Let me just speak on behalf of all English schoolchildren educated after that blessed year 1971 when decimalisation was introduced.<p>Oh thank God that we don&#x27;t have to use those bloody traditional measures any more. Best, idea, ever! Have you any idea what it&#x27;s like to try and do base 12 and base 16 calculations when you&#x27;re 10? Without a calculator??<p>Presumably there&#x27;s some alternate universe out there where the British Empire still rules the globe, and the world was forced to convert to imperial - in that universe you have a legitimate complaint. Not in this one.