Sunday, 19 September 2021

The end of the metric system in the UK?

This really going to sound crazy and ridiculous. It looks the government in the United Kingdom wants to ditch the metric system and bringing back the imperial system that was abolished in the 1970s. 


For everybody who does not live in the United States, Liberia and Myanmar (3 countries who doesn’t uses the metric system) who has the imperial system, then like myself, we are used to the metric system. 


😂 The imperial system. The most of the world uses the metric system including this country the UK. I know the country used to have the imperial system but why bring it back? Makes zero sense. Another reason why some voters voted for Brexit is nostalgia.


Boris Johnson, Tories and Brexiteers & the whole government has short of ideas & being so silly. 


Apart from Brexit, now they (the govt) wants to ditch the metric system in the UK & re introducing the Imperial system (that was discontinued in the 70s). What a rubbish idea. Most of the world uses the Metric System except USA, Liberia & Myanmar.


In the United States, the imperial system is: Fahrenheit, pounds, gallons, inches, ounces, stones pint, foot, yards, gill and mile. 


In the rest of the world, the metric system is: Celsius, metre, kilo (kilograms = kg), gram, milligram, centimetres = cm, kilometre, millimetre, litre, millilitre and centilitre. 


We may be taught in maths lessons (math, mathematics) regarding how the imperial system works but we are mostly taught & uses the metric system because we are used to it. That is unless of course if you live in one of the three countries who doesn’t use the metric system. 


Even when you buy milk or ordered a drink (pint of any drink like alcoholic drink or sugar fuzzy drinks), it’ll be shown in pints. You may say the UK has the mixture of both systems: Imperial and metric systems. But everything is in the Metric System. 


So getting rid of the metric system in Britain, makes no logical sense. Plus I wasn’t around in the 1970s or any era prior to discontinuing the imperial system in the UK in the mid 70s as I have no memories of that. Some people who had lived in the 1970s might remember it. But being nostalgic about the past (Britain’s past history) & wanting to return some stuff like the imperial system & the death penalty will be never accepted in this date and age in my opinion.


Prime Minister Boris Johnson must better think twice before getting rid of the metric system in the UK. It is silly and dumb idea to ditch the metric system. 

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