Well I live in the US so Imperial it is here. I watch different sports and some are measured in Meters. Unless I look it up I have no idea how far they are talking about.

Now if forced I could learn Metric but not what I would really want to do at my old age. My suggestion would be to make it one or the other everywhere. That would also solve the problem as I'm not sure I'm the only one that comes needs to use Metric now and then and have no idea about it. However as I mentioned at my age it doesn't matter to me anymore one way or the other. So trying to change it now makes no difference to me. 

Well to the Imperial users yes. However maybe not to the Metric people. So guess it depends on what you use everyday.

Slowly he inched closer to her, but by then she was miles away, he couldn’t fathom out why,  the only feeling he got was hunger so he got out his sandwich, it was a foot long, followed by two quarter pounders, he then decided to go the whole nine yards, but if he had an ounce of common sense he would have gone metric.

Slowly he centimetred closer to her, but by then she was kilometres away, he couldn’t fathom out the metric equivalent of a fathom,  the only feeling he got was hunger so he got out his baguette, it was 30 centimetres long, followed by two 454 grammers, he then decided to go the whole 8.23 metres, but if he had 28.3 grams of common sense………..

Damn it, even the British press cannot make up their mind, if it’s going to be cold It’s in Centigrade, if it’s going to be hot it’s in Fahrenheit…………….

How long before we have 100 minutes in a an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute?

It hasn't done the US any harm staying Imperial.

or maybe I'm just another Old Fart

Join the club.  I grew up in the UK with feet and inches, ounces and pounds, pounds shillings and pence... then I get to Australia, where it's all gone metric, and I still prefer/relate better to the Imperial system.

Speaking of the whole nine yards, I did that once, but got disqualified for jumping the starter's gun.

Good luck with a "stalkers thread" 

Gas is measured in cubic metres

Did you mean:

• Petrol?
• Diesel?
• Any other liquid fuel?

In which case the measurement is litres. Or gallons if you want to know how many miles to the gallon you are getting.

Q: If we have the metric system as standard, why are all the road signs in miles?
A: It would cost zillions to change all the road signs from Miles to Kilometres.

Besides, it's sounds better when you say 'doing a ton' is in MPH. I mean, my push bike can do 100 KMH...

Pint. Leave my f***** pint alone. Thank you.

Imperial measurements are straight out of Middle Earth. But I like 'em. They have a certain flavor. But why not go full out Imperial? One dollar can't be 100 cents. That's way too metric! One dollar should be 47,3 pebbles.

What imperial measurements lack in logic, they make up in flavor and size. I have been to US a couple of times and it's true that things are bigger there compared to Europe. So I would say imperial measurements have a considerable size advantage.

As the saying goes: Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Because then when you criticize someone you are a mile away and you have their shoes!

Leave the damn time alone!  My mother was for ever going on about a one world time and changing the clock.  It's all I ever heard about... if she wasn't bitching about social security and government.  In fact, I'm glad she's gone back to England.  Now she won't be sucking all the oxygen out of the Aussie atmosphere with her endless nattering.

Should be cubit feet... simple as that.  If anybody knows anything about gas it's me, and there's nothing good or catchy about a cubic metre of gas.

As fer yer pint, keep it.  I want my own pint[s]... and plenty of 'em.

Ahem!  An English pint is a bit of alright, thank you.  I'll often get some imported English beers for a change... and there's nothing wrong with it, 'cept I drink it cold because of the climate difference.  I mean, seriously, you try drinking a chilled Coopers in a -6C English Winter.  I was going to say a Fosters, but that truly is cat's piss and unfit for human consumption.

And socks!  I mean, any civilised person's gonna steal their socks as well.

And there's something more romantic with the Imperial system.  For example:

"Ten more miles 'til the end of the road.... love shack baby....."

Orright, it might've been more about lust than romance, but ya get the picture.   If the B 52's had written "Ten more kilometres 'til the end of the road" it simply wouldn't have been the huge hit it was, and the world 'd be a sadder place today for not having heard it blasting out of the radio. 

And where would the Proclaimers be without 500 miles?  And '500 miles more'?  Orright, their feet mightn't be as sore, but at least it was romantic miles and not boring old kilometres.... or a 1000 metres.  Nope, there's NO ring to metric measrements.  NONE!!!!!

Went to an Aussie bar in New York last September....you could pick the Aussie 'wannabes' ...at the bar...drinking Fosters.

In Michigan, visiting Stardock, Brad and his wife took us and Neil out to dinner.  Waiter asked what would I like to drink... I said 'do you have an Aussie beer?' and he said 'like what?' 'Coopers'...'no...but the place across the road has....I'll be back...'

And he was.

Moral of the story....whatever your poison....the service is best in the US.

...of course...Brad probably is a regular...

Since most beers on the planet and almost all of them in Australia are either owned by SAB or Kirin....I'll stick with Coopers as it's fair dinkum Aussie.

BTW....Kirin is Jap...and the 'SA' in 'SAB' stands for South African.

Meanwhile...my hand is now minus its 'cast' ...and all I have is adhesive webbing over the stitches...so I'm back to 2-finger typing...and don't have to do a Hendrix with the mouse...

I do a 'reverse' Hendrix all the time with my mouse.... being left handed but using the mouse in my right.  Yeah, I could swap the button funtions around to use it in my left, but I find it more natural to use right-handed so I can do other stuff more efficiently with the left.... my better hand for fiddly stuff, etc.

Well it made sense to me.

Yeah, same here. I prefer Imperial cos it's what I grew up with and learnt at school.

And summat I wanna know, if metric is in multiples of 10, bla, bla, bla, do those mnetric countries who've always been metric sell eggs by the 10 instead of a dozen?   For mine, it'd sound bloody stupid going into a shop: "Can I have 10 eggs, please?"

Besides, I think metric is lazy!   It was invented by a lazy person to save lazy people having to work their minds a bit harder with a proper measuring system.  Not only that, he/she probably failed mathematics, and devised a multiple of 10 system because that's how many digits he/she had on his/her hands.

Yup, metric is a bloody cop out and should be banned.

Then along came the Americans...not happy just to drive on the wrong side...they needed their own sized gallons...and tonnes .... Pommie ones weren't good enough....too big, obviously for delicate young settlements like the US of A ...

So they got all motor-description on us....with 'short' tonnes and 'long' tonnes  [I'll ignore the different spellings].

Made sense with a short motor and a long motor ....but short-sheeting a tonne was just a bit sneaky.

Then to keep cross-dressers of measuring systems happy there came along a 'metric tonne'.

FFS, people, enough already.

I remember the reports of rioting and looting accompanying that...