Liz Leyden schreef:
>>> P.s. Besides Americans, nobody in the world counts in Miles per Gallon.
>>> We only know kilomters and liters. :-)))
>> Not so Hans. The British still talk in MPG as well. :-o
> That's very true, and mph as well, but we have to buy the stuff in
> litres. Don't get me started!
Yes, officially the Brits are metric as well. But hey, half of them
doesn't know that yet and the other half doesn't want to know. :-)))
I guess the Brits will start using metrics as normal once they have
gotten used to the Euro instead of the Pound. :-)))
Officially it is only the US, Liberia and Myanmar that still use the old
non-metric system. And of course it is still used in aviation an marine
matters. Although on sea we have different miles. Just as US and
Imperial gallons are different. Must be really hard to be a kid in
school trying to learn all these different measures. Things even get
"better" when you start calculating areas, let alone adding another
dimension for contents. :-)
BTW even in our metric system over here we still use inches as a measure
for the size of a computer screen.
Regards,
Hans |