Measurements. It's obvious that for anyone starting from scratch that metric is more intuitive. Obviously if you've learnt imperial, you'll be comfortable with it. Government trying to bring it back officially is silly
Old habits die hard. It amazes me how many people still refer to 16 year olds doing their O Levels given they were abolished in 1988.
Baby weights are understandable as the older generation haven't converted the weight of the babies they gave birth to into metric. But along with pints and miles there'll be some old imperial units that will live for a long time yet irrespective of what governments do.
I use some of each, as probably do most people, certainly of advancing age.
But it's the dog whistle crassness of it all that grips me. Another "dead cat" thrown in to try to deflect attention.
If they spent half as much time on actually trying to run the country better,, and less time on this load of old bollox, then they might have been in a better place to start with.
Measurements. It's obvious that for anyone starting from scratch that metric is more intuitive. Obviously if you've learnt imperial, you'll be comfortable with it. Government trying to bring it back officially is silly
I agree with this. Whilst I can happily acknowledge that scientifically metric is *far* better than imperial, a person's height will always make more sense to me in feet and inches, their weight in stones and pounds, and I can visualise distance better in miles than kilometres (it's a 2 mile walk to town, so I know that's about 30 minutes) - metric might be more correct, but it would take more effort than I'm willing to make to have these measures change in my instincts.
That said, the whole retrograde steps back to imperial is utter nonsense. Let imperial measures die out with my general generation, teach kids metric.
Name-calling will be called out, and Ad hominem will be frowned upon. And whatabout-ery sits somewhere above responding to tone and below contradiction.
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