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Swiss Jake Posted 20 years ago
Culture

Do you think...

... the USA should switch from inches, miles, gallons, Fahrenheit, etc to cm, km, litres, Celsius?

... the treffic in UK and Australia should be on the right side like in the rest of the world?

Jake
  

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) into Cm, Gr, KG ..... because their measurement is messed up and mathematically incapable and unfit. to have one foot, you need 12 inches, why 12 and not 100 or 10 to make it simple?

— Linguanaut

  • ) into Cm, Gr, KG .....
  • because their measurement is messed up and mathematically incapable and unfit.
  • to have one foot, you need 12 inches, why 12 and not 100 or 10 to make it simple?
  • same thing with pound, to have one pound you need 12 Ounces (OZ) why is that???
  • I really don't like it, because it doesn't make it easy for people to measure including Americans themselves.
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Yes I think that the USA should change its measurement ( inches, feet, lbs ....) into Cm, Gr, KG ..... because their measurement is messed up and mathematically incapable and unfit.

to have one foot, you need 12 inches, why 12 and not 100 or 10 to make it simple?

same thing with pound, to have one pound you need 12 Ounces (OZ) why is that??? I really don't like it, because it
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LinguanautAlso The UK should change their way of driving, it's causing them accidents and fatalities every year, just because they want to feel unique. sorry but that should be changed too.
In terms of population about one third of the world drives on the left. See here for full details:
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Hi Forbers,

In terms of population about one third of the world drives on the left. See here for full details:

Driving on either side of the road is equally dangerous. For any country to change with the amount of traffic there is today and the number of road signs to be moved would be prohibitively expensive, and probably actual
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So perhaps the rest of the world should change and join us on the left if the only point is to have unity between all countries?

Anyway, I think that as long as there aren't any land borders with countries driving on the 'other' side, (can you picure it? lol) it doesn't make any difference which side a country drives on.
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1) Yes

2) No, I like to drive on the left here in Italy as well. [6] (kidding) Emotion: big smile

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Swiss Jake
If so, let me ask you, how come that just in UK on the streets by the crosswalk (zebra crossing) is written: "WATCH RIGHT"?

LOOK RIGHT is written on the road at pedestrian crossings on a one way or multi-laned street to warn of traffic coming from an unexpected direction. Believe it or not but just about the whole population that is al
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Linguanaut
same thing with pound, to have one pound you need 12 Ounces (OZ)

16 actually.

In the UK the metric and avoirdupois systems were used together for a time to let people get used to them.

The older systems arose from units that were of practical use. Thus a good bag of potatoes weighed a stone; a sack of wheat was a bushel and a sa
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