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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1379080" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Being fairly familiar with both systems, I find Metric vastly superior for calculations, but Imperial is more organic, being based off measurements of the human body - inches are less fiddly than cm, a pound is a more useful weight than a kilo, a pint is a more sensible drink than a liter (although I'm persuadable there) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> - feet & yards are more useful than meters, stone are more useful than kilograms, miles are easier to deal with than km - a mile is the distance you can walk before you're 'on a walk'.  Although the US apparently doesn't use stone, and measuring people's weight in pounds seems very awkward to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>