Welcome back pounds & ounces

TDub49 said:
Bear baiting anyone?
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Hell no. Bringing that back is centuries out of touch with nearly everyone. Imperialists AND metricsists 🤣
 
dna said:
but the money lasted such much longer in the "penny falls" arcades when you got 240 goes for a pound rather than 100 :party3:
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They never were 100 to the pound as they were too small,the machines were "converted" to take the new 2p. So 50 to the £1. o_O
 
Not the only country useing both units. Are friends in the EU, well South Ireland actually sell Guinness in pints . Got a weary when I asked
by for half a litre of the black stuff.

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The metric system changed when I was at school from CGS to MKS and that was a long time ago. The imperial system was never taught to pupils for any science subject in the last century, though perhaps for cookery?
I use whatever dimension is useful when doing DIY, late wife (French) thought she was swindled when she ordered a pound in the local shops and did not get 0.5 Kilos in the UK!
 
Canada also has a split personality when it comes to metric/imperial

On the bar menu
Draft beer was in ounces
Bottled in millilitres
 
If anything is worth doing it’s worth doing to excess. I demand the return of the florin. A lovely coin. Also the groat is sorely missed. While we are at it, the quill pen with a proper bottle of ink. Away with these new-fangled un-British ghastly ballpoint things.
 
EMS said:
The metric system changed when I was at school from CGS to MKS and that was a long time ago. The imperial system was never taught to pupils for any science subject in the last century, though perhaps for cookery?
I use whatever dimension is useful when doing DIY, late wife (French) thought she was swindled when she ordered a pound in the local shops and did not get 0.5 Kilos in the UK!
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Totally incorrect! I learned all about foot pounds and foot poundals, horsepower and BThU, g was 32fpsps when I was in third form (1964). ☹️
Then it all changed to cgs (centimetre gramme seconds) so we had ergs and dynes in fourth form and rationalised mks in sixth form (I can almost remember the conversion from electrostatic volts to electromagnetic volts 😃)

Fortunately at university everything was to be done in SI units but the nuclear physics lecturer, who was also Head of Department, insisted that he would only teach in cgs BUT the exam questions would be in SI. 🙄

Gordon
 
Rapido925M said:
Totally incorrect! I learned all about foot pounds and foot poundals, horsepower and BThU, g was 32fpsps when I was in third form (1964). ☹️
Then it all changed to cgs (centimetre gramme seconds) so we had ergs and dynes in fourth form and rationalised mks in sixth form (I can almost remember the conversion from electrostatic volts to electromagnetic volts 😃)

Fortunately at university everything was to be done in SI units but the nuclear physics lecturer, who was also Head of Department, insisted that he would only teach in cgs BUT the exam questions would be in SI. 🙄

Gordon
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So it sounds like anyone leaving school after about 1968 would have done wholly si units that means anyone with any science and aged under about 70. Of course that could rule out a lot of those prompting the return of imperial measures why would you do anything remotely connected to science when you can do classics at Oxbridge and be really useful.
 
Sapper520 said:
No good talking to my Grandkids about Imperial…….they only use metric in school.
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I think you'll find their parents also used metric in school too. It's only the pensioners who remember imperial units, but sadly that's the power base of this government.
 
The Wino said:
Bit like Trump last week saying the shooting showed they need more guns.......really?
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Really! It is a common Republican claim and never really examined or argued against. There are of course examples to back up the claim.

www.bbc.co.uk

Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia

A woman at a birthday party drew her pistol and left the gunman with multiple wounds, police say.
www.bbc.co.uk


PLEASE NOTE: I am not saying I agree with him. but there are cultural and political elements at play there that are not at play here.


I will just leave these though. Serious and a funny.





 
Camper634 said:
Lets uninvent mobile phones and penicillin while we are it.
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Don't know about mobile phones, but they are certainly uninventing a lot of antibiotics like penicillin, in that they are allowing resistant strains to evolve due to unnecessary over-use.
 
LesW said:
A lot of very selfish people commenting here.

Just because they get on with metrics doesn't mean everyone does.

I have several elderly neighbours who are completely baffled by metres, kilograms, litres etc, and would welcome the option of goods being sold in imperial measurements.
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Elderly neighbours who would have been in their 30's when we changed and have studiously ignored it since. Same as folk who can't do the internet. Sorry - self inflicted.
 
My OH was born in 1964, I was 1967. He had to learn inches, feet, yards, miles, hundredweight, stones, pounds and ounces. I was only taught in metric. I did, however grow up with cookbooks in ounces but now only use metric recipes.

Teaching primary, although children know that road signs are in miles, they only learn metric measurements. But to allay the fears of some, we still teach fractions and link them to decimals and percentages.

My guess is that this is genuinely nonsense, a distraction from the serious issues which must not be discussed on here. The younger generation will not use lbs snd stones and will not understand the link between yards snd miles. At some point in the future, once the Brexit dividend is all but forgotten, I predict these will become obsolete and we will finally make the move over to fully metric measurements.

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I work for an Aerospace company and the vast majority of drawings are imperial. I doubt they will change in the near future.
 
The Wino said:
So it sounds like anyone leaving school after about 1968 would have done wholly si units that means anyone with any science and aged under about 70. Of course that could rule out a lot of those prompting the return of imperial measures why would you do anything remotely connected to science when you can do classics at Oxbridge and be really useful.
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I was born in 71 the year the currency was decimalised. Never learned any imperial at school. But strangely was forced to learn the 12 times table still.

I picked my imperial stuff up through jobs once I left school and through helping Dad with electrical jobs (or it might have been mechanicing on his bikes) which strangely still had lots of imperial stuff through the 70's and early 80's.
 
pappajohn said:
I'm going for some timber .....I need 2.4mtrs of 2" x 2"
Oddly, 2" by 2" is sized as 47mm by 47mm
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In the late 70's timber merchants around east London & essex sold in " units" ?? Of what,no one had any idea?
DDJC said:
My heart sinks at European distance boards on the peage.
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kms reduce quicker.
Gromett said:
Biggest bugbear at the moment is people saying get it to a temperature of 200°. 200° what? F? C? or K? It isn't hard. Just add one bleeding letter 200°C means something 200°means nothing.
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Who uses F ?? I was taught in both but F means nothing to me . As a Fridge engineer I had to work in both & can easily swop one to the other but struggle with temps in F.
Tigger-Tim said:
I only used metric units in school too. And I'm retired.
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I am as well but was taught in both with exams in SI.
Mattyjwr said:
If you can't do sums in your head, you're clearly useless at maths.
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Exactly. Can never understand how you can 'teach' anyone equations , sines ,cosines, tangents, logarithims, using a calculator ? They need to be able to do them long hand first. have never understood how any type of calculator is allowed until you can do them in your head & long hand.
The Wino said:
So it sounds like anyone leaving school after about 1968 would have done wholly si units that means anyone with any science and aged under about 70.
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No, we were taught in both, an absolute shambles to be honest, with exams in SI, metric system.
Grianan said:
although children know that road signs are in miles, they only learn metric measurements.
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Always makes me smile when in the UK with road speed signs in mph yet distance measurements for motorways in kms :unsure:
 
autorouter said:
I think you'll find their parents also used metric in school too. It's only the pensioners who remember imperial units, but sadly that's the power base of this government.
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Yes, I was there when my kids were going to school. ;) :ROFLMAO:
 
dazandandrea said:
I work for an Aerospace company and the vast majority of drawings are imperial. I doubt they will change in the near future.
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I bet they're decimal inches, not fractions.

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Railways still uses miles, chains, yards 😀

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