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Old 05-11-2008   #52 (permalink)
ManlyBanisters
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Originally Posted by Plebh View Post
The UK hasn't adopted it completely. We still use Imperial units for some things
You use imperial units but you (your merchants anyway) are required to use metric alongside them, as I understand it. Road signs are all still in miles though, aren't they.

For a long time there was a mix in Ireland that I never considered confusing (because I was so used to it) until a Greek friend pointed it out to me - all our roadsigns for distance were in kilometres but our speed limits were in MPH. All in k now.

The other thing that surprised him was that the speed limits for corners / twisty roads were not suggestions they were 'drive any faster than this and you're in the ditch, mate'