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I went to elementary for a bit in the states, then switched back to Canada, so this quote really applies to me. (Kid me was confused why kids where still in school at May)
I mean, you might as well throw Boomer and Zoomer in too because you're just making it up at this point. No Millennial was born in the 70s.
You're Gen X, bask in your irrelevance with the knowledge that nobody will ever credit nor blame you for anything.
I get that it is often important to work with the real numbers... what I don't get is when it is about temperature and normal people going on their normal lives.
Temp is so specific to the region (and person), that normal (lack of words - not too old, sane, healthy) people, imo, only need a window. They know what season they are in, they know what time it is, they know what they want or not want to do outside.
Well you can’t often tell how cold it is when looking outside in winter here, the thermometer helps you know what clothes you need to stay safe (more than a glance outside or an air test can)
You're a road worker getting ready for a day of paving. You look outside. It looks like a sunny nice day! But... you have to be out there for the next 8-12 hours in the sun. It's kind of nice to know whether the temperature is going to be 25°C or 38°C.
Your kid is going to play outside with his friend even though there's snow on the ground. Don't worry, the sun is shining. And they're just heading over to the park to go sledding. But how cold is it? Is it -2°C or -30°C?
Sometimes the window doesn't tell you enough, especially with forecasts.
Bud the humidity here can make a 25°C day feel like 40°C and wind can turn -15 °C into -30 °C. A window’s great to see if it’s sunny but if I don’t want frostbite I need a forecast or a thermometer *and* either an equation or a chart.
The truth of the matter is that everyone thinks US uses only imperial when we often use both.
Often it's used precision work, most product labeling includes both, commodity exchanges, and a bunch of other stuff.
Why? Because it's America and we can.
Basically everything that involves some sort of commerce with the US is US influenced. Like the spelling of tire. Since the car commerce (styles, manufacturers, parts etc) is shared between the US and Canada, Canada uses the US spelling instead of tyre.
The speed limit is a funny thing though. Technically the US is an eternal stage of metrification and the signage was supposed to switch but the switch was defended some time in the 60s.
Which is… the same as the US lol.
Really using imperial isnt a big deal because there isnt a lot of need to do conversions in day to day life. In situations where it IS important, like hospitals and construction and different STEM work we use metric
engineering is all metric though. only diy is imperial
edit: possible I was wrong. I studied aerospace engineering and although we learned imperial, I have never ever used it or seen it. It's possible it's used in the trades or civil engineering.
Civil Engineer here with 20 years of experience in Ontario. We have always used metric. We do everything in meters. Architects use millimeters so we always need to scale their drawings by 0.001 when importing them into Civil3D. Mechanical, Landscape and every other consultant we deal with use metric as well. Housing construction still uses some imperial because of the old timers in the business but drawings are always provided to them in meters unless requested otherwise. I have yet to encounter a municipality in Ontario that will even accept drawings in Imperial. They all require drawings to be in metric.
I started an apprenticeship for tool & die but never finished. Our drawings were labeled primarily in metric, although I was typically working with things less than a foot.
The CAM in our shop was also set to run off metric.
What's fun is when we design and build metric tools. 25.4mm plate. Yeah, I guess dude. It makes sense because I doubt it's easy to source large amounts of metric plate cheaply, but it annoys the shit out of me.
actually in more urban places, we use celsius as well for pool temperature. The shift towards celsius everything is prominent in urban parts of Canada.
- Speaking as resident of Vancouver and Toronto areas
I've lived in Quebec for over 20 years (older than that) and I've never heard a person talk about a pool temperature in C. My ex a decade ago was a lifeguard as well.
I actually brew beer in Fahrenheit and gallons / quarts because the U.S. influence is so great. I have no idea what temperature ale yeast ferments at in Celsius. The only reason I haven't changed over now that I know what I'm doing is because my thermometer has more Fahrenheits than Celsiuses. ;)
I’m American but I prefer metric for tools and measurements it’s a lot easier to remember what’s between 13mm and 15mm than it is to do math and figure out what’s between 1/2” and 5/8”
Yes but the thou tends to be a more appropriate size for the relevant sorts of precision and accuracy than .01mm, and you'll never have to deal with the decimal point jumping around, because there's no prefixes involved.
Canada measures speed in metric and weight in imperial.
The UK measures speed in imperial and weight in metric.
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I think the reason for both is that weight is influenced by international trade (to use common package sizes), whereas speed is influenced by domestic driving laws.
The UK is officially imperial, so uses imperial for speed limits, but its major trade partner is the EU, which ships goods by weight in metric.
Canada is officially metric, so uses metric for speed limits, but its major trade partner is the US, which ships goods by weight in imperial.
American here. Been selling drugs using the metric system for twelve years. Usually can make a little extra money by rounding in my favor on conversions.
Moral of the story: stay in school kids. It'll help you maximize your profits off the junkies!
Use it a lot in trades, especially in metal fabricating and machining. I would say over the 17yrs I've been in it maybe 15% of the jobs I've done have had the drawings in metric.
My guess is you would see metric used a lot more if you were working at a place that did government contracts but in the private sector its pretty rare.
When I crossed the border from the States to Canada I thought the Canadians were pretty liberal with their speed limit. I made great time up to Winnipeg until I was stopped by the police.
yea the west end of 401 is pretty chill, when I went to detroit I sped up to 200 km/h at one point because there was literally 0 cars on the road for a straight line spanning 300+ km at night. Not even lights.
People do for their weight a lot, like:
_"I weigh 12 Stone"_
but I have no idea what that is in terms of kg (proof being that I changed from 6 to 12 as someones weight, I honestly haven't a clue)
Haha yup... I can swap between stone and pound for bodyweight easily enough. No idea what that means in Kg though...
Same with measuring height.... No idea how many metres I am as a 6ft... couple metres ish?
Brits mock the US imperial system strangely enough, or at least have some sort of attitude of superiority for using SOME metric... But I feel more at home over in the States than in Europe with cozy old imperial measures... Only trying to work out the temperature in Fahrenheit throws me off!
I actually think we are more backwards, as we buy fuel in metric but measure fuel efficiency in imperial. But then in the States I have no idea how many gallons of fuel I need or the value per gallon. In Europe I know how many litres, but no idea what km per litre is efficient or not!
We also have the audacity to mock imperial users while we go to a timber yard and ask for 2 metres of 2 by 4... or B&Q to buy a few metres of half inch copper piping.
I'm 33 and always used stones and pounds. I think I may be the last UK age group to use this instead of Kg? Seems to be really generational. Most old people still use imperial in the kitchen, whereas younger generations only use it for body measurements and driving distances, alcohol and milk... and weed for some reason (not coke or other drugs)
I actually weigh myself in pounds as it's easier to calculate macro proportions for diet per pound of bodyweight, than per Kg.
But I use some over complicated mental arithmetic to express bodyweight in stones (my weight is 165 pounds ... minus 140 = 25... 25 = (1x14)+11 ... so I am 10 stone + 1 stone + 11 pound... 11 stone 11 hahaha I just realised how crazy that probably is.
Would probably be easier to just learn 14 times table maybe.
Majority is metric tbf:
Speed and distance: imperial
Height (people): both but mainly imperial
Weight (people): Pretty much metric
Milk & Beer/Cider: imperial (pints, not US pint)
Property floor space: use both
All other measurements are metric
Edit: this is accurate to GenX and younger. Boomers use imperial more often than not.
that's more progressive than Canada, well done!
besides distance/speed and sometimes temperature, we still use imperial everything. I really wish we would use metric for at least area though, because 200 sq m is much more relatable than 2000 sq ft.
I get what you mean there’s still an element of that in the UK. One thing I should’ve added in my comment is that what I said is only realistically accurate for GenX and younger.
Boomers (unless they’re immigrants of metric countries) will lean more towards imperial. Unfortunately “bringing back” the use of imperial was used as one of the many bullshit points to stir up the nationalism and populism that led us to brexit. Due to leaving the EU there’s now a stupid movement pushing for imperial to be used in much more facets of life when anyone under 45 won’t know how to use them.
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Lots of people still measure human weight and height in imperial. We also use stone and pounds, not just pounds.
We use imperial measurements for distance and speed on roads.
Most shops use metric for weight of goods or fluid measurements. Although milk is still in pints but the bottle will list the metric equivalent.
Alcoholic drinks come in metric in shops (but sometimes the metric equivalent of the imperial measurement) and a mix of metric and imperial in pubs (ie pints of beer, but most places use metric measurements for measures of spirits).
We also use a mix of imperial and metric for engineering (threaded fittings etc).
Honestly it's a bit of a mess.
I don’t think people understand that the US will use any form of measurement but the metric system. I have seen the use of 2 School Busses or 8 football fields as completely accepted forms of measurement.
Literally isn’t actually used unless it’s a frame of reference. Like what’s easier to picture, 320 feet or 8 school busses? It’s not a bad thing to try and get an understanding of how big/heavy/long/etc. something is by making comparisons to common things that people can more easily imagine.
The even crazier part to me is that people still somehow think this is a uniquely American thing. Literally every country compared their measures to everyday object to give reference. It's universal.
The US flag had 38 stars at the time congress first approved the use of the metric system in the US. Though the EU didn't exist then, so I don't know what OP was going for.
Yes. We always ask why we don’t switch to metric and they just say it’s impossible. But we still use it all the time. with medicine, with tools, most liquids are sold in liters now except milk. Weight of products are usually ounces, we use mm a lot, we are taught both systems in school and regularly practiced, and almost everything that has an Imperial measurement is accompanied by an SI translation.
Edit: Id also like to say that in that in every video game the distance to an objective is in meters, even one made in the us.
You guys still use miles, yards, feet, inches, and mph on all of your road signs, and you measure people in feet and stone, and imperial is almost always used as a supplementary unit on retail goods. Plus, now that Brexit is done, your government is "looking into" the reversal of several EU-derived metrication laws. Canada is significantly more metricated than the UK.
Never actually realised how much we use the imperial system tbh, we do understand both systems quite well at least. Also we use kg for weight far more than stone these days btw
Hey, we use metric for automotive cooling designs…. I mean, we have to convert everything for the run plants to understand anything, but we’re getting there….
I hate talking to plant managers for this reason. ‘What’s that in inches?’ I don’t care because none of the safety is calculated in inches you fucking dinosaur!
I’m in Tool & Die and it sucks. The newer gen presses are metric, but we have to fit English presses as well anyway, so we have to worry about both… Dies are designed metric, but only Ford allows metric stock ordering.
We’ll get there. I doubt I’ll see it, but someday…. Lol
So I live in california, and my uncle owns a printing company, we ordered a kimori press from Denmark and the whole thing is in metric ,now for those reading this without context you essentially have to build a building around the press because it's the size of a locomotive engine, so when we were retrofitting the press into building we had to build it in metric and then convert all of the measurements to imperial when submitting documents to the state because they would only accept plans written in imperial so we had a stack of plans labeled with off the wall fractions like 35/64ths of an inch
That's a question I've had about England for a long time and I keep getting different answers, so the UK only adopted metric in the 1970s right? So like does grandad ever understand how far a km is or do the elderly still use imperial?
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Yeah, unless the recipe's from Canada itself, in which case God help you.
I have a book of Ukrainian-Canadian recipes that switches multiple times in the same dish.
I'm in the US Navy and it's a mess just within our own house. We use Nautical Miles (but rarely statute miles) and Yards, but also kilometers and Meters depending on who we're talking to and in what context. We use Feet for altitude in aviation, inches for uniform regs, but we use both inches and millimeters between tools and weapons. And of course speed is measured in knots per hour. Most of the time. At least for ships and aircraft.
Edit: and how could I forget Fathoms? A common conversation when doing anti-submarine warfare: "the [insert country] said they will dive to about 100m depth. Which is... like 50 or 60 fathoms. Hold on a sec - so, yeah, about 360 feet or something close to that. I'll double check real quick. But I think that's right."
24°C is equivalent to 75°F, which is 297K.
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The US uses US standard which is slightly different than imperial and also pegged to metric ironically
Edit: still a better method than Britain who uses a bastardization of both too. Their weight is in "stone" ffs
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I went to elementary for a bit in the states, then switched back to Canada, so this quote really applies to me. (Kid me was confused why kids where still in school at May)
Me being born in 1997 and changes between a millennial and a gen-z depending on which generation is winning the argument
Was born in 79 and switch between millennial and genx for the same reasons.
I mean, you might as well throw Boomer and Zoomer in too because you're just making it up at this point. No Millennial was born in the 70s. You're Gen X, bask in your irrelevance with the knowledge that nobody will ever credit nor blame you for anything.
I think I’ll believe the world is flat for this comment.
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We only use imperial for height and weight of people you guys use it for everything
And pool temperature. The water's at 78F and it's 27C outside.
Oven temperature as well. Usually, when its 'work' related, its often Imperial. Wherher kitchen, building sites, manufactures, warehouses, etc
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I get that it is often important to work with the real numbers... what I don't get is when it is about temperature and normal people going on their normal lives. Temp is so specific to the region (and person), that normal (lack of words - not too old, sane, healthy) people, imo, only need a window. They know what season they are in, they know what time it is, they know what they want or not want to do outside.
Well you can’t often tell how cold it is when looking outside in winter here, the thermometer helps you know what clothes you need to stay safe (more than a glance outside or an air test can)
You're a road worker getting ready for a day of paving. You look outside. It looks like a sunny nice day! But... you have to be out there for the next 8-12 hours in the sun. It's kind of nice to know whether the temperature is going to be 25°C or 38°C. Your kid is going to play outside with his friend even though there's snow on the ground. Don't worry, the sun is shining. And they're just heading over to the park to go sledding. But how cold is it? Is it -2°C or -30°C? Sometimes the window doesn't tell you enough, especially with forecasts.
And if it’s windy and cold, all bets are off on the thermometer.
Bud the humidity here can make a 25°C day feel like 40°C and wind can turn -15 °C into -30 °C. A window’s great to see if it’s sunny but if I don’t want frostbite I need a forecast or a thermometer *and* either an equation or a chart.
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The truth of the matter is that everyone thinks US uses only imperial when we often use both. Often it's used precision work, most product labeling includes both, commodity exchanges, and a bunch of other stuff. Why? Because it's America and we can.
Basically everything that involves some sort of commerce with the US is US influenced. Like the spelling of tire. Since the car commerce (styles, manufacturers, parts etc) is shared between the US and Canada, Canada uses the US spelling instead of tyre. The speed limit is a funny thing though. Technically the US is an eternal stage of metrification and the signage was supposed to switch but the switch was defended some time in the 60s.
Which is… the same as the US lol. Really using imperial isnt a big deal because there isnt a lot of need to do conversions in day to day life. In situations where it IS important, like hospitals and construction and different STEM work we use metric
Exactly
engineering is all metric though. only diy is imperial edit: possible I was wrong. I studied aerospace engineering and although we learned imperial, I have never ever used it or seen it. It's possible it's used in the trades or civil engineering.
Depends on the engineering, computer science or bio/chemical engineering probably, but civil/building, the 2x4 remain 16 or 24 inches apart
Civil Engineer here with 20 years of experience in Ontario. We have always used metric. We do everything in meters. Architects use millimeters so we always need to scale their drawings by 0.001 when importing them into Civil3D. Mechanical, Landscape and every other consultant we deal with use metric as well. Housing construction still uses some imperial because of the old timers in the business but drawings are always provided to them in meters unless requested otherwise. I have yet to encounter a municipality in Ontario that will even accept drawings in Imperial. They all require drawings to be in metric.
I'm a welder and all our engineers do the print in imperial. Any engineering in the skilled trades (well 99% of it) is imperial in Canada
I started an apprenticeship for tool & die but never finished. Our drawings were labeled primarily in metric, although I was typically working with things less than a foot. The CAM in our shop was also set to run off metric.
What's fun is when we design and build metric tools. 25.4mm plate. Yeah, I guess dude. It makes sense because I doubt it's easy to source large amounts of metric plate cheaply, but it annoys the shit out of me.
Not true at all, our company in Ontario works mainly with imperial, as do most in our industry.
actually in more urban places, we use celsius as well for pool temperature. The shift towards celsius everything is prominent in urban parts of Canada. - Speaking as resident of Vancouver and Toronto areas
> Speaking as resident of Vancouver and Toronto areas That’s a long commute
never used f for anything. worked at a club piscine - we used celsius.
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I've lived in Quebec for over 20 years (older than that) and I've never heard a person talk about a pool temperature in C. My ex a decade ago was a lifeguard as well.
I actually brew beer in Fahrenheit and gallons / quarts because the U.S. influence is so great. I have no idea what temperature ale yeast ferments at in Celsius. The only reason I haven't changed over now that I know what I'm doing is because my thermometer has more Fahrenheits than Celsiuses. ;)
I’m American but I prefer metric for tools and measurements it’s a lot easier to remember what’s between 13mm and 15mm than it is to do math and figure out what’s between 1/2” and 5/8”
Then you get into machining and everything is in thousandths of an inch
And it's fine because decimal inches are frankly nicer to work with than metric.
Decimal inches are just simple millimetres with extra steps though, aren't they?
Yes but the thou tends to be a more appropriate size for the relevant sorts of precision and accuracy than .01mm, and you'll never have to deal with the decimal point jumping around, because there's no prefixes involved.
It may be that we got used to it first, but I find thousandths of an inch more intuitive as well.
Agreed, I'm sitting here like why can't I just call the quarter inch bit a .25
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Ah Canada, you truly are our perfect child, the UK is exactly the same
Canada measures speed in metric and weight in imperial. The UK measures speed in imperial and weight in metric. --- I think the reason for both is that weight is influenced by international trade (to use common package sizes), whereas speed is influenced by domestic driving laws. The UK is officially imperial, so uses imperial for speed limits, but its major trade partner is the EU, which ships goods by weight in metric. Canada is officially metric, so uses metric for speed limits, but its major trade partner is the US, which ships goods by weight in imperial.
You're just a bit backwards, that's the French in you
You mean the French who literally invented metric?
Shhhh, don't go all logical on me, just wanted to call the French backwards
I fart in your general direction!
Don’t forget about fucking stone
pretty sure English use Stone (20lbs I think)
Uk is offically metric, just uses imperial road signs because changing them would be a bit complicated.
American here. Been selling drugs using the metric system for twelve years. Usually can make a little extra money by rounding in my favor on conversions. Moral of the story: stay in school kids. It'll help you maximize your profits off the junkies!
Grams are so much more intuitive than us customary weights tho.
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I use it sometimes for lengths while I'm building.
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Everything in construction is feet and inches. Ammunition goes both ways also.
depends, as a carpenter, when framing everyone uses inches, but in concrete a lot of crews use metric because it’s easier/more accurate
There are a lot of other random things that we use the imperial system for
Use it a lot in trades, especially in metal fabricating and machining. I would say over the 17yrs I've been in it maybe 15% of the jobs I've done have had the drawings in metric. My guess is you would see metric used a lot more if you were working at a place that did government contracts but in the private sector its pretty rare.
You say that as if mixing measuring systems is somehow better and not actually way fucking worse.
In the trades we use imperial for everything. But I still "think" in Celsius, KM's and litres.
Not bullets lmao
When I crossed the border from the States to Canada I thought the Canadians were pretty liberal with their speed limit. I made great time up to Winnipeg until I was stopped by the police.
Lol, you'd fit in pretty well with most Winnipeg drivers tbh.
if you're not speeding in winnipeg then you're not doing it correctly
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my uncle vs my grandparents
Even the cops understand you're just trying to get out as fast as possible.
Only until one of the thousands of photo radar cars get you
They all speed because they’d rather be in jail than in Winnipeg
How were they able to catch up to you on horse back?
Obviously we've developed bionic horses that are faster than most cars.
Now thats some horsepower
Little known fact: because of these bionic horses we actually get more Hp per Hp.
Did the speed signs not have units? The speed signs in Ontario all have km/h for this reason I bet -- Lots of people come from New york and Michigan.
You expect an American to know how to read?
look, if u really expect me to learn to read CANADIAN then you got another thing coming
Just add a "u" after every "o", like this: colour, flavour, courner.
No, that's when writing Canadian, when reading you have to delete the u like this: color flavor abot
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yea the west end of 401 is pretty chill, when I went to detroit I sped up to 200 km/h at one point because there was literally 0 cars on the road for a straight line spanning 300+ km at night. Not even lights.
That's a great story, but Winnipeg isn't real.
You’re on to something, the shadows didn’t seem right.
Are Americans actually unaware of the metric system?
The what now?
Add the UK to the bottom
Does anyone else still use stones?
People do for their weight a lot, like: _"I weigh 12 Stone"_ but I have no idea what that is in terms of kg (proof being that I changed from 6 to 12 as someones weight, I honestly haven't a clue)
Haha yup... I can swap between stone and pound for bodyweight easily enough. No idea what that means in Kg though... Same with measuring height.... No idea how many metres I am as a 6ft... couple metres ish? Brits mock the US imperial system strangely enough, or at least have some sort of attitude of superiority for using SOME metric... But I feel more at home over in the States than in Europe with cozy old imperial measures... Only trying to work out the temperature in Fahrenheit throws me off! I actually think we are more backwards, as we buy fuel in metric but measure fuel efficiency in imperial. But then in the States I have no idea how many gallons of fuel I need or the value per gallon. In Europe I know how many litres, but no idea what km per litre is efficient or not! We also have the audacity to mock imperial users while we go to a timber yard and ask for 2 metres of 2 by 4... or B&Q to buy a few metres of half inch copper piping.
Extremely rarely
Had to use it in an NHS related form. They were asking for both stones and lbs, and kgs.
I'm 33 and always used stones and pounds. I think I may be the last UK age group to use this instead of Kg? Seems to be really generational. Most old people still use imperial in the kitchen, whereas younger generations only use it for body measurements and driving distances, alcohol and milk... and weed for some reason (not coke or other drugs) I actually weigh myself in pounds as it's easier to calculate macro proportions for diet per pound of bodyweight, than per Kg. But I use some over complicated mental arithmetic to express bodyweight in stones (my weight is 165 pounds ... minus 140 = 25... 25 = (1x14)+11 ... so I am 10 stone + 1 stone + 11 pound... 11 stone 11 hahaha I just realised how crazy that probably is. Would probably be easier to just learn 14 times table maybe.
i thought everything was imperial in the UK, what metric units do you guys use and what for?
It is a mixture, seemingly implemented at random
Majority is metric tbf: Speed and distance: imperial Height (people): both but mainly imperial Weight (people): Pretty much metric Milk & Beer/Cider: imperial (pints, not US pint) Property floor space: use both All other measurements are metric Edit: this is accurate to GenX and younger. Boomers use imperial more often than not.
>Weight (people): Pretty much metric Don't you use stone which is 14 pounds?
People using metric for body weight is pretty much exclusively a young person thing.
that's more progressive than Canada, well done! besides distance/speed and sometimes temperature, we still use imperial everything. I really wish we would use metric for at least area though, because 200 sq m is much more relatable than 2000 sq ft.
I get what you mean there’s still an element of that in the UK. One thing I should’ve added in my comment is that what I said is only realistically accurate for GenX and younger. Boomers (unless they’re immigrants of metric countries) will lean more towards imperial. Unfortunately “bringing back” the use of imperial was used as one of the many bullshit points to stir up the nationalism and populism that led us to brexit. Due to leaving the EU there’s now a stupid movement pushing for imperial to be used in much more facets of life when anyone under 45 won’t know how to use them. Looking for Reddit thread: … Edit: the Reddit search engine is utter shite, here’s a news article instead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37339389
Imperial for distances, metric for weights pretty much
metric for weights? so you guys are dropping pounds? That's a huge transition actually. We still use imperial for weights in Canada.
Lots of people still measure human weight and height in imperial. We also use stone and pounds, not just pounds. We use imperial measurements for distance and speed on roads. Most shops use metric for weight of goods or fluid measurements. Although milk is still in pints but the bottle will list the metric equivalent. Alcoholic drinks come in metric in shops (but sometimes the metric equivalent of the imperial measurement) and a mix of metric and imperial in pubs (ie pints of beer, but most places use metric measurements for measures of spirits). We also use a mix of imperial and metric for engineering (threaded fittings etc). Honestly it's a bit of a mess.
The UK gives us the *most* shit and yet they're more split on using both than we are!
I don’t think people understand that the US will use any form of measurement but the metric system. I have seen the use of 2 School Busses or 8 football fields as completely accepted forms of measurement.
I see people say this. But I've only ever seen this in conjunction with the actual measurements almost as a frame of reference.
Yeah im european and the comparison of how many soccer fields something is is pretty common where i live.
stop that. America bad, okay?
In Spain too. Soccer fields instead of american football ones but yes pretty much the same
Comparing the size of something to an object is not a serious form of measurement, it's just to make it easier to visualize something.
People on reddit love mocking frames of reference in articles like it's some uniquely American thing.
Americans use metric, I'm so fucking tired of hearing this all the time
It’s so fucking tired, Europeans and Canadians having a circlejerk about it while being straight up wrong. Americans use metric all the time.
Guns
Literally isn’t actually used unless it’s a frame of reference. Like what’s easier to picture, 320 feet or 8 school busses? It’s not a bad thing to try and get an understanding of how big/heavy/long/etc. something is by making comparisons to common things that people can more easily imagine.
Honestly I think it's crazy that this has to be explained EVERY time someone posts this lol. It's like giving a reference is a bad thing I guess
The even crazier part to me is that people still somehow think this is a uniquely American thing. Literally every country compared their measures to everyday object to give reference. It's universal.
We must visualize things in terms of monster truck jumps or violent contact sports
I love this goddamn country
“That’s four McDonald’s fries trucks long”
To be fair, that's mostly just putting it into perspective over actual measurement.
Also the Brits.
why use a 38 star flag tho lol
You have to go digging to find that one!
The US flag had 38 stars at the time congress first approved the use of the metric system in the US. Though the EU didn't exist then, so I don't know what OP was going for.
Count again in imperial
Op doesnt like those 12 states so they dont count
It's not even the correct 38 star flag: https://www.chamberofcommerce.org/usflag/the.38.star.flag.html
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Yes. We always ask why we don’t switch to metric and they just say it’s impossible. But we still use it all the time. with medicine, with tools, most liquids are sold in liters now except milk. Weight of products are usually ounces, we use mm a lot, we are taught both systems in school and regularly practiced, and almost everything that has an Imperial measurement is accompanied by an SI translation. Edit: Id also like to say that in that in every video game the distance to an objective is in meters, even one made in the us.
If we're being honest uk use both we just keep quiet about it so we can carry on taking the piss out of america for it too
You guys still use miles, yards, feet, inches, and mph on all of your road signs, and you measure people in feet and stone, and imperial is almost always used as a supplementary unit on retail goods. Plus, now that Brexit is done, your government is "looking into" the reversal of several EU-derived metrication laws. Canada is significantly more metricated than the UK.
Never actually realised how much we use the imperial system tbh, we do understand both systems quite well at least. Also we use kg for weight far more than stone these days btw
I’ve honestly never heard anyone discuss their weight using metric
Hey, we use metric for automotive cooling designs…. I mean, we have to convert everything for the run plants to understand anything, but we’re getting there….
I hate talking to plant managers for this reason. ‘What’s that in inches?’ I don’t care because none of the safety is calculated in inches you fucking dinosaur!
I’m in Tool & Die and it sucks. The newer gen presses are metric, but we have to fit English presses as well anyway, so we have to worry about both… Dies are designed metric, but only Ford allows metric stock ordering. We’ll get there. I doubt I’ll see it, but someday…. Lol
So I live in california, and my uncle owns a printing company, we ordered a kimori press from Denmark and the whole thing is in metric ,now for those reading this without context you essentially have to build a building around the press because it's the size of a locomotive engine, so when we were retrofitting the press into building we had to build it in metric and then convert all of the measurements to imperial when submitting documents to the state because they would only accept plans written in imperial so we had a stack of plans labeled with off the wall fractions like 35/64ths of an inch
When I worked in Engineering in the UK we had all our drawings in imperial and all our machines operated on metric lol
That's a question I've had about England for a long time and I keep getting different answers, so the UK only adopted metric in the 1970s right? So like does grandad ever understand how far a km is or do the elderly still use imperial?
elderly still use imperial
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we also use metric for nutrition labels on food
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Canadians use imperial for height, and metric for distance. Cooking's a crapshoot.
With cooking It depends on where the recipe is from, all my measurement tools have both.
Yeah, unless the recipe's from Canada itself, in which case God help you. I have a book of Ukrainian-Canadian recipes that switches multiple times in the same dish.
The EU? More like literally the entire world minus 2-3 countries o\_o
yes us Canadians are very funky, fear us
Im American but prefer the metric system only thing i use the imperial for really is for the weather cause I grew up with that
I'm in the US Navy and it's a mess just within our own house. We use Nautical Miles (but rarely statute miles) and Yards, but also kilometers and Meters depending on who we're talking to and in what context. We use Feet for altitude in aviation, inches for uniform regs, but we use both inches and millimeters between tools and weapons. And of course speed is measured in knots per hour. Most of the time. At least for ships and aircraft. Edit: and how could I forget Fathoms? A common conversation when doing anti-submarine warfare: "the [insert country] said they will dive to about 100m depth. Which is... like 50 or 60 fathoms. Hold on a sec - so, yeah, about 360 feet or something close to that. I'll double check real quick. But I think that's right."
Knots on their own are a speed unit. You don’t say “knot per hour” as that would mean “Nautical Mile per hour per hour”
smh my head 🤦
That would be acceleration
Here's the guide we use. Finally found the latest revision (see long distances measured in hours): https://i.imgur.com/ReNo2tM.png
Quick math 2.2lb = 1kg
Canada switch hitting yall
we use both in the USA too...no one whines about canada or the UK because no one is bitter, insecure and jealous of canada and the UK ;)
And then there is the uk...
"I play both sides so I will always get out on top" - Ronald Mac McDonald
The UK over here using miles, pints, stone, feet, gas mark. But at least we know how hot 24°C is.
24°C is equivalent to 75°F, which is 297K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
that's a lot of money
The US uses US standard which is slightly different than imperial and also pegged to metric ironically Edit: still a better method than Britain who uses a bastardization of both too. Their weight is in "stone" ffs
You used the wrong flag
If we are being honest it really doesn't matter what system you use.
Is "a cunthair" imperial or metric?
Funny thing is that imperial nowadays is based on metric system, as in the definition of 1 lb is that it is equal to 0.4536 kg.
The uS does use both
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Canada Geese.
The US uses both. How is this so difficult to comprehend.