Because it's being embraced in Europe. And everyone knows that if the Europeans are doing it, it would be Un-American to suggest we do it, too.
Any day now I expect to see bumper stickers saying "The Metric System: Gateway to Sodomy".
A gay-marriage arms race is happening right now in Europe
No silly contortions over whether to attend a same-sex wedding. Europe’s leaders are way past that.
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Or, Sodomy: Gateway to the Metric System.
Their (meter) stick is bigger than our (yard) stick…
+John E. Bredehoft That would probably be even more effective. For most Americans, there is nothing scarier than the metric system.
We should get rid of our monetary system, which is in essence metric. Maybe start using knuts, sickles, and galleons.
+Scott Randel Sadly, reforming English monetary system with a decimal one was the only place where the movement toward metric ever stuck (aside from sneaking it on on alcoholic beverages).
In one of their early series, Monty Python had an entire sketch that referred to older British monetary units, and then ran a caption stating that the script was written before decimalization.
My father in law just made a comment a few days ago: the good thing about a Toyota is that you know that all of the parts will be metric. For Ford et al, it's a mix of metric and American parts.
+John E. Bredehoft Oh, yuck.
I still have a metric socket set from when I did my own maintenance on my VW in college.