• Britain's road signs are slowly turning metric
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Road signs showing height and width limits are to carry metric as well as imperial measurements under Government plans. ‘The last thing the British public would want is to see speed limits in kilometres per hour as on the Continent. Nor would they stand for distance signs in kilometres instead of miles.’ [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/07/1415402222071_Image_galleryImage_low_bridgegraph_JPG.JPG[/IMG] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826141/Will-drive-motorists-round-bend-UK-road-signs-set-metric-critics-says-s-recipe-confusion.html[/url]
I hope all the signs get changed to the metric system, not sure why we're still stuck with feetsies and yards: [IMG]http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/senior_year/science.png[/IMG]
I've lived in England my entire life and have no idea how long an inch, foot, yard etc is and imperial makes literally no sense to me. Most people I know over 30 get really tetchy when I use metric to measure things though.
I was taught metric, but road signs should be both imperial and metric for everyone's sake
[QUOTE=Trumple;46439218]I hope all the signs get changed to the metric system, not sure why we're still stuck with feetsies and yards: rude offensive picture[/QUOTE] Don't even fucking dare we'll invade like we did in 1812 raze canada of your metric bullshit.
I was taught both in primary school (I'm 23) so we learned our weight in stones and pounds, but the weight of food in grammes and kilogrammes
I've wrapped my head round miles despite being taught Kilometers in school with no teaching of miles (Or at least that I can remember). I don't remember much about it but if I can get my head around miles with no formal teaching I'm pretty sure I could get used to kilometers in the course of time.
We're slowly getting there. I've grown up using metric for smaller measurements (g/kg over pounds/ounces, cm/m over inches/feet/yards) but still use imperial for larger measurements (tons over kg, miles over km).
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;46439270]I've wrapped my head round miles despite being taught Kilometers in school with no teaching of miles (Or at least that I can remember). I don't remember much about it but if I can get my head around miles with no formal teaching I'm pretty sure I could get used to kilometers in the course of time.[/QUOTE]Metric is the easiest thing to learn ever. It would take a day, two tops, to learn the theory and I'd say about a month to get used to distances if you go outside often enough.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;46439274]We're slowly getting there. I've grown up using metric for smaller measurements (g/kg over pounds/ounces, cm/m over inches/feet/yards) but still use imperial for larger measurements (tons over kg, miles over km).[/QUOTE] a ton is 1000 kilos, so there you have it :v:
[QUOTE=NitronikALT;46439283]a ton is 1000 kilos, so there you have it :v:[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I forgot about metric tons.
Imperial 4 life
I pretty much solely use metric these days. We're replacing roadsigns constantly so might as well start phasing in metric, then we can make a full switch in 50 years or so. [url=http://www.ukma.org.uk/briefing-notes]Also, the UK metric association is here[/url]
[QUOTE=itisjuly;46439279]Metric is the easiest thing to learn ever. It would take a day, two tops, to learn the theory and I'd say about a month to get used to distances if you go outside often enough.[/QUOTE] Granted I do everything else Metric and I do know the basics of Kilometres but to me for me to say that I understand it I need to get a grasp of just how long something is in terms of distance (E.G. the distance between my house and the town where my college is among other places). If someone came up to me now and said "If I travel X km, roughly how long is that" I wouldn't be able to give an answer.
I use the metric system for everything except the height and weight of people and for long distances Using miles for long distances makes it sound better too e.g I know I walk 1 1/2 miles to college. In km that's 2.4something and it sounds a lot worse to be walking 5km than 3 miles each day or the speed limit is a casual 70mph rather than an insane 112km/h things like quarts and yards and acres are fuckin weird tho
Last time there was an argument about metric vs Imperial it went on for half a dozen pages and everyone got very upset, so it would be best if you all just accepted that Imperial is superior. [sp]"BUT 1254 METRES IS 1.254 KM! THAT'S EASIER EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE EXACT SAME NUMBERS!"[/sp]
finally never had a clue how many yards/feet were in a mile because never taught, was taught metric at school instead still use imperial for height measurement though for some reason everything in metric is in tens, it works so much better, is the international standard, easier, makes more sense
Literally the only imperial measurement I still use is miles, and that's cause all of our signs are in miles. Don't think they even bother teaching much imperial to younger school kids these days
I wish that the USA would reattempt incorporating the metric system, again. Even if it is limited to having both imperial and metric on highway signage, that at least makes it more probable for a future full conversion.
At my old gym the weight plates were in pounds but the dumbells in kilogrammes
Imperial is an important measurement system, just because "I would walk 800 kilometers" would sound stupid in a song. "Almost 3 kilometers, almost 3 kilometers, almost 3 kilometers onward" is not particularly poetic. Apart from that, fuck it.
As a computer scientist, I don't see how there being 3E8 grammes in a kilogramme is any easier than there being 10 ounces in a pound.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46439317]Last time there was an argument about metric vs Imperial it went on for half a dozen pages and everyone got very upset, so it would be best if you all just accepted that Imperial is superior. [sp]"BUT 1254 METRES IS 1.254 KM! THAT'S EASIER EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE EXACT SAME NUMBERS!"[/sp][/QUOTE] How is that even a counter argument? It's basically saying: 'the way you measure things makes sense and scales perfectly, therefore you are dumb!'
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46439317]Last time there was an argument about metric vs Imperial it went on for half a dozen pages and everyone got very upset, so it would be best if you all just accepted that[B] Imperial is superior.[/B] [sp]"BUT 1254 METRES IS 1.254 KM! THAT'S EASIER EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE EXACT SAME NUMBERS!"[/sp][/QUOTE] How does it feel to be wrong about everything ever [img]http://www.craftsmanspace.com/sites/default/files/free-knowledge-articles/standard_prefixes_for_the_si_units_of_measure.png[/img] Absolutely zero confusion about units and conversions here (plus deka-, deci- and hecto- are rarely even used)
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;46439362]Imperial is an important measurement system, just because "I would walk 800 kilometers" would sound stupid in a song. "Almost 3 kilometers, almost 3 kilometers, almost 3 kilometers onward" is not particularly poetic. Apart from that, fuck it.[/QUOTE] In Norway, we have the measurement "mil" (mile) which is 10 kilometers. When speaking about the imperial mile, we often refer to it as an English mile.
[QUOTE=papaya;46439311]I use the metric system for everything except the height and weight of people and for long distances Using miles for long distances makes it sound better too e.g I know I walk 1 1/2 miles to college. In km that's 2.4something and it sounds a lot worse to be walking 5km than 3 miles each day or the speed limit is a casual 70mph rather than an insane 112km/h things like quarts and yards and acres are fuckin weird tho[/QUOTE] We use metric for everything except land for some reason and it's great. Metric as a whole is unified and works together in many ways.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46439377]As a computer scientist, I don't see how there being 3E8 grammes in a kilogramme is any easier than there being [b]10 ounces in a pound[/b].[/QUOTE] There are 16 ounces in a pound . . . .
Wait, Britain still has imperial speed and distance signs? why? I though you guys were decently metric over there. In Canada we changed all of our road signs over in 1977.
[QUOTE=The Duke;46439411]There are 16 ounces in a pound . . . .[/QUOTE] You missed the point Luckily the point was "HEY LOOK AT ME I CAN USE LE HEXADECIMAL I AM KING BRAIN" so you didn't miss much.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46439377]As a computer scientist, I don't see how there being 3E8 grammes in a kilogramme is any easier than there being 10 ounces in a pound.[/QUOTE] As an electronics technician, your measurement system sucks [QUOTE=The Duke;46439411]There are 16 ounces in a pound . . . .[/QUOTE] 16 is 10 in the hexadecimal system, because apparently being a ~computer scientist~ requires you to think in hex all the time
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