Comments on: Sales Taxes, Speed Limits, and Bra Sizes: Differences Between Britain and America

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:34:00 +0000

Bras can start at a 28AA!

By: Gillian Ladley

Gillian Ladley — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:06:00 +0000

The sales tax thing does my head in. I hate having it added at the point of sale.

Charging things is a nuisance, although the only UK goods I have now is my camera and laptop.

But the thing that has annoyed me most is baking measurements. We don’t have a set of scales and even with my cookbooks with metric and imperial I have to use complicated maths to work out US cup measurements for each ingredient. What a stupid, inexact way of measuring!

By: dw

dw — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:20:00 +0000

‘U.S. customary measurements are based on the British “Imperial” system’

Actually it’s more the reverse. Where the two systems differ (fluid oz, pint, quart, gallon, hundredweight, ton) it is generally the US definitions that are older. The Imperial system dates to an Act of Parliament of 1824, after American independence: the Americans retained the earlier English system of weights and measures.

By: rsevan

rsevan — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:49:00 +0000

God forbid people use their common sense to figure these things out, thanks for the info :-/