In the pub: Do you want a pint of beer, or a 330ml can of beer? We’re so inconsistent lol
UK and US imperial are actually different
Areas are my favourite. Football pitches, London, Wales.
Fuel economy measured in mpg, fuel sold in litres.
Milk: sold in pints, measured in litres
I wish everything had this because its annoying on things like games to have MPH and F for temperature
Are you a bit disappointed with Material 3? I was looking forward to a nice refresh and it just feels half baked.
Miles, pints, kg and meters. The perfect balance of both worlds 👌
What’s the US equivalent of “the size of Wales” ?
I love that i can know what short distances are in metres eg 100 metres but longer distances have to be in miles or I can’t imagine it at all. I cook and bake using grams but I would have no idea what I weigh in kgs. It has to be stones or I’m lost. Miles per gallon is how I think of fuel economy for a car but buy petrol in litres.
Why did we have a foot (foot length, but was later standardized) and hands (horses) but not other body parts?
Bing weather will allow you to use Celsius, but wind speed will be measured in km/h, or you can use Fahrenheit and get wind speed in mph.
There’s no option for UK met-perial.
No bananas?
Maybe it’s changed but on Android devices you would get default measures from the main country where your chosen language is spoken. So say you chose UK English it would use GB measures but if in Ireland or some other English speaking country where they use kph not mph it wouldn’t be correct.
In device settings you could fine-tune your region.
Its actually in case you want to measure in microkelvins 👍 /s
I love it when my parents’ generation say they like imperial measures – but when you say how many ounces in a pound or how many pounds in a stone they say err I think it’s 16 or 14 or maybe 12. 😂
Blocks of cheese per square bean
Recipe weights are grams and kilograms. Human weight loss I’ve only ever heard in pounds and stones
If this doesn’t randomly swap between metric and imperial part way through the same screen, it’s failing to reflect our crazy ways.
When sat nav apps use feet instead of yards it is just wrong.
Really wish we would bite the bullet and go full metric. The outcry from the oldies would be something to behold
About yay high.
So picking metric or imperial almost at random?
It’s not just because of the mix of imperial and metric. Imperial (UK) and Imperial (US) are different.
Tyre dimensions. 🤨
To be truly British it will have to be a horrendous mish-mash of imperial and metric.
Water usage is measured in cups of tea to be fair, at least according to Thames Water
Give me my miles and metres. Yards are just about ok but I don’t want Google maps or Waze talking about 1000ft.
Good fucking luck Google.
I’m 6ft tall so have a good view of the 100m sprint while drinking my pint and complaining about the cost of a litre of fuel.
Plus some 20 stone bloke just knocked my half kilo bag of crisps off the tray.
Why did Europe get along with decimalisation so much better?
Surely they also used an older form of measurement but did a better job at abandoning/converting?
Also, the UK and Europe uses a much more sensible way of measuring paper sizes. A1, A2, A4, A3 etc where the length of each size is exactly half or double the width of the preceding or following size.
The USA stuck to using weird sizes like Half letter, Government letter, Letter, junior legal and so on with no real correlation between them.
I know there isn’t a US “Imperial”, was merely trying to highlight that when people say imperial there is a difference between measures in Imperial (which the UK still uses) and what the US use.
Furlongs per hogshead. The only true fuel consumption measure.
Does this mean Google maps will finally use metres and miles?
UK is the weird hybrid that has somehow managed to use both metric and imperial simultaneously in their society.
Ah the look of confusion on my German friend when I was giving her directions and mentioned “go down this street for about 100 metres, turn left and stick to the main road for a few miles”.
There is a man standing next to a tree, both are the same height. One is 1.829 metres tall, and the other is 6 feet tall.
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In the pub: Do you want a pint of beer, or a 330ml can of beer? We’re so inconsistent lol
UK and US imperial are actually different
Areas are my favourite. Football pitches, London, Wales.
Fuel economy measured in mpg, fuel sold in litres.
Milk: sold in pints, measured in litres
I wish everything had this because its annoying on things like games to have MPH and F for temperature
Are you a bit disappointed with Material 3? I was looking forward to a nice refresh and it just feels half baked.
Miles, pints, kg and meters. The perfect balance of both worlds 👌
What’s the US equivalent of “the size of Wales” ?
I love that i can know what short distances are in metres eg 100 metres but longer distances have to be in miles or I can’t imagine it at all. I cook and bake using grams but I would have no idea what I weigh in kgs. It has to be stones or I’m lost. Miles per gallon is how I think of fuel economy for a car but buy petrol in litres.
Why did we have a foot (foot length, but was later standardized) and hands (horses) but not other body parts?
Bing weather will allow you to use Celsius, but wind speed will be measured in km/h, or you can use Fahrenheit and get wind speed in mph.
There’s no option for UK met-perial.
No bananas?
Maybe it’s changed but on Android devices you would get default measures from the main country where your chosen language is spoken. So say you chose UK English it would use GB measures but if in Ireland or some other English speaking country where they use kph not mph it wouldn’t be correct.
In device settings you could fine-tune your region.
Its actually in case you want to measure in microkelvins 👍 /s
I love it when my parents’ generation say they like imperial measures – but when you say how many ounces in a pound or how many pounds in a stone they say err I think it’s 16 or 14 or maybe 12. 😂
Blocks of cheese per square bean
Recipe weights are grams and kilograms. Human weight loss I’ve only ever heard in pounds and stones
If this doesn’t randomly swap between metric and imperial part way through the same screen, it’s failing to reflect our crazy ways.
When sat nav apps use feet instead of yards it is just wrong.
Really wish we would bite the bullet and go full metric. The outcry from the oldies would be something to behold
About yay high.
So picking metric or imperial almost at random?
It’s not just because of the mix of imperial and metric. Imperial (UK) and Imperial (US) are different.
Tyre dimensions. 🤨
To be truly British it will have to be a horrendous mish-mash of imperial and metric.
Water usage is measured in cups of tea to be fair, at least according to Thames Water
Give me my miles and metres. Yards are just about ok but I don’t want Google maps or Waze talking about 1000ft.
Good fucking luck Google.
I’m 6ft tall so have a good view of the 100m sprint while drinking my pint and complaining about the cost of a litre of fuel.
Plus some 20 stone bloke just knocked my half kilo bag of crisps off the tray.
Why did Europe get along with decimalisation so much better?
Surely they also used an older form of measurement but did a better job at abandoning/converting?
Also, the UK and Europe uses a much more sensible way of measuring paper sizes. A1, A2, A4, A3 etc where the length of each size is exactly half or double the width of the preceding or following size.
The USA stuck to using weird sizes like Half letter, Government letter, Letter, junior legal and so on with no real correlation between them.
I know there isn’t a US “Imperial”, was merely trying to highlight that when people say imperial there is a difference between measures in Imperial (which the UK still uses) and what the US use.
Furlongs per hogshead. The only true fuel consumption measure.
Does this mean Google maps will finally use metres and miles?
UK is the weird hybrid that has somehow managed to use both metric and imperial simultaneously in their society.
Ah the look of confusion on my German friend when I was giving her directions and mentioned “go down this street for about 100 metres, turn left and stick to the main road for a few miles”.
There is a man standing next to a tree, both are the same height. One is 1.829 metres tall, and the other is 6 feet tall.
Where am I?
Use default metric, U SUK
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