I certainly do. And I am sane…
I suppose one out of two isn’t bad but could do better.
DDMMYYYY does make sense though doesn’t it? However on my computer I use YYYYMMDD because that makes sense and everything is in chronological order. MMDDYYYY makes no logical sense whatsoever.
The most populous nation on the planet drives on the left, you cannot argue with sheer numbers.
Isn’t the base 10 system much easier?
We have 10 fingers and 10 toes, not 12 or16.
Doctors and nurses here do tens. So do electrical engineers.
I agree, Rose2.
You haven’t been to Tasmania.
Oh???
Variety is the spice of life.
Are you saying they have 12 fingers and 16 toes in Tasmania?
They’re a very inbred lot on the Apple Isle
I still measure in yards,feet and inches, but litres and kilos are ok. Miles per hour not kilometres.
Marmite is good for vitamin B12, use sparingly, scrape not spread.
And what are “grits”?
Grits, when I first heard of this I pictured a picnic at the beach, dropping whatever was being eaten onto the sand, thus eating “Grits”
In the ten years I’ve been in France I have fully switched to metric. It doesn’t take long to get familiar and comfortable with metric measures - and impossible to go back to imperial. I know my weight in kilos and no idea for stones and pounds. I remember my height in feet and inches from years ago but if asked would give it in centimetres. All cooking is done in grams and millilitres.
I suspect the younger generation in the UK are similarly fully using metric. Distances are in kilometres. Speed and fuel consumption in metric.
I suspect the younger generation in the UK are similarly fully using metric. The exception to that might be miles / miles per hour. I guess the infrastructure cost of changing all road signs to km prevents that (that and the rag-top newspaper reaction).
I have to say that at the time I resented being made to convert from Imperial to metric in Australia.
My previous experience was very unsatisfactory at school in the UK one year we were told we were converting to CGS units, the following year we were told that was a mistake and it was to be MKS. In other words the usual British stuff up.
When I came to Australia they started metrication, I was peeved, they banned the import of rulers with Imperial measures, weather forecast only gave Celcius degrees. It was the best system basically I was forced into metric because there was nothing else. It was illegal to use non metric measures.
Much as I resented it at the time it was the best way, no-one could chose not to learn it and stick with the the old way.
And they did it completely all the old road signs were changed to km or kph. They did it once and they did it right.
I understand grits are a porridge made of buckwheat. Probably very healthy, but not too appetizing.
Ground corn. My wife’s family like them for breakfast. Mine ate porridge oats being Scots.
sorry I was thinking of groats, Buckwheat = groats
If you have ever seen *My Cousin Vinny,*then you understand the importance of grits in the Deep South. They are made from a soft variety of corn kernels that are dried and ground. They are a side dish on most breakfast menus in this region. I suppose they are the equivalent of beans that I see served with an English breakfast.
The very best grits on the planet have gouda cheese in them.
On the numbers front, I suppose it is like learning different language; it doesn’t hurt to be able to use all of them.
I do eat beans but I’m not English…)
And I agree with your point about different languages. We had to learn French and Latin at school. Also Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese) when I was there.