Should the United States fully adopt the metric system?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I really think y'all are overthinking this.  It's a simple matter.  Here are salient points to consider:

5000 words and you missed the most important point.  If you know how much liquid is in a 750ML bottle of Grey Goose, why in the f[inks] would you have trouble with the metric system? 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I really think y'all are overthinking this.  It's a simple matter.  Here are salient points to consider:

5000 words and you missed the most important point.  If you know how much liquid is in a 750ML bottle of Grey Goose, why in the f[inks] would you have trouble with the metric system?  

Ha!  I guess my posts really are too long to read.  In my second post I mentioned that booze was sold by the milliliter.  

Making the standard wine, vodka, and booze bottles 750 mL makes sense because they were previously a fifth of a gallon, which is 757 mL.  They could charge the same price and sell less product, thereby increasing profit.  Liquor distributors had no problem making that change long ago.  The 750-mL bottle has been around for as long as I can remember.

The harder change for them was to stop making quarts (946 mL) and start making liters (1000 mL) because they'd either charge the same price (and gain less revenue) or have to raise the price and piss off customers.  Eventually they opted for the 1.75-liter bottle to replace the half gallon (1.89 liters).  Charged the same price for a 1.75 liter as they did for a half gallon.  Problem solved.

FWIW, just yesterday I got a 750-mL bottle of tequila and a 750-mL bottle of cointreau and a 325-gram container of coarse salt at the liquor store.  Then I went to the supermarket next door and bought five limes (sold at 20 cents per lime rather than by mass) and a small, 4-fluid ounce bottle of lime juice.  Gonna be a margarita weekend.  I have a stack of 35 statistical thermodynamics exams to grade, and I'm sure I'll be thinking plenty about Joules and Pascals and Kelvins and grand canonical partition functions.  Wouldn't want to be without a decent stock of booze to cure that headache.

Amen, brother.  Statistical thermodynamics was always a boring subject for me.