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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just came back from the shop where I bought some bananas, I got realy confused, and just started wondering why on earth do we need the new european measurement system? My car used to go a lot more miles on a gallon of petrol but I have to buy it in litres now, I used to be able to buy a lb (pound) of oranges and eat the lot I have to buy a kilo now, if I wanted some timber I could go to the builders merchants and ask for 8ft of 4 by 2 and know what I was getting I'd need 3 different conversion tables to know what to ask for nowadays. The company I used to work for used Imperial measurements instead of Metric, mainly because Boeing was our main customer and they use Imperial (yanks see, pretty smart these yanks) I honestly can't see any point in Metric whatsoever, in fact I believe it makes things more difficult, try telling a lovely lady that you have a 228.6mm, or a 22.86cm cock, and in my experience they will look at you wierd, tell them you have a 9incher and you get a different reaction alltogether |
