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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I guess also bike wheel sizes, screens sizes. Height and body waist? Are you talking about the UK? Europe only uses inches for products that have certain expected sizes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

(may be a bit of an off topic rant)

The cluster fuck that is the UK's measurement system can be easily summarised by looking at fueling a car.

You fill your car from a pump that sells you litres of fuel. Then your car reports its fuel economy in miles per gallon.

How the fuck am I supposed to relate the 40 litres of diesel that I just bought to the 35 MPG on my dashboard without a fucking calculator?

I fucking hate it here. It's the exact same British exceptionalism that brought us fucking Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then your car reports its fuel economy in miles per gallon.

Is that Imperial or US Gallons? 😉

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Who the fuck knows honestly? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

!Imperial!<

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And yet you call Americans dumb for not adopting the metric system. Why would we think we would do a better job than you? I would much rather use the system my grandpa grew up with rather than use the hybrid abomination that the UK uses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I suppose the thinking is that you lot might learn from the mistakes of others

Though you're possibly right, that's maybe a bit too charitable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm a Scottish nationalist and republican (in the British sense). It's one of my pipe dreams to see an independent Scotland adopt the metric system fully but I kinda doubt it will ever happen.