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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: austfox on October 25, 2019, 11:28:21 am ---
--- Quote from: jonovid on October 25, 2019, 10:24:21 am ---here in Australia everything is Metric,  like most of the world.

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Except for tyre pressure (psi) and to a lesser extent food energy (calories).

Note the electronic tyre pumps at service stations, which default to psi, but are required by law to have a metric (kPa) toggle switch (which I have never seen anyone use).

Most food packaging is in kJ, but it seems a lot of media commentators still like to use calories.

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I usually switch to kPa, but I've noticed most of the time  I'm looking for 220kPa, which is near as dammit to 32 psi, anyway!

What gets up my nose is selling beer in pints-------Years of Aussie tradition thrown away so little "trendoids" can pretend they are in London.
After Metrication, Schooners, Middies, etc, survived in the nearest metric size, but they couldn't fight the forces of fashion.

And the "pints" are probably not real red-blooded "Pommy"  pints, but rather, wimply little US "pintettes"!
dave j:

--- Quote from: NivagSwerdna on October 25, 2019, 01:44:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on October 25, 2019, 01:29:36 pm ---A UK minister wants to take the UK back to imperial when/if we leave the EU.
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Fake news.  You should lock the thread.

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Rees-Mogg did order his department's civil servants to use imperial measurements (including in official documents). It's not much of a stretch to assume he would switch the country back to imperial if he could.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: xrunner on October 25, 2019, 02:52:13 pm ---Because a football field would be 91.44 meters long and would sound dumb.

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It depends on what kind of football.:-

An Australian Rules football ground can be between  135 & 185 metres long.

A Rugby League ground is 100metres.

A Rugby Union ground is 106-144metres.

A Gaelic football ground is 130-145 metres.

The "World Game", which vociferously claims to be the only real "Football", is played on a ground that can
vary between 90-120 metres long, except in International matches, where it must be between 100 & 110 metres.
Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: Simon on October 25, 2019, 02:48:13 pm ---yes but we don't have mixed measurements in the same industry like the US space industry did ;)

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Did. That's not the case anymore. All tech industries in the US are strictly metric now and have been for quite some time. Sure, there are probably the odd exceptions here and there, but they are just that--exceptions.
Simon:

--- Quote from: dave j on October 25, 2019, 03:12:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: NivagSwerdna on October 25, 2019, 01:44:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on October 25, 2019, 01:29:36 pm ---A UK minister wants to take the UK back to imperial when/if we leave the EU.
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Fake news.  You should lock the thread.

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Rees-Mogg did order his department's civil servants to use imperial measurements (including in official documents). It's not much of a stretch to assume he would switch the country back to imperial if he could.

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Of course he would. Official documents should follow the national standard, he clearly wants the standard to be imperial so did as much as he had the power to do in demanding his department us a system based on a 2000 year old system inherited from a foreign nation. When I lived in italy and the local iron monger tried to wind me up about Britist measurements I reminded him that the Romans brought them to us. That shut him right up.

I can understand why we use miles and that changing it would be a bit pointless but there is no excuse to go to imperial for engineering, it would be a pain in the ass.
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