r/BeAmazed • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Aug 06 '25

Skill / Talent The royal lifestyle

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u/Kraken-__- Aug 06 '25

ONE INCH OF TOOTHPASTE?!? What the royal fuck!

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u/Opus-the-Penguin Aug 06 '25

Yeah, they're supposed to be on the metric system over there!

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u/Six_of_1 Aug 06 '25

The UK still officially uses miles, it's common for older people to think in imperial. I think you've been misled.

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u/Possible_Sun_913 Aug 08 '25

Tiz very complex. We basically do both.

Some examples.

Recipes can be in either.

We fill up our cars in litres of fuel, but work out fuel efficiency in gallons (and use mph for vehicle speed). Unless we are running, then use kph.

We buy pints of beers, but metric ml units of spirits.

Milk is sold in multiples of pints or litres in the same shops.

Fortunately, most people in the UK or US use metric in science and most places it really counts, so it’s just waiting for the oldies to die off before the full conversion. Mostly as the French invented metric.

The power of 10 is vastly better/easier than some farm-hands barleycorn measurement of feet from a thousand+ years ago, lets be honest.