iamBullivant20mph speed limits save lives. Research from London:
"Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%"
20mph = Fewer maimed and dead children.
Difficult to argue with that.
CodeByJeff@bullivant aren't you folks supposed to be using the metric system?
@codebyjeff Not in the UK, really. It depends. Fuel and food, by and large metric. Speed limits still Imperial.
@bullivant yeah, I know
and people weight by stone, and beer volume by pint
I'm just mentioning for the next time a Brit decides they "can't comprehend the American Fahrenheit system, and why don't we go metric?"
Which is a dumb reason to hijack a thread about saving children's lives, but I'm in one of those moods atm
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@codebyjeff @bullivant Dunno who still weighs people by stones - I'm past state pension age and have been using kilograms for decades.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@TimWardCam @codebyjeff @bullivant
health and social care uses metric for recording weight and height since at least the 1980s..
The mixed units are even more cursed, all roads/civil engineering work starts out in kilometres/metres and is then converted *back* to miles and yards just for the purpose of road signs..
Carnivius@vfrmedia @TimWardCam @codebyjeff @bullivant
Eh my doctor always weighed me by kilos. Which I like. Cos a bag of sugar is an easy way for me to visualise 1 kilogram so when I lost weight I could picture multiple bags of sugar just disappearing. Or something. :D
point is (if I really have one at all) yeah i like the kilos. :D
Dermot Ryan@Carnivius @vfrmedia @TimWardCam @codebyjeff @bullivant L of milk or orange juice also weigh about a kilo. Anything that's mostly water. The mass of 1L of water used to be the definition of a kg. Sort of like fluid ounces, I think (a fluid ounce being the volume occupied by one ounce of water).
So I imagine anyone who is used to using L for volume has a good handle on 1kg. In fact, a quart of water isn't that far off 1kg either.
@dermotryanie @Carnivius @TimWardCam @codebyjeff @bullivant
in primary school here in England we were taught at quite an early age that a litre of water and 1 kg were equivalent, and that 1000 cm^3 was the volume of 1 litre of water (which was given as the reason as to why using metric made sense).
Pretty much everyone born around 1972 or afterwards would have been taught mostly in metric during their entire schooldays, and only had a couple of maths lessons about the older imperial units and how to convert to/from them..