The fun of living in a 3A climate. (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a brit, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Canada uses kilometres instead of miles (we use miles / yards here and it's daft).

Then I reached the company gym and saw everything was in lbs :(

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I fucking hate how we measure long distances in miles, but short ones in metres, but human heights in feet, and buy cooking ingredients in grams but measure them in ounces, and human weights are in fucking stone, and liquids are in litres unless its milk or beer which are in pints, and...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

hahaha yep

never a dull moment

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I work in Construction, so most stuff is designed to be multi market, so hardly anything is in metric or it’s “specialty”.

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