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They will also sell the fertiliser they produce at increased prices.

If they didn't care... Brazil's health minister shook hands with maskless Boris Johnson at UN before testing positive for Covid Tom Phillips More on Brazil’s health minister Marcelo Queiroga testing...

"Candlelit lit and refreshingly cold not-yet-inundated-by-sea-level-rise-lands"

If Taiwan blows up, the IT industry will be devastated.

Half a first of the month. (You can buy spoons for measuring "a pinch". Amazing what people buy!)

Grams. (Though one of the two scales I regularly use has a range of options.) Have just got another scale for very small things - it will be set to milligrams. Not carats or troy ounces. I have enough problems trying to explain the imperfect equivalence of pharmaceutical grains to milligrams...

Yep - that I did know. (Though in reality, it depends on the substance and how the drops are delivered.) Have very recently been investigating gutta.

But most of them show only one of the units. So you have to either prepare a range of suitable sizes in advance, or convert all the ones not in your preferred unit. (I had no idea that it would be available in gallaons so would not have known in advance to convert that.) I think it is me who...

Nothing to do with this thread, I wanted to buy a product and decided to search for possible sources. The quantities varied from millilitres, ounces, fluid ounces, to gallon – all on UK websites. When checked in more detail, the conversion factors used between ounces/fluid ounces vary. The...

But using inches does mean we see tyres at least as big as 66 inches and widths of 900. And no-one seems put out by paracetamol tablets of 500 milligrams.

Doesn't that reflect their ham cutting skills as much as anything else? I remember skilled servers who would cut one slice, check the weight of that and cut as many more as needed. With high confidence they would all be very similar. If they get the first slice "wrong", there is no way (ha!) to...

But it's only a few years ago we got rid of halfpennies! And not that many since we jettisoned farthings. I guess in your world no-one buys a house or a car because they can't count that far? :)

The inches in tyre measurement being defined as 25.4 millimetres exactly. Which means the tyre moulds can be perfectly well engineered using SI units alone. The use of inches is, obviously, for compatibility with existing vehicles and simplicity for people who are looking at cars and tyres.

No car I drive has a digital speedometer.

Also bizarre the way the Beaufort wind scale just stops at 12. And that the weather people feel the need to add "Gale Force", "Storm Force", or "Hurricane Force" to some points on the scale.

Let's face it, even representing fractions can be problematic on computer systems. Of course, it is possible to do so, in terms of visible symbols, very satisfactorily. But the difficulty of typing any random fraction (e.g. of the sorts we need in Imperial/US Customary systems) is ridiculous...

Did you know there is a US highway with kilometre signs? The I-19 is exclusively signed in kilometres. You don't actually need to chop old ones down to convert. But we have ended up with most vehicles being marked up in one measurement with the other vaguely indicated if you look very...

Would it be possible to have a non-arbitrary temperature scale? Blood temperature was 90 and 96 during Fahrenheit's development of the scale. 180 degrees between freezing and boiling in F. Two right angles.

The salt solution was used to reproduce and standardise the lowest air temperature in winter in Gdansk! Such an important thing for us all to know. We now end up with the ridiculous situation in which the weather forecast, typically on television, with numerous temperatures spoken uses Celsius...

No problem with demi. But we already seem content to say "a half" for beer. And if the base unit shifts, we can use "half" for an amount near a pint, and "quarter" for an amount near a half pint.