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Jim Goodall

@saramg There are only three countries in the entire world NOT using metric.

Liberia
Myanmar
United States

America is in good company.

2 May 2023 at 0:25 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.ca
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Scott Williams 🐧

@jimgoodall @saramg When the English and Aussies weigh themselves in "stone", which metric system are they using?

2 May 2023 at 1:38 | Open on mastodon.online
Jim Goodall

@vwbusguy @saramg
Stone predates metric.
I'm Canadian and use both imperial and metric, because I'm old enough.

Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.
Construction measurements are metric, but when you measure yourself, it's feet and inches.
Shipping weight is metric, but a person's weight is pounds.
Weather temperature is Celcius, but normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
It's a bizarre mix.

2 May 2023 at 1:50 | Open on mstdn.ca
SaraMG

@jimgoodall @vwbusguy I think the problem might be "people who speak English as their native language".

2 May 2023 at 3:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
Reay Jespersen

@jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg Out of curiosity, which construction measurements are metric?
We had a reno done recently, and decided our ceiling heights in feet, all the studs remain 16" on-centre, etc.

I'm old enough to still weigh myself in pounds (vs. the doctor weighing my daughter in kg, requiring my using a calculator), still use F on my oven, and had until quite recently, for decades, thought I was six feet tall because my driver's licence says I'm 180 cm.

reayjespersen.com/blog-1/2022/

@jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg Out of curiosity, which construction measurements are metric?
We had a reno done recently, and decided our ceiling heights in feet, all the studs remain 16" on-centre, etc.

I'm old enough to still weigh myself in pounds (vs. the doctor weighing my daughter in kg, requiring my using a calculator), still use F on my oven, and had until quite recently, for decades, thought I was six feet tall because my driver's licence says I'm 180 cm.

2 May 2023 at 3:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Jim Goodall

@reay @vwbusguy @saramg
I’m retired from 40 years in construction, with the last 20 years being mostly under contract to City of Toronto. Water pumping stations and sewage treatment plants.
Everything is metric with CoT.

Your studs would be 40.6 cms.

Still annoying.

2 May 2023 at 10:46 | Open on mstdn.ca
Jonathan Frederickson

@jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg
> Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.

We do that one in the US too

2 May 2023 at 13:35 | Open on jawns.club
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
jsamuel

@vwbusguy @jimgoodall @saramg Aussies use kilograms. No one uses imperial measurements here.

2 May 2023 at 3:23 | Open on rants.au
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@vwbusguy @jimgoodall @saramg

No, we really don't. I remember my pre-decimal height and weight, but every form requires the info in metric. Same for everything.

Us old folks may still think in Imperial, but we as a country do NOT.

2 May 2023 at 3:40 | Open on aus.social
glyn

@vwbusguy @jimgoodall @saramg Distances on UK roads are still in miles. Metrication didn't quite take.

But thank goodness we no longer do money calculations in pounds, shillings, and pence! (£1 was 20s, 1s was 12d)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric

2 May 2023 at 10:38 | Open on fosstodon.org
rood

@jimgoodall @saramg Liberia doesn't count. It's Merica 2'0

2 May 2023 at 3:26 | Open on aus.social
Reay Jespersen

@jimgoodall @saramg A couple of years back I was also stunned to discover that Canada and the U.S. are among the I think only TEN countries on the planet who still use "letter" sized paper instead of the way more intuitive A1, A2-type sizing.

Hey, North America and the handful of others: Time to let it go, already.

2 May 2023 at 3:39 | Open on mastodon.social
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