On 03/04/2017 16:39, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/04/17 15:56, rickman wrote:
>> On 4/3/2017 8:30 AM, alister wrote:
>>> On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:05:23 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not used here, except by scientists, until forced by the EEC. A vast
>>>> improvement over the geriatric FPS system, which should have died at
>>>> least a century before it did. $DEITY knows why the Yanks still persist
>>>> in using it.
>>>
>>> for the same reason that you still measure distances in miles &
>>> prefer to
>>> by your beer in pints
>>> (& I suspect you know you're height in Feet & Inches & your weight in
>>> stone)
>>> imperial measurements are based on natural body measurements & therefore
>>> more comfortable for some purposes. The scale is also more convenient
>>>
>>> 12 inches in much nicer than 0.3m or even 300mm (30cm is not to bad if
>>> you want to use a non iso subdivision)
>>
>> Yes, inches are so much better...  Like 12 5/8 inches which is how many
>> feet?
>>
>> There is nothing good about Imperial measures.
>>
>> One thing that metric has not dealt with is the ton.  There is a metric
>> ton, but there are also many, many other types of tons which may or may
>> not be defined in metric, but vary from the defined 1000 kg.
>>
> The metric ton is a tonne. 1000kg Slightly different from an Imperial Ton.
>
> Those are the only two tons I am aware of.
>
> The EU is responsible for neither.
>
>
>
And the tonne is mentioned and used frequently in the UK.

Of course the best thing about Imperial units is they confuse foreigners
so much :-) They bitch about them and so we use them just because we can
whether that whether that makes life harder for us or not.

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