[Paladin2]

When it comes to using units of mass, the English system has some serious problems.

Volume? Area? Distance? Density? Temperature? Speed? ; I'm good with the current system.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Volume? Area? Distance? Density? Temperature? Speed?

Volume area and distance are much simpler in metric...all are based on multiples of ten. You don't have trouble with our pennies, dimes, dollars, tens, twenties, fifties and hundreds do you? Metric money...imagine that.

Temperature...in Centigrade, water freezes at zero...boils at 100 degrees...is that complicated?

I'm good with the current system.

The whole rest of the world is metric...except maybe Bahrain.

However, I might be with you on MPH speed.

[Olog-hai]

The English system does have a unit of mass (the slug), but it is not practical when weight is what one goes by (the force that gravity exerts on that mass). One slug, naturally, would weigh about 32 lbs (based on acceleration due to gravity being about 32 ft/s²). Metric’s unit of weight is actually the newton (kilograms multiplied by acceleration due to gravity (about 9.8 m/s²); therefore 1 kg actually weighs 9.8 newtons).

[cripplecreek]

The British version of Top Gear talks in MPH but speaks of “petrol” in litres.