List 2.54 usual things about yourself

How are you mundane.

1. I am human
2. I have two eyes
2.54. I have a huge oh, darn, that was the .54. I gues you don't get to hear the rest. :evilgrin:

which I'll interpret as meaning one really good, yet still usual, thing about me. :P

1. I have XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX censored to prevent thread locking.

And we get stuck with crappy system that we still inexplicably call "English" (even though it's pretty much exclusively American by now) or "Standard" (even though there's absolutely nothing standard about it). :grr:

We're taught metric at school, but most people still use the real measures - despite the fact that by law things have to be sold in metric (apart from pints of beer and pints of milk).

The only one where we're "bilingual" is temperature. In the winter we use celsius (e.g. it's bloody cold, dropping to near 0) because it sounds colder; in summer we use farenheit (e.g., damn close to reaching a hundred) because it sounds hotter.

S.I. units are ideal for sciencey things - but bloody useless for anything else.

The Imperial measures are based around natural things - so cooking, measuring "real" things &c. are what they're good at.

Metric is based on Napoleon's inaccurate guess at the size of the world, with every other unit flowing from that - thus they're ideal for converting in formulae.