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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 655146, member: 66&quot;]Never seriously.&nbsp; It was seriously done everywhere else in the world and it succeeded.&nbsp; Here we try with halfway measurs and if anyone complains we quit trying.&nbsp; And that goes with most things, not just the metric system.&nbsp; (Think replacing dollar bills with coins.&nbsp; We were the first to go that way with the SBA.&nbsp; Forty years later we are about the only country where it has failed and we haven&#039;t made the switch yet.)&nbsp; In fact we were one of the first countries to call for a switch to the metric system.&nbsp; Give us a little time, we&#039;ll get there.&nbsp; We&#039;ve only been moving that way for 143 YEARS now! (the government first commited to switching to the metric system around 1866)&nbsp; We are now the ONLY first world country that hasn&#039;t switche to metric,and most of the second and third world countries have also gone metric[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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