lozgti

You know,a 'Pint',Miles per Hour etc.Fuel consumption measured in MPG in car tests.In fact there seem to be loads that escape the net.

.How come Greengrocers/Butchers and sweety shops all get it in the neck if they don't serve in metric rubbish and yet the speedos on our cars aren't kph?

Mind you,a Pint wouldnt sound half as good/desireable in metric terms .

Anyone got any more,or indeed an explanation

SJ_Skyline

As the guardians of all things PC, I was surprised at BBC News the other night when they kept banging on about how high Mount Everest was in feet

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

"Metric" is actually a scam.

Just look at so-called metric things: wood by the sheet, 2440mmx1220mm, (in factr, 8 feet by 4 feet!).

Even the continentals measure wheel sizes in inches, and including mountain bikes.

Alcazar

Abdabz

Hello Mr Landlord, kindly furnish me with 568 millilitres of your finest ale
Ooooo what night last night, me 'eads bangin man. I drank 4544 millilitres of Stella last night...

Or
I get 5miles per litre woohoo!

speedking

Give you an inch and you take 8/5 of a kilometre

Most engineers far prefer metric measures. It is much easier to calculate the weights of different volumes in metric. The govt. should have grasped the nettle and converted road signs some years ago. Now we build roads in metric and sign them in imperial. (And when a sign says roadworks for 5m, is that 5 metres?).

But agree that there is no need to make imperial illegal. It is only a case of getting used to metric measures and we will all happily compare km/litre of fuel in the brave new world (Exception being NASA space missions, but they are American.)

SJ_Skyline

If Imperial measurment is illegal then this sort of evidence should be inadmissible in court!

Prasius

iTrader: (1)

Well being a youthful 28 I should be all in for the metric thing - when in fact I just use some bastadised mutant that I call Imperialetric

Leslie

I don't see why we should have to change our own system just to toady up the the Eu and all those plonkers in it who just want to get complete control of our country anyway.

Time we found a real leader again who is prepared to stand up to them!

Les

David Lock

BUT......... my head would explode if we went back to £ s d

SJ_Skyline

Old Money

I love the comment: "The Empire resisted decimalisation for so long because they believed it would make the money system too complicated..."