There’s some interesting discussion here:
Don’t forget drug dealers.
Actually, that might be why so many of the cabinet are so keen to get back to it- they have more experience buying things in fractions of an ounce.
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Got a bit bored/fed up of the public trying to talk about this at work this morning, so if they tried to involve me I took to saying “Isn’t it brilliant how this means we’ll be able to buy milk in pints again?”
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Possibly by old farts like me, but I would assume many of the younger generation has never used them as they have never had any need to.
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Good stuff.
This is exactly the sort of important work BoJo should be pushing forward with instead of pandering to all this partygate resignation nonsense.
Where would we be without him?
I hadn’t seen the other response and I apologise for offending you.
I somehow managed to get 12/16.
Have a feeling it would have been a lot lower if it wasn’t multiple choice.
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10/18 for me.
I knew a few like pounds in a stone but I mostly enjoyed the sarcastic comments in the reveals.
As soon as I saw you say this, I knew it was going to be a Martin Belam quiz before I even clicked on the link.
ETA: I scored 8/18. Of which, five were ones I actually knew, and three were guesses. Of the five I knew, two of them were questions about metric measures. One was a comparison that I only knew because I know a litre bottle of fizzy pop is larger than a pint of beer. And two of them were about weighing oneself.
tl;dr, don’t let the ‘high’ score mislead you, my imperial measures knowledge is f****ing awful.
Further ETA: Last ETA, I promise; for those who enjoyed this quiz and the snark, Mr Belam does Guardian quizzes every Thursday. Thursday quiz | The Guardian
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16/18 for me, with a few lucky guesses.
18/18, but as I said earlier… I’m an old git lol
I thought that was a compliment to start with 
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Worst. Distraction technique. Ever
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I reckon that’s because a) they are mainly bought by men and b) men have a tendency to overestimate sizes in inches 
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I hope they don’t I have no idea about lbs and ounces nonesense it’s all different amounts 14 lbs to a stone 5 ounces to this and that. metric wins without question for me, its all units of 10s, 100s, 1000s so simple.
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10/18 with a bit of luck. Some I knew easily, I think we use both in everyday life without even thinking of about it. I’d rather go all imperial even if it was a learning curve rather than end up with only km/h on my car Speedo for example
Maybe a bit of a petrolhead thing the mph, km/h means little to me. No one talks about first time they topped 160.9km/h instead of 100mph. Its like lb/ft vs nm and bhp vs Ps.
I think the fact speed limits and distances on signposts are still in mph makes it difficult to think in km when driving round the UK
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Yea I agree, a big part of it is what we are used to. When I drive into Republic of Ireland, which is km/h it takes a bit of getting used to every time. My wife must be sick of me saying there is a ‘100 sign’ I must speed up.
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