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Every new road sign that goes up should show miles and KM ready for an eventual switch over.
Kilometres and kg
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we had our chance during Covid.
Your day sucked.
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Am I the only one getting rustled jimmies by people saying they use kg for weight, rather than mass?
It didn’t suck, it’s a case of that was then, this is now.
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It's easy on single/dual/motorways
. I do think it's too ingrained on us, if a sign went up at 110 on a motorway, I bet a lot of people would do that in mph.
Haha, yeah, I know what you mean. Our son was 850g or "1 lb 13 15/16 oz" (I had to google that).
"eight hundred and fifty grams"
vs
"one pound, thirteen and fifteen sixteenths ounces" - try to say that without sounding like you're having a stroke
One pound, fourteen ounces I think they would have went with there
Yea, but that would be inaccurate; you're rounding because it's a pain to show it in imperial, whereas it's easily represented and translated to a higher or lower precision using metric.
If America weren't still stuck in the dark ages (in many ways), imperial would be long dead except for a few niche legacy applications.
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US imperial is even worse.
Tiny little gallons and weird tons. A US pint doesn't even make 500ml so when a someone from the US is telling you they drank 7 pints (of what is probably ****water masquerading as beer), they drank a fair bit less than a brit.
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The USA actually made up some Imperial thread standards of their own because they clearly thought that all the old British standard threads weren’t confusing enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Thread_Standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Thread_Standard
My GP measured my weight the other day and he did it in KG
NHS must be using KG in there system now? maybe Americans designed the software though
Makes sense that the medical industries follow metric. Even in the US, I can't image that there are labs using imperial.
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They probably changed it for nationalistic reasons to distinguish themselves from the Brits I shouldn't wonder, they certainly did that for spelling so they'd be different from their former masters there was a lot of anti-british sentiment in teh 1830's iirc
They're used in PC's aren't they? The threads for the fixing screws for cases, motherboards etc are some wierd US standard I think its UTS rather than being sensible and using metric which is why I have to go to specialist suppliers to source those you won't pick them up in B&Q
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Dunno what the difficulty is, really.
Brits are generally crap at speaking other languages, whereas most other Europeans seem to speak two or three quite readily... yet we're pretty damn good at using two (and in some cases more) fairly disparate systems of measure in parallel. Surely that should be a point of pride?
Brits are generally crap at speaking other languages, whereas most other Europeans seem to speak two or three quite readily... yet we're pretty damn good at using two (and in some cases more) fairly disparate systems of measure in parallel. Surely that should be a point of pride?
One pound, fourteen ounces I think they would have went with there
If you're going to round then might as well just go to 2lbs, should be accurate enough?
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