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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by kibwen on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:16PM (#22205836)
I suppose it depends on what your goals are; despite being officially metric, my Canadian and British friends still seem to exhibit a melange of imperial and metric in everyday life.
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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by saghm on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#22206002)
I notice sometimes when watching British television that stones are commonly used as a unit of weight, which is interesting because it's imperial, not metric, but I've seen never it used in American contexts.
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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by Someone on Saturday February 01, 2020 @03:38AM (#22209482)
“1 stone equals 14 pounds” is (also) British. It dates back to Edward III (1350). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)#England.

The idea to use physical stones as reference weights is way older.

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by moron4hire on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:46PM (#22207188)
That's because we don't use the Imperial system. The system we use is called "US Customary".
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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by thrower123 on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:18PM (#22207406)
Some metric units work well, and are scaled to human everyday measurements, and some are not.
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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by beerandt on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:30PM (#22208186)
But the time thing goes to show the absurdity of people's frame of reference. The same people that judgingly ask why the US hasn't gone full metric will say how absurd the idea of base 10 time is.
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