I think you mean complaining about metrication 50 years later :-)
The counterpoint is that without the metric system how could we make snarky comments on US-based woodworking videos?
The counterpoint is that without the metric system how could we make snarky comments on US-based woodworking videos?
The law requiring metric didn't actually come into force until 2000, these cases were early 2000s. Note that the law to this day still allows for imperial measurements to also be displayed, but they wanted to display in solely imperial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs
The situation another 20 years later is rosier, even the boomers have spent most their adulthood with metric, and they're dying off now.