Question for young American people: Once all these boomers are dead, do you want to change to metric or not?

[YourFutureEx]

Yeah Metric is better

No I'll keep the Imperial

I'm a boomer

[NamerOfStars]

Choosing between Metric and Imperial is like choosing between a drink and a beverage, dude. Unless you're in France, or a former French colony, your country adopted the metric system BECAUSE OF Imperialism, not in spite of it. It'd be more accurate to say "metric vs free", for those few of us who DON'T kowtow to the French.

Speaking of which- hey, UK, now that you've left the EU, you have another chance to join us, Liberia, Jamaica and Myanmar at the cool kids table. Plenty of good seats left, if you act now.

[YourFutureEx]

You wrote this in English because the British colonised you.

[NamerOfStars]

No, I wrote this in English because that's the language the site uses and the one I'm most fluent in. The British had nothing to do with it. Nor, for that matter, did they "colonise" (or even colonize) anyone; they'd fallen to the English LONG before this country existed.

[God_of_Thunder]

I'm not exactly "young", but I'll chime in, anyway.

I remember reading somewhere that the biggest hurdle to changing over to the metric system would be the cost of doing so.

Logically, it would make more sense, but just the cost of changing all 50 bazillion road signs, alone, was astronomically cost prohibitive.

I think we should have changed over a long time ago, but the longer we remain on the imperial system, the less likely it is that we'll ever adopt metric.

[provokeesmokee]

I'm not even American and I suffer from the US' pickmesha of a need for they're own measurement units.

Y'all write your dates fucking wrong.

[BCA6010]

It's not going to happen. The US already tried to do that decades ago, and it never caught on. It would be even harder to do that now.

I agree however that metric is much easier to learn and convert. I also think people who can't figure out a 24-hour clock are irredeemably stupid.

[najekim]

I'm a "boomer" and have used metric at some places I have worked, like NASA.

But to completely go 100% metric won't be easy and would cost companies big time to replace the industrial manufacturing base. Think prices are high, just try going 100% metric in the USA.

[exitseven]

It is bad enough that when you work on vehicles you can;t tell if the bolt is metric or standard. What the hell? This is America. There should be a law saying if foreigners want to sell stuff in the US all the bolts must be standard size.

[Likes2drive]

It should have been done after ww2, now it is just too expensive to change everything

[AlexEfron]

Not to offend anyone 😂 but I heard it somewhere (maybe some video) - "Americans will measure in anything, but metric" 😂😂

[Snakeyes7]

The hardest part in switching between official measurements is the visualization scale. Learning the conversion is the easy part.

[msc545]

Keep it as is. Pointless to waste time re-learning all this.

[Anonymous]

What's stopping you? lol