On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:45, District Webmaster wrote:
> True -- but the tins of food are all metric, the petrol is sold by the
> litre (as is the Ribena, if memory serves). To be fair, they do use a
> lot of metric in Britian -- but I think they serve as an example of how
> difficult it is to change.

Only because they're in the EU.  Most Brits I knew hated that everything
they bought was in metric, they didn't understand it.  The kids are
better though, as they learn some metric in school.

Steve

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