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> Meanwhile over in the UK they're quite comfortable I dunno, the rags like the Daily Mail, Sun and especially the Express still sometimes have an article abo
by grues-dinner 2y ago
> Meanwhile over in the UK they're quite comfortable
I dunno, the rags like the Daily Mail, Sun and especially the Express still sometimes have an article about something fairly unhinged to do with metric. Like a greengrocer refused to sell someone a pound of potatoes or something. And the right wing occasionally tried to stir some life out of their voters by saying they'll "bring back" the Imperial system.
Meanwhile all I want for Christmas is my satnav app to show me speed limits in MPH like the signage and the speedo, but measure distance to the next junction in metres not thousands of feet. Yards would do.
- smcl 2y agoHeh well yeah the press finding things to be outraged at is nothing new. But in reality the population are quite comfortable describing their height in feet, their weight in stone and distances between towns in miles while also using recipes with ingredients in grams/millilitres or measuring things in cm/mm when doing DIY
- Apocryphon 2y agoI think some of the cousins on both sides of the Atlantic are similar in holding onto institutions in defiance of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs I wonder if any other countries have bothered doing the same with their own systems. Also if there any in Canada, Australia, New Zealand who also want Imperial over metric.