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> If the US went metric, then there would no longer be any need to assume anything but metric That might be a tiny bit optimistic. I'm in my mid 50s, and UK sc

> If the US went metric, then there would no longer be any need to assume anything but metric That might be a tiny bit optimistic. I'm in my mid 50s, and UK schooling taught me nothing but metric. I vaguely remember some sort of half-hearted campaign and leaflets about it, I think that was before we joined the EU. In 2019, and we are still not there yet. I'm not sure the last popular holdouts are ever likely to change at this point. I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :)

stordoff 8y ago
> I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :) Unfortunately: Return of pounds and ounces? Britain might allow firms to use imperial measures after Brexit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ounces-britain-might-allow-firms-use-imperial/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ou... EXCLUSIVE: Experts Slam "Bonkers" Proposal To Re-Introduce Imperial Measurements After Brexit, In Letters To Government http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonkers-proposal-to-re-introduce-imperial-measurements-after-brexit-in-letters-to-government/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonk... Now that we are to be a sovereign nation again, we must bring back imperial units https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-nation-must-bring-back-imperial-units/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-na...
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  Sigh. Thankfully I'd missed that. Not surprised it was Heffer, I think he'd like to send us back to about 1912. Gizmodo piece was fairly entertaining though. :)
  - jen20 8y ago
    Fortunately the post-boomer “sanity” generation are not going to accept imperial units other than pint (for beer), regardless of what people pining for a past in which they were relevant may want.

stordoff 8y ago

> I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :) Unfortunately: Return of pounds and ounces? Britain might allow firms to use imperial measures after Brexit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ounces-britain-might-allow-firms-use-imperial/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ou... EXCLUSIVE: Experts Slam "Bonkers" Proposal To Re-Introduce Imperial Measurements After Brexit, In Letters To Government http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonkers-proposal-to-re-introduce-imperial-measurements-after-brexit-in-letters-to-government/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonk... Now that we are to be a sovereign nation again, we must bring back imperial units https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-nation-must-bring-back-imperial-units/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-na...

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Sigh. Thankfully I'd missed that. Not surprised it was Heffer, I think he'd like to send us back to about 1912. Gizmodo piece was fairly entertaining though. :)
- jen20 8y ago
  Fortunately the post-boomer “sanity” generation are not going to accept imperial units other than pint (for beer), regardless of what people pining for a past in which they were relevant may want.