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Old 12-27-2014, 07:52 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by RFB View Post
Amerika still refuses to join the rest of the world and go metric, you would think that profit motive (corporate greed) would put the yanks in sync with the rest of the world.
I grew up with miles lb.s and ounces, and cannot visualize distance as well in metric and HATE metric !

BRING BACK OUTDATED MEASUREMENT !


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Me too!
It is funny though as I work in a plant in Windsor (right across from Detroit) and all the locals only know temperatures in Fahrenheit but say something is x feet long and they look at you like you have two heads (except the engineers who always look at you that way)
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