Miles or Km

[Ming the Merciless]

Maybe clocks ought to go metric, all this base 60 stuff is nonsense🤔

 

[rogerzilla]

Maybe clocks ought to go metric, all this base 60 stuff is nonsense🤔

And angles (although minutes and seconds of arc seem to be dying out in these days of GPS)

 

[Low Gear Guy]

Kilometers are the way to go. Imperial units are imperialist.

 

[Mo1959]

My dad was a fencer and drainage contractor. Way back in his younger days he still quoted for digging drains by the chain (22 yards)

 

[Tenkaykev]

I switched my Garmin running watch over to Km a few years ago when I realised my mile pace had become my kilometer pace 🙄

 

[Smudge]

Miles always. But i will measure for diy sometimes in metric and sometimes imperial.
I always weigh in metric, apart from my own weight and use centigrade temp.
I use MPG, BHP for power instead of KW's, but i use both NM and ft/Ib for torque. MPG can become different in America, as US gallons are smaller than UK gallons.

But i agree we should become all metric, we'd soon get used to it. Having two systems is complicated and stupid.

 

[tyred]

And what was wrong with the cubit?

 

[Edwardoka]

Or go back to Imperial that everyone was happy with until certain people abroad started imposing their will and forcing us to use litres, grams, and all that rubbish. Base 12 and 14 are just as easy if it's what you were raised with, as I was (I can work interchangeably in both old numbers and metric without any mental sweat, and if a thicko like me can do it you can hardly claim its difficult).

I honestly can't tell if you're being facetious or not. One of the systems is called "imperial" and yet it's the other one that you claim was imposed on us... that... that is not how empires work.

 

[Edwardoka]

Maybe clocks ought to go metric, all this base 60 stuff is nonsense🤔

Base 60 at least makes sense since it is highly divisible by 2, 3 and 5 whereas converting fractions to percentages immediately devolves into idiocy like 0.6666666666666666666666......................6667 or 0.125 0.0625 0.03125 ad infinitum

 

[C R]

Miles. Unless I want to brag to none cyclists, in which case I use km. They don't know the difference.

If I really want to show off, I quote furlongs.

Speed in furlongs per fortnight is also very impressive, I managed 43 kfurlongs per fortnight in my lunchtime ride.

 

[Spartak]

If you ask for a pint, you get a pint, draught is usually dispensed in pints, you can buy 500ml bottles in the pub you can also buy bottled beer in pints and for some strange reason in 660ml bottles.

And why are some cans sold in 440ml...?

Always strange in EU you order beer in either 250ml, 330ml, 400ml or 500ml.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

What are Km's?

A possessive phrase missing the possession?

 

[gavroche]

I never could understand Farenheit , centigrade is so easy: boiling 100 c, freezing 0 c, simple . Why complicate it.
Same with the decimal system, it is so much easier to use and calculate.
When I worked in engineering, most of my drawings were using Imperial units so I had to learn it fast but now , most firms have moved over to the metric system, specially when using CNC machines, it makes sense.

 

[Ridgeway]

KM here, must admit that i find it slightly demoralising when riding in the UK and forgetting how far "10 miles" is vs my expected 10km.....

I just couldn't imagine working in inches and thou anymore

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Miles is how I started life and miles I will end it, not just yet I hasten to add.

When I used to run in races most events were either 5 mile,10 mile, 1/2 marathon or marathon. Of course there were also the 10km which we did on the track (25laps) or the road. Track running was mainly metric. If we worked out our pace it would always be minutes per mile. Perhaps that has changed now.