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It's funny, as an Australian, TV's are probably the only think I know exclusively in inches.
At one point TVs were in centimetres and computer monitors were in inches, but now they've seem to have given up and sell both in inches (which is probably against some regulation somewhere).
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
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It's inevitable that you will switch, you are just making it much more painful than it needs to be. Did you notice that the SpaceX webcasts only use metric for the speed and altitude displays?
The only people that think it's painful are the folks who keep telling us we need to switch. We know the measurements we use pretty well, and even then there are plenty of things already measured in metric. Plus, it's not like everyone else has fully switched. The UK still seems perfectly comfortable talking about weight in stones and all their cars measure speed in mph just like the US.
Re: Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
#83Now UK and Japan can give it a try. ;-)
Switching today would be virtually impossible. Just think of all the freeway interchanges that would have to be rebuilt, costing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Ireland is 100% metric, yet you go into the grocery store and the butter is in 454g blocks.
That's because their main commercial partner (both because of geographical proximity and shared language which allows using the same packaging) isn't fully metric. It used to be the same in Canada (or at least Québec) but I've heard that more products are sold in round metric quantities these days.