Pirates may of caused the US to keep the Imperial units system

[Mr. Someguy]

Gotta say, inches and feet are very convenient for casual measurements. Plus how do you buy a gallon of milk in metric?

[Tayley]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53017656]Gotta say, inches and feet are very convenient for casual measurements. Plus how do you buy a gallon of milk in metric?[/QUOTE]

In 1, 2, or 3 litre Bottles?

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=MrBunneh;53017658]In 1, 2, or 3 litre Bottles?[/QUOTE]

Eeeeh doesn't have the same ring to it

[Drury]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53017656]Gotta say, inches and feet are very convenient for casual measurements. Plus how do you buy a gallon of milk in metric?[/QUOTE]

I don't see anything weird about it, you just ask 3.78541178 liters like a normal person.

[Riller]

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;53017608]Micro, mega, giga, and tera are encountered quite often. Possibly nano too.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know; I just wanted to go from 1 to 1000 to exemplify my point, not actually give all the oft-used measurements.

[Danneh]

[QUOTE=Ardosos;53017533]I mean, neither system is particularly difficult to learn, I don't see why it's unreasonable for people to know both.[/QUOTE]

Imperial is more difficult to learn than Metric, given reasons already stated in this thread, and also the whole reason why Metric exists in the first place

[Paul-Simon]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53017739]Eeeeh doesn't have the same ring to it[/QUOTE]

Are you seriously making this argument

[AxeI]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53017739]Eeeeh doesn't have the same ring to it[/QUOTE]
People still use some non-metric measures colloquially. The French use "pint" and "demi" (liter) interchangeably when talking about beer since they're more or less the same.

[Zillamaster55]

I think it'd probably be easier to implement now more than ever thanks to the proliferation of the internet and electronics. Teachers not used to using metric can just pull up a program and use it as an aid when discussing it.

[Purple Magpie]

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;53018199]Using a program as an aid will make the program a crutch. It needs to be embedded in their heads. [/QUOTE]

Pretty sure they mean as an aid for the teacher, not for the students.

[RoboChimp]

I would have expected Americans of that century to have adopted the metric system to be less like the British

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;53018105]Are you seriously making this argument[/QUOTE]

Well I am making this argument, but I'm not doing it seriously.