when jamal says i'd take you to the end of the world and victoria says, that's only 6 miles from here...didn't they use the metric system in england?...did they even HAVE a system at all back then?
shareExactly which empire do you think the imperial system was used by? Christ we don't even use kilometers here in Blighty and couldn't care less how many ml there are in the pints of beer we consume. The meter is a nasty French invention and we don't want it.
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I'm always a little nervous when I see people posting opinions with titles written in e-speak. Titles will make or break anything, especially anything in the written word. Is it that hard to use upper and lower case letters when typing? Is it that hard to spell out "you?" As for this incisive detail, I don't know the date, but the metric system was developed by the international European scientific community some time during the 19th Century - the 1800s. Inches, feet and pounds are part of the "English" system that traces all the way back to the Pyramids and the cubit. Ironically, I did notice that King Leo promised Skywalker (Martin Lawrence) something like 120 or 160 "hectartes" of fine land in an early scene. I think Hollywood is lazy, but not stupid. There's too much money at stake to be stupid very often. "Hectare" sounds alien enough to be medieval, but it's actually a modern METRIC measure of land, equal to about 2-1/2 acres.
shareWow, ummm, ok.... The reason she said that was because the world as they knew it in Medieval times was flat. She implied that its most outer part is only six miles from her settlement.
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