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is awful. I wouldn't touch it with a 3.048 meter pole.

I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 3.048 meter pole!

 did not really catch on in the states unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet.

is a contagion long and bravely resisted by the American people, most of whom still believe that an ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of cure.

A universal system of measurements that threatens to make everything in the world neatly divisible by 10, although its proponents somehow neglected to split our time into centidays and millidays. The despair of poetry lovers who must now consider that Robert Frost actually had "kilometers to go" before he slept. The bane of history teachers who must tell their awed students that Abraham Lincoln stood 1. 93 m in his 111 stocking feet . A contagion long and bravely resisted by the American people, most of whom still believe that an ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of cure.

is a universal system of measurements that threatens to make everything in the world neatly divisible by 10, although its proponents somehow neglected to split our time into centidays and millidays.

is the bane of history teachers who must tell their awed students that Abraham Lincoln stood 1.93 m in his stocking feet . A contagion long and bravely resisted by the American people, most of whom still believe that an ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of cure.

is the despair of poetry lovers who must now consider that Robert Frost actually had "kilometers to go" before he slept.

is a system designed to get people to enter charity runs. No one would run a 3.1 mile race, but hey, 5 km, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

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