Kilometres and kg

Trucks have used Km for years in the U.K. which has always bugged me (for no logical reason tbh)

At least I can delve into my settings and change it…

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1st world problems I guess… :D
 
I still miss going down to my local Post office when I was a nipper, and getting a farthing's worth of lemon sherbets.
 
englishpremier said:
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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Oi, what did I say?

Malevolence said:
Just don't get me started on US imperial measurements though.
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Graetzbridge said:
Inferior?
I'm an electrical engineer. I have used Imperial, CGS, MKS, metric, and SI. SI is simpler for sure But I don't think Imperial is inferior - I think that's the wrong word.
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Isn't everything listed after Imperial just a derivative of the metric system?

Edit: I just remembered one good use for the imperial system. Light travels one foot in one nanosecond.
 
Alex_6n2 said:
Why would you bother with a none base 10 system?
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You need to understand how Imperial evolved and how it relates to the world around you far better than metric... also, metric was invented by the French (as if that weren't reason enough to ignore it) and I believe was actually standardised about 30 years before Imperial, yet we still use Imperial to this day - You don't think there's a reason why people still prefer the latter?

https://transparentmath.com/2017/07...s-not-always-superior-to-the-imperial-system/
https://blog.stakeventures.com/articles/in-defence-of-imperial-units
^ This gives you some insight as to why...
 
Metric all the way. Simply because it's how I was taught both at school and later engineering college, and I've never used imperial for anything other than ordering a pint (568ml ktnx).

Of course the most important reason is that the metric numbers are higher on Strava.
 
ttaskmaster said:
You need to understand how Imperial evolved and how it relates to the world around you far better than metric... also, metric was invented by the French (as if that weren't reason enough to ignore it) and I believe was actually standardised about 30 years before Imperial, yet we still use Imperial to this day - You don't think there's a reason why people still prefer the latter?

https://transparentmath.com/2017/07...s-not-always-superior-to-the-imperial-system/
https://blog.stakeventures.com/articles/in-defence-of-imperial-units
^ This gives you some insight as to why...
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Those links are a joke.

You are aware that a foot isn't the length of a human foot since human feet are different sizes, thus miles are not then 1000 paces anymore than a 14HH horse is actually the size of 14 of my hands.

As for sharing pizza, as one of the links discusses. Don't do that.
 
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_Jimlad_ said:
Couch to 3.2 miles just does not work
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That’s because 5km is 3.1 miles ;)

I do a load of running and have adapted to saying “I ran a 10km” if chatting in the office. In reality my running watch is set to miles, my brain knows the miles to km conversion so if I’m doing a 10km run I know to stop once I hit 6.2 miles… but it would sound weird if you said “I ran 6.2 miles”
 
Like a previous poster, I worked a lot with timber design in a drawing office back in the eighties and drawing notation was often 4" x 2" x 2.44m long. Hybrid notes which most people on site knew and could easily work with and visualise. Sheets of ply, mostly fabbed in the USA or Canada were 8' x 4' some Finnish boards were exactly 1.2m x 2.4m so slightly smaller.
It is always horses for courses, now we old timers are slowly disappearing, more is in metric but the older measures are still often convenient.
 
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