Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27798333-20160923084841/@comment-82.26.109.215-20160925182059

Boomshanka22 wrote: The UK uses metric in general (thanks to those fools in Brussels) but still retains some standards for imperial measurements... the UK still uses miles, uses lbs/ounces for cooking, a lot of industries in the UK still measures by thousands/hundreds of an inch... they are a stubborn bunch, but they definitely still use miles..

Use of the metric system in the UK was first legalised for all purposes in the Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act of 1896.

You assertion that this is to do with Brussels is absolute nonsense.