Americans? Gee, that's a lot of countries, two continents worth, after all... Most of them use the metric system, you know!Nah, kidding, that's another thing that bothers me, but it's for another time.As a Canadian, we're more or less sandwiched in as this weird bastard baby between the USA and Britain in the sense that both are actually used commonly and fairly interchangeably - though, yes, it's probably more because of the relations with Britainmetrication. Distance is measured in kilometres and metres [actually, it's measured by most in time, but I digress], and temperatures are measured in Celsius, but height and weight are measured in feet and pounds, and Canadian penises are Imperial penises, conquering vaginas the world over!My bro [I summon kutsui in Attack Mode!] knows a great deal more about the subject than I, having lived in the US his entire life and having started a petition to get the US government to look at the subject again - though it did fail as most of these things do. As for it "not killing people," vonFiedler , apparently it actually does, but hopefully my bro'll come back today or tomorrow to talk about that in more detail.That said, I'll use the knowledge that I have about the perspective of your fabulous neighbours to the north.Canada's anglophone demographics are quite similar to those of the United States, in particular the western provinces [British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, maybe Manitoba], which can be especially noticed considering the west's lack of "Canadian accents," as well as their more conservative tendencies [bar BC], with the Maritime provinces having their accents being comparatively strong overall, and the east generally electing more liberal-minded parties and politicians. My home province of Alberta has been [not wrongly] dubbed "Canadian Texas" as it's not only [I believe] the most conservative province, having elected conservatives into power for ~40 years in a row, a fairly large "redneck" population [Calgary's annual celebration is the Stampede, for Christ's sake], and because there were some stirrings of "muh independence" when the issue of whether the oil in Alberta belonged to the provincial or federal government. Anyway, because the demographics are very similar, among other reasons, US products are often delivered directly to Canada with little to no changes if they can allow for it. While metric labelling is required on food and such, other items like books and television shows aren't subject to this - books being a big reason why Imperial is huge in cooking, due to recipes being written in Imperial measurements. As for television shows... I always wondered why everyone in Spongebob paid only with twenty dollar bills.Keep in mind that this is more of a Western Canadian perspective, not having spent enough time in the East outside of family [my family there actually uses, but they spend a lot of time in the states], and I'm not even going toto speak for Quebec.Canada's generally been ahead in a lot of "social issues" in comparison to the US before; I'm not trying to brag, it's just true. Gay marriage, universal healthcare, freeing the slaves [though that was more the north in general], things like that - so, we essentially went through the bitchiness that they are/will be going through. Yes, Canadians bitched at the socialization of healthcare at first - Tommy Douglas [the guy who introduced it] was an unpopular guy before, and now he's a national hero . Yes, Canadians also bitched at the metrication process, "Trudeau come West" comics were apparently pretty popular - these comics involved the Prime Minister at the time [who pushed for metrication + official bilingualism] with a noose around his neck. He made third on the list, right behind a cool guy named Terry Fox who ran for cancer awareness.That said, when the dust settled, did the country implode? Did all of our children spontaneously combust? Did Godzilla rise from the depths of the sea to squish the Quebecois? Sadly, no, all we got was a new official measurement system and some shitty t-shirt. Oh, and maybe some healthcare, too. Whatever.Actually, they're probably only easy to remember because you grew up with them. There's nothing that intrinsically makes Imperial more easy to remember than Metric; quite contrary, as Imperial is based on arbitrary numbers, while Metric is based on neat groups of ten.Daylight savings time both kills and saves people. When people get more sleep, heart attacks are about 10% less common, while they are 10% more common when they lose that hour of sleep. This troubles health professionals due to making it even more clear that people need more sleep than they actually get, which is a shame. Sleep's fucking awesome.