*** OFFICIAL BREXIT SUNLIT UPLANDS and #MEGA THREAD ***

[OngBonga]

Never heard of "stone" as a unit of meaurement until I moved to the UK. I'm 80 kg. I thought it was some measurement they used 500 years ago and the person who was using it was trying to be funny.

Ok, fair enough. But you at least understand that we were using stones as a measurement of weight (at least when it comes to people) while we were in the EU, and even before. And I assume, since you live in the UK, that you're familiar with stones and they don't confuse you.

Yeah I'm 6 feet and whatever miles from London.

IMPERIAL!!! You might as well just hand a picture of the Queen on your wall.

Height in cm is stupid I agree with that. But, I'm never asked for it so I don't see why you're worried about it.

I'm not worried about it. I simply don't understand why people are fussed about imperial measurements, at least when they are side-by-side to the metric system. I would have a problem with the imperial system replacing the metric system, that would be dumb.

1km =1.61 miles. Unless you're building a road somewhere you can round it to 1.6. Not a hard one.

Note to self - memorise the 1.6 times table.

Again, how often does this come up?

Surprisingly a lot, when we're talking about large land area. Or there's the standard dumb media measurement of "x football pitches". Most people have some vague idea how big an acre is, but I haven't a clue with hectares. It's metric so I'd guess 100m^2, but it's not a unit I see used often. Acre is definitely dominant here in the UK.

You know why they're doing it. It's clearly a #MEGA tactic to make old people feel like they're living in the good old days...

Actually no. I remember when it we ditched pounds, and old people were complaining about it because they were so used to the old system, and they're old, which means their brains are deteriorating. I can do basic maths pretty easily, but perhaps I won't be able to when I'm collecting my pension.

I don't see what the fuss is because we're using both metric and imperial, which has been the case for a very long time. It only became a problem when we abandoned imperial for weighing fruit and veg, but not for milk, beer, distance, weighing people, height, land area, etc. I dunno why we made the change in the first place. Just use both.

[Poopadoop]

Ok, fair enough. But you at least understand that we were using stones as a measurement of weight (at least when it comes to people) while we were in the EU, and even before. And I assume, since you live in the UK, that you're familiar with stones and they don't confuse you.

How many stones in a pound?

How many yards in a mile?

How many pints in a gallon?

Yeah, not confusing at all....

Now how about

How many metres in a kilometer?

How many grams in a kg?

Yeah, that's way too complicated. Fuck me, let's go back.

IMPERIAL!!! You might as well just hand a picture of the Queen on your wall.

I'll bet you a hundred shillings there's a direct correlation between the people who favour the Imperial system, and those who have the Queen on the wall.

I dunno why we made the change in the first place. Just use both.

It's simple - metric is a lot easier to work with.

The question is why make it a choice? So businesses can pay money to change from an easier system to a harder one if they want?

It's ridiculous, as I said. The only reason at all to put the idea forward is to give Brexiters a hard on. It's not to help business.

[Poopadoop]

In Canada in the 1970s they introduced metric measures. For a couple of years road signs had both miles and km on them. Weather reports had F and C. Now they're all in metric. No-one died. There's a couple of anachronisms like height usually being expressed in feet still, but other than that it was a fairly easy transition to a better system. Don't see why people here are so reactionary.