Geez Louise Peanut Butter!!! Don't make me learn anything else that will just mess with my tired brain!! I'm still trying to figure out how far a mile is....................
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JaneyMae
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Well, mine shows 200 (and it's done that, with lots left to go. but what's the point when you can't tell anymore?) but US versions of the same car were only equiped with 85mph speedos. Don't ask me why. Something to do with gov. regulation or something.
Back in my youth my Dad brought a Datsun 240Z. I remember he let me use it to go to work (heehee, not very smart of him). I was tooling along with the Speedometer halfway up, since in my Nova that equated to about 60 mph. Well in the Datsun, that equaled to closer to 100 mph and a fine...
Eamon
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Geez Louise Peanut Butter!!! Don't make me learn anything else that will just mess with my tired brain!! I'm still trying to figure out how far a mile is....................
It's called progress, me dear. Feet and inches really is an outdated system. And learning metric is as easy as counting to ten. I'm fairly certain all of us can already do that. Decimal inches make more sense, but the truth is that system is rarely used. I've yet to come across it and every job I've had has been using feet and inches.
One really nice thing about metric, when you step on a scale, it's much nicer to see numbers in the double digits.
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Caw
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-Alexander Maclean Sinclair of Goshen (protector of Gaelic Culture)
It's called progress, me dear. Feet and inches really is an outdated system. And learning metric is as easy as counting to ten. I'm fairly certain all of us can already do that. Decimal inches make more sense, but the truth is that system is rarely used. I've yet to come across it and every job I've had has been using feet and inches.
One really nice thing about metric, when you step on a scale, it's much nicer to see numbers in the single digits.
Are you sure? I have a degree in English..............I don't do math. My puter figures my grades even Tried to learn it once................what a fiasco Seeing my weight in smaller digits would be good
I'll try..................where to start? Not even sure how to do that
The US has been trying, but apparently not very hard, to go metric since I was a kid (and I'm rapidly approaching the big "50"). Does anybody remember when the Interstate speed limit signs were posted in miles-per-hour and kilometers-per-hour?
MacE
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MacE AKA Steve Ewing
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How are the children to learn if they don't teach it in school? Maybe we need some educated Europeans to come over here and do some teaching in our classrooms! That's the ticket.
Janeymae, I'll mail you a meter stick, (our version of a yard stick). The hardest part is remembering all the greek prefixes that go before meter, gram, litre, etc.
Let's see.
milli, centi, deci, meter, deca (?), kilo, and after that I'm just lost.
I agree with both y'all, I have to use both standard and metric in law enforcement, when we get drug bust we have to measure them in metric everything else is standard. The real problem is, if we get small amounts its hard to come up with the right metric amount.
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