10-04-2006, 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by baddog
You think the UK isn't metric? Funny, I seem to recall my Triumph took metric tools to work on.
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Seems the UK is in a transition stage..
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Most of British industry and government, including major companies, the NHS, the armed forces, the police and local authorities, use the metric system in their internal operations and in some of their public or official communications.
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In everyday conversation, many British people freely use feet, stones, acres and miles per gallon, while even people who use metric units in their work (e.g. as designers, maths teachers or engineers) feel faintly uncomfortable or embarrassed at using metres, kilograms or hectares outside the workplace. Much of the non-specialist media gives primarily imperial units (rarely with metric equivalents).
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from..
http://www.metric.org.uk/Campaign/mess.htm
Interesting stuff.
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