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Modern, sensible, sane, yes. But sadly, standard no.

So many major nations still use imperial measurements. Remarkable in this so called modern, digital age.

Some use imperial measures for some things and not for others.

Given that we now live in an era of instant communications and a virtual global village, some nations are as insular as they ever were during the days of horse and cart and their insistence on rigidly adhering to old customs for reasons of 'integrity' are baffling and in line with the thinking of a feudal village.

While most of the world is focussed on 400, 800 and 1600 metre races in athletics and up to 3200m in horse races, some countries still talk about miles and watching horse pass the furlong poles!

And how many pounds someone weighs rather than kilos. They simply won't give an inch!

So metrification came and went and passed a great number of countries by! They shut their eyes and hoped it wouldn't 'happen to' them......

You might want to research the facts behind your quoted text.

The "so many major nations" who are in denial of metrics would appear to be the USA, Liberia and Myanmar.

Limited use of both metric and imperial measurements is confined to a rather small sample of countries, most of which have descended from England. The use of both systems is slowly dying out in many of those countries as the population who remember what an imperial unit are replaced with people who are born into the metric system.

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You might want to research the facts behind your quoted text.

The "so many major nations" who are in denial of metrics would appear to be the USA, Liberia and Myanmar.

Limited use of both metric and imperial measurements is confined to a rather small sample of countries, most of which have descended from England. The use of both systems is slowly dying out in many of those countries as the population who remember what an imperial unit are replaced with people who are born into the metric system.

Fair comment, I don't entirely disagree that perhaps my comments were too sweeping, but the emphasis was on the word 'major' and perhaps the remaining recalcitrant nations have at last fallen into line. It took some of them seemingly forever!

But while the USA remains aloof and Myanmar may soon adopt the ways of the rest of Asia I'm still hearing repeated references to miles and other old measures, maybe not so much weights as to measures, coming out of the UK whose citizens were slow to adopt what the rest of Europe embraced long ago.

The currency was the one they could not avoid, but it's an awfully long time since they went metric in the UK and it should have happened in full, rather than waiting for it to seep through the consciousness of the population as the younger ones inevitably took over.

It's still incomprehensible that the US, which disregarded conventional English spellings of words, no matter how well established, inventing its own, does its best to sway the rest of the English-speaking world into adopting its 'simpler' spelling model, yet declines to follow the rest of the world when it comes to these other universally accepted standards.

I still maintain that it's a highly insular nation and that this is but a symptom of that imperialistic attitude to the rest of the world.

Liberia? Maybe their oil tankers would take too long to refit! But then I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole!!!

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Shows promise! A promise of heaven, perhaps, one day soon?

That is a mighty good shot!

With Ilona showing some 'Leora-like' signs of exhibitionism and lack of inhibition, we may well be rewarded for suffering the indignities of following the more reluctant femmes (and some of their partners) in other apartments.

Ilona and Sara may well be close to revealing their own potential for sensuality and self-discovery.

But three's a crowd and it remains to be seen how the third flat-mate will respond to that greater show of openness from the other pair.....

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