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[Mister Rog]

When I am total and unsputed ruler of Britain, I will ban all imperial measures and anyone caught still using them will be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in a 1950s prefab watching BBC on a B&W TV with . . . . . . a 30.48cm screen

[Andy B]

When I am total and unsputed ruler of Britain, I

 

[BazaJT]

And don't forget there's 2,000yds to a nautical mile

[Varche]

Here in metric land there are plenty of things imperial. Maks me smile as much of the pipework above 15mm half inch is in impetial inches.

[STEMO]

28.35 grams in an ounce....unless it's a Troy ounce.

[Nick W]

I'm not sure that I can explain this even to myself, but I have been in electronics engineering/radio all my working life and was totally happy with the MKS (formerly CGS) system of measurement, and yet in "civilian" life I have to convert wood sizes, etc., back to Imperial to visualise what I am dealing with! 

Ron.

I have the opposite: I think in metric for my stuff. But at work where most of the aircraft we work on are American, I'm subjected to the hideous mishmash of peculiar fractions, thousands of an inch(often for the same bloody measurements), feet, inch-pounds, number threads and dash hose-fittings that characterise the non-metric 'system'

[Bigron]

That surely explains why the Yanks are the way they are, Nick! 

Ron.

[Bigron]

And why Hubble was a cock-up just waiting to happen.....

Ron.

[TheBoy]

I guess anybody under about 45-50 would be mostly metric

Shit, that means I bat both ways....

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Just been explaining to the teenager about imperial measurements. You know, 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 112 lbs in a hundredweight (cwt), 20 cwt in a ton, 2240 lbs in a ton, 2420 sq yds in an acre etc.

He told me it was an absolute mess and he was glad he didn't have to know it.

Then I explained how, after brexit.............


I think he knew I was just joshing......
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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This is SUCH a big bee in my bonnet. It is simply bonkers that we still use anything non-metric, whether it's yards, feet, inches, Ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweight whatever. My late father in law was a chippy, and he used to talk in something like three sixteenths of an inch etc. Yes I know that MPG and Miles and various others are in common use, but that doesn't make them right or even logical. We'd get used to change in the same way as we got used to monetary decimalisation.

Of course, the main reason much of this hangs on is because the Americans use them, Ah not quite, many of their measurements are actually different to ours although they have the same name ! Even more nuts.

I have an american made Guitar. I needed an allen key for the bridge saddle, I didn't have one. It turns out that the correct size is 0.050 (Metric) of an Inch (imperial). The same but cheaper model of guitar made in Far East have metric. Arrgggg I found a company that imports the keys. In medical devices metric parts of an imperial measurement is quite common.



I will now retire while the dinosaurs tear me apart 

When speaking of tits.......You don't get many of those to the pound sounds far better than you don't get many of those to the kilo.

[STEMO]

This is SUCH a big bee in my bonnet. It is simply bonkers that we still use anything non-metric, whether it's yards, feet, inches, Ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweight whatever. My late father in law was a chippy, and he used to talk in something like three sixteenths of an inch etc. Yes I know that MPG and Miles and various others are in common use, but that doesn't make them right or even logical. We'd get used to change in the same way as we got used to monetary decimalisation.

Of course, the main reason much of this hangs on is because the Americans use them, Ah not quite, many of their measurements are actually different to ours although they have the same name ! Even more nuts.

I have an american made Guitar. I needed an allen key for the bridge saddle, I didn't have one. It turns out that the correct size is 0.050 (Metric) of an Inch (imperial). The same but cheaper model of guitar made in Far East have metric. Arrgggg I found a company that imports the keys. In medical devices metric parts of an imperial measurement is quite common.



I will now retire while the dinosaurs tear me apart 

When speaking of tits.......You don't get many of those to the pound sounds far better than you don't get many of those to the kilo.

Although a kilo of tits is preferable to a pound of tits, surely?

[STEMO]

Deleted. Reason=senility.

[Doctor Gollum]

Deleted. Reason=senility.

You can't be senile and reasonably, but I a certain that you can be reasonably senile

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Imperial measures are far superior to metric. Metric is mickey mouse stuff, just like the Euro is mickey mouse money.
If I were undisputed leader I would outlaw metric with transgressors being hung from 2 yards of rope.