Good job I didn’t take him shopping with me. 
22 yards = chain, 10 make a furlong, 8 furlongs make a mile or 80 chains how does the metric pan out, that’s from the real cricketing world.
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You can just use metres. You don’t need all those different archaic units…
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If you mean the heads on the type you bought are on the small(ish) side then you will find all wire nails these days have smaller heads compared to say 25+ yrs ago. Most of the nails these days are imported from China and their process is nowhere near as good as ours used to be. Even their plated roofing clout nails are inferior🤷♂️
Really? Imported from China?
How ridiculous. Don’t we make anything of our own any more?
Off subject I know, but that reminds me of the news saying about Putin hoarding all the grains and wheat and not letting anyone else have any. Which makes me wonder what our own farmers are growing for us!
Sorry, back to topic. Thanks LD.
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Nearly all of our farmers were bound by the EU’s common agricultural policy and only recently have some of the restrictions/dictats eased. As time marches on, you will begin to notice farming change for the better and as such suit our requirements better.
The common agricultural policy at a glance | European Commission (europa.eu)
Ta. I’ll have a read of that after tea.
If we don’t get wheat and grains soon, I guess that will be the end of bread/rolls/breakfast cereals/cakes/biccies, and even some animal feedstuffs.
We will all have to be on a diet, or maybe we’ll freeze to death this winter anyway!
Come to think of it, even things like biscuits and flour and all that sort of thing have metric weights on the packaging now too. And for those counting calories, ’ it so-many cals per 100 grms’ on everything too.
There really is no escape it seems. But I will never be able to weight or measure myself the metric way though. 
I’m sure you could if put your mind to it. Most of the world operates metric or SI. USA, Liberia, and Myanmar are the few exceptions. I tease my friends there about it. Including electrical forums I am a member of.
But Besoeker my dear, I couldn’t care less what they do in Liberia, Myanmar or any other country I am never likely to live in. Neither do I need info from any electrical forums.
All I want to do is be able to buy some flippin’ 2" nails in England! Having shop assistants that were older than about 12 would help too! 
It is often said that “Necessity is the Mother of Invention” - I reckon it is similar with getting used to changes - you soon get used to metric if you have no other option.
We only continue to use and think in imperial weights and measures because we have continued to use both systems for a long time, so we don’t need to change the way we think to get by.
I remember when decimal coins were first introduced, so many people said they would never get used to them but when everything changed from £sd to £p, folk just had to get used to it - I bet very few people continually think in £sd now or convert £p back to £sd to work out how much stuff costs every time they go shopping!
Edited to Add - I think I clicked on the wrong “Reply” button so my post looks like a response to @Besoeker post - but it was meant to be just a general comment.
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Our farmers are complaining like mad about the new grant system we have introduced since Brexit.
Far from growing more some are growing nothing because if they grew stuff they would be making a loss.
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I agree, and I still use Imperial measurements for most things except for millimetres, as 16ths and 32nds of an inch are too confusing for me.
However, just to be pedantic, ‘Imperial’ doesn’t refer to the British Empire (though I’d like it to!), it refers to the Roman Empire where, for example, ‘mile’ originated from ‘mille passum’ or ‘a thousand paces’.
Incidentally, a ‘pace’ was the equivalent of five human feet lined up toe to heel.
(Obviously, not all Romans had feet of exactly the same size, so it was an accepted average.)
But USA does use 2’’ nails! UK doesn’t…
I assume that we have converted ourselves to 50mm nails now!
Rule of thumb, how does that work in metric.
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Depends where you stick it! OK OK - I am going!
They are the same distance - just different measurement units. A cricket pitch is 22 yards. A metre is 20.1 m. It’s the same distance.
That would be the simple approach!
Yes I do remember those archaic measurements from my schooling but fortunately the world has moved on.
As it happens metric pans out great, 1000mm =1 metre, 1000metres = 1km, 1000kg = 1 tonne, 1000ml = 1litre. That’s it! How easy was that?
250ml, so easy. (It must be if I knew it)