59 years after decimal currency & v quick metrification, there remain many hold-outs where imperial measure are still dominant in everyday talk. Here are examples. Others? https://simonchapman6.com/2023/05/22/imperial-measurement-holdouts-57-years-on-from-decimal-currency/
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Standard descent pattern and timing for arrivals is approx 1000feet per minute.
It is the energy required to heat 1g of water by 1°C
There is nothing imperial about it at all.
I yearn for the days of rods, poles and perches. As, presumably, does the bloke in your picture.
Give them 2.54 centimetres and they'll take 1.609 kilometres
28.3 grams of prevention is worth 0.454 kilograms of cure
A 38-litre hat on a 237-millilitre head
It's -12.2 degrees and getting colder down by Boulder Dam today