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Waffle House
@WaffleHouse
America's place to work means we don't use the metric system to measure food
8:00 AM · Jul 7, 2026
"Never Trust Government" -- Smart people.
"The Great thing we should Fear and the Weird Thing we Trust is Elon Musk" -- Me
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." -- Ruthie-May Webster
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I wish we had gone ahead and converted to the metric system back in the 70's. Everybody would be used to it by now.
It is a much more logical system, but it is difficult for Americans to comprehend...
Much like the traffic Roundabout.
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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It's not too difficult for Americans to understand. We just didn't want their system.
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Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here.
On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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I have no problem comprehending it. I just don't think in meters, liters, or grams.
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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It's not too difficult for Americans to understand. We just didn't want their system. I sad "Difficult for Americans to comprehend." it's easy to understand for sure, but if you tell an average American, "Hey it's 87 kilometers to the next town," they will look at you like you have a horn growing out of your head, because they have no idea how far that is without knowing the conversion factor and whipping out a calculator. So yeah... It's difficult for Americans to comprehend distances and measurements in metric. Most engineers and designers I have known would have loved to switch over the the metric system years and years ago. And yes, it's a better system than what we have by any measure. (No pun intended.) The average person just simply does not like change, because they have to learn something new. That's the reason we don't have it.
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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I wish we had gone ahead and converted to the metric system back in the 70's. Everybody would be used to it by now.
It is a much more logical system, but it is difficult for Americans to comprehend...
Much like the traffic Roundabout. Not a fan of the metric system. I prefer MOA over MILS with my scopes. I think it was Lincoln who signed it into law as the standard. That worked.... As for roundabouts, I'm fine with them and they like putting them in in the Athens/Huntsville area. But every time a new one opens I always encounter someone who is befuddled by them. They usually turn left into them after stopping. 
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
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Agreed, Doing math on units of 10 is much easier than units of 16.
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Agreed, Doing math on units of 10 is much easier than units of 16. Tell me about it. I was a structure and mechanical designer and field engineer for almost 50 years. I'm still really good at fractions though... 
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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Doing the best I can.
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Doing the best I can.
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I wish we had gone ahead and converted to the metric system back in the 70's. Everybody would be used to it by now.
It is a much more logical system, but it is difficult for Americans to comprehend...
Much like the traffic Roundabout. Folks don't even know how to use a median, much less a round about.
The true mark of a man is not how he conducts himself during times of prosperity, but how he conducts himself during times of adversity.
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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I wish we had gone ahead and converted to the metric system back in the 70's. Everybody would be used to it by now.
It is a much more logical system, but it is difficult for Americans to comprehend...
Much like the traffic Roundabout. Folks don't even know how to use a median, much less a round about. or the left hand lane...
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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Freak of Nature
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Why is elevation surveying done in 10ths of a foot?
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There is a lot of socialism in this thread.
"Never Trust Government" -- Smart people.
"The Great thing we should Fear and the Weird Thing we Trust is Elon Musk" -- Me
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." -- Ruthie-May Webster
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Not a fan of the metric system. I prefer MOA over MILS with my scopes. Me too. MOA has always worked and I'm not dealing with a new system I don't need.
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There is a lot of socialism in this thread. It is everywhere. 
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Management Spike
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So yeah... It's difficult for Americans to comprehend distances and measurements in metric. Yep, but only because it's a foreign system that we chose not to use.
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fuck a roundabout and any highway engineers that like them.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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I agree that overall metric is probably a better and more precise system. But like others I only have a loose approximation in my head if you give me a metric unit. It would be a hard transition but yeah if they had done it back in the day and I grew up in it, it would be fine.
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I have no problem comprehending it. I just don't think in meters, liters, or grams. Yeah, how good does it sound to say "I caught a 5,443 gram or 5.4 kilogram bass". "I caught an 12 pound bass" sounds much better, and people know immediately what that is.
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Yep, oil is a commodity traded worldwide and is still measured in barrels. A few things are still measured in hogsheads and puncheons.
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