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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: SJKOO01 on 30 March 2011, 21:18:57
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I hear theres talk of possibly changing the signs on a motorway up to a max of 80mph and changing the speed around towns down to 20-25mph.
I'm just wondering if they do, if the government use the excuse to change our speed measurement to meet in line with Europe and there'll be in KPH. As I'm suprised that it hasn't been done already. As I really do think it's going to happen soon, after all this country seems to bend over backwards when the EU decides something for us >:(
Mind you, initially would be great to say I did 120 down the motorway today and I didn't get a ticket for it ;D
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I hear theres talk of possibly changing the signs on a motorway up to a max of 80mph and changing the speed around towns down to 20-25mph.
I'm just wondering if they do, if the government use the excuse to change our speed measurement to meet in line with Europe and there'll be in KPH. As I'm suprised that it hasn't been done already. As I really do think it's going to happen soon, after all this country seems to bend over backwards when the EU decides something for us >:(
Mind you, initially would be great to say I did 120 down the motorway today and I didn't get a ticket for it ;D
It's worse than that son. We're bending over forwards now. Ouch! ;D
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I hear theres talk of possibly changing the signs on a motorway up to a max of 80mph and changing the speed around towns down to 20-25mph.
I'm just wondering if they do, if the government use the excuse to change our speed measurement to meet in line with Europe and there'll be in KPH. As I'm suprised that it hasn't been done already. As I really do think it's going to happen soon, after all this country seems to bend over backwards when the EU decides something for us >:(
Mind you, initially would be great to say I did 120 down the motorway today and I didn't get a ticket for it ;D
It's worse than that son. We're bending over forwards now. Ouch! ;D
I haven't been called that in years, I feel so young again ::) (edit... it won't last long though)
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Yes, haven't you all heard we are going over to kmh, and we are going to drive on the right! :o :o :o :o :o
Sorry, I have just woken up from a dreadful nightmare...........what did I say?! :D :D :D :D ;)
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We can still buy a Pint.... :y
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We buy fuel by the litre but judge our fuel consumption by mpg as oppose to km per litre??? ::)
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We buy fuel by the litre but judge our fuel consumption by mpg as oppose to km per litre??? ::)
Because we do not understand km per litre, it means nothing..... :D :D :D
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
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I find most people run a mix
Litres Pints Gallons
mm m inch foot mile
kg pound ton stone
The small imperial volumns not used
The intermediate imperial lengths also
I cannot be the only person who converts between systems, eg feet in mile.
12" in 1 foot
39.5" in 1m (40 for ease of calc)
so 3.333 foot in 1m
1600m is about one mile
5333 feet in one mile about
800 inches left over - about 20 metres
5313 feet now
Now how far is it out and remember I have no idea
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I find most people run a mix
Litres Pints Gallons
mm m inch foot mile
kg pound ton stone
The small imperial volumns not used
The intermediate imperial lengths also
I cannot be the only person who converts between systems, eg feet in mile.
12" in 1 foot
39.5" in 1m (40 for ease of calc)
so 3.333 foot in 1m
1600m is about one mile
5333 feet in one mile about
800 inches left over - about 20 metres
5313 feet now
Now how far is it out and remember I have no idea
Errrr, yes you can.... ::) ::) ::)
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We buy fuel by the litre but judge our fuel consumption by mpg as oppose to km per litre??? ::)
if garages put up £6.50 for a gallon we would instantly work out how much we use because everyone has a rough idea what their car does to the mile, keeping it in litres, and using the spurious ".9" of a penny tricks our brains into not equating fuel with money. I'd love to know what .1 of a penny is, and why is it always .9, not .1, .2, .3 etc? is it because 141.9p sounds cheaper than 142p? :o
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Government cant afford to change us over to KMH and if they did could you cope with a 100KMH speed limit, because thats what will happen on the motorways if they do.
Going metric/dicimal cost us a packet.
Do the sums, we allways lose out, they hise the cost/weight and try to confuse us.
£/S/D the old days to some of us :-[
£1 = 20 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pennies
1 penny = 2 halpeenys
Do the sums, that was 480 chocolate mice for a quid
In came the decimal, you only got 200
100KMH sounds a lot, but is only 62MPH
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P.s. Martin, glad you are not my accountant. ::)
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Interesting thread. One of my pet hates is the lack of ease with which you can motor around Europe. Some standardisation wouldn't be a bad thing. You cannot take a UK reg car for a Spanish MOT if it happens to come up for renewal when you are out of the country for example.
I posted recently that the national speed limit was reduced in Spain from 120 to 110 kmh to save fuel. From deciding it to implementing took about a fortnight with all the countries speed signs changed almost overnight. It can be done!
My English speedo has miles per hour and in smaller numbers KM ph. You get quite good at knowing what speed you are going.
The guy at the Spanish MOT station doing my Spanish ITV (MOT) on my ex UK car needed a mileage (kilometrage?) but didn't know how the algorithm for conversion.
Most pipework in Spain is actually in inches! (pulgadas) although you do get 15mm pipes and 8 and 10 mm in household internal plumbing. I love my pocket tape measures in both metric and imperial. The Spanish haven't seen them. Most don't even know what the markings on a car tyre mean either!
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..... The Spanish haven't seen them. Most don't even know what the markings on a car tyre mean either!
There's a Belgium contractor that spends a lot of time here at work. He's lived in England on & off for a good few years so does understand Imperial measurement but it frustrates him when we all talk feet & inches and a few thou' to him. ;D He says we should just 'convert to metric & deal with it!!' ;D ;D ;D
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Bring back the Groat!
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
Quite right Broocie. I was entrenched in a hedgehog once.
Oh...sorry...hogshead.. :-[
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
Yup. Luddite sums us up. Europe impose certain metrics on us but we hang on to what we have left with the tenacity of a drunk Terrier despite it leaving us in the middle of nowhere.
That's how we are & proud of it!!! :D
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
Yup. Luddite sums us up. Europe impose certain metrics on us but we hang on to what we have left with the tenacity of a drunk Terrier despite it leaving us in the middle of nowhere.
That's how we are & proud of it!!! :D
And I will still buy a quater of pineapple chunks.... :y
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
Yup. Luddite sums us up. Europe impose certain metrics on us but we hang on to what we have left with the tenacity of a drunk Terrier despite it leaving us in the middle of nowhere.
That's how we are & proud of it!!! :D
And I will still buy a quater of pineapple chunks.... :y
With a bag of chips & 5 grams of scratchings! :)
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well my speedo is mph but my odometer is kph :y
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well my speedo is mph but my odometer is kph :y
Jimbob's odourometer is in decibels. ;)
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Lets face it, it's a typical British muddle ;D ;D ;D
Most of the Commonwealth countries bit the bullet and went fully decimal and now its completely normal in those places :y I have a few Canadian/Aussie/Kiwi mates who think it's totally barmy that we operate a sort of dual system :o
I kind of like the quirkyness of all to be honest! Its one of the things that makes us Brits kind of unique in this world :)
But Thank God they did at least decimalise the currency!!! £/s/d seems like a nightmare to me :-/
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if the eu say we got to do it, we have to do it. we cannot oppose new laws or changes to the treaty unless it is agreed by all member states. the pint was announced a couple of weeks ago it was being changed to be served by metric volume was it not
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KPH/Metres/Litres/mm's - been tried before in various guises.
The Brits are too entrenched in feet/inches/furlongs/quarts/gallons/hogsheads et all to go metric.
despite it being the language of those designing their world for quite some years.....
.... says a luddite, educated in feet/inches/thou'/whitworth and the like, and force fed mils and mm's during the almost susceprible time whilst at college.... ;D
Yup. Luddite sums us up. Europe impose certain metrics on us but we hang on to what we have left with the tenacity of a drunk Terrier despite it leaving us in the middle of nowhere.
That's how we are & proud of it!!! :D
And I will still buy a quater of pineapple chunks.... :y
With a bag of chips & 5 grams of scratchings! :)
Pineapple chunks are sweeties Guy... ::) ::) not the type that comes with Gamon and not bought with a bag of chips and scraps.... ::) ::) :D :D And you are not allowed to used salt on your chips now... >:(
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if the eu say we got to do it, we have to do it. we cannot oppose new laws or changes to the treaty unless it is agreed by all member states. the pint was announced a couple of weeks ago it was being changed to be served by metric volume was it not[/quote]
I do hope not, this is our heritage, I shall stop drinking any other units, next you will be telling me that whisky comes in 1.5L bottles :o actually that is not a bad size for a day to day drink.... :-X :D :D :D