The absurdity of the use of kph
First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this. It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres....
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Although anything is better than the stupid miles per gallon. Gallons are not even legal any more in the UK. If it was in miles per litre that would be a step in the right direction, and then it is easier to then go to km per litre.
Pretty much the whole or at least 9.5 tenths of the public onside.
Be brave and stand by the statement and publish your name and justify your comments. Bet Mrs Thoburn would be none too pleased.
Neil Herron
'll have to disagree with the use of miles per litre, simply because it'll just make people more clingy to the mile...
It's my blog, and I shall refer to whoever I want as I want.
9.5 tenths is ninety-five percent 95% ... and guess what, it's more like 70 % of people of Britain prefer the imperial system to metric, and the majority of those pepole couldn't care less if Britain had a full changeover.
Moreover, the metric system is more British than the imperial. I have my evidence in this same blog.
-DAVID OSBORNE
I personally disagree with your 95% figure - it seems like an opinion rather than anything based in evidence.
As stated by Mr. Osborne, most people don't mind using metric units, but inevitably a few are resistant to change. Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa have all successfully changed to the metric system. It's much easier to work with and truly an international standard.