Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.
They missed an important one. If it's distance related to COVID, it's measured in hockey sticks.
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Okay, yeah that all seems correct to me lol. It sure does make us sound crazy though!
I'm pretty happy to have non-zero competency in all the systems lol. I'm a regular hobby crafter, and honestly some projects just work better in metric, some are better in imperial.
Volume for drinks is also Imperial in my experience.
16oz/20oz beer, 5oz wine, 1oz liquor, etc
Yeah, that's in the food thing. What's frustrating is everything is purchased in metric denominations but in imperial-standard sizes so we get stupid crap like a 355ml (12 oz) pop can.
Traveling to metric countries is so refreshing on this. I remember being in Argentina and buying a bag of cookies at the bakery and just asking for "un cuarto" of cookies (implicitly a quarter-kilo).
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Yup pretty accurate (quebec)
Ontario checking in, 100% accurate. Actually I would add home temperature (like the thermostat) under F, but body temperature (like checking if you have a fever) under C. Also we're so used Americans using miles for distance/speed we'll sometimes use it in idioms ("They ran out of here at 100 miles per hour!”). I never realized this change between measuring systems wasn't the norm until I started chatting with Europeans.
I am in Ontario and all me thermostats have been metric. Thankfully too as it's always confusing when it's in imperial.
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My head hurts.
This is highly inaccurate. Human height is done in cm.
Australia we still use some legacy units such as psi instead of kPa or Bar in common parlance. This stems from our parents using this. Kids nowadays will probably adopt kPa, as it's in all the door jams of cars.
I have a better idea: just use metric.
I try to fully metrify my workplace and my teammates are receptive because everyone knows imperial units suck.
I came in here hoping to understand how to measure a Canadian. Height or circumference at least…