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But we would have been brought up with it. We wouldn't know any different.Some of you chaps born after 1970 who think inches are hard. Don't know how you you would cope with £.s.d.
But we would have been brought up with it. We wouldn't know any different.Some of you chaps born after 1970 who think inches are hard. Don't know how you you would cope with £.s.d.
I was born on this day in 1982
In which case. Many happy returns.Happy birthday, it would appear that we share the day if not the year.
Thank you. Same here got to sort out a business trip to Brussels, wander off to pay in a cheque which has been sitting on my desk for a while and have a conversation with CPC re. UPS.In which case. Many happy returns.
I got a morning off to umm. Do quotes lol.
Some of you chaps born after 1970 who think inches are hard. Don't know how you you would cope with £.s.d.
For me Imperial does not mean A/F, it means BSF and Whitwoth. Proper sizes, mind you most of my bikes are old Brit stuff. Born in 1946 I still think in feet, inches and thous and had no problems with LSD, stones pounds and cwts, fl. ozs,pints and gallons.
Perhaps after tonight hopefully we will go back to our British measurements and dump all that metric rubbish .
Greeves246 (yes I know that's cubic centimetres )
I think it was originally a German measuring system
Can't fault any of that.I was born pre 1970, and I thank the gods metric and decimalisation were brought in, I could never understand why anyone wanted to count in twelves, when we have ten fingers.
Eh... I think it was originally a German measuring system, brought over by, well, a German born monarch, and I am more than happy to keep it all in the past. I prefer a system that makes sense, not one wrapped in some sort nostalgia that was never part of my life.
Why cause everyone suffering for suffering’s sake.
Can't fault any of that.
Glad I never suffered through it
I don't really believe I "suffered". The whole of North America and parts of South America still use the Imperial system. Nothing wrong with it, it is just a unit of measurement.
As for pounds shillings and pence, if nothing else it gave me a terrific insight into cynicism. Overnight prices went up "because it's all decimal now, innit!" I watched a similar scenario play out with the year 2000 nonsense and I am watching the Puppy's Dog play out the same way. These things are an education.
Some of you chaps born after 1970 who think inches are hard. Don't know how you you would cope with £.s.d.
Germany. They have Metric only tapes and rulers.
I find this whole metrication thing slightly ridiculous. Here we are, years later and still using all sorts of different units of measure, I include weight in this. It is the unique British Psyche I think, unwilling to let go of the past (we have always done it this way) and unwilling to embrace the new. But there is little incentive to change and indeed, why should I?
I think it reached the plateau of absurdity when the greengrocer in Sunderland (and four others around the country) was prosecuted for selling bananas by the pound, really? As I read once, you can legislate measurement, but you cannot legislate how people think.
We've never fully embraced the metric system, we buy petrol in litres but measure consumption in miles per gallon, motorway marker posts are kilometres but the signs tell you it is a mile to the next junction, wheel diameters are in inches but widths are metric, gold and silver are weighed in Troy ounces. Go figure. For bike fans the Triumph Twenty one was called that as 350cc is twenty one cubic inches. Greves 246