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Feet and inches!!!

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evianers Sun 17-Mar-19 10:47:37

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! We are thinking of relocating back to UK after 44 years of absence. When are the estate agents going to finally enter the 21st century kicking and screaming by actually no longer using such dimensions as, 18 feet, 19 and three quarter inches? Didn't these go out with the Ark?

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Jalima1108 Wed 20-Mar-19 14:39:00

Some of the messages we find bizarre, to put it mildly.

I expect my post was bizarre too grin

I don't know how old you are Evianers but did you not learn the imperial system at school, or did you go to school overseas?
I switch from one to the other and I'm in my 70s.
However, I always think of height in feet and inches and weight in stones and pounds.

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Millie8 Sat 23-Mar-19 08:39:47

Why would you want to come here if we are so backward?

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Millie8 Sat 23-Mar-19 08:41:43

Is it for our NHS?

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PamelaJ1 Sat 23-Mar-19 09:28:42

Millie- ?
They will be coming back because it’s home.
It seems to be the choice of many ex pats. They don’t want to be left alone in their preferred country.
I can understand why.

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M0nica Sat 23-Mar-19 15:52:15

I have worked in metric units all my working life and can do all the conversions from one system to the other quickly and efficiently in my head.

However, left to myself it is imperial units, they have a physical form to themselves, all the others are diaphenous concepts called 'metric equivalents'

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