[stusmith1977]

The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingd...

One major way in which metrication is being introduced properly is via schools - nowadays schools generally only teach the metric system, and the generation below me genuinely do weigh themselves in kilos, and measure themselves in meters.

[ElliotH]

Just to backup what you're saying, I'm the generation you're talking about.

I have a vague idea of my height in feet and inches, I drink pints of beer and I drive miles in the car. That's about it. People may as well be talking to me in a foreign language if they give me imperial units outside of those contexts.

[EdiX]

What do you measure body temperature with? Celsius or Fahrenheit?

[ElliotH]

Celsius, expecting a reading of 37 degrees. I never measure anything in Farenheit (I don't actually know how to convert to it, or what a body temperature reading in it ought to be). I do basically everything in Celsius apart from occasionally during my A-Levels (16-18) where I did some conversion to Kelvin.

[onetwothreefour]

No one outside the US measures in F (since the parent post is about the UK, this is a weird question :)

[EdiX]

A canadian once told me that in canada atmospheric temperature is measured in celsius but body temperature is measured in farenheit, or maybe the other way around.