Question for the other brits!

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-11-16 02:27pm

Where abouts in the Uk are you from?

just wondering what the concentration is...

im from Reading in Berkshire

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-11-16 02:35pm

Cheshire.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-11-16 02:48pm

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

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-16 03:30pm

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

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-11-16 03:37pm

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.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-16 03:42pm

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?

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-11-16 03:59pm

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

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-16 04:18pm

Ormskirk, Lancs.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-11-16 04:22pm

Belfast, County Antrim.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-16 04:38pm

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?

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-11-16 04:57pm

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*

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-16 05:09pm

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.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-11-16 05:13pm

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

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-16 05:18pm

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?

A Big Flying Fish · Post by **A Big Flying Fish** » 2003-11-16 05:27pm

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

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-16 05:28pm

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

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

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2003-11-16 05:35pm

American Citizen, 4 years in England

Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lincoln University

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-11-16 05:36pm

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.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-16 05:54pm

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.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-11-16 05:57pm

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

Jawawithagun · Post by **Jawawithagun** » 2003-11-16 06:33pm

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

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-11-17 10:55am

InnerBrat wrote:Burnham.

(OK, only Zac' gonna know there)

scarily close to me.....

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-11-17 11:12am

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

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2003-11-17 11:13am

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

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2003-11-17 12:42pm

Glasgow