Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House 1387
fsterman writes "Without any prompting from the U.S. Metric Association, a We The People petition to standardize the U.S. on the metric system has received 13,000 signatures in six days. That's half the number needed for an official response from the White House. It looks like ending the U.S.'s anti-metric alliance with Liberia and Burma (the only other countries NOT on the metric system) might rank up there with building a death star."
Metric . . . the liberal's tool (Score:0, Funny)
Metric is the tool of unbridled liberalism creeping into our once-brave country. Introduced by a Negro in 1962, the Metric system is the favorite of politically correct pansy-boys everywhere.
Why won't people think of America first for once?
-- Ethanol-fueled
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
That's a lot! (Score:5, Funny)
13,000 American signed? That's like 20,000 in metric! (or airplane seats)
advantages of metric (Score:5, Funny)
Re:US metric system? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, these editors, sheesh. You give them an inch, they take a mile.
Re:Never underestimate familiarity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:US Metric System (Score:4, Funny)
So? There are 1000 mInch in an Inch. There are 1000 inch in a kiloInch. There is nothing special about the meter.
Re:US Metric System (Score:3, Funny)
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
Once you convert over to metric, it's the 21st century.
Re:US Metric System (Score:4, Funny)
Who writes this stuff.
Me.
Sorry, the thing went through several revisions : )
Re:Never underestimate familiarity (Score:5, Funny)
Could you pick up some robertson screwdrivers as well? Last time I shipped a crate to the US, they used crowbars to open it up.
Whenever I ship something big to the US, I make a point to attach a note to the outside of the crate warning them about the Robertson screws, and informing them that for their convenience, I have included a pack of Robertson bits inside the crate.
Re:US Metric System (Score:4, Funny)
I little piece of my soul dies every time I have to measure something in 1/32th's of an inch.
Re:advantages of metric (Score:5, Funny)
No, the Death Star will use imperial units, duh!
Re:US Metric System (Score:3, Funny)
The rest of the world just isn't smart enough to learn the US Standard system. It really confuses them, and the only way they can maintain any sort of smug sense of superiority is by belittling the way we measure cups and feet.
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
Besides, that is what God created conversion programs for.
God crashed a multi-billion dollar research craft into Mars?
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
If I'm fishing in my pants to figure out what all the "fur" is about... that means I have been away from it for far too long.
Occam's Razor says, yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
When I see a distance of a multiple of 60 one can quickly determine how many hours it will take to get there when driving. :-)
Until time is also switched over to base 10 using miles/hr has a very nice 1:1 mapping with time! (assuming one drives 60 mi/hr.) The metric is a nice scientific system; the imperial system is a "nice" organic system. There is no reason BOTH systems couldn't be kept on the signage.
Ummm, yeah. I'm assuming you either just forgot your sarcasm tag or had a massive brain fart....
Last I checked km / hour was 1:1 as well. 1 hour @ 65 km/hour = 65km traveled.
Re:That's a lot! (Score:4, Funny)
So one American is equivalent to approximately 1.5 metric people. Yes, we Americans know we are overweight compared to the rest of the world, but that doesn't mean you have the right to poke fun. We just made a "different life choice", that's all.
I actually once got disciplined as a kid for calling another kid fat. We can't help who we are and it isn't right to focus on peoples flaws as it prevents us from feeling good about ourselves. I wonder how much of our overweight problems and poor health is a direct result of all that PC garbage that was crammed down our throats as children.
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
I would wager that 1/3 of a meter is "1/3 of a meter"? How much is 1/5 of a foot?
One toe?
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
A kilobyte is 10 bits
That's you off the next Mars probe team.
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with your feet?!?
Even my big toe is less than one tenth the size of my sole.
Re:US Metric System (Score:4, Funny)
Re:US Metric System (Score:5, Funny)