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Yeah, this'll be the UK. We use a mix of imperial and metric, so you'll see "300m to next service station" and also "30 mph" speed limits :). People typically
by guntherhermann 3y ago
Yeah, this'll be the UK.
We use a mix of imperial and metric, so you'll see "300m to next service station" and also "30 mph" speed limits :).
People typically weigh themselves in stone and lbs, yet the food we buy is weighed in grams
- folli 3y agoThe UK. Europe's last stronghold against the French Revolution's dictate of the metric system.
- gerdesj 3y agoI often convert these new fangled units back into old money. Chains per fluid ounce (Ch/FlOz) is so much easier to comprehend. I jest but that isn't as mad as our pre-decimalization currency. We were still spending coins that called themselves a shilling and calling them five pence (and 2s as 10p) for quite a few years afterwards.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y agoFun fact: chains and furlongs are the archaic intermediary unit that get you from our smallest unit (inches) to our largest unit (miles) in a way that isn't completely insane (i.e. "simply 5280 feet to the mile"). It's really: - 12 inches to the foot - 3 feet to the yard - 22 yards to the chain - 10 chains to the furlong - 8 furlongs to the mile Using even more archaic units we can simplify further: - 8 inches to the link - 100 links to the chain - 10 chains to the furlong - 8 furlongs to the mile And 1 acre is 1 chain by 1 furlong, or 10 square chains.
- gerdesj 3y agoAre you calling me archaic? A rod, pole or perch. A rod was 12 feet and it was the width of the land ploughed in a day. A furlough was the length. Roughly.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI think Rosie weighed in at 19 stone, but maybe she was Australian... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5XAXzWt5wc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5XAXzWt5wc
- pacifika 3y agoIn Scotland it’s kgs