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To be fair - makes fun of them for being the only one that still uses it
The UK still uses imperial for things. For example, the UK buys gasoline in liters but measures the efficiency of the cars by miles per gallon. They also use miles to measure distance for driving. They measure people's weights by stone but only one of the various stone measurements.
Personally, I don't think the UK has any room to make fun of anyone using imperial units.
I've heard one (of many) caveats in buying an English-made car is the sizes of nuts and bolts when working on it.
The old BSW system was wild. A 1/2" wrench measured the width of the thread, not the head of the bolt. So BSW wrenchs are way larger than the similarly marked SAE wrench.