# Explain this!!!

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/explain-this/256305
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [January 6, 2011, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/explain-this/256305 "2011-01-06T11:15:57Z")
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### Author: ![Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hang_your_cross/32/6381_2.png) [@Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hang_Your_Cross)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/explain-this/256305/15 "2011-01-07T15:26:06Z")

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> [@I feel...well...wierd just for thinking about this](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-feel-well-wierd-just-for-thinking-about-this/38559/6):
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> theres only 3 countries left that use the “standard” system of measurement. even England no longer uses the “british” measurements. go usa?

england still uses it. the problem is the cost factor. converting this country to use metric would cost 1 zillion doll hairs. think about it.

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