And in France, you measure people in metres, and monitors in inches, if I'm
not mistaken.


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:31:48 PM UTC+1, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
>>
>> Dick has possibly not exactly gone native, but recalled his younger
>> years.
>>
>
> It was Chet though who said "...down to 30 degrees outside...", nobody
> said "30 below". That's a pretty large energy margin right there.
>
>
>
>> While nowadays in the UK the weather forecasts are in Celsius only, in
>> the 1980s and early 1990s they were in Fahrenheit or both, and the older
>> generation continue to think in Fahrenheit.
>>
>>
> Yeah I realize some countries are slow to adopt the SI units. In Canada
> it's a weird mix, you buy gas by the liter but coke by ½ gallon; measure
> air  temperature in Celsius but water temperature in Fahrenheit etc.
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