Out of every single nation in our world, only three haven't adopted the Metric System as the primary or sole system of measurement. Two of them - Myamnar and Liberia - are practically irrelevant to the rest of the world, while the third hard headed nation is... yes, you guessed it, the United States of America.
Why must they insist on keeping something no one else in the world uses? Why not just get rid of their method of measurement - inches, feet, miles and whatnot - and save a lot of time on converting from that crap to metric system values?
Then there's that region shit with video games and DVDs and so on. NTSC and PAL. Bloody hell, that's so annoying. Why? Why do that to us? I loved my Playstation when I was a kid. Then we moved here and all the games were PAL, I couldn't buy a damn thing until I illegally chipped the console. I tried watching a DVD yesterday on my laptop and I couldn't because it was region locked. Give us a break, you sell us consoles and DVD players and laptops here, then you sell us games and DVDs which we can't even watch on them?
They're doing one thing right. They're going to make accounting standards the same worldwide. Same methods of accounting everywhere. Of course you are, how annoying is it to do business internationally, only having to realise that you have to do all your accounts ALL OVER AGAIN in THEIR bloody method? Very.
Abolish the United States Customary System for units of measurement!
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Exactly. How the hell do they expect people to use a system based on limb extensions in order to measure. 5 feet and a half. What the hell do they expect me to do? Align six people up and chop the sixth foot in half?
Let's let our imagination run wild and think of other biological measuring systems... my door is 10 eyeballs wide and five incisors long...
But anyway, these are the same people who put Bush in office twice in a row... so what did you expect?
What do you expect from America anyway :P
5 feet and a half, align six people up? :D :D Jo, how many feet does your average every day person have? :D :D Blonde moment.
Oh and the region thing is a legally binding rule. Certain films for example are released in America before anywhere else in the world, hence being Region (I think) 1. Thena certian ammount of time must pass before they are released (I.E. produced) somewhere else in the world, such as Europe. It's to prevent them being copied and then sold illegally around the world. Don't ask me why, it's the same as the law that a film cannot be shown in Cinema in Gozo until 6 months after it can be shown in Malta.
actually no, it aint a blonde moment... well unless the people posing for the 5 feet and a half measurements did an extremely gay pose of aligning one foot in front of the other
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