ebastler:
What's the matter, KL27x? Frustrated that people have stopped quarreling about metrification in the last couple of posts? Maybe everybody just got bored with the topic.
Honestly, I think it would be good for you let this thread rest too. For reasons which are beyond me, you seem to be taking this matter rather personally. Not a recipe for happiness...
Thank you Ebastler, and Tooki for your concern.
There is no frustration. I have accepted metric into my heart. So now, we can stop to worry about making half our signs to metric and half imperial. We can spend all the money on the parade. And you are all invited. We will have knitting, meters and meters of yarn for all.
When I go to the hardware store, it will be so much better to be able to buy wood in 40x90's. No more 2x4's. That was silly. Now I will be able to buy wood by the liter. It's like being in the Matrix and seeing the 1's and 0's for what they truly are. Metric isn't just another arbitrary system. It's the one and only truth; you just have to accept it. The physical universe was made in meters. It's not a measuring system; it's reality.
"I'll take 1200 L of pine"
"Yes, I got you *wink wink*. And I don't even need a calculator. Just drive around back. Here, you'll need these tie downs, too. I can tell by looking at your truck, it can only hold 1100 L in the bed."
We lock at eyes and we say, in unison, "Ain't metric swell?" Bink!
Within only one generation, my kids will give you a blank stare if you say "inch." That's when the real progress will kick in. These kids will make us flying cars any day now. These same kids will also give you a blank stare when the total is 10.21, and you hand them a 20 and a 1. But as long as they are unhampered by imperial, they will be unstoppable. Just like the kids in UK and Canada and Australia, today.
America is making great strides in oxycontin abuse, right now, as well. But if we divert this money to metric, I'm sure drug abuse will just disappear on its own. It's probably a side effect of the frustration that imperial gives us as Americans. The happiness we have when we realize how superior we are to a country-not-named-Rowanda will be incredible. We will all be high on life.