Do you record your rides in Kilometres or Miles?

Charlie_Croker

OT:

MattFalle said:

So you really want £ S D back?

Seriously?

Yes, I think so.
[little story] Before decimalisation, I’d go to the shop and buy a penny-arrow-bar (for an old penny), after that date they became new halfpenny-arrow-bars, I’d still buy one with the bus fare that I’d saved by walking to school.

Thing is:
Old money 240d to the Pound = 240 arrow-bars
New money 100p to the Pound = 200 arrow-bars
40 arrow-bars AWL! That’s a 20% rise overnight.

We were being told that nothing would change except the currency. I didn’t like that at the time and it still grates, so I’d like my 20% back thank you very much, who’s got it?

MattFalle said:

And gallons as everyday usuage instead of litres?

I don’t use litres at all today, so not really ‘instead of’ the petrol stations quote petrol and diesel in pence per litre. I convert the pence to pounds and pence (rounded up), I know the higher the price the more expensive it is, I don’t need to know any more. My tanks are measured in gallons, so are my jerry-cans BTW.
When I go to the bar I order in pints, two pints equals a quart, eight pints equals a gallon…

MattFalle said:

Miles are also Roman, n'est ce pas?

So very European.

Yes I know they are, not a problem.

I’m not anti-Europe infact I voted to stay


Other: base 10, don’t fancy a ten hour day or a ten day week either
it's also much worse for your mental arithmetic

Back on topic, I simply prefer miles

MattFalle

Charlie_Croker said:

OT:

MattFalle said:

So you really want £ S D back?

Seriously?

Yes, I think so.
[little story] Before decimalisation, I’d go to the shop and buy a penny-arrow-bar (for an old penny), after that date they became new halfpenny-arrow-bars, I’d still buy one with the bus fare that I’d saved by walking to school.

Thing is:
Old money 240d to the Pound = 240 arrow-bars
New money 100p to the Pound = 200 arrow-bars
40 arrow-bars AWL! That’s a 20% rise overnight.

We were being told that nothing would change except the currency. I didn’t like that at the time and it still grates, so I’d like my 20% back thank you very much, who’s got it?

MattFalle said:

And gallons as everyday usuage instead of litres?

I don’t use litres at all today, so not really ‘instead of’ the petrol stations quote petrol and diesel in pence per litre. I convert the pence to pounds and pence (rounded up), I know the higher the price the more expensive it is, I don’t need to know any more. My tanks are measured in gallons, so are my jerry-cans BTW.
When I go to the bar I order in pints, two pints equals a quart, eight pints equals a gallon…

MattFalle said:

Miles are also Roman, n'est ce pas?

So very European.

Yes I know they are, not a problem.

I’m not anti-Europe infact I voted to stay


Other: base 10, don’t fancy a ten hour day or a ten day week either
it's also much worse for your mental arithmetic

Back on topic, I simply prefer miles

This is amazing. It has made our day.

Grazie mille.

MattFalle

Burgundy or blue passport preference CC?

First.Aspect

In the winter I measure rides in willymetres.

A ride planned in the morning on Google maps can be 40 kilowillymetres, but by the end of the ride I can have covered several hundred.

mrb123

First.Aspect said:

In the winter I measure rides in willymetres.

On winter rides my willymetres sometimes shrink to virtually zero.

kidsstock752

I records rides in kilometer. My avg rides 12 kilometers.

jimmyjams

Charlie_Croker said:

I am British and proud of it, I consider miles to be a British measurement

A 'mile' is not british. Like Mattfalle replied, they had the 'mile' in ancient Rome, 'milia' is the latin word.
As consequence of Roman influence, most western and central European countries then had miles as distance measurements for centuries thereafter.

The Roman mile was about 90% of a modern english mile, but when it was adopted elsewhere, there developed lots of regional variations, from about 1 km to about 10 kms. In England it was ~1.5 kms in the SE, and ~2 kms most everywhere else, in Turkey ~1.9 kms, in Ireland ~2 kms, in Germany ~7.5 kms.
In Ireland, the english version was only introduced about 1850, and following independence in the 1920s, there were periodic attempts to just have the irish version – County Donegal actually did so, while most other counties had signs stating distances in both irish and english mile versions. Nowadays Ireland uses kms.

That the 'mile' once existed in Germany is reflected in some old german idioms, e.g. while the English say 'you can smell/hear it a mile off', Germans say 'you can smell/hear it drei Meilen gegen den Wind (three miles away against the wind)', so three german miles away even when the wind is in the opposite direction, so more like 20 kms distant!

Charlie_Croker said:

I ....can’t wait for Brexit to fully kick in so we can have £ s d back (that’s pounds shillings and pence for you young’uns) as we only went decimal in order to join the common market.

This isn't true - the change to a decimal currency had nothing to do with joining the Common Market. There had been proposals to change to a decimal currency by government commissions about every 30 years from 1800 onward, so from well before the Common Market was even dreamt of.

Charlie_Croker said:

it's (the metric system) also much worse for your mental arithmetic

You must have some mathematical ability which escapes most of us!

orraloon

A sterling wind up post there Charlie C.

But do you prefer an 'Mericun or an Ingerlish pint?

gethinceri

I prefer megapints

Ben6899

KM. I also take my underpants off before putting on my bibs.

HilaryAmin

Kilometres, metres, litres, centigrade, lumens, кінська сила.

Ov1

I'm that hard I ask the for a 0.56 Litre of Special Brew at the bar.

pep.fermi

Km.
Italian and I lived most of my life in countries with International-units (km, kg, C). But I also lived 11yr in England, runner and cyclist, so I'm fluent with many imperial units.