>>The funniest thing I ever heard around the whole metric thing was back when Canada was first introducing the metric system. A young woman I knew really hated the whole idea. She was hopping mad about it and one day she spat out at me that "the next thing you know they'll be making our money metric". I didn't have the heart to tell her.
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>I really see no reason to go metric. The existing units are quite logical - if a yard has three feet, a gallon has four quarts, a foot has twelve inches, then a pound, of course, has 16 ounces.
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>Also, if the system was metric, how could a retail store express the price of house brand stuff in cents per ounce, and the other in dollars per pound? Dividing or multiplying by 16 off the top of one's head is everyone's skill. If it was metric, it would be too hard for anyone to move the decimal point one left or right.

In GB we use the unit "stone" too. A stone = 14 lbs. So it's hard for us to imagine big weights in lbs. e.g. In the US you say "This big guy came toward me ... musta been over 200 lbs", which is hard to visualise, whereas we'd say "... about 14-15 stone".