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so its imperial?

Yup, but the Americans have their own Imperial ideas, just like they have their own English really.

Same as the difference between an American billion (1,000,000,000) and a UK billion (1,000,000,000,000). Annoyingly, the UK has adopted much of this stuff because of international economics and so on. Same as language, lots of textbooks written by UK authors use American spelling for scientific stuff, an example would be the word acadaemic (US academic), or Oesophagus (US esophagus), or Oestrogen (US Estrogen).

I don't mind the American spelling and stuff, that's fine, that's what works for the US then cool. But it pisses me off that so much American culture seeps over here to the UK. Possibly the most unsavoury aspect being gun culture.

/rant

In any case, with regards tot he original question, I was seriously considering getting a website going called toofatforkendo.com......

Mike