Cameron backs teaching weights and measures in imperial

SPG · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:38

Automotive is all metric, unless its a **** american car and even then a lot of cross over and the majority is metric.

Rotary aviation is mainly metric, I believe most of the Airbus stuff is metric at least when i did some bits for them many moons ago.

Going back to imperial is bad idea. As someone said its so bad i am surprised its not on UKIPS policy.

Slam62 · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:38

Yeah but the French can't use imperial haha

SPG · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:40

Amp34 said:
What I really hate is the forcing of metric into places where imperial makes far more sense. A prime example being steep hill signs. Old way - 1/4 (one in four) New way - 25% - What the heck does that mean?!

Wtf does 1/4 mean, 1 hill in 4 is steep .....

Squark · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:42

SPG said:
Wtf does 1/4 mean, 1 hill in 4 is steep .....

You don't understand gradients?

spoffle · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:43

D.P. said:
the Americans are actually much more consistent than the British - at least they do use imperial units everywhere. What they do use is some standard units e.g. k = 1000.

The British are really the worst. you buy petrol by the liter and drive distances in miles, so have a useless fuel economy that you can never equate to the fuel you are buying.

really, Britain should go back to imperial if it is not going to fully embrace the metric system. Nothing wrong with pounds, feet, inches. etc.

I thought they used KM over miles in the US.

One · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:45

spoffle said:
I thought they used KM over miles in the US.

You thought wrong. They use imperial, although to make matters worse they use US imperial which for a lot of things is different to UK imperial lol.

visibleman · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:50

Amp34 said:
What the heck does that mean?!

Quarter = 1/4 = 25%.....the same :confused:

Burnsy2023 said:
This is one of the most stupid ideas I've seen in a while.

Where was this 'idea' or notion to back or wanting to make anything official/law?
Cameron expressed an 'off the cuff' personal opinion to a hypothetical question, so i'm at lost to why you're getting your panties in a twist considering it means absolutely nothing?

God forbid anyone who expresses an opinion

As always, a non-stop story being massively dramatised :rolleyes:

Malevolence · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:50

Judgeneo said:
Our mish-mash or different measuring systems means I'm incompetent in both.

I use feet and inches for personal height
Miles for distance on a map
Meters for all other measurements
Stones for human weight
Kilos for all other weights
Pints for drinking
Galleons for fuel
Litres for purchasing, cooking and everything else
Hectares for looking at land
Square feet for looking at property

I confuse myself.

Aye, those old Wooden beams can fuel a fire for an entire Winter.

spoffle · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:56

One said:
You thought wrong. They use imperial, although to make matters worse they use US imperial which for a lot of things is different to UK imperial lol.

Maybe it's just on TV shows or something, but on the American shows I watch they nearly always list distances in KM.

Meridian · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:03

scorza said:
This is barmy enough to be a UKIP policy. What next?

Er - why do you think he said it? He would have been taught in metric units, but he knows that kippers just love the Old Things in life. Rather obvious appeal to potential splitters.

Tunney · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:07

The sooner we standardise on SI units, the better.

I'm happy to ask for a 568ml down the pub.

visibleman · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:17

Tunney said:
I'm happy to ask for a 568ml down the pub.

You're missing a few 'decimals' off that if you're wanting a full pint

Sinny · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:44

KaHn said:
Who cares? It's not exactly hard to convert.

KaHn

While it can be annoying, I always have a conversion chart on me so I don't see the problem.

I personally still think it should be taught until it's phased out, I still use both.

MrMoonX · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:48

While the rest of the world is metric, next the Tories will bring back shillings and fully take things back to the 1950s :rolleyes:

this is just a cheap sound bite to win the grey vote

Muffin` · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:34

MrMoonX said:
While the rest of the world is metric, next the Tories will bring back shillings and fully take things back to the 1950s this is just a cheap sound bite to win the grey vote

America isn't Metric; how do you manage to be flatly wrong in everything you say, ever?

Tunney · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:41

Muffin` said:
America isn't Metric; how do you manage to be flatly wrong in everything you say, ever?

194 out of 196 countries use the metric system. I think it's fairly safe to approximate that to 'the rest of the world'.

Muffin` · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:44

America's economy is too large to exclude from 'the rest of the world' - it's an erroneous comment made by the towering intellect that is Mr Moon.

Third Opinion · 30 Sep 2014 at 23:03

Made me laugh at college when I did vehicle engineering.

Metric was metric.

Imperial, well that was a different kettle of fish.

Hand me a 3/4" spanner.

Which one?

A, UK,US or Whitworth?

3 possible combinations for a what should be the same size spanner, LOL

I am ok with Imperial but it is ludicrous in this day and age.

MrMoonX · 30 Sep 2014 at 23:09

Muffin` said:
America's economy is too large to exclude from 'the rest of the world' - it's an erroneous comment made by the towering intellect that is Mr Moon.

As above 194/196 countries use the metric system, so yes the rest of the world. Europe our major trading partner is metric, I'm sure your timy intellect can grasp that

Mr Jack · 30 Sep 2014 at 23:09

I reluctantly endorse the notion of going full-metric except they can pry the pint from my cold dead hands.