Didn’t the French convert from miles to kilometres to confuse the British Army sure I read that somewhere■■?
deandeane1:
So when asking for a spanner is it 13mm or half inch
That’s a good one, ratchets are 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 etc but then the sockets and nuts and bolts your working with are all generally metric.
Norfolknewbie:
deandeane1:
espresso:
… if someone tells you a distance in kms, do you immediately try to work it into miles? (I do)Do you try to convert litres into gallons in your head? (I do)
Do you talk of how many kms you get to the litre ■■? (dont think so)
And … why do Brits always talk of the cold weather in degrees C and hot weather in degrees F ■■
What a funny country we live in
With you on this one espresso
Same as feet and inches to meters !!!
Maybe we just like to trying to work it in are heads
Hope you mean metres??
SORRY IT SHOULD BE METRES 
(O well as the saying goes one slip of the finger and your in the s–t)lol
Have to admit I’m using both. A couple of weeks ago I turned up at our local timber merchants and asked for “Eight feet of 30mm by 50mm”. The sad thing was, the bloke knew exactly where I was coming from- he told me he hadn’t got 8 foot lengths but he could cut a 10 foot length down to two-and-a-half metres!
Tv’s are in inches, and they are in Spain too, and you can get 1/2 inch pipe in Spain as well 
deandeane1:
So when asking for a spanner is it 13mm or half inch
12.7 mm
deandeane1:
So when asking for a spanner is it 13mm or half inch
1/2 inch isn’t actually 13 mm and using a 13 mm spanner can actually damage nuts that need a 1/2 inch because it’s a looser fit.
i only use celcius for temperatures and it annoys me when the radio gives both
the only kilometres i work with are the start and end odometer readings
my car used to be in kilometres but was changed to miles when imported. the speedo only has mph on it
the distance from livingston to haydock is approximately 4 1/4 hours
FarnboroughBoy11:
What I don’t get is, that the road signs are in miles but the highway markers are in in kilometres.
Are they? I always thought they were in Miles!
i think he means countdown markers and things like that. 300 metres, 200 metres, 100 metres although strangely, the countdown markers to a coned off lane are in yards. 800, 600 etc
scanny77:
i think he means countdown markers and things like that. 300 metres, 200 metres, 100 metres although strangely, the countdown markers to a coned off lane are in yards. 800, 600 etc
I thought those “///” “//” “/” Signs were in Yards tbh, by Highway markers I assume it’s those little white poles on the sides of the Motorway.
just checked the highway code and it turns out they are in yards which is contrary to what i always believed. not that a few inches makes much difference at that speed
the matrix signs on the M9 definately warn of a 4.9 metre height limit though which is still a bit odd when they use imperial for distance and apparently metric for height even though the trucks i currently drive are in imperial 
scanny77:
just checked the highway code and it turns out they are in yards which is contrary to what i always believed. not that a few inches makes much difference at that speed
Funny, that’s what she said too
the matrix signs on the M9 definately warn of a 4.9 metre height limit though which is still a bit odd when they use imperial for distance and apparently metric for height even though the trucks i currently drive are in imperial
A lot of that is to help with European drivers I think. Around here a lot of bridges, especially ones around Factories, have both Markings on. I know Euro trailers are 4 meters, and our tallest deckers are 16ft 5", but I’ve no idea what they are the other way round
dew:
scanny77:
just checked the highway code and it turns out they are in yards which is contrary to what i always believed. not that a few inches makes much difference at that speedFunny, that’s what she said too
both i can understand but why have some in metric, some in imperial and some with both?
…then you’ll get the hightop driver who decides he can get under this 5 metre headroom.
Dang! I’m always mixing those metres and feet up!
i bet there isnt an ambulance too far from there every friday and saturday nights. that must be an unlimited source of unconcious drunk men for them to patch up
I know an old school lady who works for a commercial greengrocery; the Polish pickers always confused when she writes “a fistful of bananas”…
dew:
FarnboroughBoy11:
What I don’t get is, that the road signs are in miles but the highway markers are in in kilometres.Are they? I always thought they were in Miles!
I’m pretty sure they are in kilometres, when it says:
M40
B
160.2
My boss asked me how many miles to the gallon the lorry does, I told him the fuel is put in in litres, the distance is recorded in kilometres, how would I know, work it out for yourself !
Dont you mean Imperial to Metric 
thought currency was to do with money