London to Brussels: You Guys Can Suck It!

Nothing is wrong, but I think there is much wrong to say the meter is the only thing to base dimensional units on.

The funny thing is the responses to the article, many of them piling on the kilos of metric arrogance and decimal primacy, making it sound like unit homogenization is the wave of the future.

It's mostly intellectual laziness to not be able to discern between different sets of measurement. Not everything can be decimalized.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

And most of it does anyway. The mistakes of last decade with conflicting standards is virtually resolved (no more exploding rockets and such), and those that are more insular, such as civic engineering, have little need to convert all at once.

Tell me when was the last time you measured chemicals in drams?

The article is pointing to the use of Customary/Imperial in trade and local situations such as grocery stores, where that sort of congruence of values are not critical. A man was indicted for selling bananas in pounds. Is this the sort of future we should expect? Outlawing the use of one thing in favor of an arbitrarily "better" thing?

There's nowhere I can't reach.