@SteveClough@metalhead.club In reality, we are almost wholly a #metric country. It's just that the two remaining holdouts are prominent, so that people *think* that we are less metric than we are. But even road distances are secretly metric. See those Driver Location Signs along the side of motorways for about 2 decades, now? They are spaced at 0.5km intervals (unless there's a junction in the way) and the mysterious numbers are actually just km measured from some notional start point. Being the U.K., where we number even Scottish roads according to what direction they come out from London on, and we have several infinities on the #MiltonKeynes supposedly Cartesian grid system, the notional motorway start points are sometimes mad, though. If I remember correctly, one of them is in the sea. (-: Low bridge height signs are required to be metric first now, but they only get updated when a sign wears out. @John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot #metric #motorways #DLS