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<blockquote data-quote="Silly Uncle Wayne" data-source="post: 75937818" data-attributes="member: 403510"><p>Actually the UK's decision to switch was more to do with have a universal set of measurements and the fact that metric had superseded imperial in most of the countries it dealt with (Europe). UK tried to get USA to adopt it too, but failed (look up Today I Found Out on You Tube).</p><p></p><p>They would have succeeded had they done things a bit more gradually - but instead they adopted metric by law in some cases (weights) while ignoring it in others (long distances). In some areas they have been successful - i.e. short distances are mostly measured in cm/mm by younger generations.</p><p></p><p>In Ireland they gradually changed signs to the point when I first came over here in the 60's outside of Dublin km signs were predominant, but in the area of Dublin miles were still more common. Now nothing is in miles except in people's heads.</p><p></p><p>I do think it was a mistake adopting the metric system, but worse is not completing it now, some 50+ years after starting it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silly Uncle Wayne, post: 75937818, member: 403510"] Actually the UK's decision to switch was more to do with have a universal set of measurements and the fact that metric had superseded imperial in most of the countries it dealt with (Europe). UK tried to get USA to adopt it too, but failed (look up Today I Found Out on You Tube). They would have succeeded had they done things a bit more gradually - but instead they adopted metric by law in some cases (weights) while ignoring it in others (long distances). In some areas they have been successful - i.e. short distances are mostly measured in cm/mm by younger generations. In Ireland they gradually changed signs to the point when I first came over here in the 60's outside of Dublin km signs were predominant, but in the area of Dublin miles were still more common. Now nothing is in miles except in people's heads. I do think it was a mistake adopting the metric system, but worse is not completing it now, some 50+ years after starting it. [/QUOTE]
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