>> Not to mention people's weight and height (but not clothing 
>> measurements, oddly enough).
> 
> I thought you still bought a pair of jeans as "33/34" or whatever?

I know I'm 6'2" tall (to the nearest 1/16"), but I have no idea what 
that is in metric. (Very roughly 1.5m, AFAIK.)

Most people seem to know their weight in stone, not Kg. (I happen to 
know both, cos the guy at the ski shop always asks me for metric. I 
guess the skis are European or something...)

I was under the misunderstanding that "33 waist" is metric - but a quick 
computation falsifies this hypothesis. I'm pretty certain I've seen leg 
length measured in metric though.

> Last time I went to B&Q all the wood was in metric, I don't think they 
> are allowed to mark it in imperial anymore.

Mmm, maybe. I don't buy wood very often. (We already own a ridiculous 
quantity of the stuff...)

> Also, did you know, that it's illegal to sell draught beer in metric?!?!

Dude, I realise that a relation is simply some subset of the extended 
Cartesian product of the respective domains of its attributes, which not 
many people seem to know. But *that* fact is just too far! o_O

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