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Approximately how many miles do you travel in a year?
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @01:38AM
Miles? The rest of the world somehow managed to learn to use and adapt the metric system, even England managed. How does it feel to be the last bastion of a archaic system?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cmn32480 on Friday May 01 2015, @01:41AM
It feels good. We have always been non-conformists.
Get over it.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @10:00AM
Non-conformists? Surely you mean conservatives, stuck in the old ways. (The observant amongst you will notice that this is not a question.)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday May 06 2015, @07:14AM
Non-conformists?
Then go ahead and make up your own language, and stop (ab)using english.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:16PM
Hudling brakd, nor hoewdusw to you too!
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(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday May 21 2015, @08:10PM
We're EVOLVING english, just like most of Europe is speaking evolved latin.
(Score: 2, Funny) by yarp on Friday May 01 2015, @03:48PM
Metric system?!
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
(Score: 5, Informative) by TK on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:30PM
40 rods = 0.13 mi = 0.20 km
1 hogshead = 63 gal = 240 l
So that's just under 12 feet per gallon, or 0.83 meters per liter.
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday May 04 2015, @12:35AM
Aren't there browser extensions to keep you from seeing these legacy units, or at least show a conversion?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by theluggage on Thursday May 07 2015, @11:10PM
even England managed.
Not very well - although imperial is pretty much extinct in science and engineering, I'm afraid we still "officially" use miles for journey distances and mph for car speedometers (I guess nobody wants to replace all the signs) petrol is sold by the litre, but people still quote fuel consumption in miles per gallon) and many conservative types unofficially cling to other imperial measures when ordering their potato's (apostrophe abuse intentional).
Of course, that said, selling ale by any other measure than a pint is an abomination.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday May 08 2015, @10:03AM
Of course, that said, selling ale by any other measure than a pint is an abomination.
Assuming that we're talking real pints, and not undersized US pints, of course. 550ml is not too far off and is a fairly common 'metric pint'. It's about 3% smaller, but you can probably spill 3% trying to carry the round back to your table in a proper pint...
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday May 12 2015, @07:36PM
With metric you can order a liter. Bonus is your typing sticks get some weight-lifting practice.
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