Metric

[gfish]

Talking to my mom tonight, she mentioned that I was arguing for the metric system when I was ten. Which would be super cool if I was particularly good at thinking in it by now, but I'm not. I have mass, length and temperature down pretty well. I'm much weaker on volume, speed and pressure. Curse the US Congress for not mandating a switch in the 70s like they promised! One of the few powers explicitly granted to them by the Consitution, and all they've managed to do is a toothless 1988 proclamation that metric is the "preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce". Bah.

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[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

*sighs* When I was a wee girl in elementary school, my teachers were all convinced that the country was going to be converted entirely to metric by the time I graduated from high school ... so that's what they taught me. I loved it, because it made so much sense.

Learning to cook was a stone bitch, let me tell you--pretty much every recipe available used the English system, which I barely knew!