Hey, Brits! Are you or aren't you metric?
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 19:03 last edited by
Watching an episode of Top Gear from a while ago (post Clarkson).
I noticed they still talk about "miles per hour," acceleration from "zero to 60."
Is there any other context that uses Imperial measures?
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 19:16 last edited by Doctor Phibes 4 Jun 2020, 19:17
Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
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Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 19:30 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey, Brits! Are you or aren't you metric?:
Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
Fascinating.
So, when people mock the US for not being metric, I can include you, eh?
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 20:53 last edited by Doctor Phibes 4 Jun 2020, 20:53
Nobody wants to mock the Brits. We're enormously loved throughout the world for our quirkiness.
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 20:57 last edited by
There was some place that used metres for length but square feet for areas. I think it might have been Canada.
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wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 21:00 last edited by
Working with mechanical engineers in Canada was very confusing - they talked about measurements being in 'mils', by which they meant thousands of an inch.