RIP Metric System

No one has been taught Imperial measures at school since even when I was there in the very late 70's and early 80's. 40 years ago. What a ridiculous suggestion. Ask anyone under 30 how many feet in a yard or yards in a mile and you'll likely get blank stares.

Why do you need to know how many feet there are in a yard or yards in a mile though?

Most of our road signs are in MPH is there any reason to need to know that in yards per hour?

Likewise, most people know what 5'10, 6' etc.. is, is there any reason to convert that to yards?

In what day-to-day circumstances do you need that sort of conversion?
 
Time is broken anyway, or at least our measuring of it is, we need a new system which has the same number of days every year instead of throwing in an extra day once every 4 years

That would require changing either the rotation of the Earth or the orbit of the Earth. Days and years are among the few units of measurement that aren't arbitrary. It's objectively true that there are 365.24 (and some more decimal places) days per year. Although it could be argued that the frame of reference chosen is arbitrary and we should be using sidereal time instead, I think that at least for the time being it makes sense to use the surface of the Earth as the frame of reference.

Things could be worse when it comes to less objective ways of measuring times. For example, the system of hours in ancient Rome had 12 hours from sunrise to sunset and 12 hours from sunset to sunrise. So the length of an hour changed from day to day and a night hour was a different amount of time to a day hour.
 
Why do you need to know how many feet there are in a yard or yards in a mile though?

Most of our road signs are in MPH is there any reason to need to know that in yards per hour?

I don't like to disagree here (because I don't!), but those 3 blue signs with the diagonal lines on them near the exit of a motorway are 100 yard markers.

I guess 50mph rather than 88,000yph is easier on the speedometer :D.
 
Its not panic or outrage it is laughter you hear. I love how brexiters think there is outrage. Its not outrage lol

See below or as @ianh pointed out or look earlier in the thread. :cry:

This ******* unaccountable ******** of a corrupt government is just doing what it wants. The people don’t matter anymore there is no accountability.

They need dragging out of number ten what other way is there? It’s clear there are no repercussions anymore for any action they take. The longer this goes on the more they continue to shoot our own limbs off with utttrlu asinine **** like this no one asked for.
 
I don't like to disagree here (because I don't!), but those 3 blue signs with the diagonal lines on them near the exit of a motorway are 100 yard markers.

To be fair you don't need to do any conversion between miles and yards for that though, just need to know what 100 yards is.

But yeah, we use some of these measurements anyway, I doubt people are going to force them into areas where they make little sense. Someone else mentioned ounces in coke in McDonalds, technically they do do that in the USA however just like over here people tend to simply ask for a small, medium or large.

I'm sure plenty of car enthusiasts will carry on using imperial as will dating apps, some cooking books etc.. we already combine both quite easily.
 
No it wouldn't

(EDIT: It's just struck me that your post could have been another Python reference. If so, well played.)

Yes it would.

A day is a rotation of Earth.
A year is an orbit of Earth around the sun(*).
A year takes 365.24 days (to 2 decimal places).

Those things are determined by the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the Earth. Making a year a whole number of days would require changing either or both of those things.


You could make up some arbitrary units and call them "day" and "year", but they wouldn't correspond with either the day/night cycle or the annual seasonal cycle. They wouldn't actually be days and years.








* Actually an orbit around the Earth-sun barycentre, but I'm simplifying a bit.
 
To be fair you don't need to do any conversion between miles and yards for that though, just need to know what 100 yards is.

But yeah, we use some of these measurements anyway, I doubt people are going to force them into areas where they make little sense. Someone else mentioned ounces in coke in McDonalds, technically they do do that in the USA however just like over here people tend to simply ask for a small, medium or large.

I'm sure plenty of car enthusiasts will carry on using imperial as will dating apps, some cooking books etc.. we already combine both quite easily.

Imperial is just colloquial these days "a couple of pounds of apples", "a pint of beer/milk", "20 miles to the next town", "he was doing over 100 on he motorway" though mph is still physically on the car dash. When almost anyone does any actual measurements where accuracy is important then its going to be metric. Cars are metric these days I'm sure aside from "classic" cars or yank tanks. Cooking I can't even even imagine ounces never mind fluid ounces its only in ancient cookery books like my mum's surely. And no-ones forcing anything its simply removing the illegality of imperial-only measurements in retail i.e. the "metric martyrs" if people are daft enough to do that let it be it on their own heads I'd be astonished if it returned to the school curriculum etc its just typical politician talk, make grand sounding gestures about restoring British sovereignty or other such specious nonsense which means very little if anything in reality.
 
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You lie.

I'm drinking out of a strongbow 'pint' glass right now, and the only markings on it are strongbow branding.
Containers or measuring devices can say whatever they want on them. Alcohol in bottles or cans can only be sold by ml.

You didn't buy a pint of glass, you bought a glass that says pint on it.
 
(EDIT: It's just struck me that your post could have been another Python reference. If so, well played.)

Yes it would.

A day is a rotation of Earth.
A year is an orbit of Earth around the sun(*).
A year takes 365.24 days (to 2 decimal places).

Those things are determined by the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the Earth. Making a year a whole number of days would require changing either or both of those things.


You could make up some arbitrary units and call them "day" and "year", but they wouldn't correspond with either the day/night cycle or the annual seasonal cycle. They wouldn't actually be days and years.








* Actually an orbit around the Earth-sun barycentre, but I'm simplifying a bit.
A day is 24 hours, a rotation of the Earth is only 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds, Earth revolves around the sun 365 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds, so even with a leap year it's still not totally accurate, we should strive for a more accurate measurement of time that syncs without any rounding errors for days & years if days are complete rotation and years are complete orbits
 
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