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Give me Imperial over the crappy metric system
learnt about feet and inches at school and not the metric system

i still use pound and ounces for the fruit and veg and at the meat counter at tesco`s

was bad enough when decimalization of the British currency came about

you got more with the old currency

2 farthings = 1 halfpenny
2 halfpence = 1 penny (1d)
3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d)
6 pence = 1 sixpence (a 'tanner') (6d)
12 pence = 1 shilling (a bob) (1s)
2 shillings = 1 florin ( a 'two bob bit') (2s)
2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d)
5 shillings = 1 Crown (5s)
1 shilling equalled twelve pence (12d).
?1 (one pound) equalled 20 shillings (20s or 20/-)
240 pennies ( 240d ) = ?1

its going back a fair few years .!sad!

fudgeflaps wrote:

> An industrial silo full of new kecks or 3-trillion cubic cm??

that is a silly unit.
3 trillion cubic cm = 3 billion litres = 3 million cubic metres =
3 thousand cubic dekametres = 3 cubic hectometres.

That's a hell of a large silo, more than a hundred metres wide, long and tall.

dean1234 wrote:

> i still use pound and ounces for the fruit and veg and at
> the meat counter at tesco`s

At the local market I buy my fruit in kilos. The typical reaction of a flabbergasted market trader facing the request of 1kg of cherries is to measure it up (their scales can do both imperial and metric) and then charge me the price of two pounds of cherries.
Which means that I get roughly 100g for free.

BTW fruit and veg sellers in Germany also use pounds (Pfunde) regularly for their merchandise. Difference is: a German pound is 500g, half a kilogram.

"BTW fruit and veg sellers in Germany also use pounds (Pfunde) regularly for their merchandise. Difference is: a German pound is 500g, half a kilogram."

I think the reason they do that is because Metric measurements are just too much of a mouthful. Do you prefer to say someone is six foot tall or one hundred and eighty centimeters? That you are travelling at fifty miles and hour or eighty kilometers an hour?

The Metric system might work well for science and industry, but in everyday life the Imperial system makes much more sense. I have been much irked this last week by weather tossers on the BBC warning us of 100 mm of rain. Just tell people it's going to be four inches you sad twats! It's obviously more important for these fuckbrains to be PC than to give people important information that they really need to know.

Robches wrote:

> It's obviously more important
> for these fuckbrains to be PC than to give people important
> information that they really need to know.

What's using the metric system got to do with PC?? !confused!