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1. Nico - Member 

   Yards for railways
   Feet are still used for floor areas aren't they?

   
   Railway yards? Feet on the floor? #snowflake

   Posted 52 minutes ago #
2. igm - Member 

   At least they didn’t metricise the British £.

   Posted 50 minutes ago #
3. slowoldman - Member 

   Double-decker buses

   
   As used by Manchester Main Drainage to measure the size of holes created by collapsed sewers. Currently used in London to describe the size of fatbergs in sewers.

   Posted 50 minutes ago #
4. PJM1974 - Member 

   I thought that the accepted unit of measurement round here was "an area the size of Wales"?

   I don't understand the fuss over metric measurements. They simply work and work well. Some of the older generation get sniffy about metric being used and see it as some kind of personal slight, but given the cold temperatures we're seeing this winter, hypothermia will resolve that problem.

   Posted 39 minutes ago #
5. Gary_M - Member 

   The tunnel is being constructed using a specially designed tunnel boring machine. The tunnel route was carefully selected to minimise disruption. It will be big enough to fit a double-decker bus inside and more than five times as long as the Clyde Tunnel.

   Posted 39 minutes ago #
6. redmex - Member 

   The cm thing is a wee bit of a side issue it was the whingin i was on about
   Another of mine is the height of the road bumps in my area massive they are yet other councils put wee pimples on the road or even just paint them on
   My gripe is my car suspension getting beaten up

   Posted 37 minutes ago #

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7. Gary_M - Member 

   You do know you're meant to slow down going over them?

   Hows your hangover?

   Posted 30 minutes ago #
8. km79 - Member 

   Dressmakers use cm. Everyone else should use mm.

   Posted 26 minutes ago #
9. Gary_M - Member 

   Dressmakers use cm. Everyone else should use mm.

   Think you'd better change your username then

   Posted 21 minutes ago #
10. aracer - Member 

    Gary_M  » I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch
    Not on my ruler.
    

    You must have a funny ruler. On mine cm are the same order of magnitude as inches (unlike mm or m).

    Posted 13 minutes ago #
11. nickc - Member 

    I love that Double Decker bus is the agreed SI unit for something impressively large, and that for even larger things Wales and France are admirable substitutes.

    Posted 10 minutes ago #
12. simonloco - Member 

    Football pitches,
    Buses
    Groats

    Posted 9 minutes ago #

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