10-03-2008, 05:38 PM
Speng Wrote:Really? I was under the impression that it was popular in the countries that utilized it.
I remember back in grade school they said that by the time we graduated High school the US would be using the metric system.
According to WikiAnswers: Of all countries in the world that has an officially established system of measurement, only Burma/Myanmar, Liberia and the United States do not use the International System of Units (SI). The United States use Imperial units and U.S customary units.
In January of 1970, Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government introduced "The White Paper on Metric Conversion." The paper argued that most of the world's countries were already using metric and the United States would eventually convert, so Canada should go metric. However, US businesses rejected the conversion due to the costs involved.
I do not like the metric system and use it only when forced to. My kids (who learned it in school) think I am a dinosaur. I don't think I am alone in this opinion, either. Most products are labelled both ways, cookbooks feature metric and Imperial measurements, and most car speedometers show miles as well as klicks.
Ooops, I crapped my pants