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> > Don't tread on our rights. Oppose mandatory Metric.

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> I agree. I have been using inches, feet, yards, and miles for 25 years, and I've never had any problems. As a graphic designer by profession, it would cause me oodles of trouble to be forced to use metrics. I never use metrics when creating a design-- I use good old fashioned inches. The units of typography, points and picas, are based on the Imperial system...there are 12 points in each pica, and six picas to each inch. 72 points in an inch. I'd need a calculator if I had to convert to metrics. So I say...
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> "Metrics? Bah, Humbug!"
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> Gri"What would we call an inchworm under the metric system?"shny

I'm also a Graphic Designer, and as I live in one of those countries that have Metric as the norm, I use metric.

I'll admit, quite often inches ARE more convenient. Especially when ruling columns for a magazine or newspaper.

Nonetheless, I still work in centimetres (yes, that's an "res" not "ers". I *know* it doesn't make sense but it's what I grew up with.)

The other unit I use sometimes is feet... but I don't call it feet. I call it 30cm. Two feet is 60cm. Ten feet is three metres.

A metre for me is a large pace. If I stretch my legs just slightly, my steps are a metre apart.

Nobody uses the decimetre. Nobody.

As far as other types of units are concerned, I think celsius is the most useful for everday use and Kelvin for scientific use.
Fahrenheit was based around the melting point of butter, which is not a compound (remember high school science ?) but a mixture. As such, it has no fixed boiling and melting points.
Pure water on the other hand, will always boil at 100°c at standard temperature and pressure.

Oh yeah, and absolute zero will always be the same !

*Mandatory* metric is bad, as long as there is one person left in the world who doesn't want to change. I believe that we shouldn't be forced to do anything, but I also believe that it would be handy not to have to convert temperature scales so often.

How much easier would it be if we all spoke the same language ? But how much of our heritage would we lose ?

ladada(I can't speak another language, but I can read music, hexidecimal and code)dada