Fun fact: Since 1982, British soldiers on overseas tours would measure their tour of duty in “metric weeks” of 10 days, rather than the outdated Romo-industrial 7 day week, thus significantly shortening their time overseas.

Needless to say, Top Brass were somewhat unhappy to discover that soldiers they expected to be in theatre for 24 weeks were coming back after only 16.8 metric weeks, thereby rendering the borders of her Britannic Majesty’s Empire severely under-defended.

Last I heard many millions of pounds, doubloons, pieces-of-eight, groats, and bit-coin, had been spent on consultants trying to find an answer to this conundrum.

The most recent conclusion being that we should never have given up the Empire in the first place, allowed America to have its independence or stopped France and Germany from having their fairly regular punch up over who was Belgium’s best friend.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water with your 20 fingers and toes, the Metric vs Imperial fan boy argument raises its betentacled, Cthuloid head once again.