Post brexit should Britain go back to Imperial units?

[fmttmadmin]

I must have missed something here, when did we change the miles on roadsigns to km?

 

[the_smog_chorus]

I think if we give the EU an inch, they’ll take a mile.

I think if we give them 25.4mm they would take 1,609,344mm

 

[NYboro]

Scotch eggs are going to be legal tender when we end the transition period.

but only in Scotland.

 

[Muttley]

but only in Scotland.

Where they will be called "Scottish Eggs"

 

[newusername]

Air travel is still an exotic mix of the two systems, though, height in feet, speed in knots, everything else metric Just as well it seems to work

Buy fuel in litres, measure fuel economy in miles per gallon.

 

[Caesium137]

Yup, we still use it over here. Still don't know why a US pint is 16floz though and not 20...

Isn't it because a Pint is an eigth of a Gallon? Our Gallon is bigger so our pints are bigger? Although I suppose the why is it different just applies to the gallon then!

I've worked in aviation and offshore engineering (using radiation) that both use a mix of both metric and imperial.

SI units are infinitely superior in most respects I find. I still don't ever use pascal or bar naturally though, they just don't roll off the tongue.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

I've always thought we had decimal systems due to having ten digits.
Why are older systems based on 12? Do they originate in sunderland?

 

[buffaloboro]

Isn't it because a Pint is an eigth of a Gallon? Our Gallon is bigger so our pints are bigger? Although I suppose the why is it different just applies to the gallon then!

I've worked in aviation and offshore engineering (using radiation) that both use a mix of both metric and imperial.

SI units are infinitely superior in most respects I find. I still don't ever use pascal or bar naturally though, they just don't roll off the tongue.

I get that but why is the Imperial pint larger?

 

[NYboro]

Buy fuel in litres, measure fuel economy in miles per gallon.

Does my head in that one. Then I have to think about imperial gallons v US gallons.

 

[NYboro]

I've always thought we had decimal systems due to having ten digits.
Why are older systems based on 12? Do they originate in sunderland?

Units of 12 are divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. Perfect.

 

[r00fie1]

I must have missed something here, when did we change the miles on roadsigns to km?

I wish we would Rob

 

[Statto1]

My last job at KBR in the States was in imperial.

No wonder the Americans are terrible at engineering!

 

[TeaCider]

Abolish the whole lot for me.

I can't picture weight in anything but stone or long distance in anything but miles, but I'm sure I'd adapt quickly enough.

Just makes things unnecessarily complicated having divergent units of measure from the rest of the world, even if we've halfway phased them out.

 

[Soutra]

Metric is fine for engineering and scientific uses, but Imperial is far more useful in every day life like for shopping. And Fahrenheit is a much more precise and useful temperature scale for domestic life.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Metric is fine for engineering and scientific uses, but Imperial is far more useful in every day life like for shopping. And Fahrenheit is a much more precise and useful temperature scale for domestic life.

We should use Kelvins for temperature, much more positive, when its freezing it would still be an upbeat 273 degrees.

 

[chickenrunner]

Miles for distance travelled, nice to see a return to feet but just for heights and contours on OS maps. As for Fahrenheit ....... it's absolute cack ........ we are not America's poodle, quote, unquote.

 

[HolgateCorner]

I remember switching from imperial to metric in 3rd year infants.

I still have an old school book somewhere with all my sums in £, shillings and d.

Then the next day we had gone decimal.

And that was that.

 

[buffaloboro]

Miles for distance travelled, nice to see a return to feet but just for heights and contours on OS maps. As for Fahrenheit ....... it's absolute cack ........ we are not America's poodle, quote, unquote.

I think Fahrenheit himself was dutch or German...

 

[buffaloboro]

I remember switching from imperial to metric in 3rd year infants.

I still have an old school book somewhere with all my sums in £, shillings and d.

Then the next day we had gone decimal.

And that was that.

That started brexit prob before we were even in the EU or common market as was

 

[WoodallServices]

I get that but why is the Imperial pint larger?

Because the Yanks are shandy drinkers!