In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "pat" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Pennyaline wrote:
> >>James Silverton wrote:
> >>>Well, I won't hold onto my hat since theMetric systemhas been *legal*
> >>>here for about a century. I'd also forgotten what was a "Chopine" :-)
> >>
> >>It may be legal, young fella, but it isn't American!
> >
> > There are US laws that forbid metrication. US Federal law (the FPLA,
> > for example) forbids metric-only labels on most prepackaged things you
> > see in the supermarket.
>
> Probably because too many people would not know how to easily do the
> conversion or think in metric terms. Bacon has always been a pound and thus
> will remain so, or something like that. 500 grams or a half kilo would make
> their brain hurt.
>
> The two reasons I've always run into is a large percentage just don't want
> to change and are afraid, another big group thinks the US system is
> superior, just because it is the US system. We are in a world economy, like
> it or not, and if we used metric, it would be easier for our country to deal
> wit the rest of the world. The Hubble telescope would not have been screwed
> up.
>
> I've been using metric at work for 20 years now. It is easy and sensible,
> and the choice of most everyone there now that they've used it.

We have too and I like it at work, but it'd take some getting used to at
the grocery store. ;-) For many not familiar with it tho', it would be
painful.

But only at first...
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Peace! Om

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It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-- Anon.


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