Meters or Yards??

[Frateloder]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

The US is one of only three countries that still use the imperial units for measurement. The others is Myanmar(Burma) and Liberia.

Talk about the US being third world

Well, we do use a few metric measurements alongside the "english" system. We use "liters" some of the time (i.e. 2 liter bottles of soda), although gallon is still the standard large volume measurement. I've noticed that some food companies are slowly switching from "pints" and "quarts" to "200ml" or "500ml" as well.

Almost all mechanics and technicians have a set of metric tools along with english tools.... and our military has gone almost completely metric (they don't even use miles anymore).

I'd say, judging by what I just wrote, that we're in the beginning stages of converting over to metric. I don't think the country can be pushed along without government regulation, though... and it would take a long time to convert since people can be so stubborn about such things.

So, in conclusion, we're more like "second world"