It's the Metric System

Did you know that the metric system was established as the official system of measurement in the United States by a Presidential order signed by... ...Thomas Jefferson!

Yup.

So why hasn't it caught on?

I think it has a lot to do with visualization. I mean, I know what a foot looks like. I know what an inch looks like. If you tell me you're a mile down the road, I know just about where you are.

But this morning, perusing the profile of a guy from South Africa on WorldLeatherMen who had perused my profile, he describes himself as having "20cm of fleshy meat with foreskin."

I mean, what is that?

I think that a centimeter is approximately the width of a large paperclip, so the only way I can 'get there' is to picture an uncut dick with 20 paperclips lined up on top of it. And still, I'm not getting a good picture in my mind.

And do they really say that in the rest of the world? "Hey boy, I've got 24 centimeters for ya!" Or, "He had a great dick, it must have been 18 centimeters, and fat, too!"

It just doesn't compute. It's like Space Travel or something ("Got a nice 1/10²³ parsecs tool for ya to ride!").

If the Powers That Be were interested in instituting the metric system, they ought to start with the porn industry. Once we all are thinking of the relevant body parts in metric, all else will follow.

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