Iirc a ship was carrying the metric standards to the US in like 1790 and sank and they just said fuck it
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Everyone makes fun of the US for using imperial, but nobody makes fun of Liberia and Myanmar for doing the exact same thing.
At least they don't speak Fahrenheit.
Burma is switching away. Liberia... who knows. That place is almost as fucked up as the US.
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In the meantime to "take advantage of Brexit" it will be possible to sell wine by the pint... A push to go back to the imperial system was axed though. Maybe brexiters should move to the US if they like the imperial system so much.
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use English as an official language for EU Brexit
USA should have switched to metric just because they are pals with France.