I love the fact that petrol has been sold in litres for decades but official fuel consumption figures are in miles per gallon.
Thete was a story, which I hope is true, that one of the space shuttle's launch was delayed because NASA got some components from Europe and didn't realise until they arrived that the Europeans had assumed that the drawings were metric. They weren't
This keeps cropping up whenever anything goes wrong with a NASA project. It STEMS (ho! ho!) from the fact that 'science' in the US is metric/SI units whereas engineering is still imperial...
Fantastic, thanks! Are Dutch clubs fan owned? Or less open to foreign owners? Denmark (a la Brentford)?
I don't *think* they're fan owned, but I'm not overly sure and wouldn't know how to check! I think Belgian clubs are cheaper and easier to get into Europe which is why they seem to be preferred. Denmarks an interesting one and definitely also a possibility, (interestingly there's a famous academy from Ghana called Right To Dream who were fed up of getting peanuts for their players moving to Europe, so instead they bought a club in Denmark - FC Nordsjaelland to move the players to before they go on to a better European club!), but think Belgium/Holland is the perfect level of competition/cost (and weather!)
I am younger than Bwood and I was also only educated in metric. I know imperial, but mostly because it's unavoidable in places, e.g. miles. There were occasional references to those unavoidable imperial measurements, but only insofar as they related to metric (e.g. a mile = 1500m). I think the government's approach boils down to educating everyone in metric only until all the old imperial users have died off, allowing for a final easy switch.
The metric version is l/100 km (litres per 100 km) which is an far more sensible measure of a car's performance.
Have Ajax had investment? Not many seasons ago PSV were mopping the floor with everyone in the league
I didn't see that match, but I saw the City Spurs game last night. What a game that was, just brilliant.
Pleased with that result, based on my dislike for Citeh edging my dislike for Tottingham. Ajax v Barcelona final please!
Having just looked through the Maths programme for KS2, I'd say that, assuming that it hadn't been dropped and then reintroduced, you were short-changed by your teachers - it certainly includes understanding and using equivalences between metric units and commonly used imperial units, as well as converting one to the other. Maybe teachers in England, having had enough of government crap, just refused to teach it - who knows really?
