Guess What We Have in Common With Myanmar and Liberia

Filed in National by on May 28, 2008

As of 2007 we are the only countries in the world that have not mandated the metric system.

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  1. disbelief says:
    May 28, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    How about dictatorial governments where elected officials get unbelievably lucrative governemt contracts where they make literally billions from marketing a fake war?

  2. jason330 says:
    May 28, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    That too…

  3. RSmitty says:
    May 28, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Oh yeah? If it’s so great, why do they still order their beer in pints on the other side of the pond?

    I’ll walk a hundred km for a PINT! OK, not really, but I would walk one.

  4. liberalgeek says:
    May 28, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Actually, the pints are set to go away…

    Oh, and we both are really crappy about getting aid to flood-ravaged poor people.

  5. jason330 says:
    May 28, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Good one.

  6. Brian says:
    May 28, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Let’s not forget making political prisoners out of democracy activists. That and the inability to resuce people after a huge hurricane.

  7. Brian says:
    May 28, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Oh I almost forget, both dispatched paramilitaries to the disaster area that are accountable to no one. With Katrina it was Blackwater and in Myanmar it was the regime’s mercenary force.

  8. Dorian Gray says:
    May 29, 2008 at 8:41 am

    I think counted by tens is too hard! We should go back to biblical means of measurement – like the cubit.

  9. Dorian Gray says:
    May 29, 2008 at 8:44 am

    Oh and shouldn’t we be calling the country Burma in protest. Every other news agency I watch. heard or read based outside the US says “Burma” (the BBC, Al Jeezera, the CBC, Reuters, etc.)

  10. jason330 says:
    May 29, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Siam, Burma, French Indo-China, Bengalen …what’s the dif?

  11. Dorian Gray says:
    May 29, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I guess every other news agency outside the US refuses to recognize the name that some military junta uses for the country. I do notice that every ex-pat I’ve heard on TV or radio in the US, like college professors from there, say Burma. My dentist is also Burmese and says Burma. I’ll have to ask him the next time I’m in for a cleaning.

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