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[Andy B]

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I believe that the powers that be are just waiting for all the old farts to die off, and metric will just gradually become the norm.  .....

We've just had a conversation yesterday by a 31 yr old at work, he's just been talking about something a few meters long and in the next sentence said something was so many miles away. That's partly cos he works with older buggers like me that generally use imperial units

[TD]

some very interesting answers,thanks people.My reasoning behind thinking it would be from at or near top of sail instead of say the keel,was that if the boat was taken to a depth of 30ft there'd still be an awful lot of it still poking above the surface!

Hmmm "30ft" ?

Do they still use feet in the Navy, or have they entered the 21st Century and use metres ? Just curious

What's wrong with feet  .... speed is still in knots, so why not 

I work from time to time with a Belgium lad. He refuses to even aknowledge imperial units .... obviously we wind him up when he quotes so many hundredth of a mm clearance, to which we'll reply with something along the lines of ''is that xx thousanths of an inch?''  And then he quoted his weight in stones    His reply was that he'd been to a lot of weight watcher meetings! 

The Devil in me is tempted to ask why anyone would still use such oddball systems as feet and Inches etc
 . . . or pounds and ounces etc
 . . . or pints and gallons etc

But this would run the risk of starting an arguement, so I'm NOT going to ask          

What do you ask for when you walk into a pub and want some beer from a tap? 

"Half a litre of your finest ale please, my man "          

But like I said, I'm NOT asking     

Yeah right 

[BazaJT]

Reason I use or tend to think in Imperial units is because they're what I was taught at school,what I grew up with and what I understand.Reason I use decimal currency is that there's no Imperial alternative to be had!