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Part of Bill's incredibly stupid web diary. Read some more today, yerhear!
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So the UK is undergoing a metrication process, and anyone under the age of 30 will only know metric units?
Sad to inform the world, but I'm firmly in the old-fashioned measures camp, even though I went through a metric education.
But my education was not all at school. My parents taught me to cook, and I that was all in English units. I saw how far a pound of meat goes long before anyone showed me a kilogram. Into adult life and I quite happily ask for a pound of anything at the butchers, while they proceed to weigh up 454g.
If I ever have children (unlikely) I'll teach them to cook and buy food in English units.
The metrication people have won me over on petrol. When I started driving, all petrol was sold in litres. Having said that, if you showed me a litre of petrol, I would not have a clue. A litre of petrol is just a number rotating around on the pump.
Show me a gallon of petrol and I'd be able to tell you it's a gallon. Ask me how far I could travel on it and I'd have to look up how many litres in a gallon. (Or is it how many gallons in a litre?)