Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

Some of us have explored it. As Doug sort of alluded to, while metric is great for engineering, it is less convenient for a lot of daily uses, since the units were derived arbitrarily rather than by use. Ordering a pint of beer makes sense, for example. While a half-liter (or again, properly, 500ml) is close to the same volume, it's clearly a unit not designed for that purpose. And the arguments made about conversion fall flat when most of us don't care the weight of that beer, nor how much energy is required to heat it up.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll buy the metric hype when the metric freaks also want us to switch to metric time. Until then, no dice.

And I still don't trust that it's not a long-term French play to finish what they started in 1066.