I've stopped doing it, it's a weight off my mind

Haha .... BUT have you stopped thinking in kilo's or pounds? Oh, I've just realised that maybe the US doesn't have that stupid law about you being a criminal if you sell produce by the pound!

But they might if you sell produce by the kilo instead of pounds!

I never could think in kilos, or meters/kilometers...and how nice to be back using farenheit.

I used to work for an engineering firm ... always perplexed me as to why the drawings would show a mixture of metric and imperial measurements ... I can work with either, but it's irritating when they mix the two!

Im weird - I work in Farenheit for hot and Centigrade for cold

cos it's less scary in the cold using C

I have to use both metric and imperial in my daily work, but I prefer using imperial measurements, and when I see miles to a destination I know roughly how far that is I'm lost with kilometers.

But at least km's don't change...miles, tonnes and all those imperial measurements are different over here...

"One eighth" = ?

a henry...

Indeed

No, a mile is a mile, and a pound is a pound.

Tons are different, 2,000lbs in the US, 2240 in the UK (as opposed to "tonnes", being 1,000Kg, as are pints and gallons.

In any case I went through the entire education system in the UK infant school to university, learning the metric system the whole way, but I still, and always did, use feet and inches for woodwork/ DIY, pounds and ounces for cooking, and think in gallons for gas. The metric system may be good for science and engineering but it's useless for every-day measurements.

No it is not!!...give me METRIC SYSTEM any day!

I find it mildly amusing that my kids are au fait with imperial measurements, but get 'thrown' with the metric system which is dead simple!

tell me about it, at least it's all nice and clear