Kilometres and kg

[ttaskmaster]

Is anyone sick of people no longer using units such as rods, chains, barleycorns, cubits, etc?

I work on the railways and around assets over 100 years old, so we use a lot of old measures routinely.

I'm pretty sure that in school we only learned metric. I don't recall ever being taught inches/feet etc.. and I have no idea how much in metric an ounce or a stone might be, or a fluid ounce in ml.
Did you imperial lot go to school in the 60s or something?

We only got taught metric, but learning imperial measures later on revealed how they are are often more handy and sometimes more precise. Also, a number of imperial units are based on body measurements, so it's easier to pace out something in feet or use your thumb to get inches than it is to estimate centimetres and metres.

 

[Longbow]

Now the UK just needs to drive on the right and switch to Km and life will be perfect.

You clearly haven't thought this through. How am I supposed to joust other cars if the steering wheel is on the left?

 

[bobuk]

Nope, it's far easier than furloughs, chains or what **** the imperial system gives you.

 

[Freefaller]

You clearly haven't thought this through. How am I supposed to joust other cars if the steering wheel is on the left?

Silly me! You're right. Ignore me, I'm just the jester, I'm not paid to think.

 

[LeoK]

I am looking forward to measuring my graphic card in rods and the volume of my computer case in hogsheads.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Nope, it's far easier than furloughs, chains or what **** the imperial system gives you.

 

[Feek]

I enjoy measuring my speed in furlongs/fortnight.

Everyone knows that 30mph is 80640 furlongs/fortnight, 50mph is 134400 furlongs/fortnight and 70mph is 188160 furlongs/fortnight, right?

 

[R.P.L]

Height and weight of people, and road speed, are probably the ones that I default to imperial for. Anything else I'm happier with metric. I never got my head around using Fahrenheit while I lived in the US.

 

[EdGey]

KG and Miles for me.

 

[Rilot]

I enjoy measuring my speed in furlongs/fortnight.

Attoparsecs / microfortnight is a good one to use. It's about 0.04Ms^-1

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Height and weight of people, and road speed, are probably the ones that I default to imperial for. Anything else I'm happier with metric. I never got my head around using Fahrenheit while I lived in the US.

Fahrenheit is just wierd the parents still use that they've a vague idea of celsius but I don't know anything else, nor do I want to. Amercans talking about their temperatures online results in some banter as no-one else can relate to them naturally they think everyone understands fahrenheit because... they're americans

Actually that chart earlier is interesting Canada is metric as is Australia and NZ wouldn't have guessed that, with only the US, Liberia and... former Burma the holdouts

 

[Terminal_Boy]

1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour. I think it’s the only Imperial unit still in global use.

 

[Chris Wilson]

I am still fully Imperial, as are my lathe and Bridgeport universal milling machine, surface grinder and other machinery I can "feel" material in thousandths of an inch, sanity check some desired size against base material in inches or fractions of an inch, and know that over 80 Fahrenheit is a hot day

 

[Jean-F]

Surely driving on the right isn't that big of a deal? lol

Google September 3rd 1967 in Stockholm and see for yourself, they switched at 5 a.m. that day.
I found driving on the right a walk in the park in the seventies when I was driving 44 tonners around Europe.
BUT, I had a LHD Mercedes artic and everyone else was driving on the right as well, made it easy to work out where you should be, can you imagine the mayhem at Hyde Park Corner if we switched next year after twelve months of changing road signs and government TV advisories?

 

[aardvark]

If it's the middle of summer - Degrees Fahrenheit so you can work out how warm it actually is

lunatic

 

[Hotwired]

1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour. I think it’s the only Imperial unit still in global use.

Unlike many imperial units those will make sense forever.

 

[LOAM]

Kilograms for weight.
Miles for biking distances.
Kilometres for running distances.

Weird, but it works.

This is me but also I work in mm when drawing/designing. Imperial wise wise I wouldn't know what lb, ounce, inch or foot even is (although I do know 1 inch is 25.4mm). I could quite easily drop mile's as well to be honest, it wouldn't be a major issue.

 

[theone8181]

ev's suffering same issue W/mile, miles/Kw


Another example where brexits not done, throwing out those EU/Napoleon imposters.
- buying petrol in gallons would be depressing prospect though (russia seems to be 0.6€/l)

I actually measure my ev in mpg just to be annoying.

 

[_Jimlad_]

KG for weight now, KM for running, Miles for cycles and cars

 

[builder22]

trusting Wikipedia here...but only the UK has height, length and width limits shown in both metric and imperial, only metric everywhere else

but...weight limits are still in tonnes for all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_signs