HM
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[quote author=Dusty link=1085048968/0#6 date=1085144116]although it’s all in imperial and you can’t get most of the stock over here [/quote]
There is nothing wrong with imperial in my book. I left school in 1972 and that must've been one of the last years they taught imperial measurements.
I've continued to use imperial, but can use metric as an when. But I prefer imperial.
You can buy litres of fuel, but your road speed is in miles per hour, and miles per gallon is still considered a common means of measuring a cars efficiency.
And have you bought any standard melamine sheets from the sheds recently? These are still all measured in inches and feet - 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24in width, and 6 or 8 feet length. Not mm (although a rough mm size might be shown on the label). Long may this continue.
I know my weight in stone but not in kg. My shoes as size 11, heaven knows what size that is in metric (and shoe shops continue to sell imperial sizes). And if I buy a new pair of jeans in Burtons I'm looking for a waistline of 40in and inside leg of 32in. Etc, etc, etc.
Now okay, imperial might have been a little harder to add up and quantify. But I have no problem visualising how heavy a hundredweight is. But 100Kg?
Andrew
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