RIP Metric System

Why the big fuss, it will simply stay as it is now except traders won't be fined for using imperial if they want.

You already drive in m.p.h , your holiday jet to Spain will tell you how high you are flying in feet, your beer comes in a pint, your babies weight will be announced in pounds and ounces etc etc. and try saying a yard of ale in metric :cry:
 
n111ck said:
Exactly nobody really weighs themselves in kilo's.

As I said on the other thread (that seems too have been deleted) - anything that is commonly referred in relation to a measurement is never metric - and if metric fails to cut across give people the choice of both.. it will always be a pint of lager..

In fact can anyone think of anything that is commonly referred to in metric?
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I refer everything in metric especially at work (construction and engineering).

The only thing I don't is miles when driving because that's the standard.

I have no idea what my weight is in stone or lbs, or how tall I am in inches, nor the size of my garden in feet.

Even NASA use kilometres/metric system.
 
Freefaller said:
I refer everything in metric especially at work (construction and engineering).

The only thing I don't is miles when driving because that's the standard.

I have no idea what my weight is in stone or lbs, or how tall I am in inches, nor the size of my garden in feet.

Even NASA use kilometres.
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Yes but Americans are stupid.
 
n111ck said:
Yes but Americans are stupid.
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If you say so.

Good to see stupid people put an unmanned vehicle on Mars. Imagine if they were intelligent!

Just think about it.... here in the UK all the infrastructure you use to power your house, drive on, travel with, live in and provide you with all your utilities were all designed and built on metric system!

I bet you feel dirty now.
 
When are we going to get tanners, threepenny bits and farthings back again.

I used to be able to go down to my local post office/grocer at the bottom of my street and get a bag of sweets for a farthing.

Miss those days.
 
Freefaller said:
If you say so.

Good to see stupid people put an unmanned vehicle on Mars. Imagine if they were intelligent!

Just think about it.... here in the UK all the infrastructure you use to power your house, drive on, travel with, live in and provide you with all your utilities were all designed and built on metric system!

I bet you feel dirty now.
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What even the victorian railway? There was life before metric lol…
 
n111ck said:
What even the victorian railway? There was life before metric lol…
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If you only ride on old tracks perhaps, unless they've been maintained and upgraded, I'm afraid they will be tarnished with metric. But nothing built in the last few decades at least.

It's ok though hang on to your Victorian ideology, it'll die out soon fortunately.
 
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