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Originally Posted by HarryT
(For our American friends, the emergency phone number in the UK is "999")
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Wasn't it recently changed to "0118 999 881 999 119 7253?"
As per this public service announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
As an American who lived in Europe for a couple of years (and who went to elementary school in Canada in '74-75, when they were teaching how to switch), I'm pretty comfortable with the metric system, except for those cases where knowing a precise number matters.
I.e., if the doctor takes a patient's temperature and the thermometer reads 37 degrees, I'm not sure if that is normal temperature, a fever, a high fever, or too low. Or if the solution to the mystery turns on the fact that a real chef would cook a souffle at 170 degrees, not 200 degrees, I'll probably miss that, too.
But I'd rather know how much someone weighs in kilos rather than stones.