STEED has won a battle against the EU!

[bookworm_020]

The mile shall live on! Metric falls short by an inch (or a mile!)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24815552-2703,00.html

[goldorak]

The mile shall live on! Metric falls short by an inch (or a mile!)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24815552-2703,00.html

Its a pyrrhic victory. You get to keep imperial units but you must also accomodate metric units. Double the work.

[A Very Super Market]

The fact that there is two different systems really sucks...

I like metric better, but I wouldn't care if I had to use imperial

[XabbaRus]

The mile shall live on! Metric falls short by an inch (or a mile!)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24815552-2703,00.html
Its a pyrrhic victory. You get to keep imperial units but you must also accomodate metric units. Double the work.

Not really, nothing a calculator and a lookup table doesn't solve.

Even before the EU tried to make it mandatory we used both units on our packaging.

Of course goldie you'll just view this as another reason why the UK maybe shouldn't be part of the EU. Let Italy sort out its internal issues first before taking a quick one at this.

[Bewolf]

What's the fuzz? Let the british keep their system. And as long I can aquire british goods in modern measurements, that's more then fine to me.

[goldorak]

What's the fuzz? Let the british keep their system. And as long I can aquire british goods in modern measurements, that's more then fine to me.

I was making a general consideration Bewolf (something that Xabbie has a difficult time coping with).
What's wrong with adopting a single system that 99% of the world uses ?

[XabbaRus]

No don't have a problem with that, just don't agree that everything has to be the same.

[August]

Its a pyrrhic victory. You get to keep imperial units but you must also accomodate metric units. Double the work.

Not necessarily. They tried the dual measurement system here in the states back in the 1970's but folks just continued using the one they were familiar with.

[Bewolf]

What's the fuzz? Let the british keep their system. And as long I can aquire british goods in modern measurements, that's more then fine to me.
I was making a general consideration Bewolf (something that Xabbie has a difficult time coping with).
What's wrong with adopting a single system that 99% of the world uses ?

Nothing wrong at all. Actually, it would make a lot more sense. The problem is, when a country starts to look more at its past then the future, then tradition becomes a nation identifier. Common sense does not work in such an environment as it becomes too embedded within these folks mind as a national trademark. Fighting it will only result in stiff resistance. Better let them stick with their system, as archaic it may be, and let them figure it out themselves. Once they gain other stuff again to be proud of, it's a no brainer.

[XabbaRus]

The majority of measurements in the UK are in metric, it is only when it comes to weighing loose product at the market that imperial is still used oh and for road distances and speed. so it isn't that widespread throughout insitutions.

I'd bet most people in the UK under 50 are more familiar with metric than imperial.

[Letum]

I'd bet most people in the UK under 50 are more familiar with metric than imperial.

I doubt that.
I am less than half way to 50 and I work in Imperial in my head, but need paper for metric. (http://www.dukeofprunes.co.uk/chickengirl/chickengirl4.html)

[Aramike]

Personally, I think metric is WAY easier to work with and compute as you are really just tossing decimal points around...

...on the other hand, I "think" in Imperial. Seriously, Canadians, does calling it the 50 METER line sound right? Did the receiver pick up good "meterage" on the play? :arrgh!:

[Aramike]

I'm guessing it would cost a lot of money to really completely switch to metric system, aren't all the mechanical things in fraction of inches instead of millimetres and so on ?Yup. Well, partly. All the imports force mechanics to use both.

Some of the biggest problems I think are roadsigns. All in miles.

[Letum]

I love the pint. Just the right amount of beer. Not too little, not too much.
The pint was made for drinking. The liter was made for measuring.

[XabbaRus]

Well I work in engineering and all our stuff is built in metric though our pipe couplings are imperial.

[Aramike]

I love the pint. Just the right amount of beer. Not too little, not too much.
The pint was made for drinking. The liter was made for measuring.I'll have 4 Deciliters of Guiness, please.

[A Very Super Market]

I guess saying, "I'm one point seven two meters tall" doesn't roll off the tongue very well

[joegrundman]

but saying 172 centimeters is easy enough

In farmer's markets in germany people still measure produce in pounds (pfund) - it's not only a British thing

and who really cares anyway.