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The “is it related to work” is a little misleading. Most industries are mostly imperial but government regulations and communications are all metric so things like fisheries end up being pretty metric.
Yeah it’s extremely relative.
My industry uses both, regularly, because we have machinery from both the US and Europe.
As an American I’ve been metricating rather than just waiting for my country to get on board and it’s not as hard as I’d expected. Everyone in my life hates that I’m doing it but I’m liking it
I love that you’re doing it. Sincerely, an Australian who loves the metric system.
Whoever made this seems to think tonnes are Imperial…? Isn’t a ton basically just a megagram? Or am I confused?
Apparently there’s also a (mostly outdated) unit called a long ton (or “ton”) not to be confused with a metric tonne (or “tonne”). TIL.
A long ton is about 1.016something metric tonne.
TIL! Thanks.
Yeah, we rely on people understanding context.
It’s wild.
Well still see Fahrenheit used if it’s a hot sunny day. If it’s a cold day we use Celsius.
I’m not positive if you’re making this up ✖‿✖
I’ve literally never heard anyone use fahrenheit ever not even my gramie and she still thinks of things in pre decimal money sometimes
This is the reason I set my phone’s language to Irish English… I needed an English language option that uses sane measurements for everything.
How many yuhboys make a yiz?
Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.
It’s like this wonderful xkcd
Yeah, it makes no sense to me, a 44 year old English guy who was taught metric at school, with a little imperial because our society still uses it in certain places.
In essence, I think it’s because the Boomers still have a stranglehold. Few years back there was a story about a sign put up in a park somewhere announcing the distance to a local attraction in metres. Some local boomer kept removing the sign, or changing the distance to yards or some shit, as if the sign was meant only for his use.
Imagine having the emotional capacity to be mad at a measurement sign multiple times ha. I hope he cares so deeply about other issues too.
I heard UK buys liters but but measures mileage in miles per gallon. Is that true?
Yes. Also a US gallon is 3.79 litres but a UK gallon is 4.55 litres, so one US mpg is 1.201 UK mpg
This is asinine
Edit: but who’s the worst offender? The freedom gallon or the UK one?
both of them. The rest of the world has moved on
Lmao fair
The only thing I learnt living in england is I weigh approximately 8 stone(s).
Still don’t fucking understand miles, because I lived somewhere with transport and never got a car.
Honestly just consider it to be 1.5 km. It’s close enough for most circumstances
The Fibonacci sequence is also handy (since the golden ratio is not too far off the miles km conversion.
2 mi ≈ 3 km
3 mi ≈ 5 km
5 mi ≈ 8 km
Etc
1 mi = 1.609344 km Golden ratio ≈ 1.618
I understand miles because of car journalists always using 0-60mph times 😅
Not terribly different from 0-100kph, FYI. That’s about 62mph.
A kilometre is about 1/10,000th the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
A mile is 1,760 yards. Why? Because I said so!
Complex decision trees are something I can accept.
Using both imperial and metric tons isn’t. It’s even more unacceptable to believe you can distinguish them by some dismorphic plural.
Very nice. Now let’s see Canada’s
business cardmeasurement flowchart.The U.S.'s flowchart is pretty complicated, too.
We sell soda in 20oz, 1L, and 2L bottles, or 12 ounce cans. Fountain drinks are measured in ounces.
Wine and liquor are sold in 750ml bottles (and other larger format bottles measured in liters), but individual servings are generally measured in ounces.
Our bullets/ammunition are also mixed, probably because we did standardize our military on NATO standards, but also love our legacy calibers and have a bunch of calibers that aren’t used in the military.
And the U.S. isn’t unique in having a bunch of ways to measure energy (joules, calories, kilowatt hours, therms, BTUs), but we’re somewhat unique in having too many ways to measure power (watts, BTUs/hr, horsepower).
My least favourite unit is Tons of refrigeration.
That is whack that there are people seriously advertising products with this.
Almost the entirety of the decision tree applies to America too.
I like that metric is red. Red for bad. shit system, no character, too easy. French 👎👎👎💩
I understand you like imperial better. It is after all a system designed by and for people that need to count on their fingers and haven’t figured out the use of the decimal point yet.
metric is for people that are to mentally impaired to do conversions quickly. it is built for the feeble mind, unlike imperial
So that’s why it’s always 1/4 mile and 2/3 cup instead using feet or ounces.
bro srsly replied to someone from a dutch fediverse server thinking that they don’t like metric unironically 💀
