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Old 05-12-2008   #70 (permalink)
mista geechee
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Originally Posted by liberalcynic View Post
If the US wasn't so arrogant and ignorant it would of notice that their system is considered obsolete by a mere 189 nations. Also, just as the Rømer scale is considered obsolete, the world, bar the USA, (Burma)Myanmar and Liberia like to use backwards-thinking systems. Myanmar had a coup d'etat last year and Liberia in the past 2 decades has had 2 civil wars. As for the US, your entire economy is fragmenting. Not linking the metric system directly but decadance, and stupidity.
And sorry to insult your ways but, the USA is certainly not the greatest nation in the world; Iceland, Norway and Australia are.(HDI)
what exactly about our use of inches and feet ..etc..etc hinders something in your life? why so much animosity towards hindreds of millions of americans you dont even know? what exactly makes YOU so much better or smarter than anyone else? does it really bother you that much that you say civilised and we say civilized ? is that how it is in your mind? different is wrong? backwards? stupid? ignorant? its wrong for a language to change?

you're not a liberal cynic. you're just a pretentious asshole