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Yeah, like I said, things are getting better, but at the same time the powers that be still feel we need to get in American TV personalities to be guest presenters on our award shows. Last time it was Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle and (of all people) Ronn Moss from which ever soap he's on. I note the latter has just released a CD. Obviously it was some sort of marketing deal.
The Canadian national anthem is probably the only one whose citizens don't know the words to. I defy you to parse that sentence and win. They (the powers that be) changed them (the words to the national anthem) along about the time the Yanks made us go metric and everything stopped making sense.
Kirby, you are the product of a fairly normal imagination.
Kirby, you are the product of a fairly normal imagination.
Its called imperial measurement (because it comes from the Brits I believe, which given that America changed just about everything else about them even vaguely British it kinda surprises me that they kept it).
Australians, surprisingly, know the words to their national anthem quite well because it's sung at lotsa sporting events. Although I reckon at least three quarters of the population either don't know there is a second verse, or would just substitute the words "More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer" until the chorus.
Australians, surprisingly, know the words to their national anthem quite well because it's sung at lotsa sporting events. Although I reckon at least three quarters of the population either don't know there is a second verse, or would just substitute the words "More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer" until the chorus.
In the mid-seventies Ford or maybe Carter decreed that North America would go metric by 19--. Mexico was already there, I believe. Canada dutifully followed along and actually began changing. We put up kilometre posts and changed the gas pumps to litres. Since American and Canadian gallons were different to begin with there was no extra confusion.
Then, those guardians of American democracy, the teamsters, said they weren't gonna change. That was that. Canada was halfway into the metric system and stayed there. There are possibly some advantages: division by 10, for example. But there is no possibility of working out gas mileage because we can no longer buy a gallon of gas nor drive a mile.
Thanks Jer, or was it Jimmy?
Then, those guardians of American democracy, the teamsters, said they weren't gonna change. That was that. Canada was halfway into the metric system and stayed there. There are possibly some advantages: division by 10, for example. But there is no possibility of working out gas mileage because we can no longer buy a gallon of gas nor drive a mile.
Thanks Jer, or was it Jimmy?
I don't care how irrational refusing to measure by metric is, there's just something uninspired about metric (not to mention the fact I'd hafta relearn everything I know). It's kinda cute confusing foreigners though...when it's winter and it's like 25 degrees outside and they wonder why I think it's cold, until they realize I'm not going by Celsius. 
It was Jimmy. I remember now. They tried to change us over in the US too, but too many people used their firearms to shoot down the km/hr signs.
Fahrenheit is a better measure of temperature for the purpose of the human body. Celsius's increments are too large.
Anyone know how the length of a meter, volume of a litre, and weight of a gram were chosen?
Fahrenheit is a better measure of temperature for the purpose of the human body. Celsius's increments are too large.
Anyone know how the length of a meter, volume of a litre, and weight of a gram were chosen?
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