Good 'Ole Tesco sells it's milk in bottles of 2.2 Pints (1 Litre) and we buy petrol by the Litre but expect to get 55 Miles to the Gallon?
Motoring magazines now quote accelleration times to 62 mph (100kph)
In Holland and Germany you can ask for a "Pfund" or HalbPfund" of meat at the market (and you get 500gms/250gms) A "Viertel" (1/4) is normally sold as 100gms.
Why, even after the law changes, can't we in UK ask for a pound of meat and be served 454gms?
I believe there is mow discussions at high levels of changing road signs to Kilometers in time for the london Olympics?
I can see more partial remedies to be enacted upon as dictated by the Greater London Management - and yet more confusion for the rest of us, I think.