| >And I thought it was the Frenchmen everybody blames the metric system | >on - not the "commies" | | They are more socialist than the soviets these days.
Indeed. They have health insurance. I guess that makes them commies, right? Civilized countries allow insurance companies and hospitals to fleece the public to any extent they like. My pickup is Japanese, but it's also metric. And it came with a lug wrench. Are the Japanese commies? I thought they were monarchists turned capitalists.
I have a warning, though, about good old American, non-commie, God-fearing tape measures. I bought a new Stanley leverlock type recently without paying attention to anything but the length. It turned out the tape is metric on one side and inches on the other. What I mean is that it's only printed on one side of the tape, but includes both systems, with one marked along each edge. It's completely unusable. I had to buy another tape measure.... So watch out for those half-commie tape measures.