# Here come rants, blah-blah (December mini-rants)

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**Created:** [December 1, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-come-rants-blah-blah-december-mini-rants/1011012 "2024-12-01T05:38:23Z")\
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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 makes no sense.

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