I live in a non English speaking country., many times I am eternally grateful for the wonderful and enlightening information I can squeeze out of the internet. Still,,,, in these heightened times, I get frustrated when, on seeking specific info, e.g, recipes,,,, or,,,,(I have a TomTom navigator) distances are a problem as well. To get the full benefit of all these marvellous things,,, I must always seek out a converter.. Imperial to metric I mean.... Hey, for goodness sake,,, do none of the Brits or Ami's have this problem? Do you all, only look on Oxford/American sites????? Honestly,,, I am a colonial, and we "had" to change to metric when I was (approx) 5/6 yrs old.
I have the benefit of both, took a while for everyone to get into it, but hey,,,, that was nearly 40 years ago!!!! God! why is it that everywhere you are,,, everyone has to have thier own "special" little "THING" Sorry if I sound peevish just right now,,, only, come on!! continuing,,,,
2007-03-24 13:03:18 · 5 answers · asked by Alana M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
follow on from afore mentioned gripe. Just that,,, if the rest of the world can manage 'metric' why for the love of god can't you Brits and Americans get onto it as well??
2007-03-24 13:06:09 · update #1
I'm not convinced,, like I say,recipes online will often come only in imperial,the British and American ones. As well, I just got my stink hot dinky doo, Tom Tom Navigator,,, chose, out of preference an English(British) speaking voice,,, so why do I have to think "yards!" This progressive world we have, only goes as far as the programmers nose I feel. Besides, I have friends in America that feel it more logical to go the metric way,,, esp regarding temperatures. Yeah I know, this is just a little moan, and on the scale of world importance, it doesn't rate terribly highly. Only wanted to have a little grumble, thats all. Thanks all for taking the time to answer.
2007-03-24 13:33:47 · update #2
For some things, it has already happened: automobiles made in the US use metric fasteners. For some things, it will never happen: there are literally billions of circuit boxes in North America, which mount switches or outlets with a pair of 6/32 screws. The cost of converting land surveys from English to metric measurements would be stupendous; that won't happen.
2007-03-24 13:10:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here in the USA, the good old system based on human measurements is still the one most used, but we also "speak metric" for the most part.
We understand "Imperial" too, though we have little reason to use it.
If we can do both, why can't you? "Hey, for goodness sake ... come on!"
2007-03-25 11:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Husker41 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Brits do use metric. Us Americans don't because imperial units kick more buttocks than the girly metric system. They tried to switch us to metric, but we didn't accept it. The only metric we encounter in our day to day lives is 2 liter bottles of soda.
And by the way, Fahrenheit temperatures are more relevant to the human experience. 0F = cold, 100F = hot.
2007-03-24 20:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The British use the metric system.
2007-03-24 20:07:18 · answer #4 · answered by Mello Yello 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im old and would have problems converting lol,but i heard when i was growing up and they started teaching it all to us that the world would be metric but the year 1980 it never happened.If we could find the answer to this im sure we could find the answer to many more things .there just isn one that i know of sorry
2007-03-25 09:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by raindovewmn41 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋