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Originally Posted by Plebh  Yes road signs are in miles, as well as maps, etc. The government wants to change it but it would be costly which they don't like. Referance to weight is in pounds/stones. Where you would say 140kg i'd say 10 stone. Milk is still in pint measurements but all other drinks are in litres |
You may have a pint of milk - but I bet the side of the box has the equavalent millilitres right there.
Oh, and 10 stone is 140
lbs, not 140 kilos. 10 stone is 63.6 kilos and 140 kilos is a snidge over 22 stone.
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Originally Posted by dong20 The milk in my fridge is measured first in litres and only second in pints! I don't recall seeing it otherwise for looong time. Yes, all other drinks I can think of are only in litres. It's nostalgia I guess.  |
Yup - that's how it was when I lived in the UK for a spell. And though that's not ancient history it's not that recent either.
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Originally Posted by dong20 It's made harder when imperial nations can't even agree on the 'same' measurement for a gallon. I'm familiar with both systems, but mathematically and logically, metric is simpler IMO and experience both to use and understand. The unit names are much less interesting though.
The US and others can't hold out forever... besides how can one take a nation seriously when it measures things in cups (and no, I don't mean Bras).  |
The gallon thing pisses me off. I never understood what a gallon was until I finally beat it into my own skull recently*. With both UK and US cultural influences I just could not visualise a gallon because what was being referred to varied from book to book, film to film, etc.. Bastards.
*I have a car that measures miles to the gallon in UK imperial, I like to convert that to k per litre, and I occassionally like to annoy Americans who winge about gas prices by telling them they have it easy compared to the prices here, but I have to say it in dollars and gallons or else it would mean nothing to the majority of them.