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In Reply to: RE: Audiophiles and the Metric System posted by Quadzilla on January 5, 2021 at 12:17:28:
In the UK metrication has taken years to become the daily norm. In fact we still use imperial for long distances (miles) and for milk and draft beer (pints).The UK didn't even move to decimal currency until 1971. Until then we had a simple currency system that American visitors were always happy to use. It had 12 pennies to a shilling, 2 shillings to a florin, 2 and 1/2 shillings to half-a-crown ( but no crown in circulation), 20 shillings to a pound and 21 shillings to a guinea. Easy stuff. Then came decimalisation with 10 of everything, I remember old folks complaining that the new currency was too complicated to use!
Of course using imperial makes international relations so easy. Back when the UK and France jointly developed the supersonic airliner Concorde the Brits worked in imperial and the French in metric. So the dimensions had to be converted from one system to another. I know one of the engineers who built the UK development aircraft. They found that they could not fit some French parts to it easily as the UK version ended up 9 inches longer than the French one.
Finally we left the European Union. At one rally after the 2016 referendum someone yelled " Great can now go back to pounds and ounces". The platform speaker pointed out " We have voted to leave the EU, not the 21st century".
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