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by PaulDavisThe1st 39 days ago
The UK continues to live on in a weird metric-imperial mash up. Beer is still measured in pints, lots of food (but not all!) is measured in pounds, distance and speed limits are sign-posted in miles, but the sizes of most things in life are in cm, mm and meters.
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Not to mention measuring people's weight in stone