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Old 13th Sep 2017, 4:33 pm   #45
Oldcodger
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Default Re: An opportunity to be SMUG

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Originally Posted by Station X View Post
I don't think Americans use metric units for everyday shopping, measuring etc, only for science and engineering purposes.
I recently met my son's father in law (FIL in common parlance) who's an architect in LA. In conversation, we mentioned metric measurements, and he had no idea of what were. They use feet and inches, pounds, etc, as we older folks used to.
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