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Just think, before the internet and Google it would have been the subject of an all night discussion in an Irish pub. That is, after all, how the "Guinness Book of World Records" got started.
We have a saying "the pint's a pound the world around" which is true for the American pint which contains 16 fluid ounces and weighs close to 16 ounces which is a pound.
If you can tell time with a clock that isn't metric, what's the problem with measurements that aren't metric? You metric guys are just lazy, that's all there is to it.
We also measure angles in degrees, minutes, and seconds. This apparently goes back to antiquity, predating the ability to divide time into minutes and seconds by more than a thousand years.
Tom
Also milk although on recent trips I seem to recall the canned beer and milk are now dispensed in ml. They probably won't be successful in changing a pub pint though as changing the size to 500 ml would serve 68 ml less beer.I went to school in the UK, our saying was "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter, a gallon of water weighs ten pounds"
I did like Savarins link about how the US and UK fluid ounce changed.
It is interesting that the UK has generally gone metric, except for beer still being sold in pints and speed in mile/hr.