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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hambot" data-source="post: 4166957" data-attributes="member: 61484">Metric all the way.You don't need football fields to measure areas in - play rugby instead.We compare things to the size of a rugby field because they are 100m long.  So running the length of the field is the same as the 100m race.Although my foot is 12 inches, I can't get how long 50 feet is without thinking of 8 people lying down end to end and doing it that way.  New Zealand went through conversion pains in the 50's.  It has taken decades for the old imperial unit users to slowly pass away, leaving more and more kids learning things in metric.  People are only starting to measure heights in centimetres rather than feet, and my mum still talks about how many pounds she is.  But my children will never hear that so they will be 100% metric.</blockquote>