>>>>42 in a fog? What are you, some kind of mad man? <g>
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>>>That's 26 mph, AFAIK - ...
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>>No - 42 MPH - we don't do kilometers in the UK - yet.
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>Say, do you know a drum-n-bass band Disciplin a Kitchme? I know they were on Eu MTV a decade ago, and are basically a transplant of the Belgrade band of the pretty same name - "Discipline of spine" (Koja was still the main guy in it). In one of their songs, I think it was "Don't throw concrete blocks off the top of your house" (don't know how how much of this got into the song title) the nice plump black lady who sings in it says "let's go metric". I thought that was a partly in support of the Isles go-metric campaign. So... how really metric is Britain nowadays? Kilos, liters, meters, Celsius, but miles?

Not heard of them - not a great D&B fan myself.

In the UK we're hybrid:

We buy petrol in litres but talk of how many MPG we get
We use Celsius in the winter and Farenheit in the summer
We buy, say, butter in grams but use it in oz in recipes

I read a whole list of these recently which really brought it home just how hybrid we are. If I can find it I'll cite it.