- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
We may have "adopted" the metric system in 1899, but there are only 60 miles of metric sighed highway in the U.S. (between Tucson and Nogales mexico.
Apparently some politicians thought the mexicans were too stupid to understand MPH when they come here to shop.
In the U.K. they will put you on a charge if you sell anything not marked in metric. However the shopkeepers got around that by posting BOTH systems on the tag. People still ask for things in pounds and ounces.
Again, I say metric is an arbitrary measurement as it is based on a false assumption of the circumference of the earth.
So they have a accurate metre standard, so what? It's still arbitrary.
The only thing I was grateful for was the decimalization of the pound.
240 P, 20 shillings, changed to 100p. and a crown is now 50 p
Apparently some politicians thought the mexicans were too stupid to understand MPH when they come here to shop.
In the U.K. they will put you on a charge if you sell anything not marked in metric. However the shopkeepers got around that by posting BOTH systems on the tag. People still ask for things in pounds and ounces.
Again, I say metric is an arbitrary measurement as it is based on a false assumption of the circumference of the earth.
So they have a accurate metre standard, so what? It's still arbitrary.
The only thing I was grateful for was the decimalization of the pound.
240 P, 20 shillings, changed to 100p. and a crown is now 50 p
