Ovi wrote:It is also beneficial for international relations if we all use the same units, while it is all very well trying to hold on to cultures the more commonality between different countries / regions the more likely people are to get on.
..or that's what you'd think. The other week when European politicians agreed it was OK for Britain to continue to use Imperial units, one of the reasons behind their decisions was because the USA still use Imperial measurements. So you could say also that in this case, Europe felt it was beneficial for international relations and trade, for Britain to continue using the Imperial system. As long as the USA continue to use Imperial, then I can't ever see the Metric system taking over completely.
I can remember the Simpsons episode where this group of Freemasons sang a song and one line went, "We keep metrication down".
It's funny also, that even though we buy petrol/diesel by the litre, we still consider a car's fuel ecomony in miles per gallon.