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Jun 2022
8:25am, 4 Jun 2022
4,791 posts
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Fields
Maybe metric is more usable but not if you’re cultural references are in another system - as richmac says there’s a mashup as British people know both. I’d also give my height & weight in feet /inches and stone / pounds.
If there was ever a mini fozzy to come along I'm sure the midwife would announce the weight in pounds. And then fozzy you’d probably proudly convert the weight to metric 
I would never tell people I’m 186cm, I’m 6ft 1! Perhaps my friend who is 5ft 11 might prefer to be 180cm though
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Jun 2022
8:35am, 4 Jun 2022
4,794 posts
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Fields
And fozzy perhaps it’s just more usable to me - which is all I’m really concerned about. And if metric is more usable for you then that’s good too.
Perhaps the imperial concept of “a bit, some bits, a lot” appeals to the layman, but the scientist in you prefers the precise nature of metric?
By the way your sarcastic laughter at any post you disagree with doesn’t do you any favours. Source (your precious posts).
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Jun 2022
8:46am, 4 Jun 2022
2,154 posts
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stuart little
Fields, currently* babies are reported in kilos and converted to lbs "if you'd like"
*anecdotal from our 2 kids
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Jun 2022
8:48am, 4 Jun 2022
19,913 posts
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Sharkie
Pretty sure the NHS use metric for everything. And have done so for ages.
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Jun 2022
8:52am, 4 Jun 2022
4,795 posts
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Fields
Why does everyone say the weight in lbs then?
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Jun 2022
9:03am, 4 Jun 2022
12,631 posts
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jda
The govt has a secret consultation that they haven’t publicised that uses a form you have to download in odt format and fill in and email back to some address.
How they think their technophobic pensioner base will cope with that is mystery…
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Jun 2022
9:06am, 4 Jun 2022
87,283 posts
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swittle
Barclays Digital Eagles? ^
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Jun 2022
9:21am, 4 Jun 2022
3,161 posts
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JRitchie
Best to leave things as they are. We use a mix of imperial and metric with metric official and imperial from historical parlance so why change something that’s working fine.
I can’t imagine the roads bill to fix all the slip roads if we moved to LH drive.
Always found it odd that the international scientific name for space air and sea distance is a nautical mile.
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Jun 2022
9:27am, 4 Jun 2022
2,155 posts
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stuart little
Why does everyone say the weight in lbs then?
Because that's the cultural norm, at a guess. Doesn't mean babies aren't weighed at birth in kilos though.
Probably the only thing that imperial measures describe better are air temps as there's a much wider range of values across "normal" daily temperatures, and many folk don't find decimals that intuitive. By every other measure metric makes far more sense - source being my former US based scientific colleagues
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Jun 2022
9:40am, 4 Jun 2022
4,797 posts
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Fields
Ah, thank you. I don’t work with measurements on a daily basis (and only domestically when I do) so it’s fascinating to get a well explained and non partisan insight from someone more expert than myself.
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