Post by @pthane@toot.wales

2026-09-27 18:09 UTC

@John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I keep debating this with people younger than me (74). I did O Level engineering in '68 using imperial. Then A Level in '70 in metric. We were all being prepared to switch totally by the mid 70s but then the anti EU types conflated metric with 'Brussels' (and decimal currency in 71) and the govt started to abandon the switch over.

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@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk 2026-09-27 18:47

@pthane@toot.wales @John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot Switching to metric was first suggested in the 1860s. Changing the currency to the decimal system was seen as an initial stage to metrication and even that took over a century after that recommendation.

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@John_Loader@ohai.social 2026-09-28 10:21

@pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I worked for Post Office telephones and during metrication we had to get new files due to change in paper size. The notice gave us the new measurements for paper but said they come in a pack 2 inches thick.

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@eyebee@mstdn.social 2026-09-30 19:15

@pthane@toot.wales @John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I’m 67. I remember doing everything Imperial until about second year at Grammar School (1971), when we started to learn Metric. Not SI units mind! Oh no, we initially started off with everything in between. Decilitres?

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