Comment on The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
The 52% of the UK who voted for Brexit are, by all accounts, hopping mad about the metric system (or the “Napoleonic system” as some of them call it) and being forced to buy goods (other than milk and beer) in the supermarket measured in litres and grams. The Brits mocking Americans for measuring things in blue whales or monster trucks or whatever aren’t those people.
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
My understanding is that it was never required to sell things in metric, just to also include metric values. So you could still but a pound of bananas, but it had to also be labeled as 454g (or whatever a pound is in normal units).
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The conversion rate depends on the type of pound. The imperial pound is indeed 454g, but the great British pound is actually 1.16€