Signposts in miles?
There were couple of road signs that appeared to give distances in miles rather than in kilometers. Is that realistic for England?
shareYeah we still use miles over here, thank god. It's about the only measurement left intact, what with the government dragging us further and further into Europe and changing everything to the useless metric system.
shareThat whole base-ten thing is just too confusing. Much easier to weigh everything by stones, furlongs, rods, and hundredweights.
Since a stone is 14 pounds, and a pound is 453.59237 grams, A furlong is 10 chains, and a rod is 1 furlong times 1 rod, or 40 square rods, or 10,890 square feet, and a hundredweight is 100 lbs in the US, but 112 lbs everywhere else, but a ton is 20 hundredweights (in both systems) – It is so much simpler than metrics.
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Firstly, what does it matter how many grams are in a pound, a pound is made up from ounces! Well done for getting confused between the two. Secondly, while I don't disagree that the metric system has it's uses, on the whole it is redundant. I get fed up of the simple things like a person's height being referred to in meters, or their weight in kilograms, and pointless *beep* like that. Maybe the next time you go into a pub or bar you would like to ask for 568 millilitres of something? Me, I'll stick with a pint.
Wait a minute, I just had a great idea, why don't we adopt a new metric way of measuring time? I don't know about you, but I just can't get the hang of that whole 60 seconds in a minute thing, and 24 hours in day. ARRRGH so confusing.
Besides, civilisation has managed to thrive for millennia without the metric system. Non metric measurement was good enough for the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, etc etc. Hell, if we can get a man to the moon using United States customary, I guess it can't be that bad.
But to be honest I don't care that much about what you think. After a quick look at your website, I can see just how non-sensical and, well, stupid you are.
Yours Sincerely,
Man with common sense.
Here, here! *raises pint*
You got red on you.
--That was longer than a heartbeat.
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shareYeah!
We should also bring back lion pits for our prisoners, it could be a government PPV event! Who needs improvement and evolution when we can keep using one of the least efficient measurement methods ever conceived of! Awesome!
Imperial makes sense. If you are from the 18th century.
It's that man again!!
I find the metric system much easier to understand, and I am an American. I have no clue how many feet are in a mile but I know 1000 meters are in a kilometer because kilo = 1000.