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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
It took us ages as kids to learn to convert to Celcius from Farenheit, and Pounds shillings and pence to $ and cents.  |
I can remember when the currency was changed too (I can still remember the words to the song "in come the dollars...."), my parents owned a Milk Bar. I can still remember customers coming in and saying "why couldn't they just wait until all the old people had died!"
I always find it amusing that the Americans fought for their independence from the British, only to one of the last remaining countries that continues to use the "British" measurement system, even the poms use metric.