# Auld Lang Sighin' (January mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421 "2025-01-01T05:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421/15 "2025-01-01T15:23:54Z")
Can I rant about myself? I read the post about the new January mini-rants and somehow still managed to post in the wrong thread. 🤦🏻 > [@Here come rants, blah-blah (December mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-come-rants-blah-blah-december-mini-rants/1011012/513): > > I may have known this earlier, but I probably forgot. Ronald Reagan killed the Metric Conversion Act which was signed into law by Gerald Ford. Yet another reason to dislike Reagan. I was too young to vote at the time, but I remember voting for Anderson in a classroom exercise. I wonder what would have happened if Anderson had won the Republican nomination, or even if Bush had won. Anyway, because of this, every time I talk to my parents, I have to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit mak… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421)._