Hey, I understand a lot of the difficulties people have in converting to
other units. E.g here we had for hunderds of years (even longer as the USA
exists) our Guilder as currency.
And since 3 years we have to use the Euro. It's not easy I can tell you.
But...everybody does. Because there is no way back.

Perhaps in 200 years everybody in Europe speaks English as native language
and everyone in the USA uses SI-units.
Dispite of all the different cultures that will fade away.
And like I said in an other tread, "normal" is not Europe, not America or
whatever but the lurkers who read this group.




" Another sad comment on the current capabilities of the "normal
person".
Or, you personally.

I also noticed an extreme bias in the original poster's comments. If
*he* is having sucvh a difficult time thinking in Imperial units because
he grew up with metric units, then why can't he put himself in others'
shoes and understand that it's just as hard for those of us who grew up
with Imperial units to think in terms of metric units? It's not that
most of us have any problems whatsoever understanding metric units --
they're quite easy to understand -- it's that, like first languages vs.
second languages, we "think" in the units we grew up with.

And it's like second languages -- some people can become quite fluent
and proficient in second languages, others cannot.

In other words, it was a hell of an overgeneraliation on the part of the
original poster, reflecting an unstated prejudice that, frankly, was
both untrue and uncalled-for.

Doug