Imperial or Metric

Yes, that always makes me laugh. I'll have two metres of 48" wide, please.
It is interesting that TV screens have a "pouce" measurement here in France - was the inch based on a thumb length? I also found an old document talking about "acres" which must have been used before the hectare here.
But go back to multiplication and divisions of pounds, shillings and pence; yards, feet and inches; hundredweights, pounds and ounces? No thanks, I'll pass on that.

I was buying some lace and asked for a yard - was told it was sold in metres and did I want 1/2" or 1" !

But we couldn't really go back, could we? Most of our DG and DGC think metric, don't they. And it is quite simple.

I do agree that the way the system works, or doesn't, is confusing; I have never understood why we still have miles, and this nonsense with tyres is ridiculous.

I meant 24 degrees not 2 degrees!!!! All the decimalisation in the world can't make me stop doing typos!

Metric for me. I got used to it as an au pair girl in Vienna, then later when I worked for social security in the UK my work got so much easier overnight when we decimalised the currency. I can only relate to metric now. I know that 2 degrees c is a nice temperature and 18 is a bit cold, whereas it's getting uncomfortable at 30. I know what 500g of mince looks like, and know I'm 161cm tall.

I have dreadful awful memories of my first job, at 16, at a local County Court where I had to balance the daily cash summary book - loads of columns in pounds shilling and pence. A nightmare.

But here in Australia we use metric for everything so it all makes sense. Still, my husband automatically confirms kilometers to miles, much to my confusion. He'll talk about a 30 speed limit, meaning miles, whereas i only think in kilometers.

Are new borns still not weighed via imperial??

I don't fill my car in gallons or litres ...I just fill it up and grimace at the cost!!

I had to embrace metric measures and weights when I was studying for my design degree in the early 80s. I quickly grew to love them. So much easier than Imperial. I just have a mental block when it comes to my personal weight though - I still like to know what I weigh in stones and pounds, so have to do my sums then!

I can't get over the fact that we British find it so hard to think in metric terms. I was living in Kenya when everything changed from imperial to metric more or less overnight and nobody batted an eyelid. Our children and grandchildren have been educated in the metric system are we less intelligent or adaptable?

I used to get myself in a right old state when we first moved abroad when the euro came in,first I had to convert euro's from pesatas and back again then I had to work it out in my head as all I could work out in was pounds so total confusion all round.
But I did buy a lovely bunch of bananas to day at 68p per kg.I also still do my weights for baking in lbs and ozs or if stuck cups and tablespoons

Imperial. I can visualise something described in in feet, inches, pints, acre etc. Surely they descend from human mesurements not a mathematical division we have to learn? Yes I still think in shillings, pence and it is shocking when you do the conversion how much more everything costs.

I am very old fashioned and would stick with Imperial. I get quite confused with metric and I feel ashamed to say that. I think if clothes can label their goods with british sizes and continental and shoes likewise why can't all goods be labelled with both?. Having said that if one is bigger than the other then if it means more for my money I'll take that option, e.g. pint of lager. I think I just confused myself.

And more than that for a first class stamp!

I still think in old money. Ten shillings for a packet of crisps?

Foot and inches girl me, I cant get my head around metric.

No, no, not metric! I refuse to adapt to kilometres - all our speed limits would have to change to kph, and I can only relate to my weight when it's in stones, pounds and ounces! I still can't work out whether it's hot or cold in centigrade, I think I just have a mental block.

I agree that it's all a bit of a mish-mash, but I can't see the powers-that-be ever going back to imperial measures completely (unfortunately )