Right ... miles or kilometers?

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  1. cudeth red

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    Like a good fathom myself or a league
     
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  2. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    Miles. Kilometre Davis just doesn't have the same ring.

    Nice.
     
    Gimson&theBarnsleys, Jun 22, 2021
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    We need Mr Biglil on this one:D

    Grotes, farthings, hands,dinaries :eek:
     
    thetykester, Jun 22, 2021
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    Kilometres for me. It took some time to adjust when we first moved to Australia but it soon became second nature.

    Since we've been back in the UK, miles just feels wrong.
     
    Aussie Ade, Jun 22, 2021
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    I buy milk in litres
     
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    Chains all the way for distance. Tennis courts for area.
     
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    He's not up to speed yet, the Hamster needs feeding & giving the required amount of powe.:p
     
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    Don't tell the mrs. But I convinced her 5cm is 12 inches. Just to be able to tell her mates.
     
    Hooky feller, Jun 22, 2021
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    :D:D:D:D:D:D
     
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    46 years youngish ;)
     
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  11. b1g

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    I would walk 804.672 Kilometers and I would walk 804.672 Kilometers more doesn’t have the same ring to it does it lol
     
    b1gduk, Jun 22, 2021
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    Miles. I only have to drive 20 to work rather than 32 km. It's saving me a fortune in petrol.
     
    mansfield_red, Jun 22, 2021
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    Brilliant. That's me too
     
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    My favourite take on this is when new roads are built.
    Engineers design roads in KM cost them by metre, build them by metre and tonne, and when they’re finished, the last job is the bloke who turns up with the road signs and has to do the measurements in miles.
     
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  15. Don

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    We’re clearly a similar age.
     
    Donny-Red, Jun 22, 2021
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    Come on Stahlrost, metres halfway
     
    tosh, Jun 23, 2021
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    Controversial for a 20-something, but imperial for me in most cases. I spent a lot of my time growing up with my grandad who enjoyed woodwork, metalwork, was trained to use a theodolite in the army before the metric switch etc. Imperial was his language.

    Metric is a good system and is 100% better in scientific fields, but imperial also has its advantages. It gave me a massive head start in mental arithmetic compared to my peers for example, with being able to calculate things that weren’t solely base 10
     
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    I got well into my 50’s before I realised why we were taught our tables up to 12 when I was a kid. I was 8 when we went decimal.
    The daft thing is, when my nephews and nieces did their tables in the 80’s, they were still arbitrarily taught to 12.
     
    Donny-Red, Jun 23, 2021
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    Bring back the cubit. Was good enough for the ancient Egyptians.
     
    John Peachy, Jun 23, 2021
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    Full SI. Temperatures in Kelvin, weight in Newtons (*mass* is kilograms), moles for the amount of something (we all remember Avagadro's constant don't we?), candela for brightness...
     
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