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It has been a long time since fuel was sold here in the UK in gallons, but most cars still are spoken of in terms of MPG (miles driven per gallon of fuel). There are steps to move this to L per 100km - but most people here still use MPG.

We also use Pints in pubs, which are a different size to US pints.

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> We also use Pints in pubs

And so we should.

A British pint is 568 ml. We will switch to smaller metric 500 ml 'half-litre' beers over my dead body.

All other imperial measurements can bugger off to the history books where they rightly belong.

Australia switched to 570ml, rounding up. Would that be acceptable?

Do they still call them pints?

Apparently everywhere except South Australia: https://manofmany.com/culture/drinks/beer-glass-sizes-in-aus...

It's worth pointing out the convenient imperial units are the ones that are hardest to get rid of. The "pints" in pubs is because a pint is about how much a drink should be, in fact I've often found drinking 500ml to be just slightly too little to drink, probably because I'm used to the pint, but "1 unit" is also just a lot easier to keep than "500 units" or "50 units".

I would have agreed with you for a long time (especially when I was very aware of how many pints I could drink and still work well the next day), but since homebrewing and having my own beer taps, I now drink any amount I want. I have a few half pint jugs I use, but often I'll pour myself a drink that would be less than this, as that is what I actually fancy drinking at that time.

That said, I exclusively drink pints in pubs.

Engines have been in litres since forever it feels.

Everywhere. All the car companies in the us switched to metric in the 1980s. You find some inch stuff once ina while - but only when the part hasn't been changed in the last 40 years.

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