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I guess also bike wheel sizes, screens sizes. Height and body waist? Are you talking about the UK? Europe only uses inches for products that have certain expected sizes.
(may be a bit of an off topic rant)
The cluster fuck that is the UK's measurement system can be easily summarised by looking at fueling a car.
You fill your car from a pump that sells you litres of fuel. Then your car reports its fuel economy in miles per gallon.
How the fuck am I supposed to relate the 40 litres of diesel that I just bought to the 35 MPG on my dashboard without a fucking calculator?
I fucking hate it here. It's the exact same British exceptionalism that brought us fucking Brexit.
And yet you call Americans dumb for not adopting the metric system. Why would we think we would do a better job than you? I would much rather use the system my grandpa grew up with rather than use the hybrid abomination that the UK uses.
I'm a Scottish nationalist and republican (in the British sense). It's one of my pipe dreams to see an independent Scotland adopt the metric system fully but I kinda doubt it will ever happen.