S.I. or British M.U.?

More like over 45 I'd say. I am 45 and spent interminable junior school maths lessons converting from miles and furlongs and chains to kilometers and metres and from gallons and pints and gills to litres. When metrication arrived I breathed a huge sigh of relief and abandoned imperial measurements immediately

Anna

Well I'll have to check but I thought I could still buy 4 x 2s which would obviously be based on the Imperial sheet.

Andy

Still useful if you care about economy or the planet.

As with most measurements, it's what you're used to. Also with the litres per 100Km it's non-linear and 0 is meaningless. However. why not use Km/l ?

To me l/100Km is like measuring speed in seconds per kilometre.

When driving, km when walking.

Chris

We still have AF Metric BSW BSF BSP and BA threads around

Tyres are I think sort of metric but often on imperial rims and are inflated to PSI

Paper is metric ish A4 but sold in reams

Oysters are sold by the dozen even in France!

Horse races are I think still measured in miles and furlongs with handicap weights in stones and prize money in guineas

Wood screws are in inches and fractions thereof and diameter is numbers

Trouser & jacket sizes for men are still imperial as are collar sizes but not sure about hat sizes

I am sure that there must be many more Can you still buy a nebucanzer (if that is how it is spelt) of champagne I know that you can get a magnum.

Tony

And eggs :-)

Regards Jeff

The abandonment of the good old Gill prompted my refusal to buy spirits in the pub..... Nobody knew what a gill or 1/6 of a gill was but when they went metric I was in the pub having gone through the calpol thing with my daughter when it dawned on me that 25ml was 5 teaspoons of spirit. Then I did the maths and worked out that you could get 40 measures out of a litre bottle etc etc

Regards Jeff

The only time I use a length measure for travel distance is when my satnav is giving me a countdown to a junction, when I will use either miles or kms, depending on which country I am in. Otherwise, I measure travel by time - half an hour's drive, five minutes' walk etc.

Can you still get milk in pints? I buy it in 500ml packs.

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I certainly fit into that age group and I readily think in either system and use both almost interchangeably, except for temperature; I never learned to think in Fahrenheit. I wouldn't use fractional inches for small measurements either, but it may just as readily be thous (0.001") as millimetres that I use.

Colin Bignell

nightjar Can you still get milk in pints? I buy it in 500ml packs.

I should think the vast majority is sold in pints. I've never seen half litre "packs" - is this UHT or similar?

Most people are fairly ambidextrous.

My lounge is 5m x 3m, but the window is 6' x 3'

Owain

I suppose getting pulled by Trading Standards for using illegal weights are the least of their worries.

Owain

I'm 43 and 23/32nds

We learned everything in imperial, including furlongs, chains and rods/poles/perches (Though I only learned the other day that a perch is actually a unit of volume not length, at least to a stonemason)

I remember collecting all the orange metric conversion cards "A litre of water's a pint and three quarters" etc, and don't remember any emphasis on metric until secondary school where the science subjects used SI, but half the maths books were so old they didn't, half of them used old money too.

I still "think" in imperial, for any units I care about, I can estivert on the fly ...

nightjar Can you still get milk in pints? I buy it in 500ml packs.

Actually I admit it I buy 2L cartons of that hyper filtered stuff, it may be a bit more expensive but it has an amazingly long life even after opened, I don't think I've ever had any go "off", yet it doesn't taste like something associated with ration coupons ...

Sensible individuals work entireloy in SI units and metric.

The hard of thinking cling on to imperial.

Do they?

How would you know that?

Andy Burns wrote in news:44315dea$0$2564$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:

Are you sure you're not getting 2pt (1.14l) bottles?

They are about the most popular in the supermarkets.

mike

Nope. kkm

Nope. ml.

Petrol in litres. Consumption in litres/100km

There's always a good reason to use metric. Only the hard of thinking use imperial.