That's crazy! Your govt. just needs to commit to metric and everyone will adjust, esp. if they're halfway there already! Only one other country has imperial as it's official measuring system in the whole world (it's somewhere like Myanmar, from memory).
HAH! I was amused. I was driving a work car yesterday and it's a new electric one with all sorts of fancy stuff going on. I went onto a motorway (speed limit 100kph mostly) and when I went about 5kms over this (to pass a slow truck), and at any time it thought I did something weird, this woman's voice said "Obey all the road rules" (or something; I can't quite recall the wording), and it made me feel a bit naughty! It's hard for me to even remember what a 40mph speed limit looks like, because I've never actually driven in miles! Oddly though, we still call the distance your car's done mileage, because kilometerage is too weird! ;-)
Oh, and I think they have those conversion things because there's maybe a standard fitting, and the cars, no matter where they're made, can be sold in different countries. Of course one of the things we find is that cars made in different places they can have the fittings put the opposite way. We drive on the left, like Britain, so you expect the windscreen wipers on the left of the steering wheel and the lights and indicators on the right, but every now and then you'll find them round the other way, which is very confusing when you're used to it beingt he other way, and wipers go on at very unexpected times! LOL
The supermarket prices thing was about the shelves having one price and the checkout charging another, so a lot of people will be looking for refunds, no doubt! Thankfully it wasn't my usual one, as it's so much hassle having to go back to sort it out, especially as I shopped somewhere different from my usual branch.
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HAH! I was amused. I was driving a work car yesterday and it's a new electric one with all sorts of fancy stuff going on. I went onto a motorway (speed limit 100kph mostly) and when I went about 5kms over this (to pass a slow truck), and at any time it thought I did something weird, this woman's voice said "Obey all the road rules" (or something; I can't quite recall the wording), and it made me feel a bit naughty! It's hard for me to even remember what a 40mph speed limit looks like, because I've never actually driven in miles! Oddly though, we still call the distance your car's done mileage, because kilometerage is too weird! ;-)
Oh, and I think they have those conversion things because there's maybe a standard fitting, and the cars, no matter where they're made, can be sold in different countries. Of course one of the things we find is that cars made in different places they can have the fittings put the opposite way. We drive on the left, like Britain, so you expect the windscreen wipers on the left of the steering wheel and the lights and indicators on the right, but every now and then you'll find them round the other way, which is very confusing when you're used to it beingt he other way, and wipers go on at very unexpected times! LOL
The supermarket prices thing was about the shelves having one price and the checkout charging another, so a lot of people will be looking for refunds, no doubt! Thankfully it wasn't my usual one, as it's so much hassle having to go back to sort it out, especially as I shopped somewhere different from my usual branch.
Absolutely on the searches front! ;-)