EU gives up on 'metric Britain'

Keep MPH for roads, Pints for Pubs, and Yards for Golf.

The rest can go.

Pound yer banana! 2 Pound yer pear!
14 shillin's fer yer mellons.
 
howiepoohs said:
Has anyone noticed in Britain that when its hot, we use the Fahrenheit scale to measure the temp and when its cold, we use Centigrade/Celsius? "Oh its hot today, 90 degrees!", "It was so cold last night, minus 5!" etc.
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I'd never even considered the different temperature scales until a conversation with my mum earlier this year.

We'd just got back from holiday and she was asking what the weather was like - I mentioned it was baking, 33 degrees. She had no idea how hot that was and mentioned that the weather at home had been mild, then quoted a temp in Farenheit....which I couldn't relate to either :D

Apart from the cost of changing all the signage (we could spend the money on more worthwhile things), I can't see any reason to retain miles over kilometers. If we changed over it'd take a couple of weeks to adapt and then we wouldn't have any problems*

*well, perhaps some thickies might.
 
I use weight in stones, pounds, and kg; distance in miles, metres, and centimeters; height in feet and inches (metres and centimetres is just odd); temperature in celcius; pints, and mililitres.

Whatever we use at the moment is how I like it. Metric is for people who suck at maths tbh.
 
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