Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Brazen]

Just to add further confusion, I use C for low temperatures ("Brrr, it's below zero") and F for high temperatures ("Phew, it must be over 80 out there").

[mongers]

Just to add further confusion, I use C for low temperatures ("Brrr, it's below zero") and F for high temperatures ("Phew, it must be over 80 out there").

This is quite common amongst Brits of a certain age.

[Duque de Bragança]

After all, there is a difference between knowing a rote fact and actually being able to use that for any purpose. I can't do much with the amount of centimeters in 5 meters as both mean very little to me. Actually centimeters mean something to me but only to a certain extent. Past say 10-20 centimeters, I can't visual what distance is being talked about.

A yard is 90 centimeters

91.5 
Québécois, or old French really, translation for you: verge.

Except in football, association variety where yards are replaced by metres. 

[Duque de Bragança]

You use non-metric units every day as well, even in "metric" countries - the day for example is 86400 seconds.

Seconds are part of the International System of Units, like metric, unlike whatever "imperial" units.

[garbon]

After all, there is a difference between knowing a rote fact and actually being able to use that for any purpose. I can't do much with the amount of centimeters in 5 meters as both mean very little to me. Actually centimeters mean something to me but only to a certain extent. Past say 10-20 centimeters, I can't visual what distance is being talked about.

A yard is 90 centimeters

91.5 
Québécois, or old French really, translation for you: verge.

Except in football, association variety where yards are replaced by metres. 

At least in US it is 0.9144.

[Duque de Bragança]

Garbon: Be happy.
Tamas: Be afraid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/08/29/now-were-out-of-the-eu-we-can-bring-back-britains-other-pound/

In the globalised world, it will not happen, or if it does it will die out with the 60+ somethings whose vote they will be hunting with it

Spain used the pound too, my grandparents bought groceries by pounds. It's dead now.

As Zanza added, the metric pound still exists in metric countries. Same for the pint in France, they just renamed the baron for marketing reasons.

[mongers]

Measurements aren't just abstract or even yardsticks*, but their set up have real world uses and advantages, that's why the yard has been successful, when marking material and making something,  a measure that is divisible by 2,3,4,6,9 and 12 is rather useful.





* I wonder what the OED has to say about it?

[Duque de Bragança]

After all, there is a difference between knowing a rote fact and actually being able to use that for any purpose. I can't do much with the amount of centimeters in 5 meters as both mean very little to me. Actually centimeters mean something to me but only to a certain extent. Past say 10-20 centimeters, I can't visual what distance is being talked about.

A yard is 90 centimeters

91.5 
Québécois, or old French really, translation for you: verge.

Except in football, association variety where yards are replaced by metres. 

At least in US it is 0.9144.

I really doubt a yard is 0.9144 centimetres, even the US. 

[spoiler]Yes, I understood you meant it in metres but metric and metre is not the same, as you certainly know[/spoiler]

[garbon]

How subhuman.

[Duque de Bragança]

Measurements aren't just abstract or even yardsticks*, but their set up have real world uses and advantages, that's why the yard has been successful, when marking material and making something,  a measure that is divisible by 2,3,4,6,9 and 12 is rather useful.





* I wonder what the OED has to say about it?

Metric is even divisible by 10, which is even more useful.  Divisible by 9, not really. Also conversions between imperial units? How many inches in a yard again? -milli to kilo is much more intuitive.

[Valmy]

How many inches in a yard again?

36

[HVC]

Larger units in imperial is fine, its' when you start getting into 3/8th of an inch and the like that it gets weird.

[Duque de Bragança]

How many inches in a yard again?

36

And how many in a land mile?

HVC

For using retarded anglo units, you are once again confirmed as not being a porkchop but an Anglo-Canadian-Azorean-Lisboete pidgin speaker!

PS: I would have looked the other way had you spoken of cântaros or even almudes (southern unit for you)...

[Valmy]

How many inches in a yard again?

36

And how many in a mile?

Bunches. Sixty something thousand something.

[Duque de Bragança]

How many inches in a yard again?

36

And how many in a mile?

Bunches. Seventy something thousand something.

QED