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LOL, yeah I live and work with both! here in the UK, we drive with MPH tho the speedo also show KPH, but fill our fuel tanks in litres, Road signs are in miles. I service my Vauxhall(General Motors) 4x4 with a half inch drive and metric sockets. Old British manufactured cars used Imperial, so we all have 2 sets of sockets and 2 sets of spanners, feeler guages etc. I go to the biulders merchants and buy in metric, timber, cement etc, Plumbing still has both metric and imperial!, and I do a fair amout of that. Wall and floor tiles can be bought in both sizes too. We buy in Kilos when shopping too. I think the UK is trying to adopt metrification because of the influence of Europe but we have to live with both untill such time future generations only know metric and then we will completely change.By and large it's surprisingly easy to work with! Actually with the railway it makes it a joy, it means I can run both metre guage and 3 foot guage, and that represents no problem.
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