War, what war?

Maybe it’s just this forum where older people prefer the older measurements and don’t like to change, and other people make remarks that suggest we British use imperial and metric because that’s how it was in the 70’s.

I have used metric since it was introduced. What annoys me is that some people say I am just over 6 foot tall, when they should say 6 feet. I didn’t mean to say that, I meant 185 centimetres.🫢
 
Mr Tidy said:
So how long do I have? :LOL:
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Best put your affairs in order, someone will be there to collect you tomorrow :fuelfire:

Well they haven't found me today!

I grew up with Imperial measurements, but metric make far more sense. Especially when countries using Imperial can't even agree on the units!

A US pint is only 16 fl oz, but a UK pint is 20 so US gallons are smaller too. And they never seem to use tons either. Working for a US domiciled company I'd often see references to things like 112,000 lbs. :rolleyes:

But I do temperatures in Celsius. Maybe I'm not a total luddite?
 
Mr Tidy said:
I grew up with Imperial measurements, but metric make far more sense.
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Yes they do. Metric is divisible by 10 on everything, so easy.
But the UK still does both (randomly). And we are used to doing it so it isn't a problem.

My industry is a good example of how nuts it all is. I work in the refrigeration industry. 'Fridge' copper pipe is always measured in inches. Always. Plumbing copper pipe is measured in mm. The two are not compatible.
All the equipment this imperial copper is connected to is measured in kW capacity. Except if it's American equipment, which is measured in BTU capacity. BTU stands for British Thermal Unit. We invented the measurement but only the Americans use it now (we don't).

So I buy refrigeration equipment (unless it's American) with capacities measured in metric (kW), but all the pipe connections are in inches.

Pressures in my industry are always PSI, but we often have gauges that only read BAR.

All temperatures in my industry are measured in celcius, except the Americans still do everything in fahrenheit. Then we also use Kelvin as a temperature scale, which is even more confusing.

So for forty years I have had to work in Watts, kW, BTU, inches, mm, PSI, celcius, BAR and Fahrenheit all together on a daily basis.

Oh and vacuums are measured in inches of mercury. Or mm. Or torr.

And I buy screws in mm diameter and inches in length.

No wonder I'm mental.
 
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Draughtsman in the 80's we used whatever was on the customers drawings to make our forging tools, but the machinist contractors had to convert to other units as they had a mix of machines. I tend to mix units, if mm or cm looks more logical, say 300mm sq. floor tiles made in China have the odd imperial sizes for the US market......or is it vice versa?
Aviation we have all sorts, miles, nautical, knots, mph, metres, feet, kg, lbs, litres, gallons, both US and Imp. Hectopascals, inches of mercury, centigrade and the other.
Older students can use imperial, younger metric. Had a young doctor who couldn't add up his log book hours in minutes and hours.
I said picture a clock face.........stumped.
 
Pondy said:
A furlong is also an imperial measurement. Eight to a mile.

I was furlonged during covid. The Gov paid my wages (but not in pounds, shillings and D). ;)
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Don't know if it was a deliberate mistake but you were furloughed during covid not furlonged.
 
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