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Nonsense, all you need are comparisons to the size of Wales. For everything.

See, great minds think alike. That was pretty much simultaneous posting.

And whales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU

#mindschicked

Wales
Equal to 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi), the country of Wales is used in phrases such as "an area the size of Wales" or "twice the area of Wales".[23][24] England is 6.275 times the size of Wales, and Scotland is roughly four times the size of Wales. Ireland is four times larger than Wales, and France is about twenty-five times larger.

The British comedy show The Eleven O'Clock Show parodied the use of this measurement, by introducing a news article about an earthquake in Wales, stating that an area the size of Wales was affected. The Radio 4 programme More or Less introduced the idea of "kiloWales" – an area 1,000 times the size of Wales. The Register introduced the nanoWales (20.78 m2).

The measurement has been adopted by rainforest conservation charity Size of Wales, aiming to conserve an area of rainforest equating to the area of Wales. On 1 March 2013, the charity announced that they had succeeded[25] in conserving an area of rainforest the size of Wales and will continue to operate to sustain and increase the protected area.[26]

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The correct answer of course is both systems. We trade with the United States as well as with all the metric countries, and of course many things of British origin are both measured in imperial sizes and de facto international standards. It doesn't make any sense to only teach one of the systems. Things people come across will be either.
Things like wheels and tyres for example are far more commonly imperial than metric, and sometimes, amusingly in a combination of both (120/90x10 for example being 120mm/90% x 10in). Then we have the relative ubiquity of the ounce in small scale narcotics transactions. People who buy drugs in metric measurements usually do serious time :-)

In Britain we still prefer pints to litres and even if we are forced to buy fuel in litres we still calculate economy in miles per gallon, and of course drive in miles. Plus we have the wonderful British system of weather where if it's cold we measure temperature in Celcius ("eek, it's minus 3 out there!"), but if it's getting warm we switch to Farenheight ("yay, it'll be 85 degrees this weekend").

I like these things, and think they make Britain nicer. Plus I don't have a fucking clue what a kilometer is anyway.

Penis size is generally measured in inches.

Or inches+2.

Plus we have the wonderful British system of weather where if it's cold we measure temperature in Celcius ("eek, it's minus 3 out there!"), but if it's getting warm we switch to Farenheight ("yay, it'll be 85 degrees this weekend").

I've not heard anyone using the Fahrenheit system to describe the temperature here, only the American (whom are the only one in the world use them, I think).

We trade with the United States

Who have their own backward regressive measurement system which doesn't even agree with our backward regressive measurement system.

Maybe it could be taught in history lessons

Look kids, someone once thought that there was any sense whatsoever in these dumb as fuck units.

Plus I don't have a fucking clue what a kilometer is anyway.

Why it's 39,370 inches, of course.

Fahrenheit is incomprehensible.

So, Wales is about 202.362km in length (scientific method of ruler on VDU used).

That would make 1m = 0.0000049Drs (Dragons) and 1ft = 0.0000015Drs

Not sure how to convert that to ounces.

Mary Berry ounces or dealer ounces?

I'll ask my dealer.

Kilometer is a click.
5/8 of a mile in fact, or 5 furlongs.

American liquid pint is 16 fluid ounces
UK version is 20 fluid ounces

They have different values for hundredweights and tons too.

This is one instance where I fully support the French and their marvellous metric system.

Only a bell end like Cameron would suggest a return to teaching imperial.
It's his way of fawning to pensioners.

Plus I don't have a fucking clue what a kilometer is anyway.

Kilometre is shorter than miles, this is all.

I prefer it.

I don't have a fucking clue what a kilometer is anyway.

It's the distance up to the point just after you get off your bike, completely exhausted. :)

oooof schick burned

even if we are forced to buy fuel in litres

Such lolage!

(not an official unit of measurement... yet).

I prefer to measure mine in km, seems larger

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29443622