ShawnD2112 wrote:

Which leads to some funny anomolies here in the UK. Everything is metric
except for two measurements. Beer is still sold in pints (thank God for
that!). Road distance is still measured in miles but fuel is sold in
liters. Brits still talk about miles per gallon (Imperial, mind, not US)
but I've started thinking about gas economy in terms of miles per liter
because the math is easier. A bit bizarre but you soon get used to it.

I lived in Ireland for quite a while and they had their share of
confusing anomalies as well: road signs; there were (may be still
are) two kinds: the old kind, written black on a white background,
which give distances in miles by default, except when explicitly
indicated otherwise (as they sometimes did); and the new kind (I
suppose to replace the ones some tourists would take home as
souvenirs), written white on a green background, that give
distances in kilometers by default, unless explicitly indicated
otherwise (as they sometimes did); e.g., you happily drive along to
Dublin, see a sign saying: "Dublin 50" and later see another sign
saying "Dublin 65", and yet are on the right track... the other
thing was that, while eager to adopt the metric system, they
did not always get it right, and the conversions were not always
made as rigorously as you might expect :-)

--Sylvain