anyone else fed up with

I'm still pints, feet and inches, lbs and ounces .I just can't visualise kilos etc and as for converting one to the other. No thank you

Living in a very rural part of Devon, for me all distances are measured in time, rather than distance!

Somewhere can be only 10 miles away, but you might have to allow at least 20 minutes to get there, maybe more on market day!

Great to read all your interesting comments, and some made me chuckle, please keep them coming. It's clear some people are stuck in the past like me, some have a foot in both camps and some have fully embraced metric. I accept that metric is the future, we can't turn the clock back, but many areas of life in this country are still Imperial; it's difficult to erase centuries of tradition. At least my Delia Smith cookbook gives both Imperial and Metric!

I had a job where I spent a lot of the time converting, mainly weights, from imperial to metric and back again. I know all the conversion factors for weights, lengths, volume to convert between metric and imperial and use them frequently, BUT, I still automatically operate with the imperial system. Recipes are in lbs and oz, I measure my weight is in stones and pounds and distances in inches, feet, yards and miles.

Badenkate Good post about the conversion headaches! I also struggled over something else rather mundane in comparison. US paper does not follow ISO. No A4 - A0, etc... their A4 is called Letter and is a different size. I often find computer software I use for modelling is by default set to inches vs cm/mm. Pain in the bum! Most of the world is on metric.

Yes, edit would be nice.

Oh flaxwoven I'm definately with you on this one.Im in the process of buying a sofa, I was out all yesterday going around the furniture stores. I had written down all my measurements in feet and inches, and of course the shops are all in CM. I had to google it to convert it or ask an assistant who had no idea what feet and inches it was so he had to convert it the other way.I can't be bothered to learn it all at my age so I stick with what I know and rely on google.

I live abroad but still convert kms to miles by dividing by 8 and then multiplying by 5.

The way I find out roughly what the temoerature is is to double the centrigade figure and then add 30. So 15C x2 =30 +30=60. As you go higher it's not exact but a good rough guide.

Why is milk still sold in pints? My butcher still sells in pounds. Petrol in litres sounds cheaper than gallons e.g. 112p a litre works out I believe to £5. 04 a gallon. I remember years ago my husband grumbling because petrol had gone up to 4s 6d a gallon.

Sorry that should be 'trading in metric'. Please can't we have an edit facility???

That's really going to help in trading with other countries if we go back to imperial units. Even the US had to convert to trading in because it was so confusing to have two systems. In days gone by they used to run huge computer programs to convert from one to the other when installing things like nuclear power stations - can you imagine getting that wrong? Well, in fact they did in one notorious case in space flight when they didn't realise that stuff coming from the US was in their imperial units and everybody else was working in metric.

You all might like still thinking in imperial units, but can you remember how difficult it was using them to calculate - adding lbs and ozs when you worked in base 16, or feet and inches in base 12, or stones and lbs when you worked in base 14, or £, shillings and pence when first you worked in base 12 and then base 20?

OK, confession time: I measure my height in ft and ins, weight I'm OK with both stones and kgs, cooking is metric both weight and volume, measuring still really ft and ins, distances definitely miles rather than kms, temperature definitely centigrade - Fahrenheit is just stupid, money definitely decimal.

My feet are 39!

Go back to imperial after leaving the EU?

SueDoku , I like that!

Moving from the US I had to get used to a lot of things, not just metric. Suddenly I weighed a lot less using stones... but it took a while.

My feet are smaller! US women's shoes are two sizes larger, mens only one size larger. Thankfully most shoes now have 3 measures on the bottom or inside or on the box, US, UK and Euro.

But it's the dress, tops and trouser sizes that annoy me. I am a 12 in the US and a bloody 16 here! Ack!!!

When we went from Farenheit to Celsius in weather forecasts, there was a competition to find an easy mneomonic so that people knew what the forecasters were talking about.
I've always been grateful to the person who wrote:
5 and 10 and 21
Winter, Spring and Summer sun
It's been invaluable to me over the years...

When decimal money came in I used to go shopping with my granny and translate it back into old money. If I said 7p was 1 and 4pence for a wee tin of peas, she would refuse to pay as she believed all prices were increased at decimalisation! She would do without rather than pay a price she disapproved of!

I too still use imperial for all measurements but I do use centigrade not Fahrenheit confortably now and I m fine with money in decimal I have tried very hard to measur in metric but it means nothing to me I don't even know my own height or weight

I don't think the dreadful Brexit will make any difference as probably nowhere else uses imperial so I doubt we will change again

Hopefully, when we leave the EU, our country can make its own decisions and go back to imperial measures where possible. No one I know, including younger people, tells me their height or weight in metric or describes distances in kilometres so it's always been a mixture of measures. I know that 30cm equals one foot so then I can convert lengths in my head but have never been interested enough to learn to convert weights or liquid quantities.

Grannyknot, lbs is derived from Latin - Libra and ozs is derived from Italian ponza. Yes I find it hard still.
Many years ago I asked for two yards of material and the assistant said 'we only measure in metric'. I asked him for the equivalent as hadn't got the pattern with me. I then said 'what width is the roll' and he said it was 45 inches. Now that's what I call bonkers!

Flaxwoven.A big yes from me.
I am a coward and although having been told I don't look ??my age, never the less this inadequacy I have of not being able to take on board the metric system , makes me feel an antique in todays world where everything is seen to be amazing. fabulous. awesome etc
I frequently apologise to those who I have to ask ' would you mind putting that in English'?
In my larder hangs a large poster converting just about everything. I would never make a cake or measure anything if it were not for that poster.
I flounder when shopping as all labels are in metric.
'Can I have a 8ozs of sliced ham ?'leaves the young woman on the deli counter looking at me like I came from another planet.
Joining the common market /EU was responsible so I have to be content that at least we were allowed to keep our currency.

Thank goodness it's not just me that struggles with metric. I've really, really tried to get my head around it and can manage the kilograms for baking, but centimetres and millimetres just stump me. I work with a mainly young workforce (late teens and 20s) and I've tried to explain to them how the old currency worked ie 240 pennies to £. They fall about laughing! The concept of farthings and halfpenny is so ridiculous to them that they thought I was making it up! My favourite memory is being given a brown 10 shilling note for a birthday. It felt as though you'd been given millions!

Would you believe they are still teaching imperial and metric measurements!

If you find the 24 hour clock confusing, just think of it as shillings and pence e.g. 19.00 = 19d = 1/7, so it's 7 o'clock.

I stick with the old measurements too. All my recipe books are old and show lbs and ozs, my scales can weight in both which is lucky, and I have a conversion app on my phone in case I am in a shop and want to convert anything.

Thank you Jalima, I manage by measuring up then ringing up my son in law and he converts my measurements, never had cause to ask him about metres though ?

I am definately metric for weights and measures. Trying to do any calculations in Yards feet and inches and pounds and ounces is just far more difficult.

When I bought myself a set of balance scales a few years ago I chose metric. I also travel in miles though.
It really is so much easier but you just have to keep using it.