To be fair, we only use Imperial on beer. And milk. And weight (but only human weight) – and height(but only human height) and distance (but only when using a vehicle, otherwise it’s kilometres). Other than that, it’s all metric.
Use both at the same time in the UK sometimes , can go in a builders merchant and ask for 3 meters of half inch pipe and they would know what you mean , my wagon weighs in kg but drives in mph is another example of using both at same time , milk comes in pints but also displays liters.
Hey as someone who went through grad school in America, the metric system *chef’s kiss*
At least we left some reminders of their British roots
But it’s 2 miles to the pub
I started school in the UK using imperial and halfway through we changed to Metric = I do not recommend myself for any measuring, its normally 4 foot 3cms or stuff like that…
Pints for draught beer in a pub only
Miles while driving a car
(KM for cycling and walking)
Metric for everything else
I think this just proves that the maths teachers were in fact half decent. Mine wasn’t. He used to go on random tirades about how he’d set dogs on people in South Africa in the middle of class…and tell us he rubbed his nipples off in a super marathon too
O still have no idea how any of that was math related 😂
At least we don’t use deciitres and the like. I find that even more confusing. Using 300ml is so much easier to wrap my head round than 3dl.
I have realised that we don’t actually understand any measurements, they are just vague figures of speech we all adopt without any understanding of what they are.
So we talk about getting a pint of beer or milk, a quarter of sweets, we drive 30 mph, worry about the cost of a litre of fuel (or gallon sometimes), worry when the temp goes sub zero, measure fighters in pounds, everyone else in stone, lift weights in kilos and recipes could include grams, ounces or spoons.
It depends on what is being measured AND how much.
Area is multiples of, Football pitch, London or Isle of Wight, Wales.
Refrigeration pipe is always the one that gets me
In the suppliers: hiya pal can I have 6 meters of 3/8 and 1/2 inch please
UK is the brownish mix of all those colours
Yeah that’s about right.
Americans use American customary units, not imperial. There are some key differences, particularly on units of volume.
It’s really pretty simple: st and lbs for human weight, grams for weighing ingredients, ml & litres for liquids (but pints for lager etc.), ft & in for height but mm & cm for cutting wood etc. miles for distance but not for running as that’s km, and not forgetting mph for speed. See, totally easy, haha.
But a UK pint is larger than a US pint
Not the point of the joke, but it feels overly generous to call the imperial system a system. Arbitrary collection of unrelated measurement units, perhaps?
“I’ll have a 4.2m length of 4×2 please”
We are stuck in the crossover
Aren’t Canada also liars?
Technically the US uses US customary units, not standard imperial. Some of the units like gallons pints and tons are different between the two
Could really do with 568.26ml of beer after reading this.
I do like how we’ve got a pseudo metric system in the UK.
Jars of jam are still in 1lb jars, just labelled as 454 grams, a pint is 568ml but it’s still a pint…
Personally, I like it, as bonkers as it is to have so many units, long may it continue.
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To be fair, we only use Imperial on beer. And milk. And weight (but only human weight) – and height(but only human height) and distance (but only when using a vehicle, otherwise it’s kilometres). Other than that, it’s all metric.
Use both at the same time in the UK sometimes , can go in a builders merchant and ask for 3 meters of half inch pipe and they would know what you mean , my wagon weighs in kg but drives in mph is another example of using both at same time , milk comes in pints but also displays liters.
Hey as someone who went through grad school in America, the metric system *chef’s kiss*
At least we left some reminders of their British roots
But it’s 2 miles to the pub
I started school in the UK using imperial and halfway through we changed to Metric = I do not recommend myself for any measuring, its normally 4 foot 3cms or stuff like that…
Pints for draught beer in a pub only
Miles while driving a car
(KM for cycling and walking)
Metric for everything else
I think this just proves that the maths teachers were in fact half decent. Mine wasn’t. He used to go on random tirades about how he’d set dogs on people in South Africa in the middle of class…and tell us he rubbed his nipples off in a super marathon too
O still have no idea how any of that was math related 😂
At least we don’t use deciitres and the like. I find that even more confusing. Using 300ml is so much easier to wrap my head round than 3dl.
I have realised that we don’t actually understand any measurements, they are just vague figures of speech we all adopt without any understanding of what they are.
So we talk about getting a pint of beer or milk, a quarter of sweets, we drive 30 mph, worry about the cost of a litre of fuel (or gallon sometimes), worry when the temp goes sub zero, measure fighters in pounds, everyone else in stone, lift weights in kilos and recipes could include grams, ounces or spoons.
It depends on what is being measured AND how much.
Area is multiples of, Football pitch, London or Isle of Wight, Wales.
Refrigeration pipe is always the one that gets me
In the suppliers: hiya pal can I have 6 meters of 3/8 and 1/2 inch please
UK is the brownish mix of all those colours
Yeah that’s about right.
Americans use American customary units, not imperial. There are some key differences, particularly on units of volume.
It’s really pretty simple: st and lbs for human weight, grams for weighing ingredients, ml & litres for liquids (but pints for lager etc.), ft & in for height but mm & cm for cutting wood etc. miles for distance but not for running as that’s km, and not forgetting mph for speed. See, totally easy, haha.
But a UK pint is larger than a US pint
Not the point of the joke, but it feels overly generous to call the imperial system a system. Arbitrary collection of unrelated measurement units, perhaps?
“I’ll have a 4.2m length of 4×2 please”
We are stuck in the crossover
Aren’t Canada also liars?
Technically the US uses US customary units, not standard imperial. Some of the units like gallons pints and tons are different between the two
Could really do with 568.26ml of beer after reading this.
I do like how we’ve got a pseudo metric system in the UK.
Jars of jam are still in 1lb jars, just labelled as 454 grams, a pint is 568ml but it’s still a pint…
Personally, I like it, as bonkers as it is to have so many units, long may it continue.
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