imperial
 

why does everyone still use them?

at school they teach nothing but metric and yet i leave and go into work and i have to learn imperial, i have learnt all inches 16ths, 8ths ect ect but wonder why all suppliers use them even though where not meant to? :confused:

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we're allowed to use imperial again, after the EU watchemacallit over-ruled it a year or two back.

Must have been the thought of all them old ladies handbags hitting them cause they couldn't buy a pound of flesh

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I always wondered why we measure fuel consumption in MPG but buy it in litres?

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I use imperial a lot. A foot can be divided by 3,4 or 6 very conveniently unlike those foreign centimetres. I can picture an acre, furlong and chain in my mind easier than metric stuff.

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SI units FTW...

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SI units for me

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I measure my fuel consumption in miles per litre travelled. Its about 10 mile/l

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Because we won the war. Next question.

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Some of us are still working to drawings drawn in the 1950's. The oldest drawing I've worked to personally was drawn in the 1920's. Imperial measurements will be here for a long time yet.