@MeanwhileinCanada it's true!

@MeanwhileinCanada and those catsup potato chips. What’s up with that?

@MeanwhileinCanada

Sound very like the UK but perhaps with a bit less French 🙂🤷‍♂️

@MeanwhileinCanada I suddenly find Canadian people very endearing

@MeanwhileinCanada
Still better than corgis and baby elephants as units of measurement

@MeanwhileinCanada 100k is aproximately an hour's driving on the freeway (limits are usually 100k, sometimes faster). Tolerances on a mechanical drawing are about the eg. .1mm is very close to the .005in tolerance used on a lot of mechanical drawings. It's all very easy...

@MeanwhileinCanada but Canada invented ice hockey so it is all forgiven.

@MeanwhileinCanada C’est true.

@MeanwhileinCanada
<accurate.gif>

@MeanwhileinCanada Congratulations - you're Scottish with an accent.

@MeanwhileinCanada @KingShawn Fahrenheit is so good for outside temperatures and Celsius makes more sense for cooking. I didn’t know this and this is strange and backward.

@MeanwhileinCanada
I follow a Canadian that posts cooking stuff. Almost every post has measurements like this. When I commented she said "That's just the way we do it".

@MeanwhileinCanada "We speak like Americans and get socialized health care." Y'all are truly the "good child" of the colonial period.

@MeanwhileinCanada Y'all don't speak like Americans.

We Americans sound much dumber than Canadians, and we're damn proud of it.

@MeanwhileinCanada Does this all check out @brittlestar?

@MeanwhileinCanada 👏👏👏

@MeanwhileinCanada Americans seem incapable of using anything other than city blocks to describe size. Like all city blocks are the same size. You need help America, several city blocks worth of help.

@MeanwhileinCanada in print design it’s still inches and for fun I’m in web so that is pixels.

@MeanwhileinCanada I guess que!

@MeanwhileinCanada “Fill up with 25 liters of gas and you get a 16 oz glass.”

@MeanwhileinCanada What unit would you use to weigh a person made out of cheese? 🤔

@MeanwhileinCanada and you do it all while acting so nice that no one suspects you are plotting world domination.

@MeanwhileinCanada This brought me a chuckle.

@MeanwhileinCanada
I remember getting New Scientist (UK) and they had an article illustrated with a picture of (part of) a bathroom scale.

There were two parallel scales, but the units label was not in the picture, and I noticed that the conversion factor between them was weird. WEIRD. Six-point-something? What could it be, I wondered.

Eventually I realized that it must show kilos and stone.

@MeanwhileinCanada

I could forgive all that BUT WHY IS YOUR BACON HAM??

@MeanwhileinCanada Kraft Dinner is the one that throws me off

@MeanwhileinCanada Can confirm, eh?

@MeanwhileinCanada we don't call that "confused*
We call that "unique"
:)

@MeanwhileinCanada And you put milk in bags.

@MeanwhileinCanada and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

It’s so true and I love to make it worse by using old British words for expressions to really throw people for a loop lol

@MeanwhileinCanada Outside temp in summer - much more fun in Fahrenheit.

@MeanwhileinCanada
You forgot Jordan Peterson, one of the most confused and confusing Canadians of all.

@MeanwhileinCanada and Canadians keep marmite with the bread yeast in the supermarket...

@MeanwhileinCanada
Some of those oddities apply to me too although I am British. In part because at home my parents were still using imperial so stuff like my height and weight were in imperial but at school it was metric but height & weight of people rarely if ever came up. The weather on TV was in celcius and my parents had switched over with that. I've only used ovens with Celcius on. I don't understand Farenheit. Britain still uses miles not kilometres. (1/2)

@MeanwhileinCanada and we love ya

@MeanwhileinCanada to be fare, you know a stone and a conversion rate of 2.54 and 100 is yea or coffee

@MeanwhileinCanada and doing that last one, we do deliberately. It confuses Americans when we suddenly drop metric units or French nouns into our otherwise flawless Hollywood prose. 😀​ it's a labour of amour

@MeanwhileinCanada @lj

@MeanwhileinCanada and when you ask us how far it is from point A to point B we say about n hour.

@MeanwhileinCanada I blame the Brits, that’s common in lot of other countries (except for the last one)

@MeanwhileinCanada yo us Americans, we basically see Canada as a peek into an alternate timeline where the US lost the war of independence

@MeanwhileinCanada Plumbers and bartenders still use imperial. Telling.

@MeanwhileinCanada nicest people in the world except when standing on ice holding a bent stick

@MeanwhileinCanada glad you spell correctly

@MeanwhileinCanada I stand by Fahrenheit- When it’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it feels like 100 hots, not 38 hots.

@MeanwhileinCanada eh?

@MeanwhileinCanada
#Canada - even criminals are more polite ❤️

@MeanwhileinCanada the first few are the fault of the Americans doggedly persisting with their arcane measuring system. The last is the fault of the British persisting with their arcane spelling.

Canadians are halfway to modernity.

@MeanwhileinCanada Not to mention volumes. What is this nonsense of “soft metric” with things packaged and priced by the pound but labeled by the g/kg? Even worse for volumes, and this is before getting into the ambiguity between US and Imperial fluid ounces, or the exceptions that are fully Imperial or fully metric!

@MeanwhileinCanada I use celsius in winter and fahrenheit in summer (75F sounds better than 24C). And in Britain, we also measure weight in Stones and pounds rather than just pounds so 140 pounds would be 10 stone.

@MeanwhileinCanada

Also, Canadian football: 12 players on the field. What up, Canada?

@MeanwhileinCanada Greetings from Eastern France where we switch between 2-3 languages even in one sentence and don't always understand le Québécois.😁 We don't name it confusion, but linguistic richness.🤓

@MeanwhileinCanada 😆😆

@MeanwhileinCanada Also milk comes in plastic bags.

C’est la vie, eh.

@MeanwhileinCanada yeah but do can you say hello in 47 languages when you are negotiating for a kilogram of unga measured in the gorr unit so that you make a sufuria of uganga using Potts of water to serve to madem na wase and their friends.

@MeanwhileinCanada absolutely perfect👍

@MeanwhileinCanada Ngl each time I think of Canada I think about how friendly your geese are

https://youtu.be/AMdhAFPWzFw

@MeanwhileinCanada @WataruTenkawa My Canadian aunt said that they measure driving distance in km and buy gas in litres, but talk about fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. But that was a few years ago, so maybe that’s changed.

@MeanwhileinCanada I am 203 cm tall. Weigh 99 kilos. And I am USA

@MeanwhileinCanada 👩🏾‍🦯

@MeanwhileinCanada I love when Canadians flip the switch mid-sentence from English to French, especially on international news broadcasts. Really messes with people.

@MeanwhileinCanada I am continually astounded that first one isn't the other way around

@MeanwhileinCanada Is that why you’ve been so apologetic?

@MeanwhileinCanada basically true, and such a wholesome post. Thanks.

@MeanwhileinCanada

A friend and I were youth hosteling in the UK on breaks from an archaeological dig ...

We ran into a couple of young Canadian women and it was funny because we all were so thrilled to be with someone else who - spoke more or less the same (except for "been" of course) and - thought in terms of dollars (it was pounds and shillings still at that point). Both Canadians and Americans found a bit of home together that way.

❤️ 🇺🇲 🇨🇦 ❤️

@MeanwhileinCanada As a 'Brit' can I call you our quirky cousins then? ;)

@MeanwhileinCanada 🤣

@MeanwhileinCanada

🙈

@MeanwhileinCanada
My thinking and daily life are almost completely in metric.
Almost - except in the kitchen, our oven is an American model,(very common here) so in Fahrenheit and a lot of my recipes are cups, tsp Tbsp
Oh and I estimate the length of things by Hands (I have an 8" hand span) and yards (I learned a pretty accurate 1 yard pace years ago)
In a Canadian hardware store (and my workshop) you'll find a fairly equal mix of metric and "standard" hardware and tools.

@MeanwhileinCanada And to make things more confusing for me, I lived in Australia long enough that even though I have my Canadian accent back, I speak with an Australian speech pattern and even Canadians don't understand me half the time.

Except for the Quebecers.

And my neighbours from Malaysia asked me this year when I emigrated from Australia (!) and I was floored because nobody has asked that since my Aussie accent vanished in 1999.

@MeanwhileinCanada c’est vrai 🤣

@MeanwhileinCanada as a devoted Habs fan, I do not relate or understand your post. Lol.