What would it take for the US of A to switch over to the metric

The world would be perfect if everyone used the same measuring system

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>>79227980
I fucking hate this charts.
Is Spain supposed to be the same slightly darker shade of green or the slightly less dark one?

>>79228118
Does it really matter though? You were one of the early adopters. Check wikipedia if you want to know the exact date.

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>>79227980
>>79228106
>getting anally hurt over something another country does

>>79228150
It's not the data itself that bothers me, but the way it is presented. They could have used so many other shades that aren't so needlessly convoluted.

>>79228174
Your disgusting media is annoying us by trying to propagate your shitty system. And people on the internet are equally disgusting, by assuming everyone is a degenerate murrican.

>>79227980
I fucking hate that too, when I was there it really triggered me. Fuck your gay miles, Fahrenheits and feet.

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>>79228180
Sorry, I didn't make this picture. You're right, though.

>>79228174
I can't say im quite mad about the fact that you measure things with inches and feets, and everybody else with centimeters and meters.

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>How many spindles are 17 Ramsden chains?
>How many twips are 13 digits?
>How many fingers are 23 furlongs?

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>How many scruples are 11 merchant stones?
>How many marks are 7 sacks?
>How many Avoirdupois ounces are 5 London pounds?

>>79228332
The funniest is when they use this shit in science, like foot-pounds instead of Nm

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>How many X are p Y?

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>>79228465
>>79228392
>>79228332

>>79227980
literally just need to start printing all new road signs in km instead of miles, new cars with km per hour instead of miles, the rest will follow on from there
in australia my dad and pa both thought in feet and inches and me in cm and metres, its not really a big deal they just have to fucking do it

>>79228709
Autonomous / self driving cars will fix this, hopefully...
It'll also be time for the Brits and Aussies to switch to the proper lane then. Sweden did this 50 years ago...

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>>79228780
Forgot the pic... Sweden 50 years + 4 days ago...

>>79227980
Legislation making it mandatory to switch to metric. The United States of America had previously gone through an effort in the fifties and sixties to switch over but it was entirely voluntary. Then Ronald "Tear that wall down" Reagan dissolved the committee that was supposed to help facilitate the process of switching to metric.

tldr: what we need is a President that is not retarded

>>79228967
>what we need is a President that is not retarded
well... good luck with that, I guess

>>79228780
driving on the left is superior though, its a dumb idea to have your dominant hand on the gearstick and your bad hand on the steering wheel

>>79228174
Why are you defending this shit, my fellow burgerman?

>>79228332
To be fair, we don't use most of those measurements anyway. What we use are as follows:
inch
foot
yard
fathom
mile
league (mostly literary)
cubit (biblical)
ounce
pound
stone (rarely)
ton (imperial tons are different than metric)

>>79228996
Thanks. We really need it. Our last slightly intelligent President was Jimmy Carter and nobody in Congress wanted to help him.

>>79229067
Ohh! I forgot
Quart
Gallon

>>79229028
That's debatable... Seems to be working quite well for the rest of the world, isn't it?

>>79229067
I know which units you are using. Even if it's just a subset, it's still retarded.

>>79229028
>gearstick
YOU MAKE ME LAUGH

>>79228402
Even funnier is when we make the most contributions in the world :^)
>>79229128
It's not retarded, this thread is, however.

>>79229460
>It's not retarded, because I say so, because I grew up with it

>>79228202
this t.bh, if they use both it's fine but it's fucking retarded when you try use something made by an american on internet.

>>79229317
>LE SHIFT STICK
Doesn't even make sense, call it manual and automatic you subhumans.

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>>79229317

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lol, fuck off.
Not for nothing never, faggot.
*punches you in the gut and knocks the wind out of you*

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>>79230905
>when you try to use something made by an american on the internet
>made by an american on the internet
>on the internet
>the internet

changing from a bad system to a less bad system isn't worth the cost the inconvenience. i would be in favor of the US changing over to a 12-base counting system though.

>visit website
>check date
>9/4/2017
>not sure if it's April or September
I'm okay with different measuring systems, but not this.

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>>79232654
You might "enjoy" this image then

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>>79232654
>>79232794
follow up image