The difference between imperial and metric 😬 SAS Rogue Heroes – BBC

Spring 1941. The British Army is losing the war against Germany and the Axis powers, fighting for control of North Africa.

Lieutenant David Stirling, an eccentric young officer serving with 8 Commando, finds himself increasingly frustrated with the military authorities and their handling of current strategy.

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[Karl_with_a_K]

The most English thing about this clip was trying to blame it on the French. 🤣

[sebastiencz]

As a frenchie, i really love and respect the English tradition to blame the French at any given opportunity.

[stryker]

One of my big things when I was in college and taught lab courses was to drill into my students to label units. My spiel was "in my lab, you'll just lose a few points; out in the real world you may crash a billion dollar space probe into Mars, or you may overdose a patient on morphine and kill them"

[nkpv]

For those of you wondering, we use the metric system in the US military so that we can effectively communicate with our allies in the field lol it’s good to know both ☺️

[etherealhawk]

Correct move at this point is to siphon the remaining fuel into one jeep and get the hell back to base to rustle up more fuel

[Spudtron]

It's 1941, the war in North Africa continues to escalate, and AC/DC starts playing. Nice.

[warmhandswarmheart]

There was a conversion error once when 2500 pounds of fuel was loaded onto a passenger airliner instead of 25000 kilograms. The pilot landed the plane on an deserted airstrip using a maneuver usually used with gliders (side slip). There was no loss of life, no serious injuries even, and the jet was only minimally damaged. It was referred to as "the Gimli glider".

[MrCardinal]

Fighting Rommel in the desert without Richard Burton, who would have thought it possible. Absolutely brilliant series.

[alexsummers]

As a young American student, we were drilled to learn the metric system for a period of time because in the 70s, there was a rumor that we would switch to it, but we never did. Life in my future Chemistry classes would've been so nicer. :)

[teutonalex]

As a veteran I could viscerally and emphatically feel the OIC’s realization of that colossal, career ending fk up.

[andrewpepper]

If this was Britain today they'd probably still run into similar problems. We are - to my knowledge - the only nation on earth to use neither the imperial system or the metric system but a weird combination of both depending on what it is we're measuring 🤣

[JonnyMonday]

I'll never forget when someone came into reception and wanted some sheet material six foot by six hundred millimetres. Everyone else thought it was hilarious but I just said 'well, if he's provided accurate dimensions that's all that counts.'

[azharhamzah]

To be fair, 500km from Cairo in direction to Tobruk should land them near Mersa Matrouh. There a british army base in there, and even train station.

[austin]

The Desert Rats. My grandfather served as a tank driver with the division. Fought at El-Alamein, then later Sicily, Monte Casino and Rome.

[laganuk]

I did an engineering degree in 1998 and learned SI units. Ten years later I worked at my old post-primary school and they were teaching the pupils imperial measurements. Buy milk in pints but buy petrol in litres:)

[t.bunker]

What's worse is British Imperial units aren't the same a US Customary units either. A gallon in the British Imperial System is equal is 4.54 liters (or 160 fluid ounces) while a U.S. gallon is equal to 3.78 liters (or 128 fluid ounces). YMMV.

[ThePerpetualStudent]

One of the best series I have seen in a while. Truly hope they make a second season. - a yank

[tonyworrall]

Thoroughly enjoyed this series, you will want to binge watch all 6 shows and roll on the next series.

[bassbytes]

After this scene he’s magically in a bar in Cairo having managed to travel 500km all the way back. If him and the the convoy were indeed rescued, why wouldn’t they just bring them fuel so they could continue forward an extra 190 miles instead of bring them all the way back ?

[CrouchyOnBikes]

Not a massive fan of the BBC but this series was some of the best telly I’d watched in ages! I hope they’ll be another season