but googling it is cheating

You didn't say that! In grammar school I belonged to the "I Look It Up Club"!!!! Back in those days we had to walk to the library uphill both ways in 4 feet of snow to look stuff like this up!

. . . .oh!!!

Please don't cry. It is useless trivia after all.

(This comment was modified on Feb 28, 2007 09:31 AM)

. . .maybe, but u know. . .this is going to 'stick' with me FOR EVER!!!!!

You have to learn to let it go. Just let it go...it will not effect your life from this point forward.

. . . ommmmm ommmmm just stare at the circle and say Burma? what Burma? lol

Burma isn't industrialized.....that's why I said killapenguin was right. he said the US is the only industrialized country to use it.

My son is in middle school and all science is discussed and measured in metric.

actually, science classes use SI not metric. there actually is a difference, which I didn't know until I started physics last semester.

No wonder why the space shuttle has problems!

lol...the space shuttle has problems because the systems haven't been upgraded since they were built, and nobody listens to the engineers who say not to fly the shuttle.

thats because metric makes sense

also, i remember way back in elementary school, there was a big push to teach kids metric. It all kind of fell to the wayside.

I remember when I was in middle school way back in the 1970's I was like crap now I have relearn stuff!

Metric does make the most sense. When I do woodworking and have to divide an impossible fraction or fractions I use metric instead.

I still don't get the concept that if I have a 2.3 liter engine does that mean it's slightly larger than two bottles of coke; but then again I really don't know the power of a horse let alone 350 of them!

You know it's funny... we get use to "press 1 for English", but not kilometers or the like!

Here in the UK one of the most amusing things to do with metric was a conversation I heard at a building suppliers:
Customer: Can I have 30 feet of 4 by 2?
Salesman: We only sell metric lengths.
Customer: OK, I'll have 9 metres of 10cm by 5cm.
Salesman: We don't do 10cm by 5cm - the nearest we've got is 4 by 2.


(This comment was modified on Mar 01, 2007 08:23 AM)

LOL that is funny!

LOL I have that too!

i've found that the regulars here seem to have that problem too