• @Mr_Blott
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    411 months ago

    To be fair - makes fun of them for being the only one that still uses it

    • Kid_Thunder
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      1311 months ago

      The UK still uses imperial for things. For example, the UK buys gasoline in liters but measures the efficiency of the cars by miles per gallon. They also use miles to measure distance for driving. They measure people’s weights by stone but only one of the various stone measurements.

      Personally, I don’t think the UK has any room to make fun of anyone using imperial units.

      • Rhaedas
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        111 months ago

        I’ve heard one (of many) caveats in buying an English-made car is the sizes of nuts and bolts when working on it.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 months ago

          The old BSW system was wild. A 1/2" wrench measured the width of the thread, not the head of the bolt. So BSW wrenchs are way larger than the similarly marked SAE wrench.

      • @[email protected]
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        011 months ago

        Canada is equally bad. My favorite is air temperature is Celsius but water temperature is Fahrenheit.