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In reply to the discussion: Will the Empire ever change to the metric system, do you think? [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)29. Do you think you'll stay there?
I've been in the UK for nearly five years now, and I have leave soon (though there's a chance I could get a new visa later this year, I don't have a job lined up). I really don't want to go - this seems more like "home" to me now, whatever that is. I've lived in my town here for longer than anywhere since I was 18. I've got a gig in Switzerland for the first half of next year, and maybe I'll feel the same way about that place, but I don't know, having only visited before. Who knows....
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Hey, soda and booze are already sold in metric units - handwriting's on the wall!!!
HopeHoops
Jun 2012
#3
Well, I would say that in the UK, people don't think of themselves as using metric. (nt)
harmonicon
Jun 2012
#34
In '67, Pres. Johnson signed the first law converting the US to the metric system.
Bucky
Jun 2012
#7
In my (metric) country, it goes "give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile." (nt)
Posteritatis
Jun 2012
#35
We in Canada changed to metric when I was about 7. I do temperatures in metric. Height and
applegrove
Jun 2012
#37