Pfft. I would rather die than see the day the USA uses the metric system. USA>World.

Actually, and sadly, it makes a lot of difference in some cases.

The american gallon is different from the imperial gallon by about 20%, thus every software system for the management of air transportation that has to deal with the refuelling of aircrafts on both sides of the ocean will need to make conversions between metric and at least two kinds of gallons.

Even worse, since fuel density changes enough with temperature and aircraft fuel is generally sold by weight, but loaded in the tanks by volume, the software and accountancy system has to deal with Kilograms, pounds, litres, imperial gallon, american gallon. Plus currencies, which exchange rates vary in time.

That's a good deal of useless menial conversion work. Must be good for the economy :)

How could they not say its a Half pound burger when its 2 qurter pound patties?   Since all weight is measured before cooking it would be right saying it either way.   I was just saying why its called a Double Quarter Pounder.  

Yeah, because having freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 is totally illogical.  If only they were at some random numbers instead.

On a more serious note, surely the US has already adopted some metric as it's currency is in demoniations of 100, so 100c = $1.  Rather than £1 = 12s and 12s = 12d as we had here in the U.K pre 1971.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I love this band!

If you go metric, you can use a larger number to describe your penis size.

mmmmm quater pounder,must eat now.

When you use a certain measurement for a certain time, you just get use to it.

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/08/05/its-the-science-dummy-why-americans-hate-the-metric-system/ ---link. America actually did try to go metric in the mid-70's,but it did'nt really last that long and it was repealed.