Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.
I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.
I'm not familiar with the metric system.
God invented man, and man invented the metric system.