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The absurdity of the use of kph

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  First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this.  It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres. You al

On the lighter side of vandalism...

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If only people spent their time doing things like this to signs, rather than replacing metric measurements to useless imperial ones, life would be so much funnier!

Some Signs...

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While Cycling the other day, i noticed three types of signs along the path... First, a vandalised sign which originally showed metric units but was 'converted' by some backward-looking vigilante! Secondly, a confused sign, .. obviously confused by the influence of the vandals... (note the use of kilometres on the other two fingerposts, while idiotic yards on the central one) Thirdly, a useful and sensible sign! (and yes, the"m" does mean metres)

Metric speed signs.

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Just a sample of what a metric speed sign might look like in the UK... Designed it myself using the standard font used on British Road signs. (Traffic medium for the inquiring minds) 80 km/h = 50mph exactly Won't this look so nice on a road?.. or generally km/h signs? 80 km/h seems so much faster than 50 mph! And it would be understood by far more people. The government simply needs to realise this!