a better system. Some just don't get that improvement doesn't equal insulting our forebearers...

The one bright spot is that scientists have been there for decades.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:32:04 PM EDT

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I say leave the Metric system to the douche bag Europeans... yea, it might be better... but we're fucking Americans.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:33:19 PM EDT

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Rednecks couldn't count to ten....so it failed.

SGatr15

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:33:23 PM EDT

[#9]

Your cave-dwelling backwardness over here doesn't REALLY bother me too much any longer.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:34:00 PM EDT

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I say leave the Metric system to the douche bag Europeans... yea, it might be better... but we're fucking Americans.

Perhaps you should go back to using only Roman numerals, as in todays global environment, you may feel obliged to cease using arabic numerals...

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:34:57 PM EDT

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I say leave the Metric system to the douche bag Europeans... yea, it might be better... but we're fucking Americans.

Damn straight!

Fudge the EuroTrash!

Eric The(EnglishRule)Hun

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:37:40 PM EDT

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Rednecks couldn't count to ten....so it failed.

SGatr15

Bullshit---I can count to 21 iffin I'z nekkid.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:37:59 PM EDT

[#13]

I'd have to convert my thousand yard stare...no thanks...

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:39:21 PM EDT

[#14]

I fully expect that you people will send all 7.62*51 and 5.56*45 in your posession to me as a protest gesture...

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:39:23 PM EDT

[#15]

all to hell with the metric system

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:39:49 PM EDT

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Rednecks couldn't count to ten....so it failed.

SGatr15

We were born with 9 fingers

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:40:24 PM EDT

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Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

You bastard, that's MY pet issue.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:40:54 PM EDT

[#18]

I prefer Metric, I shoot 5.56mm and 7.62mm. My scopes are 30mm.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:41:02 PM EDT

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I fully expect that you people will send all 7.62*51 and 5.56*45 in your posession to me as a protest gesture...

perhaps you mean my .223 and .308..................in which case, no

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:43:20 PM EDT

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I say leave the Metric system to the douche bag Europeans... yea, it might be better... but we're fucking Americans.

Damn straight!

Fudge the EuroTrash!

Eric The(EnglishRule)Hun

Psst - don't tell all the engineers, physicists, chemists, etc. in the U.S.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:45:16 PM EDT

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Remember the big push in the late 70's to convert the U.S. to the metric system? What happened? Haven't heard shit about it for years.

You bastard, that's MY pet issue.

Now I'm an uneducated, no countin', redneck BASTARD. My self esteem has taken a real beating since I started this thread.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:46:41 PM EDT

[#22]

Post from DriftPunch:

Perhaps you should go back to using only Roman numerals, as in todays global environment, you may feel obliged to cease using arabic numerals...

Which the Arabs took from the Indians, who were the first people to use a symbol for zero.

So, everyone borrows from everyone else.

Eric The(Hindi,Actually)Hun

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:47:50 PM EDT

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I fully expect that you people will send all 7.62*51 and 5.56*45 in your posession to me as a protest gesture...

perhaps you mean my .223 and .308..................in which case, no

Ah, but you are illustrating the folly of the system. You've reduced it to base 10 anyway. You said .308 instead of 77/250ths of an inch.

Thou art a closet fan of base 10...

Posted: 10/6/2004 8:46:05 PM EDT

[#24]

Pushback.

Kinda like Susan B. Anthony dollars.

Sometimes the government tries to lead, but the people won’t follow.

Americans are just ornery people!!

Posted: 10/6/2004 8:48:16 PM EDT

[#25]

I worked with someone from Britan who was in construction.

He said they dont use it for everything over there either.

Posted: 10/6/2004 9:54:37 PM EDT

[#26]

Didn't one of our space programs crap out because the metric system got confused with inches and feet!!

Bob

Posted: 10/6/2004 10:00:52 PM EDT

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{crotchety abe simpson}

The metric system is the tool of the Devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the ways I likes iiiiittt!!!

{/crotchety abe simpson}

Posted: 10/7/2004 8:35:04 AM EDT

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I fully expect that you people will send all 7.62*51 and 5.56*45 in your posession to me as a protest gesture...

perhaps you mean my .223 and .308..................in which case, no

Ah, but you are illustrating the folly of the system. You've reduced it to base 10 anyway. You said .308 instead of 77/250ths of an inch.

Thou art a closet fan of base 10...

All your base 10 are belong to us...

I say we go back to base 60. Yay Sumeria!

If it's good enough for our system of keeping time, it's good enough for everything else.

If we convert to metric, shouldn't we make an effort to convert our timekeeping system also, just to have everything on the same base?

Posted: 10/7/2004 8:41:36 AM EDT

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The Metric system adoption movement was a driven by anti-american forces... had the US agreed to switch over quickly it would have been devastating to the US manufacturing industry and given greater leverage to European and Asian manufacturers.

There is an analogous movement today in the form of the Kyoto treaty, which would similarly cripple our industrial base.