POLL: Members of the British public being interviewed about decimalisation in 1978

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#OnThisDay 1978: The British public were not impressed at the prospect of switching from miles to kilometres. pic.twitter.com/ubieUxCuuJ

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) February 3, 2019

Poll Results

OptionVotes
"I only go four miles an hour and I don't worry very much about it either" 5
"We're being part of a community, I don't agree with it at all" 4
"It's much better" 2
"Chamomilometers" 1
"The Treaty As Rome, as my husband would say" 1
"It's rubbish" 1
"I've got a little old saying. It may not be any beneficient to people like you..." 1
"80 kilometres is 50 mile an hour" 0
"Kilometres are nice and round" (interviewer) 0


Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:10 (four years ago)

michael caine doing some good bits there.

ledge, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:47 (four years ago)

Nice cross section of pensioners there.

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:12 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:01 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 14 February 2021 00:01 (four years ago)

Results are upside down

or something, Sunday, 14 February 2021 00:52 (four years ago)


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