I think we've been had

Britain hardly had a leg to stand on. They got stuck halfway through making the switch. Still use miles in their cars, feet for height, etc.

FYI: The US doesn't use Imperial, they use US Customary. Volumes are different. Troy weights are usually called Troy (ounces).

Making fun for STILL using it. If our navy would navigate by the stars at night, it would be laughed at, right? And rightly so. ;)

Nah, the brits have it even worse, I don't think even they know what system they use. Like the US just uses the imperial system but brits use like every system randomly plus some stuff that no one else uses, like boulders or some caveman shit like that.

Also brits got like nothing left to make fun of at this point: They fucked their healthcare system bad enough they may as well be in the US, they got 2 viable parties that are even more the same than the US and they left the one thing that kept the country economically relevant to name a few things.

Wait til you find out who taught America the word "soccer".

The US doesn't use imperial units, though. The US customary units share names with imperial units, but they are significantly different.

Any excuse to take the piss out of the Yanks is fine by me.

its this EXACT same thing but with soccer and football, granted there is actual history there, im going to ignore it because it's funnier that way.

europe created the term soccer, and then got rid of it, and then took up football, so the US started using soccer, because it had already used football, for well, football. Shocker i know. And so now we still use soccer, but they use football.

But the UK still uses imperial. I remember playing euro truck sim and being annoyed that the road signs don't match the speed limit shown in the GPS. I first thought this was a bug. Then I remembered that I was in UK and not the Netherlands where I picked up the delivery.

Truly the long game on that joke! Well done, ya got us.

Literally no reason not to use metric, idc who or where you are

Are they actually using metric though? Last time I was in London airport I wasn't so sure.

Everyone makes fun of the US for using imperial, but nobody makes fun of Liberia and Myanmar for doing the exact same thing.

At least they don't speak Fahrenheit.

retains a currency called pounds

Iirc a ship was carrying the metric standards to the US in like 1790 and sank and they just said fuck it

Which other colonies use imperial?

In the meantime to "take advantage of Brexit" it will be possible to sell wine by the pint... A push to go back to the imperial system was axed though. Maybe brexiters should move to the US if they like the imperial system so much.

use English as an official language for EU Brexit

USA should have switched to metric just because they are pals with France.

no backsies

I still use inches, but I've switched to using sixtieths of an inch as the only subdivision.

1-45/60" is what boring people call 1-3/4"

Are there really Britons doing this? I lived there from birth until just shy of my 30th and I've never witnessed it. I've seen plenty of people make fun of Americans for getting the British flag wrong, though, I'm suddenly reminded.