I realized why the English switched to the metric system. They got too confused saying things like ‘pounds per pound’ and the like. You can’t have your weight measurement be called the same thing as your currency; it’s absurd. And they thought money is more important than weight, so they went metric.

(The folly in this will be apparent when you realize that money is not, in fact, more important than weight—you can survive for a while without money, but if you have no weight, you will soon be gone. Still, since the result was them switching from the Imperial system to one that expedites computation, they can be forgiven for such a major miscalculation.)