28 May
2010
28 May
'10
2:51 p.m.
Andrew Burton [aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk] wrote:
Some speedometers on cars, scooters, motorbikes and
bicycles
would need changing too
Doubt it. There are plenty of UK cars on old car rallys on the
continent. Certainly here your vehicle needs to comply with the
regs as they were when it was built (no seat belts required in
your 1921 jalopy etc.). Keeping to the speed limit is your problem.
I also much prefer buying vegetables in pounds and
oz's
rather than kilograms, from our local veg shop.
You've not been able to do that for a number of years now.
Don't worry, the feeling will pass as you learn the new
units :-)
Decimeter... haven't heard that in years.
There's decametre too (another now obsolete unit). Never
heard centameter so I've no idea if that exists.
What about betting? Betting slips (online atleast) can
use a
decimal system instead of the old fractions system.
Thankfully it's optional for now. I have always grown up with
horseracing odds being in fractions, and you always measure a horses
height in hands :)
The usual rules of not confounding the populace don't apply in betting:
as a bookie you're fleecing idiots (who are assumed to know that they're
being fleeced) so it doesn't really matter whether you fleece them in
decimals, fractions or transcendentals :-)
Antonio