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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Nevertheless, I think the imperial system should be banned as (for all I know) only America still uses it while the rest of the world uses metric (the UK is already slowly converting).
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Slowly converting!? Another thing we can blame Mrs Thatcher for. We'd converted nearly everything in the 1970s. And then Mrs Thatcher abolished the Metrication Board.
Sigh. So we're still stuck with draught beer and cider sold in pints, milk delivered in pints (although doorstep deliveries are way down on what they were), distances in miles and areas in acres.
But everything else is metric - temperatures, lengths, weights and volumes.
Oh, I suppose most UK people also measure their personal weight and height in stones/pounds and feet/inches. But not me!