Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
Well we have tons and Tonnes, and long tons and short tons, and in my local pints and half pints. I buy my meat in lb values and my car tells me how many miles to the gallon its doing.
In a timber yard one can buy wood as 2x6 by 4.8 or 4x2x 6m or whatever you want. (See what I did there TBG)
I buy my milk in Tesco in 4 pint containers.

But if you say we use the metric system, who am I to argue with you.
Interesting as all meat in supermarkets are now metric. Imperial measurements haven't been taught in schools for over 30 years and so it'll only be tradition keeping them going.