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I agree, get rid of imperial. I mean if shops want to still display it, then let them, but for stuff like road signs and anything official, I don't see why they're keeping it. Most things are already metric anyway. I get 100 pennies to the pound. I pay 90p a litre for petrol (summat like that anyway). I buy a 300ml bottle of beer, and a 35ml shot of vodka. And it's not as if Brits have trouble ordering draught beer in countries that use the metric system. In fact, they seem to be quite apt at it. If I go in for a sports competition, I tell them my weight in kilos. Let's face it, any maths problem that anyone has to do would always be quicker if the person was given metric data rather than imperial, even for someone who learned imperial rather than metric. So yeah, get rid of imperial. In fact, I think there's more pissing about having two systems, rather than just sticking with one, whichever you chose.
Because every British driver is used to distance being displayed in miles and speed in mph. There's no widespread demand for any change to the status quo. And many cars do not have km/h on the speedo. The costs of changing every road sign would also be enormous. And unless every road sign is changed at the same time there would be an incredibly confusing transition period with road signs in metric and imperial. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Fascinating. Most things are metric. Beer in a pub isn't. So what?
So? I don't have any trouble ordering draught beer in Britain where we use imperial. Whoopee I can also order a half litre stein in Munich. It's hardly difficult - it's also hardly a convincing reason to change.
Good for you. I don't. I think weight is probably one of the few things where even young people mostly weigh themselves in stone.
And maths problems have very little impact on me wanting to order a pint.
Since it's something that affects everybody on a day to day basis a referendum would surely be the fairest way to decide whether we should 'get rid of imperial.' And we all know that few would vote to do that. (We also all know that a half litre of beer or milk would be no cheaper than a pint...) Already actually at the supermarket milk is sold in metric and imperial, unsurprisingly the 2 litre bottles (which looks like 4 pints but is less) costs the same as the 4 pinter.
Oh and I have to call bullshit on your statement that "many" cars don't have kph on the speedo. Personally I've never seen one that doesn't.
Absolute rubbish.
It's hardly something to whinge about, and the BBC were accurately reporting what happened (for once). I'll slag the corrupt and incompetent BBC off any time of day, but criticising them for that is daft.
My mates VW Beetle doesn't.
Ditto. I did correct myself - it wasn't the BBC's fault this time, although it would have been nice of them to put conversions in brackets or something.
How old is it?
So you thought of one example? So what?
That's "many cars" is it?