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Originally Posted by Claymores
When I was a wee kiddie, the UK decimalised the monetary system (1971 was it?!). For a 6 year old who had only just got a grasp of the value of money, that was a bit of a shocker to have to learn again.
I had imagined that most younger people would be almost totally metric - hence know their height/weight in cms/kgs rather than feet n inches/stones n pounds.
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I also was of that opinion - that the younger generation would naturally have been taught and brought up using metric. I guess with many of their parents still being of the 'imperial' mindset, much of the imperial measurements might have been what they were hearing at home? Like you, I did think they'd be more inclined to metric.
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