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Make something people want. People don't want metric. Give up on it... The UK is similarly un-metric. Be proud of it!

The UK isn't similarly unmetric. We're, admittedly, in a half-cocked halfway house where food is sold by the gram (and it's legally enforced to be that way), but beer is still by the pint, speed limits and distances are in miles, and temperature is optional. What a mess.

I, like many other people, still ask for food by the pound.

Asking for 100g of strawberry bon-bons, rather than "a quarter of strawberry bon-bons" just makes you sound like an idiot IMHO. Also obviously milk is by the pint.

As far as I know though the case against selling food by imperial measures was dropped by the EU.

I agree it's a mess that needs sorting out. Leave people to use what they want to use.

I thoroughly disagree that you should leave people to use what they want to (anarchy).

For the majority of people, the fact you can easily divide a measurement by 1000 is absolutely useless.

Just like the fact you can happily discuss units of measurement with someone from a foreign land.

If an entire country uses a particular unit of measurement, leave them alone to continue using it in peace.

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