Too late. Chowder has already written to the Daily Mail about you.
Actually, thinking about it, he might not have done - I think Wednesday is Bingo day so you might be safe 
Man, you Brits really are the Quebec of Europe, aren’t you? Half in and half out?
my car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way i likes it
You know what, I wasn’t going to say anything, but here goes: you’re right. I have had no interaction with OpalCat whatsoever; this was totally uncalled for snark, and I apologize for it.
See, you didn’t even have to put on your little beanie, either.
Just do what we did in Canada. Pick and choose the bits you want to keep, and bugger the rest.
We adopted liters, but we measure distance in both miles and kilometers – just to make the yanks happy. Secretly, in our heart of hearts, we’re all thinking miles, but we’ll talk kilometers if we think anything less would offend you. However, we measure height in feet an inches, and although we mostly use metric for weights, we’ll still weigh ourselves and order deli by the pound or fraction thereof. The concept of stones however is alien to everyone on this continent, however. We measure liquid volume by the liter but apartment, house or office space by the square foot. So on.
Oh, and you yanks – don’t tell me you’ve totally embraced metric. You still dole out gas by the gallon. The US gallon no less, your own particular measurement of a gallon which not even we observed.
I don’t. 
I order deli in grams, but usually do the height in feet and inches. Weight, too, is usually in pounds, on the scales and in the machines at the gym. (I suspect that last is because most of the machines are from the States…)
And don’t forget the weather report! Temperature is in Celsius, wind speed in kilometres per hour, air pressure in kilopascals, rain in millimetres, snow in centimetres, visibility in kilometres. Wind chill is expressed as a ‘feels like’ temperature. They used to express it as direct thermal loss in watts per square meter, but that didn’t last long. The only oddity is cloud ceiling in feet, but that may be related to aviation practice.
Yes. And it’s a bloody mess. Let’s finish converting!
We’ve got 2-liter bottles of soda. And… 120 Vac power. Don’t forget we were the innovators in decimal currency.
Besides, we’re smart. Why switch to metric now, when the writing is on the wall that we’ll all by using binary and powers-of-2 measurements in a generation or two?
Yeah, that’s telling 'em.
I’d forgotten about the US gallon
Huh? What beanie?
I’m in Canada and my parents do everything in Imperial. At school, I was taught exclusively in metric. I still use feet and inches for height, and pounds for weight. For everything else, I use metric, and can only understand metric. My son was taught exclusively in metric, and uses only metric.
My parents are in their early sixties and my son is nearly 14. The 45 years between them mean they can’t understand each other in terms of measurements. Luckily, my husband is American and can translate.
Russia beat you by 80 years or so.
A couple of years ago, I was in training classes in Toronto. The trainers were arguing the merits of the metric system to me at dinner one evening. He then proceeded to order a 12 oz steak.
Last summer I was in in Quebec and “acreage” was for sale
Decimation is the way forward. I don’t know why people are averse to using fractional terms with metric as they do with imperial. As in “I’d like a quarter-kilo of cheese”.
Mmmm… a quarter-kilo of cheeeeeeeese.
Thank god, I always wanted my wiener to be more than single digit.
In France they call that a cheese Royale.
I happen to know that Chowder has a secret deep cellar chock full of garden gnomes dressed as Frenchmen and carrying European wines and cheeses in METRIC amounts.
He goes to this "Fortress of Solitude "to gloat in private and then resumes his secret identity in public and on the Dope as the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey hating bloke that we all know and love.
Sorry to grass you up mate but I had to do it.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Meanwhile.
Read About the Size of it to find out why people don’t take to the metric system.
Dagnabbit, you were sworn to secrecy.
A squad of highly trained Ninja assassins will be with you before Christmas, you might as well send me all your prezzies, you won’t be needing them
People somewhere still write letters? They may as well be scribbling heiroglyphics on papyrus.
What? A lot of news sites have comment areas.
:: d&r ::
I must have missed the announcement about your elevation to Moderator. Please accept my belated congratulations.