Lady at 1:37 is great.
#OnThisDay 1978: The British public were not impressed at the prospect of switching from miles to kilometres.pic.twitter.com/ubieUxCuuJ
"It's rubbish, why don't they leave everything alone?"
This clip is from Nationwide.
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You mean at 4’6”?
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They should convert the time system to decimal too so 1metrominute equals 1 minute and 40 seconds
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I note the posting date with interest.
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"I did 10 years in the war". That was unlucky, the rest of Britain only did 6.
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Wasn’t it 7? 39 to 45?
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Britain joined in September 39. So to September 40 is 1 year. To Sept 41 is 2 years. Sept 42 is 3 years. Sept 43 is 4 years. Sept 44 is 5 years. And Sept 45, when it ended, was 6 years.
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Silly me. Apologies but thanks for walking me through it.
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Glad to help.
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You need to help that guy who did 10 years in the war lol
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He did 6.2 years in the English unit, 10 years in the metric system!
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We never did adopt metric distances are roads are measured in miles. I just love the first woman who says you don't get as many miles to the gallon when you are driving in kilometres in Europe, that really is gold for stupidity
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Straight out of Viz. "Rising petrol prices don't affect me, I always just put twenty quid in."
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The mile itself was Roman. As British as spaghetti - mille passus
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But we don’t like change!... can’t rush these things tho... 40 years on and we’re still not ready for the km!
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This could have been filmed last week, the mind boggles it really does.
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Just what I thought. Thinking exactly the same thing for decades without ever reexamining it has got us into this shit. I will never forgive them.
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