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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa  Well, the 'imperial' system (using 'imperial' loosely) may take more intelligence to use, but that's only because it's unintelligently designed.
As a design, surely the metric system is indeed more intelligent. |
Intelligent Design, huh. They got to you too!
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Originally Posted by stacy1185 but seriously, we should probably get with the times and start teaching the metric system at the elementary level. it'd be a lot easier than constantly doing conversions. |
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Originally Posted by ManlyBanisters Pretty much everyone over 60 here still discusses property values in vieux francs!! The franc was revalued in 1960!! |
Canada converted in 1970. The old system was officially scrapped, which probably lead to the "I'm not learning that damned Metric shit" backlash from the older folks. Although us Gen-Xers know metric very well, we still use Imperial quite often. It's common to say that, "Kingston is 200 miles from Ottawa," or, "I am 175 pounds." In fact, most Canucks likely don't know their metric height or weight off hand--Common weights and measures are still mostly touted in Imperial.
Saying, "I am one hundred eighty three centimeters tall" would seem pretentious around here.