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Britain may revert to the imperial system to 'capitalize on new Brexit freedoms'
- aurizon 5y agoI think this is unwise of the UK - the world is moving to a global system, the French had a good idea and it took root and now has pretty much become this global standard. If the UK adopts the fading and nearly extinguished old UK system, many businesses will cling to it and be marginalised. Are there no Statesmen in the UK at all?
- elmerfud 5y agoThe problem is they never fully embraced the metric system to begin with. Something makes think that the real reason to not convert to metric is marketing and sales. It's more difficult to baffle people with bullshit when it's simply a base 10 conversion on units. Marketing can take a bottle that's 18 Oz and then redesign the bottle so it physically looks bigger but only contains 16 oz and slap a big shiny sticker on it that says now One Pound!!!!!! People will think they're getting a better deal. Only the scientists care that a lander crashed on another planet because some failed units conversion. People just cry and say you're taking away my heritage because they don't want to learn.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoEverything is metric in supermarkets apart from fresh milk and some cans of beer. The main use of the imperial system is distances and speed on the road, and I feel that has a lot to do with historic laziness ("changing all those signs is going to be a pain, mate")
- mrlonglong 5y agoI for one wil resist this silly stampede to live in the past! They'll have to pry my metric units out of my cold hands over my dead body. It was a 16th century Englishman who invented metric units!
- mrlonglong 5y agoJohn Wilkins, an English bishop was the progenitor of the metric system[1] Boris, eat your heart out you xenophobe. [1] http://www.metricationmatters.com/who-invented-the-metric-system.html http://www.metricationmatters.com/who-invented-the-metric-sy...