Because base 10 is easier than base 12. Also, fractions of inches are sometimes given in tenths and sometimes in eights. It’s madness!

Well if you’re going to go down that route ... Americans calling needing to go for a piss or a shit in a toilet ‘going to the bathroom’ is extremely unspecific. Because you lot can’t call a spade a spade and apparently just saying ‘going to the toilet’ is too much for your delicate sensibilities. I’ve never yet been…

Ahem, ‘American Samoa’. The other Samoa would beg to differ with you ...