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Life After Metrification
A light hearted look at the arrogant English
We used to buy materials like wood by the foot (12") which enabled easy measurement with minimal waste.
Then metrification came in! Buying by the metre or half metre meant too much waste so the logical length was one third of a metre.
But this is impossible to measure (it's 33.333 centimeteres) so after much debate the compromise was reached that 30cm was the 'new' metric length unit to be used as it is practical to measure physically.
Of course this means that lengths increase in an odd way ie 30cm, 60cm, 90cm, 1.2m, 1.5m, 1.8m etc and means you need a calculator to add up total quantities of mixed batches of timber.
However 30cm is, of course, almost exactly one foot! So we are actually back to square one!
Well you have to put up with some inconvenience in the name of progress.
Why all this confusion you may well ask, well consider perhaps God is a Woman
Not a lot of people knows that.... as Michael Caine would say
No wonder that we lost an empire