Hey, Brits! Are you or aren't you metric?

[George K]

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?

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[George K]

@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?

[Doctor Phibes]

Nobody wants to mock the Brits. We're enormously loved throughout the world for our quirkiness.

[Klaus]

There was some place that used metres for length but square feet for areas. I think it might have been Canada.

[Doctor Phibes]

Working with mechanical engineers in Canada was very confusing - they talked about measurements being in 'mils', by which they meant thousands of an inch.