In which John Michell explains why feet and inches, pints and gallons, pounds and ounces are divine in origin - whereas metres, litres and grams are the devil's work...
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-sacred-measures-of-albion.html
I got the idea for posting this from a similarly-themed post by Brett Stephens:
http://www.amerika.org/politics/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-hating-the-metric-system/