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UK Should go fully Metric
In my opinion the UK should go fully metric. I think it would be much better for the country and much simpler to use once people had adapted.
I personally despise Imperial measurements and find them illogical and old fashioned. Whereas metric is a scientific and logical system which uses simple units and is far more precise then the archaic Imperial system.
So the UK going fully metric would include the following things:
Beer and Cider being sold by the decilitre
Kilometres replacing Miles, yards being replaced by metres, inches by centimetres etc.
Shops being forbidden to use Pounds and Ounces.
Think about it, the new £1 coin means that vending machines will have to be adapted at an estimated coat of £100m, so why not spend that money on something useful instead of an unnecessary new coin and convert all road signs to metric
I personally despise Imperial measurements and find them illogical and old fashioned. Whereas metric is a scientific and logical system which uses simple units and is far more precise then the archaic Imperial system.
So the UK going fully metric would include the following things:
Beer and Cider being sold by the decilitre
Kilometres replacing Miles, yards being replaced by metres, inches by centimetres etc.
Shops being forbidden to use Pounds and Ounces.
Think about it, the new £1 coin means that vending machines will have to be adapted at an estimated coat of £100m, so why not spend that money on something useful instead of an unnecessary new coin and convert all road signs to metric
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
But, seriously, what is wrong with using whatever unit is the most suitable for the context? I have a science degree so I'm fluent in SI, but there are times when the Imperial measures are just more useful. Being conversant in both is a benefit.
When is imperial ever useful? Other European countries use only Metric and don't need imperial, so why do we.
A pint of beer is better than half a litre ;-)
I don't like the term Europhile in reference to British people. British people are Europeans themselves...
The length of a cricket pitch is one chain. Civilisation would disappear without cricket, therefore we need to keep imperial measurements.
Stop thinking in cars doing mpg, change all the signposts.
Then lets disassemble everything with a screw in it, and check the thread size. Iexpect there are a lot of imperial screws even in contentinental europe.
Finally, are you going to tell the US?
Why is that then?
It can do what it likes in that regard.
I won't be changing my language to fit.
The precision thing. How is me being 6 foot tall less accurate then 1.83 metres?
Well, peoples height is meaningless in metric, I mean what is a 6 ft person in metric?
and what about weight, 12 stone has meaning, when you lose a stone on yur diet, it has meaning, metric doesn't.
You see there are no milestones in metric and that is a problem.
Thats a daft observation. If it made sense, than dropping from 60kg to 55 or 50 is a milestone.
A long jump of 9m or a long jump of 29ft is a milestone.
Its just familiarity with the system. In the uk, a babys birthweight of 7lbs 4 is more meaningful than one of 3.2kgs. Thats all.
25Kg has meaning because that is bag of sand.
The only other worthwhile sand measure is a ton.
But yeah, who wants to weigh a baby in Kg, ridiculous idea !
The thing is with Decimal coinage you still have the pound as a yardstick so the change over was very easy. 50p. ten bob. you at least had a rough idea. anything higher and it was still in pounds so no problems.
If someone says to me he is 1.91 meter's tall. am not really sure if he's a midget or a basketball player as there is no yardstick for a comparison.
Same with weight and distance, yes. metric without doubt is the better system but a whole generation will find it hard to change, that's the problem.
Oh for goodness sake. What a boring world if we are all the same.
2m is a basketball player. 6 foot 7
I think this is all an over-hysterical reaction to the Rolf Harris verdict. The OP obviously thinks that three feet = one yard is evil because of Jake the Peg.
That did not stop the Irish from switching to metric measurements a few years ago.
He's 2 and err.. a bit yards tall. But if we go all French.. I mean metric there would be no yardstick anyway. And meterstick doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.