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It's our age, I'm afraid. I'm a foot'n'inch-using brit too, but my early teenage kids only deal in metric units (except for miles)
by mpclark 14y ago
It's our age, I'm afraid. I'm a foot'n'inch-using brit too, but my early teenage kids only deal in metric units (except for miles)
- robin_reala 14y agoMy parents used pounds, stone, feet and inches; my school used kg, g, and cm (born in ’80). I’ve had to take a conscious decision to reset my thinking to metric only and to supply metric values when people ask for them. This all apart from miles of course, but when all your road signs are in miles and the speed limits in mph there’s not much you can do about that. Who knows what plans there are for that switchover…