Yay, a sensible person. Ignore Rendle, we actually have a bizarre mishmash of Imperial and Metric over here. He'd probably prefer it if we didn't have money in decimal still.
I say let's get hold of some really fucking big nuclear warheads, hide them in some major cities, inextricably link their non-detonation to my vital signs, and then use them as leverage to force the world to switch to the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system.