It's always great when people use any topic to shit on the U.S. Why should we have to change to the metric system if we don't want to? And why are people around the world so indignant over our refusal to do so? Isn't that a little imperialistic of them?

There was a story just two days ago in my newspaper about an EU ruling to allow Britain to maintain some usage of their old system or something. I forget exactly what it was about, but it also mentioned that a local grocer in Britain was actually jailed a few years ago over not selling something in metric units. Imagine that!

BTW, in that story they also listed the other countries besides the U.S. that don't use the metric system. I believe they are Myanmar and Liberia.