I was looking at some plywood earlier that was measured in mm thickness, but came in sheets measured in feet
I quite like that when it’s hot we use Fahrenheit (Wow, it’s 90° outside), but when it’s cold we use Celsius (Brass Monkeys out there, it’s -10°)
Canada should probably also be purple…
It’s because imperial is superior to metric however we want to be friends with everyone so we pretend metric is better but it isn’t.
Lies! We use an awkward combination of both and refuse to fully commit either way.
We use a bastard chimera of the two depending on the situation. A person weighs stones and pounds but flour is in kilos. Beer and milk is in pints but washing up liquid is milliliters. You’d drive a mile but if you were running it would be kilometers. A penis is measured in inches but a piece of wood is centimeters.
I saw a gate advertised. 1m tall, 30 inches wide.
Nonsense. There is a clear system: imperial is for baking, beer and milk, human weight and height, and drugs. Metric is for everything else, and smaller quantities of drugs.
In UK it has always been a bit of both. It’s mostly metric but not always. It would cost too much to change all the road signs to kilometres and no one really cares. Personally i use fahrenheit for hot temperatures and centigrade for the lower ones. Many do this!
I usually have a gram of speed before I have a pint.
The US doesn’t use imperial tho
It uses US customary units
Their pints and gallons are smaller than imperial ones
Shouldn’t it be Liberia, America, and Burma as Imperial users?
Ive have always used both interchangeably .
I don’t know how or why it works but it does and who are we to question it?
I can’t formulate me weighing myself in lbs and kgs but you’re damned if understand how to follow a baking recipe my mum has given me in ounces and gallons. Litres,becomes instantly reality.
Height is the same.
They may take the piss out of us but have you noticed everyone universally knows if a man is 6ft or over. 🤔
Anything up to 7ft, I’ll use imperial. Above that give it to me in Metric.
I used to work in a shop selling gas equipment. Stuff like tips for cutting torches is measured in imperial. But rubber hose is metric. Copper pipe is both imperial or metric, and brass fittings are also both. Very annoying!
Laughs in lack of consistency. Our trains aren’t even consistent, the Class 91 brands itself on its speed in km/h while also driving in mph
Is that us and New Zealand or is it just me?
British manage it the most sensible way. Tailor the measurement to whatever is being measured. Pint is the perfect amount of beer
Ireland should be green. They use full metric, except for some boomers.
I find if I want to go big imperial go small metric.
It works for me?
I tend to stick to metric for 99 percent of things, but I also learnt maths at school, so switching isn’t much trouble. I do drink beer in pints, but I will settle for a litre if I have to.
Someone’s been watching too much archer 😂😂
Honestly though, we use metric for the important things like engineering.
And when it comes to distance it’s metric bar yards & miles.. honestly who actually knows what a furlong is 🤷😂
And with weights metric makes sense throughout.. bar our body weights as it sounds much more comforting to say I’m 20st than 127kg 😂😂
A pint is a pint, and honestly I feel like that’s just because who wants to order a half litre of beer, it’s just too wordy..
While metric is clearly superior, there are some things ingrained in our culture and traditions that you don’t change
And no matter the country, everyone uses inches for dick measuring no matter that centimetres make it sound more impressive 😂
Americans have one measurement, and that’s freedom eagles per bullet-riddled 4th grader
New Zealand should be a shade somewhere between green and purple. I remember helping my father planting seed at kilograms per acre. Tyre pressures are still PSI. Screens and monitors are still in inches.
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I was looking at some plywood earlier that was measured in mm thickness, but came in sheets measured in feet
I quite like that when it’s hot we use Fahrenheit (Wow, it’s 90° outside), but when it’s cold we use Celsius (Brass Monkeys out there, it’s -10°)
Canada should probably also be purple…
It’s because imperial is superior to metric however we want to be friends with everyone so we pretend metric is better but it isn’t.
Lies! We use an awkward combination of both and refuse to fully commit either way.
We use a bastard chimera of the two depending on the situation. A person weighs stones and pounds but flour is in kilos. Beer and milk is in pints but washing up liquid is milliliters. You’d drive a mile but if you were running it would be kilometers. A penis is measured in inches but a piece of wood is centimeters.
I saw a gate advertised. 1m tall, 30 inches wide.
Nonsense. There is a clear system: imperial is for baking, beer and milk, human weight and height, and drugs. Metric is for everything else, and smaller quantities of drugs.
In UK it has always been a bit of both. It’s mostly metric but not always. It would cost too much to change all the road signs to kilometres and no one really cares. Personally i use fahrenheit for hot temperatures and centigrade for the lower ones. Many do this!
I usually have a gram of speed before I have a pint.
The US doesn’t use imperial tho
It uses US customary units
Their pints and gallons are smaller than imperial ones
Shouldn’t it be Liberia, America, and Burma as Imperial users?
Ive have always used both interchangeably .
I don’t know how or why it works but it does and who are we to question it?
I can’t formulate me weighing myself in lbs and kgs but you’re damned if understand how to follow a baking recipe my mum has given me in ounces and gallons. Litres,becomes instantly reality.
Height is the same.
They may take the piss out of us but have you noticed everyone universally knows if a man is 6ft or over. 🤔
Anything up to 7ft, I’ll use imperial. Above that give it to me in Metric.
I used to work in a shop selling gas equipment. Stuff like tips for cutting torches is measured in imperial. But rubber hose is metric. Copper pipe is both imperial or metric, and brass fittings are also both. Very annoying!
Laughs in lack of consistency. Our trains aren’t even consistent, the Class 91 brands itself on its speed in km/h while also driving in mph
Is that us and New Zealand or is it just me?
British manage it the most sensible way. Tailor the measurement to whatever is being measured. Pint is the perfect amount of beer
Ireland should be green. They use full metric, except for some boomers.
I find if I want to go big imperial go small metric.
It works for me?
I tend to stick to metric for 99 percent of things, but I also learnt maths at school, so switching isn’t much trouble. I do drink beer in pints, but I will settle for a litre if I have to.
Someone’s been watching too much archer 😂😂
Honestly though, we use metric for the important things like engineering.
And when it comes to distance it’s metric bar yards & miles.. honestly who actually knows what a furlong is 🤷😂
And with weights metric makes sense throughout.. bar our body weights as it sounds much more comforting to say I’m 20st than 127kg 😂😂
A pint is a pint, and honestly I feel like that’s just because who wants to order a half litre of beer, it’s just too wordy..
While metric is clearly superior, there are some things ingrained in our culture and traditions that you don’t change
And no matter the country, everyone uses inches for dick measuring no matter that centimetres make it sound more impressive 😂
Americans have one measurement, and that’s freedom eagles per bullet-riddled 4th grader
New Zealand should be a shade somewhere between green and purple. I remember helping my father planting seed at kilograms per acre. Tyre pressures are still PSI. Screens and monitors are still in inches.
I hate Fahrenheit.
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