I'm on the third stone from the sun.
 
That's heavy.
 

bapu
I'm on the third stone from the sun.
 
That's heavy.
 

How can you be sure? 

The trouble with miles is it takes a lot longer to get any where, I am 200 miles from London and it takes 4 hours. If it was kilometers I could get there in about 3 hours. Its hardly rocket science 😊

Imperial still rules in things that are important.  Have you EVER heard any one suggest going to a pub to have a few 568.261 milliliters?
 
 

i did grow up in the metric system, besides being a musician i'm ok....

 
 
And another thing BBC (rather poignant considering the Olympic Games are on) ....
 
 
 
..... 'Medal' is a noun, NOT A FECKIN' VERB

The imperial system is ridiculous. Conversion between units is silly. Pretty much all scientists use metric. Computers use binary because a bit is an on or off switch. I would argue that the simplicity of conversion leads to fewer kids giving up on math. Americans will never go to metric because they cling tightly to the past (despite obvious benefits to modernization.)

The air must be really thin up there! 
 

BobF
The air must be really thin up there! 
 

 

On a serious note.
  
One of the very first jobs I had when I started work for a mining company in the 1970's was converting all the elevations on the mine plans from feet to metres and updating the plans. Prior to that all the horizontal coordinates were in meters but heights were in feet. The Ordinance survey used the same mixed system and had done so for years.
  
We still had steel measuring bands and levelling staffs in feet, but the subdivision were decimal so it was 1.5 feet, not 1' 6"
  
At college I had used measuring Chains. One Chain was 22 Yards and divided into 100 links.
 
Having spent most of my working life outside the UK I tend to think in Metric except that peculiar British thing where if the weather is warm we use Fahrenheit but centigrade when its cold.