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**Carfanate** · 05-11-2007, 06:03 AM

Did you see that the Eu have now said that Britain and Ireland can keep Imperial if they want to but must also display metric. Isn't that nice?

Thing is, every country uses Imperial measures in some format; planes fly in feet and inches.

However I cannot get excited by Imperial (like some people do over here). A yard is pretty much the same distance as a metre; there are roughly 2lb in a kilo and a pint is half a litre (near as dammit). So in many ways we could use metric then just adopt some imperial terminology for the measures we wish to refer to. I am sure most in Europe wouldn't be bothered if we said that we wished to call half a litre a "pint" because that is the measure we use for Beer.

05-11-2007, 06:03 AM	#4
Carfanate Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	Did you see that the Eu have now said that Britain and Ireland can keep Imperial if they want to but must also display metric. Isn't that nice? Thing is, every country uses Imperial measures in some format; planes fly in feet and inches. However I cannot get excited by Imperial (like some people do over here). A yard is pretty much the same distance as a metre; there are roughly 2lb in a kilo and a pint is half a litre (near as dammit). So in many ways we could use metric then just adopt some imperial terminology for the measures we wish to refer to. I am sure most in Europe wouldn't be bothered if we said that we wished to call half a litre a "pint" because that is the measure we use for Beer.
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