This site was conceived as a result of visits to local shops. More wood was cut for the customer who then went on his way. This confusion I thought, must be costing just one shop quite a lot of money. The scientists adopted the decimal system on the basis of the metre as a unit.
Nothing is more contrary to the organisation of the mind, memory and imagination.
The new system will be a stumbling block and source of difficulties for generations to come. I thought what a lot of waste there must be. A whole generation or two has been taught the metric system at school, only to find that in the 'real' world great confusion reigns. After all, we can't go on living in what seems like the nineteenth century, for ever. Only the British people it seems, can decide.