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The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom ht
by stusmith1977 14y ago
The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingd...
One major way in which metrication is being introduced properly is via schools - nowadays schools generally only teach the metric system, and the generation below me genuinely do weigh themselves in kilos, and measure themselves in meters.
- ElliotH 14y agoJust to backup what you're saying, I'm the generation you're talking about. I have a vague idea of my height in feet and inches, I drink pints of beer and I drive miles in the car. That's about it. People may as well be talking to me in a foreign language if they give me imperial units outside of those contexts.
- EdiX 14y agoWhat do you measure body temperature with? Celsius or Fahrenheit?
- ElliotH 14y agoCelsius, expecting a reading of 37 degrees. I never measure anything in Farenheit (I don't actually know how to convert to it, or what a body temperature reading in it ought to be). I do basically everything in Celsius apart from occasionally during my A-Levels (16-18) where I did some conversion to Kelvin.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoNo one outside the US measures in F (since the parent post is about the UK, this is a weird question :)
- EdiX 14y agoA canadian once told me that in canada atmospheric temperature is measured in celsius but body temperature is measured in farenheit, or maybe the other way around.