There has been some misguided polemic (again) over the issue of Imperial or Metric measures;
now re-ignited. It is hard to explain and harder to convince people but to me, Imperial has always seemed more logical and easier to grasp, somehow based on ancient knowledge: look at the clock (time: 24 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds), look at circular measurements (360 degrees, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds and that translated into all air and nautical directional movement)...how good to realise that it
IS and obviously so when one stops for a second to think about it. Reading the comments on
The Spectator (and the predictable "
Like most things about Europe, the response is not really about Europe, but values, and so if your group identity is that of the modern urban social liberal then ‘returning to the imperial system’ is clearly a return to the dark ages or racism and rations..." ["Is it really that hard to understand the difference between allowing something and the nation "returning" to it?"
Mark Wallace]...I think we SHOULD return to it.) I was led by AWoLsco's comment to
this AMAZING read: from Ernest P. Moyer back in 2002: "
Something Strange Happened On The Way To The Parthenon or The Origin of the Royal Egyptian Cubit". That may sound long winded and boring but give it a try.
All the 'modern', liberal, trendy anti-British dickwads thinking we're so backward when what they are rejecting is based on the very earth itself, so logical as to defy anyone who claims that metric is superior.
The English inch is supreme it's equivalent 'introduced to mankind' and used before the Greeks, pre Babylonian, pre the Egyptians of 6,000 BC...
"All linear measures were originally based on the definition of the number of units in the radius of the earth.
Conversely,
All circular measures were originally based on the definition of the number of units in the circumference of the earth."
