7 thoughts on “Why, it’s almost as if Vox doesn’t get America at ALL.”

  1. As Mom never told me, “It’s time to jump off a bridge — everybody else is doing it!”

  3. Hey Moe, would you pass me that 2-liter of Pepsi? I’ve run dry over here…
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    Mew

    1. Sure! Gimme a second: it’s behind the gallon of milk and the pound of butter in the fridge that I’ve set for forty five degrees.

  4. It seems to be an evergreen issue of the left, the annual pro-metric article

  5. Metric is handy for converting some things. Which is great for physicists, chemists, and pharmacists.
    For the rest of us, it’a bunch of measurements chosen arbitrarily for ease of conversion, with a complete lack of concern over whether the measurement is useful on its own.
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    A pint is a useful volume, which metric has no simple analog for.
    Feet are a very useful measurement for things in the human scale, which metric has no analog for.
    Ease of use? I can step off feet, stride off miles, and measure inches with my knuckles.
    Conversions I actually have to use are simple. A pint weighs a pound. There are 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon. There are 2 cups to a pint, 2 pints to a quart, 4 quarts to a gallon. If you can count on your fingers, you can do these conversions in any situation you’ll normally have to preform them.
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    The British caved on metric to get the other European powers to accept Greenwich Mean Time. It’s been a couple of generations, and the people there still hate it.

  6. Remember those biased questions they’d ask that are purposefully slanted to make the metric system look good? I have one of my own:
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    Two guys, Fred and George, are doing shots of alcohol. Fred is doing 1 oz shots, whereas George is doing 30ml shots. Which one will be able to figure out how much alcohol total they’ve drank after 3 rounds? 7 rounds? 13 rounds?

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