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Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

American ex-pat/Canadian permanent resident here. This is all pretty accurate in my experience, though I can't speak on using Imperial for work-related measurements or pool temperature. Just this morning I had to describe our current bout of cool weather in Ferenheit to my friends back home, and was reminded all over again how ridiculous it is that the US still isn't on metric. This rings especially true whenever I call my mom. Seems like I have to "Hey Google" conversions in every conversation we have. Before my dad died he would keep his weather app on Celcius to report the weather to me in metric. I honestly love that he felt compelled to do that.

It was a little weird getting used to the metric system initially, but I honestly prefer it at this point. I used to argue that you could be more precise with Farenheit, as the scale was broader. However, I've since come to realize that no one cares whether it was 74Β° or 76Β°.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Where I live its generally imperial for estimating something at a glance, and metric for actually measuring something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My father hauls liquids in Canada. Never leaves the province. But on his reports he must note metric and imperial gallon.

I don't have to watch the show to know it is true. When I was in middle school we had to learn conversions for all of these (except Β°C to Β°F, cause that's too hard).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Volume for drinks is also Imperial in my experience.

16oz/20oz beer, 5oz wine, 1oz liquor, etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They missed an important one. If it's distance related to COVID, it's measured in hockey sticks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup pretty accurate (quebec)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Many things make sense now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Naw, metric for everything except cooking temp and body weight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know anyone that discusses pool temps in anything but imperial

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My head hurts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is highly inaccurate. Human height is done in cm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only medical records. Amongst the general populace it's feet/inches.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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