[Misc] Should we scrap imperial units and go fully metric?

[Mustafa II]

As a further FU to the States, I would like to see us go ALL IN with the metric system.

Which of the British imperial measurements would you like to see go metric?

 

[Eeyore]

I don't want to give in to metric. You give them an inch...

 

[Eeyore]

I must have been taught metric at school in the 70s, yet I only use imperial. Someone will often tell me something in metres and I respond 'What's that in English ?'

 

[GT49er]

Where's the 'No' option? That's the only one I would tick.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I don’t do metric measurements. We were using feet and inches a long time before the Yanks were.
when I come across metres and litres I have to do a mental arithmetic exercise to get an approximate imperial measurement, then I can visualise it . Let’s return to British imperial measurements and stuff the Continent!

 

[Notters]

Definitely - apart from the pint for beer.

 

[SAC]

It makes sense but it would cost a fortune to replace all the road signs from miles to KM. For that reason alone, it's not going to happen.

It does my head in that US businesses still work in inches. I work in printing and the presses are in metric but I was (I don't work with US clients now due to the possibility of Trump tariffs) forever having to divide by 2.54 so they could understand.

 

[jamie-oh]

I like doing both, and i think it makes the mind a bit more flexible and mathematically agile. Both!

 

[Bry Nylon]

Makes mental note to put down deposit on that conservatory plus book 2 weeks half-board for me and the kids in Mallorca over Easter.

 

[Notters]

It makes sense but it would cost a fortune to replace all the road signs from miles to KM. For that reason alone, it's not going to happen.

It does my head in that US businesses still work in inches. I work in printing and the presses are in metric but I was (I don't work with US clients now due to the possibility of Trump tariffs) forever having to divide by 2.54 so they could understand.

It cost Ireland €30,000,000 in 2005. Obviously smaller than here but it's a drop in the ocean compared to what the tories were giving their mates every week for nothing, like shipping contracts for people with no ships.

 

[Rogero]

I love a pint though . It’s a perfect amount of. Also 1760 yards to a mile just makes good sense.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Surprised I got in first

 

[Gwylan]

I was taught in metric and struggle with some aspects of Imperial: I have no idea about Fahrenheit, pounds and ounces or acres. I do know yards as well as metres but tend to give any measurement in metres eg the Post Office is to the right and then walk 500m" The only Imperial I'm perfectly comfortable with pints - I can measure in litres too but I'm not going to ask for 0.57 litres of Harvey's

It's time to go the whole hog and change everything to metric, it would be much simpler

 

[Westdene Seagull]

None - there's no problem with Imperial so why try and fix a problem that isn't actually a problem

 

[beorhthelm]

stopping using British imperial in few places to get at US is utterly daft suggestion. we're already full metric anyway, the only places I can think imperial is still legally used is pub pint measure and road mile signage. let it be.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I love a pint though.

So do I, but thinking about it a litre would probably satisfy my appetite for over indulgence more.

 

[Klaas]

Keep pints (milk and beer) but put the rest in the bin.

 

[Pevenseagull]

"I would walk 804.672 kilometres" doesn't scan.

 

[Monkey Man]

The main disadvantage of the metric system is that almost all of the units take longer to say than something comparable in Imperial.

I'm actually all in favour of metric as it's a far more logical system. I just wish millimetres, centimetres, kilometres and kilograms had fewer syllables. (Yes, I do realise they can all be informally abbreviated.)

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Ridiculous idea.

Getting down the pub before a Saturday game and telling the lads you are flagging as you had 5,682ml last night is likely to get you laughed out of the boozer.