> ok, what's next?
> imperial measures? resistors scales?,... I think we already talk
> about that... just in case:)

I saw an episode of Smash Lab on Discovery the other night. The
Smash Lab team, American <cough>, were measuring up some steel
frame and "lumber"

Which is how my Granpa would walk home after Sunday lunch at
the pub, but they were actually talking about "timber". Which is what
he would do into The Big Comfy Chair In Front Of The TV

So, anyhoo, they've got this tape measure and are writing down
2 and 7/16 inches, 3ft 4 and a 1/4, 5ft 11 and 9/32, etc. And if you
looked closely you could see their eyes glaze as they attempted
some mental arithmetic

Then they met up with a fella who had some lead weights for sale.
"That 'un right  there is 50 kilos" - "Oh, right, so that's like 100
pounds ?". And so on and so on

Most irritating to be truthful

(I don't mean "it's irritating to be truthful", honesty is always the best
policy)

I'm all for nostalgia and did learn UK imperial - I wish you could still
buy petrol by the hogshead and condoms by the firkin box - (oh, haha,
I just got my own joke) but when your system is making life slower
and more difficult, is it too much to change ? Even on a project like
they were doing when the actual units didn't matter, it was the physical
relationships of dimensions eg this needs to be a third as long as that

Would you rather mentally divide 5ft 11 and 9/32 inches by 3 or
1810mm by 3 ?

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