My brain still works in imperial after all these years , apart from kitchen doors 400, 500mm etct. Fitted that many kitchen's .
Plaster board is 2400 x 1200 so I can relate to the old 8x4 .
Anyone else the same as me, still converting back.
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My brain still works in imperial after all these years , apart from kitchen doors 400, 500mm etct. Fitted that many kitchen's .
Plaster board is 2400 x 1200 so I can relate to the old 8x4 .
Anyone else the same as me, still converting back.
I'm a numerous pints of beer man 😎 .
I still work in inches……alas…..not enough of them!
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Originally Posted by mickd1961
As long as you have eight inches you will be fine 😎
Guess the UK was a kind of half way house when it came to adopting metric measurements so that we still use old imperial measurements for some things (road signs give distances in miles and speed restrictions in mph, we more frequently use mpg, beer and milk is still sold in pints), others are in pure metric (Tetra pack drinks are sold in litres and sugar like many commodities is now sold in kg or gramms) but many are the nearest kind of rounded up/down metric equivalent (a lb jar of Jam is 454g, a gallon of paint is 5lt and timber lengths are 1.2/1.8/2.4m instead of 4/6/8 foot). Like Soulman, I still tend to use feet and inches when measuring for most things just as the better half still thinks in pounds/ounces in cooking. Weird when you think about it but I like the old imperial system as it's part of our heritage. I don't miss calculations in lsd but I do miss the old coinage I grew up with too.
Currently finishing restoring an MGB, it has a mixture of metric and imperial sizes, proper pain in the rear constantly having to switch!
Is there a choice!? Metric obviously… 😎
One exception, a certain fluid licquid coming in pints… 😇😜🤭
Remember when we first went metric, went to a timber yard for a piece of wood, 6ft, was told they only sold it metric, when asked the price I was quoted decimal a foot :confused:
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Originally Posted by Baggies_Boy_Tony
I do some work at a local museum where we give year 6 school kids a 1940 evacuee day experience. The schoolteacher gives them sums to do in £sd using nibs dipped into ink wells on desks. Kids might have left school at 14 but were their mental maths any less sharp? The shopkeeper weighs out their sweet ration of 4 ounces and the 1 egg which was their weekly ration.
I'm usually the billeting officer/air raid warden. Show them gas masks and talk about the dog fights over Suss ex and sit them in an Anderson Shelter..
I'm still 5ft 10 in and 12 stone 2 lbs last time I looked.