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Where abouts in the Uk are you from?

just wondering what the concentration is...


im from Reading in Berkshire

Cheshire.

Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town surpasses, fer fuckin' neds and easy lassies.

Bolton, home to half the dead parrot sketch and following Hell's Grannies sketch.

Cramlington, 10 miles outside Newcastle on the Northumberland side, and at Lancaster University for 1st and 3rd year, although am currently at Oregon State University for 2nd.

I got a question for the brits to, do you use the pounds wieghing system over there too? And if so do you ever get confused since you money is also called pounds?

They let the EU turn them metric, leaving the old Imperial measurements (rather ironically) the sole province of America.

Ormskirk, Lancs.

Belfast, County Antrim.

anarchistbunny wrote:I got a question for the brits to, do you use the pounds wieghing system over there too?

Some places still do, market stalls and the like. Some places have both metric and imperial.

And if so do you ever get confused since you money is also called pounds?

No. Do you ever get confused with cents and sense?

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:They let the EU turn them metric, leaving the old Imperial measurements (rather ironically) the sole province of America.

Maybe so, but the majority of younger people are a lot happier with it. It is such a pain in the arse being over here and having to convert from inches to cm and fareheit to centrigrade, none of the instruments record metric, but the science department at Oregon works in metric.

EDIT: And by law, all shops displaying weight measurements are required to show it in both metric and imperial. It's an age thing, the education system teaches metric, and aside from miles, imperial is largely ignored, it's the older generations who are still holding on to imperial, possibily an anti-Europe thing. *shrug*

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:They let the EU turn them metric, leaving the old Imperial measurements (rather ironically) the sole province of America.

Along with Liberia and Burma.

Pudsey, Leeds, currently at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Burnham.

(OK, only Zac' gonna know there)

Slough
(you know, where The Office is set, of the Betjamen poem fame...)

OK, Windsor.
Heard of that?

Mayland, Essex
England's answer to Florida, but without the crocodiles, oranges or any Sun whatsoever. Its been 45 days straight of cloudy skies, I want to see the sun damn it

Rye wrote:
No. Do you ever get confused with cents and sense?

Well, there is no numerical value(like pounds) for sense so no.

American Citizen, 4 years in England

Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lincoln University

The_Lumberjack wrote: EDIT: And by law, all shops displaying weight measurements are required to show it in both metric and imperial. It's an age thing, the education system teaches metric, and aside from miles, imperial is largely ignored, it's the older generations who are still holding on to imperial, possibily an anti-Europe thing. *shrug*

I don't consider it an anti-EU thing. It feeds the anti-EU feelings, yes, but that's a consequence, not a cause. The problem is that the older and more ignorant you are, the more difficulty you have to adapt to changes in things you learnt all your life. I still have trouble thinking in Euros, and to have a grasp of how large a sum of money is I often mentally convert the price to our old currency. I imagine that changing the measurements is much harder.

I use the following imperial measurements:

oz for cooking
st for weighing myself
miles for long distances
inchs for shortish distances

and the following metric:

cm and mm for very short measurements
m for medium measurments

all interchangeably.

Hartlepool. Fucking shithole, but the football team is good! Well. relatively.

Near Thetford when I'm in England again. (Which I'm not right now)

InnerBrat wrote:Burnham.

(OK, only Zac' gonna know there)

scarily close to me.....

Preston, Lancashire. Like Keevan, it's all neds and easy women.

Currently in Manchester (at UMIST), but my home is in Cheadle Hulme.

Glasgow