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r/11foot8 • u/FaviFake • Feb 16 '22
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Almost certainly this was in the UK
Probably tall trailers that take advantage of the clearances for Double-decker buses?
1 u/Texfo201 Feb 16 '22 Don’t you guys use meters over there? 9 u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22 Oh I'm an american, but they do use imperial units for road-related things, because....reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true#Units_of_measurement The United Kingdom uses mostly imperial units on road signs for distance measurements and speed limits.[ 3 u/404merrinessnotfound Feb 16 '22 Yea, as a british citizen all my life, it's always been weird to me how we use both metric and imperial 1 u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22 username checks out
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Don’t you guys use meters over there?
9 u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22 Oh I'm an american, but they do use imperial units for road-related things, because....reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true#Units_of_measurement The United Kingdom uses mostly imperial units on road signs for distance measurements and speed limits.[ 3 u/404merrinessnotfound Feb 16 '22 Yea, as a british citizen all my life, it's always been weird to me how we use both metric and imperial 1 u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22 username checks out
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Oh I'm an american, but they do use imperial units for road-related things, because....reasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom?oldformat=true#Units_of_measurement
The United Kingdom uses mostly imperial units on road signs for distance measurements and speed limits.[
3 u/404merrinessnotfound Feb 16 '22 Yea, as a british citizen all my life, it's always been weird to me how we use both metric and imperial 1 u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22 username checks out
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Yea, as a british citizen all my life, it's always been weird to me how we use both metric and imperial
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u/WildVelociraptor Feb 16 '22
Almost certainly this was in the UK
Probably tall trailers that take advantage of the clearances for Double-decker buses?