View Single Post
Old 02-06-2013, 02:01 PM   #23 (permalink)
frost
Retired admin
 
frost's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Winterfell
Posts: 106,613
Drives: Your Wife Crazy
Rep Power: 0
frost frost frost frost frost frost frost frost frost frost frost
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Read T View Post
Was it in the 70's that the US tried to adopt the metric system and it was a huge fail?

All I use at work is the metric system and it makes so much more sense.
Yeah, the actual Act was in 1975. There was some type of governmental group that was in charge of transitioning us over the metric system, but Reagan disbanded it when he was making governmental cuts. After the group went away, it was really only a matter of time before all hopes to switching over fizzled out.
__________________
370z OG

Quote:
Originally Posted by rooftop View Post
<insert snarky, slightly condescending frost joke>
frost is offline   Reply With Quote