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Originally Posted by dong20  For all the blather about why Imperial is better, or vice versa the posters who have been the most honest are those reacting angrily as if they're somehow under 'attack'. It's a needless reaction given the subject but it comes closer to the true reason; broadly speaking people don't like change, [...]
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Pretty much everyone over 60 here
still discusses property values in
vieux francs!! The franc was revalued in 1960!! And what is more the revaluation was just 100 to 1 (100 old francs = 1 new franc).
I see the franc to euro change being treated no differently either. All prices in all shops are still listed in both euros and francs - Ireland's supermarkets stopped mentioning phunts before the end of 2002 (as far as I know). People here are only just getting to grips with euros after 6 years! And that's just the younger people. It's crazy BUT is does prove the point that the old system does not have to disappear just because a new system is introduced. Loads of people in the UK still reference everything in imperial, there is just a requirement for merchants to give the metric value
as well.
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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa Well, the 'imperial' system (using 'imperial' loosely) may take more intelligence to use, but that's only because it's unintelligently designed.
As a design, surely the metric system is indeed more intelligent. |
Perhaps - though the origins of the 'imperial' system are (just as?) intelligent in their own way. (Though perhaps you mean the corelation of the base of the units of distance and mass?)
Either way - a country favouring one system over the other as its official system of measurement does not make its citizens any more or less intelligent than the citizens of any other country.