What's the point of kilometres ? (1 Viewer)

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Yes, granted, we teach kids in school about mm and cm because very often goods are measured as such so I accept that . A piece of timber from your local DIY store is often 2.4m (roughly 8ft) etc etc. I use both as I do a lot of building work in which I need to convert between imperial and metric.
So someone please tell me why , increasingly, mainstream telly programmes talk in terms of distance in km instead of miles ?. (The Amazon snakes it's way for over blah blah km )
I only use km when I go to Europe. I understand why they do it on the Tour de France but beyond that it's pointless. Does anyone know what possible reason do the Irish Republic have them ? They should know better. Unforgiveable.

 

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[wingy]

Fake News!!

 

[Sick Boy]

Think there are something like 3 or 4 major countries in the world that use miles, your question should be what's the point of mlies.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Think there are something like 3 or 4 major countries in the world that use miles, your question should be what's the point of mlies.

Miles are simply miles better.

 

[Liquid Gold]

We should get rid of miles and use kilometres like the rest of the world it makes much more sense. Its like moving from 100 pence in a pound from 8 pennies a farthing and cholera.

 

[Grendel]

We should get rid of miles and use kilometres like the rest of the world it makes much more sense. Its like moving from 100 pence in a pound from 8 pennies a farthing and cholera.

Dickhead

 

[CJ_covblaze]

Miles should be used. They’re used in Britain so they’re clearly better. I also think there should be a single currency in Europe. It should be called the pound. As for what side you drive on we don’t drive on the left. We drive on the correct side.

 

[skybluetony176]

Didn’t we invent the metric system?

 

[skybluetony176]

Didn’t we invent the metric system?

Just checking that and apparently we pioneered a coherent metric system in the mid 19th century and it’s basically the metric system as we understand it today.

 

[richnrg]

I do a bit of walking and used to like miles, but since I've got older I prefer kilometers. They're a little bit shorter so not as tiring.

 

[skybluetony176]

I do a bit of walking and used to like miles, but since I've got older I prefer kilometers. They're a little bit shorter so not as tiring.

Some years ago I substituted something I measured in inches to CM’s for the opposite reason