Flying_Monkey
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I can quite happily use both, and I don't really have any time for people who get worked up about units. We've changed them so many times over history. As long as you get to the right cafe at the right time, who cares?
You could have had it reading in miles by just dividing your wheel diameter number by 1.61alecstilleyedye said:i use km, as my first ever comp (a sigma) was only calibrated for them...
alecstilleyedye said:most modern comps handle both, so folk can just use what they want. what's wrong with that?
Fnaar said:I think in miles etc for distance, pounds and ounces for weight (I was overly-familiar with quarter ounces, once upon a time), but Centigrade for temps...
My kids seem to be happier with grammes and kg for weight, but do distances etc in miles still....
NickM said:Why, when the French designed the metric system, did they not metricate time? Why do we not have a 20-hour day, with 10 hours each of day and night at the equinoxes?
mr_hippo said:When I went to school we were not taught the metric system but I know it so why don't you know the imperial system?
simoncc said:Football needs to be played with the proper imperial rules. For example, the goal is 8 yards wide and 8 feet high, not 7.32m wide and 2.44m wide which are the inexact metric equivalents. All football associations around the world should be issued with imperial measuring devices which they have to use or the games should be decalred null and void.
The 12 yards from the penalty spot to the goal is 11m in the metric rules, over an inch shorter. That is unacceptable and unecessary when foreigners could easily be compelled to use the correct units.
They did? I've never heard of this (and nor have my French friends).marinyork said:But they did...