[9dev]

It’s baffling to me how you twist and turn the perfectly clear explanation of the parent poster into some convoluted argument in favor of imperial units. Essentially, it boils down to ”we’ve always done it this way, we don’t mind pointless busywork, and doing stuff different to everyone else is a good thing“.

[metaphor]

Sounds like a personal issue.

Tell you what, just keep it on that side of the Atlantic and continue buying our natural gas, and since we're so biased to a fault towards "we've always done it this way", we'll keep buying your most excellent products that conform to Reinheitsgebot.