Looks like the UK are still geared up to re/join the EU then with these metric measurements still in place. Good.

Imagine how I feel having lived half my life with pounds and feet/inches! 

If I mention square feet to my daughter she hasn't a clue what I'm on about.

untitled, we've used metric for science and engineering forever me old china, doesn't mean we have to join the EUSSR again.

"Indeed and the penalty spot is still 12 yards."

All dimensions on a football pitch are in yards (with the excepion of the height of the goal, which is 8 feet).

Metric equivalents are provided in official documenation but, to be honest, the Johnny Foreigners who want to play football would be better off learning what yards and feet are. After all, the "16.46 metre box" does not quite have the same ring about it.

....Rugby of course went metric in 1975.

it did but a little oddly. 25 yards is nearly 23 metres, not 22.

Whatever happened to poles, perches, and rods?

I know we still use furlongs in horse racing.

16:20 well they are all the same 5.5 yds.

TTT //we've used metric for science and engineering forever//

Not quite for ever. In the mid 50s my science was in imperial units, B Th U, deg F, G=32ft/sec/sec etc. I calculated escape velocity in mph, stationary orbit in miles etc. We later moved to the cgs system and then KGS. Early work was dealing with aerial cameras using inches for focal length and feet for height of aircraft. Later work for MoD was using very strange units eg, eV (electron volts) for temperature.

yes bhg but proper physics from has always used metric.

sandyRoe, the country is the poorer for having abandoned the ell, the hank, the stook and the firkin. Can the sheppey* be far behind?

*  the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque, about 7/8 of a mile. Courtesy of Douglas Adams.

"...and feet for height of aircraft."

Every Air Traffic Control administration in the world apart from (I think) China and Russia, uses feet for altitude and knots (one nautical mile per hour) for speed. 

I'm just grateful my butcher and greengrocer sell in lbs and Oz and my GP surgery tells me my height and weight in imperial.

The supermarket still sells milk in pints, the pub sells beer in pints.

cor blimey - we'll be driving on the right next! 🤣

I bet your butcher's a wizard with the filleting knife, Barry.

I think the physics I did in the 1970s was proper physics; it just happened to be a continuation of work done in the 1940s and 50s and the computer programs writyten then.

I think the likes of Newton might be offended if you said they didn't do real physics.

19:15 sorry wrong word I agree of course. I meant the stuff that's mostly maths these days, it's all KG/Metres etc.

dave50

You wrote in your question:

"I cant relate to it, nobody can."

The first part of that statement may be true but the second part 100% is not.

When something is the height of 4 London buses, why does it have to London buses, are they different to every other, or it's the size of 6 olympic swimming pools, I've never seen or been in one, that's when I'm really lost.