Ireland goes metric?
Alinania
22-01-2005, 11:18
If rumours are true, the Irish changed their road signs to metric very recently. Any Irishmen out there? Is it true you used to have distance signs in metric and speed limits in imperial? That must've been very helpful :D
The Blackguard
22-01-2005, 11:28
It would be great to get a ticket if all the road signs are using the metric system, but your car's speedometre is imperial.
Alinania
22-01-2005, 11:30
It would be great to get a ticket if all the road signs are using the metric system, but your car's speedometre is imperial.
I think it's more important what speedometer the police have ;)
Bodies Without Organs
22-01-2005, 11:36
Any Irishmen out there?
An Ulsterman here.
Is it true you used to have distance signs in metric and speed limits in imperial? That must've been very helpful :D
Yup: they have had distance signs in km for years, and only switched to metric speed limit signs at the start of the week there. Interestingly enough, the distance signs don't carry a unit of measurement, just a number, while the speed limit signs now proudly proclaim the fact that they are in km/h.
Alinania
22-01-2005, 11:39
Yup: they have had distance signs in km for years, and only switched to metric speed limit signs at the start of the week there. Interestingly enough, the distance signs don't carry a unit of measurement, just a number, while the speed limit signs now proudly proclaim the fact that they are in km/h.
well, now they can let everybody know that everything's metric. Before it would've just confused the hell out of all the poor tourists, so they prefered not to specify the unit of measurment ;)
Bodies Without Organs
22-01-2005, 11:42
well, now they can let everybody know that everything's metric. Before it would've just confused the hell out of all the poor tourists, so they prefered not to specify the unit of measurment ;)
I suppose this actually makes a crazy kind of sense: if people mistook mph speed limtis for kmph limits, then they will at least have been driving more slowly, and thus in most cases, more safely.
Alinania
22-01-2005, 11:43
I suppose this actually makes a crazy kind of sense: if people mistook mph speed limtis for kmph limits, then they will at least have been driving more slowly, and thus in most cases, more safely.
Of course it makes sense.
I always make sense.
I'm sensehood in person.
...err.
Did I go too far? ;)