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

[Wozza]

Talking of which... I'll be 20,000 days old next week.

 

[nickbrighton]

I find I use a combination of both , even when measuring the same things. For example , I use Celsius when its cold, -2C is cold but 28 F doesn't "sound cold" similarly i know 70F is is nice and warm but 20C?, cooking though i use C rather than F, but use lbs and oz when measuring ingredients, other than making bread when i use 575 gms of flour!
I use miles when cycling- I know a 15 mile ride takes just over an hour, but a 25km ride-who knows?

I struggle with miles per litre, and still have to work out miles per gallon to "understand" whats a good or bad return for a tank of fuel

It makes no sense really to use both but thats how most of us work, and i expect imperial will slowly be replaced by metric as us oldies die out. Im sure there are not that many that now view money as being anything other than just money, whereas 20 yrs ago there were a fair number of people who would still "think" in £,Shillings etc, and the metric version was still "new money"

 

[Anger]

I think the U.S. would be supremely indifferent to any move like this.

 

[Han Solo]

Talking of which... I'll be 20,000 days old next week.

These are familiar words.
How much is that in English time units?

 

[GT49er]

Surprised I got in first

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Geez, you need to get a better car then. A Greathead tunnelling shield would do more mpg than that!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Metric makes much more sense.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

These are familiar words.
How much is that in English time units?

It's just a few furlongs short of a firkin

 

[Badger]

I'd keep pint (for beer and milk only) and go full metric for the rest. I'm already a full convert to km instead of miles.

Also, acres should go to hectares. Square feet would become square metres.

 

[Bodian]

I find I use a combination of both , even when measuring the same things. For example , I use Celsius when its cold, -2C is cold but 28 F doesn't "sound cold" similarly i know 70F is is nice and warm but 20C?, cooking though i use C rather than F, but use lbs and oz when measuring ingredients, other than making bread when i use 575 gms of flour!
I use miles when cycling- I know a 15 mile ride takes just over an hour, but a 25km ride-who knows?

I struggle with miles per litre, and still have to work out miles per gallon to "understand" whats a good or bad return for a tank of fuel

It makes no sense really to use both but thats how most of us work, and i expect imperial will slowly be replaced by metric as us oldies die out. Im sure there are not that many that now view money as being anything other than just money, whereas 20 yrs ago there were a fair number of people who would still "think" in £,Shillings etc, and the metric version was still "new money"

You sound exactly like me - it's the same sort of mix and match that I have, especially the temperature!

 

[Commander]

Imperial system is completely ridiculous, and the metric one makes perfect sense.

But keep pints.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Metric is a unit of measurement, not an actual thing, and we should have left imperial behind a long while ago, along with the House of Lords, the Commonwealth Games and the Royal Family,

However, no government wants to do it because it would carry a cost and it there is a perception it is part of British culture and so would be attacked by the right-wing media. Nobody likes to cling onto the past like the British.

 

[WATFORD zero]

WTF do those questions on the poll actually mean ? Because looking at who voted for what I think there are a number of interpretations

 

[GT49er]

Talking of which... I'll be 20,000 days old next week.

.........and on 10th. April 2028 I will (hopefully) celebrate two and a half billion seconds. Currently (as of half an hour ago) on 2,402,438,400 seconds. Exciting times eh?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

WTF do those questions on the poll actually mean ? Because looking at who voted for what I think there are a number of interpretations

The units on the left means you most likely voted for Brexit.

 

[Badger]

Metric is a unit of measurement, not an actual thing, and we should have left imperial behind a long while ago, along with the House of Lords, the Commonwealth Games and the Royal Family,

However, no government wants to do it because it would carry a cost and it there is a perception it is part of British culture and so would be attacked by the right-wing media. Nobody likes to cling onto the past like the British.

Oh, the Americans do. Imperial for everything; along with trucks, vans, appliances and other things which still look like they come from the 1960s.

 

[Wozza]

.........and on 10th. April 2028 I will (hopefully) celebrate two and a half billion seconds. Currently (as of half an hour ago) on 2,402,438,400 seconds. Exciting times eh?

Wasted a few writing that, of course.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The units on the left means you most likely voted for Brexit.

Well I want to know why, now we are out, @Mustafa II hasn't included LSD, or maybe go all in with librae, solidi, and denarii.

I did know someone (now passed) who insisted that it was Europe who forced us to get rid of them

I use Pints when talking about beer (every other liquid I do in litres) and MPH. Absolutely everything else I do in metric.

 

[Wozza]

Nobody likes to cling onto the past like the British.

My folks hate metric because it's "foreign" and was "forced on them".

 

[SouthSaxon]

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.

But was that zero in imperial ships or metric ships?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

No way!

I'd run 1609.34m from any such suggestion.