WolfWarrior84 wrote: »
They DID teach both when I was a kid, and they gave up.WolfWarrior84 wrote: »
Get it right @WolfWarrior84 . You're 'Murican, the rest of the world has their dates backwards from us.
Seriously though... it is frustrating how stubborn America is about our standards... dates, the imperial measuring system, Fahrenheit. Our persistence in these sorts of the things is a small part of why the world think we're arrogant
Oh well at least Burma, Liberia and Somalia use the Imperial system. That's validation enough, right?
The worst thing is, it would only take like ONE generation to fix this. Just start teaching both in schools.
rotaugen454 wrote: »They DID teach both when I was a kid, and they gave up.WolfWarrior84 wrote: »
Get it right @WolfWarrior84 . You're 'Murican, the rest of the world has their dates backwards from us.
Seriously though... it is frustrating how stubborn America is about our standards... dates, the imperial measuring system, Fahrenheit. Our persistence in these sorts of the things is a small part of why the world think we're arrogant
Oh well at least Burma, Liberia and Somalia use the Imperial system. That's validation enough, right?
The worst thing is, it would only take like ONE generation to fix this. Just start teaching both in schools.
Remember when NASA had two teams using different systems and forgot about converting numbers, only to have a satellite slam into Mars?rotaugen454 wrote: »They DID teach both when I was a kid, and they gave up.WolfWarrior84 wrote: »
Get it right @WolfWarrior84 . You're 'Murican, the rest of the world has their dates backwards from us.
Seriously though... it is frustrating how stubborn America is about our standards... dates, the imperial measuring system, Fahrenheit. Our persistence in these sorts of the things is a small part of why the world think we're arrogant
Oh well at least Burma, Liberia and Somalia use the Imperial system. That's validation enough, right?
The worst thing is, it would only take like ONE generation to fix this. Just start teaching both in schools.
Not only taught us both, science classes always used metric.
rotaugen454 wrote: »Remember when NASA had two teams using different systems and forgot about converting numbers, only to have a satellite slam into Mars?rotaugen454 wrote: »They DID teach both when I was a kid, and they gave up.WolfWarrior84 wrote: »
Get it right @WolfWarrior84 . You're 'Murican, the rest of the world has their dates backwards from us.
Seriously though... it is frustrating how stubborn America is about our standards... dates, the imperial measuring system, Fahrenheit. Our persistence in these sorts of the things is a small part of why the world think we're arrogant
Oh well at least Burma, Liberia and Somalia use the Imperial system. That's validation enough, right?
The worst thing is, it would only take like ONE generation to fix this. Just start teaching both in schools.
Not only taught us both, science classes always used metric.

Where's the insult?Sigh. Another thread derailed into something counterproductive. Insulting another country should be beneath you.