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[Rog]

I find it very interesting that someone took the decision to use Km instead of miles when they were installed.

Interesting indeed. Isn't it time we went metric for everything now, I mean this is 2013 in the 21st century not 1900. We're almost being as backward as the Americans. Just how bonkers are Miles and Yards, Gallons and Pints, Stones and Pounds etc ? Actually many of our measurements aren't even the same as in the USA, so what's the point ? Probably all just national sentiment and resistance to change, not practical reasons.

Apparently there are only three countries in the world that haven't adopted metrication. USA and two others. It is a bit tongue in cheek as we in Britain still refer to many things in old measurements. In Spain larger plumbing fittings are in Imperial. Tyres on virtually all cars are in Inches for rim but metric for width.

In medicine there is a thing called a Guide Wire. Length is in cms (EG: 100cms) diameter is decimals of an inch (EG: .035") So an example specification would be 100 x .035

How nuts is that ?

[scimmy_man]

the building trade went metric in 1971, but everyone still digs a 3 foot trench and timber is 2x4 etc,

[Varche]

the building trade went metric in 1971, but everyone still digs a 3 foot trench and timber is 2x4 etc,

What 2mm by 4 mm X 10 foot?

[Chris_H]

Buy a drink for yourself and the missus and one's a pint, the other's 125, 175 or 250ml.

I love hybrids.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Just how bonkers are Miles and Yards, Gallons and Pints, Stones and Pounds etc ?

I can go a bit bonkers after a few pints!! 

[Rog]

Just how bonkers are Miles and Yards, Gallons and Pints, Stones and Pounds etc ?

I can go a bit bonkers after a few pints!! 

Well after the usual Christmas/New Year excesses, I thought that I might have put on a few pou . . . . err kilograms 

So I weighed myself. Diet time !  aiming at losing at least 10Kg

Jokes aside, it won't be too long before Imperial measurements disappear, possibly naturally. My kids are well into their '20s and during their education everything was metric, so when all the die hard non-metric farts have died off that will be it.

Me ? I was brought up on Imperial completely, but my work and sheer practicallity turned me metric. I'm an old fart, but a metric one 

[cleggy]

I will drink pints, buy in pound and ounces, calculate MPG, use feet and inches and measure liquid in fluid ounces etc until the day I die.

Using metric is like being a Lib/Dem european

[cleggy]

Q.E.D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259314/Couple-forced-tear-5-000-balcony-Bishop-Rochester-complains-privacy.html

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Jokes aside, it won't be too long before Imperial measurements disappear, possibly naturally. My kids are well into their '20s and during their education everything was metric, so when all the die hard non-metric farts have died off that will be it.

My education was in metric, but I still think in feet, inches, and stone. I'm lucky that I can convert roughly between them, having lived with Britain's Most Old Fashioned Parents.

[OOMV6]

Interestingly here, in that place residents of the UK call Europe, it's all metric ........... except, strangely, tyres and wheels and steel plumbing fitting. Plastic and copper are generally metric ......... except the copper fitting that have a thread on one end and copper pipe fitting on the other....... that's metric AND imperial ..... 10mm / 1/2" for example. Easy.

Why not change the side of the road you drive on? Sweden did. Although, bizarrely, their cars did not need to change as they were always LHD

[kevinp58]

The reason we are not driving on the right hand side of the road is because it would cost the government a bucket load of money but you can be sure that they will change it if the roads ever become privately owned as they won't have to pay for all the road signs and road markings not to mention alot of the junctions to be changed. Anyways why should we change there are still a whole lot of countries that drive on the left. The weights and measures didn't cost the government a penny as it was down to the business world to change it.

[OOMV6]

Interestingly here, in that place residents of the UK call Europe, it's all metric ........... except, strangely, tyres and wheels and steel plumbing fitting. Plastic and copper are generally metric ......... except the copper fitting that have a thread on one end and copper pipe fitting on the other....... that's metric AND imperial ..... 10mm / 1/2" for example. Easy.

Why not change the side of the road you drive on? Sweden did. Although, bizarrely, their cars did not need to change as they were always LHD

Question was a little tongue in cheek  Didn't really expect an answer