Brexit - am I stupid or what?

Imperial was fine, until someone invented a calculator.

Personally if someone said how big is this room. I'd estimate it in feet and inches, if someone told me to measure it, I'd use metres, so basically I think in imperial, then do a kind of swop in my head, I do the same with Fahrenheit and centigrade, it was always Centigrade, until some idiot said we had to call it Celsius.

I guess its because I grew up knowing imperial, often I get a shock when I work out I'm paying 9 shillings for a loaf of bread, or 10 shillings for a packet of crackers

 

Ok, I should have been clearer - I don't understand the logic of using it.

I agree - total ballcocks! Metric and imperial are both as accurate as the person using them.

Metric is the logical way of doing things. We count using the denary system. Although it is possible to count in a 'sixtyfourthary' system we don't. Then to mix up denary with sixteenthary (ie; twelve and five sixteenths inches) is utterly illogical!

What! The real reason that we're leaving is because we don't understand metrification

 

What about Rods and Perches as measurment

Mustn't forget Bushels

 

I'd guesstimate and measure in metric. At the market though I ask for a pound of mushrooms So I guess that I have suffered a certain amount of conditioning during my life as well.

Crikey, I haven't seen a schilling since Austria adopted the Euro.

 

The UK adopted the metric system in 1965 , long before joining the EU in 1973 . As an engineering apprentice from 1968 I have always used the metric system , but can also convert fractions and inches into mm in my head. In engineering the metric system is vastly superior to the old imperial . But for building , i.e measuring with a tape I do prefer feet and inches , there are too many of them blooming mm's on a tape !

 

No one asks for a liter of beer it's always a pint of beer

 

To be fair I do ask for 0.57 of a litre when I'm at the bar I would hate to put a barmaid in a position where she may have to flount the law!

 

I was always told that the basic unit of the SI system, as they called it then, was the Metre, I can stand MMs, but when Blue Peter started quoting CMs that when I got confused.
As with all this Sh*t the BBC had to be first to convert.

Why don't we use decimeters, hectometers , decameters, and all that other rubbish?
Why, because it would confuse people, so why use a a stupid thing like a CM? it dont make sense?

 

Well throughout my schooling I was taught the imperial system and even though there were metric measurements on our wooden rulers we were never taught anything about the metric system and I left school and started work in 1971 and only learnt about Decimalisation six months before the money changed over so for years I always reverted back to the old money whenever I bought anything but gradually that has slipped and over the years and I still use Fahrenheit which annoys Mr Kandy no end but as I told him it is my weather station and I use whatever system I prefere

I still reckon this country started going down the pan when they changed the money over and I think we were all conned big time

By the way we garden 30 pole of allotments (3x10 pole)but can’t remember what that is in yards ft and inches so will have to ask the brains of the house