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Originally Posted by Tcoat
No you are just too young to have experienced the chaos that was the transition from Imperial to metric measurements here. The US variation on the gallon threw a monkey wrench into everything. Now pretty much any time somebody refers to a gallon they mean the US one. Hum was just yanking your chain.
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Yep, I remember a few years back, when the US was contemplating converting to the metric system. I was all for that, because at the time, I was working in a scientific field, where the ONLY unit of measurement was metric.
However, I reckon the average American couldn't quite grasp the concept of a logical system of measurement ....... so, the idea was dropped ......
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