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Originally posted by badmoon
We don't want to learn the metric system. And we never will. I see it in the Olympics and that is enough. Why don't the rest of the nations quit the metric and climb aboard?
Because we all understand that counting in base 10 is the way of the future. Next thing you know, Americans will be insisting on Roman numerals.

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Originally posted by orfeo
Because we all understand that counting in base 10 is the way of the future. Next thing you know, Americans will be insisting on Roman numerals.
Nope. Too many of us can't read Roman numerals!

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Originally posted by badmoon
We don't want to learn the metric system. And we never will. I see it in the Olympics and that is enough. Why don't the rest of the nations quit the metric and climb aboard?
The US will go metric when the UK drops the pound 🙂

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Originally posted by reader1107
Nope. Too many of us can't read Roman numerals!
Yet you won't simplify measurement and avoid having to know how many ounces in a pound, quarts in a gallon, yards in a mile and brasses in a razoo.

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Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
The US will go metric when the UK drops the pound 🙂
hopefully soon 🙂

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Originally posted by trevor33
hopefully soon 🙂
You'll have to convince the Daily Mirror first 😲

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Oh, that's easy! Take a survey! Plenty of Americans don't know that either!

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Originally posted by orfeo
Yet you won't simplify measurement and avoid having to know how many ounces in a pound, quarts in a gallon, yards in a mile and brasses in a razoo.
the road signs are still in miles in the uk, i hate it - keep on having to change it to km to know how far it is.

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Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
You'll have to convince the Daily Mirror first 😲
and the sun 😞

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Originally posted by trevor33
the road signs are still in miles in the uk, i hate it - keep on having to change it to km to know how far it is.
It's to keep the foreigners out, lol 🙂

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Originally posted by trevor33
and the sun 😞
and the Express...

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Originally posted by trevor33
the road signs are still in miles in the uk, i hate it - keep on having to change it to km to know how far it is.
the roadsigns are in kilometers here, and i love it.

mainly because nobody gives them a blind bit of notice 😵

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
the roadsigns are in kilometers here, and i love it.

mainly because nobody gives them a blind bit of notice 😵
You mean everyone ends up driving 50 kms past their destination 🙄?

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How many UK gallons to a US gallon?

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
the roadsigns are in kilometers here, and i love it.

mainly because nobody gives them a blind bit of notice 😵
want to swap places?