Board Thread:Trivia/@comment-3048593-20130305170358/@comment-3048593-20130306184046

LoveWaffle wrote: KalKent wrote: I find it ironic when a country that's all about "freedom & liberty", doesn't want to use something that's common in the world; while countries like China and (even freaking) North Korea are countries that do. I don't get the connection between liberty and what measurement system is used. If anything, a number of Americans would just say they have the freedom to use Imperial measurements.

I think you're underestimating the degree to which many people here still believe in American exceptionalism, the idea that Americans are different, and therefore better, than every other country and people in the world. Trying to implement something in the US on the grounds that "everyone else does it" would more than likely be seen as un-American by far too many people.

What I meant was, with countries like China that don't value human rights, they are still willing to have a system so that they will have better relations with other countries when it comes to making measurements, which helps it be business friendly.

KalKent wrote: And there is actually a thing going on in your country called "Metrication", where metric units and measurements are being slowly being brought in. Currently, at my side, I have a can which has 500 ml of fluids in it. If I were to go to your country, and find a can of similar size, it would say the same. And with the exception of calories, the nutritional facts would be in grams. And you wonder why we're the fattest country in the world? In order for any type of adoption of the Metric system to work here, it would need to affect things important to American culture - speed limits and (American) football.

Well yeah, fake football (or lemonball) would be a problem when it would come to integrating the metric system. I would like to see a lemonball-field that has the field be divided into metres than yards, just to see how it would look.