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Soo what measurement system do you guys use?; Because I am sad like that ;_;
Topic Started: Jan 2 2006, 04:43 PM (213 Views)
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We have quite a diverse away of nationalities who post on this board (well American, Canadian, Australian and British...), and for the sake of polite conversation (:() I was just wondering whether you guys use the metric/imperial sysytem for measurements.

As far as I know, the Americans are all imperial, but I have no idea about the Canadians or Aussies...

Here in the UK our system really is quite messed up. We made the transition to the metric system a couple of decades ago, but we didn't move everything <_<.

Beer and Milk is still measured in pints for some reason, but every other liquid except petrol (which is in gallons) is measured in millilitres, or sometimes centilitres. A can of drink is 330ml, but often wine is measured in cl (25~).

Pretty much all weight is in grams and kilograms, but loads of my friends, including me measure ourselves in Stone (not pounds lol), but because of the age of our scales most probably.

On the roads, we measure everything in miles, including distance and speed, however yards, feet and inches are never ever mentioned. Short distances (to the local shops or w/e) would probably be in metres or kilometres. All other distances (house size, building height etc) is in metres. Short distances is in centimetres and millimetres.

Temperature is measured in celsius or centigrade, but anyone over the age of 25 thinks in farenheit, no questions asked. Because of this, any weather reporting system will have to have the temperatures in both measurements.

I think I listened everything, because it turned into a proper mini essay :unsure:

Call me sad, but I was just wondering what your situation was like?

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pure metric.
milimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres
acres, hectares
celsius
millilitres, litres and yeah.

Aussie btw.
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It's metric in Quanada natch, but I know measurements in feet/inches better than centimetres as far as things like height go. Same goes for pounds. I have no clue what a gallon is though.
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Here in America it is actually pretty messed up.

For one, everything is given in both systems. For most things the old stupid system is used, but metric is usually present.

Speed and distance are universally in the old system. The SI unit for distance is the football field(100 yards). We've been so screwed up by using two measurement systems that we can't estimate distance in any other way.

All fluids are measured by the gallon except for liter bottles of soda. I have no idea why. We don't really use the lesser units; the only one that comes up is a quart of milk, but we tend to call it a quarter gallon.

Temperature is in Farenheit no questions asked. The pound is the only unit we know for weight.

The problem is that in school most of our parents were taught metric but at home used the old system. This creates a measurement disfunctional society. Our generation gets more mixed messages as in math class it's divided about half and half so we can't really get a feel for either unit. In science classes it is universally metric, and if you dare use a non-metric unit, you will be harshly criticized with great loss of points. That means science minded people, those good with numbers, can't estimate distance at all. Thanks a lot America. The plus is that the speed I have the greatest feel for is the m/s.

Hmm, I thought America was the only placed still cursed by that old system. I see the UK still is partially under the yoke as well.
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Yeah, Canada's metric. The only imperial measurements I hear are feet. It's all Celsius here too. Many one in twenty will show both temperatures.
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I guessed that Canada and Australia would be [mostly] metric, but I didn't know that USA was both trying to use metric in sciences, or that people's parents (i.e longer ago than England moved to metric) were taught metric.

It also cracks me uo how we both use the same system for measuring our weights, but you guys use pounds, and we use stone, which is just 14 pounds lol.

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Taught =/= used. That's an important fact to remember.

Also, this is the first time in my life I've heard of the unit stone.
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iirc the miller in canterbury tales weighed 16 stone :x
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I thought they meant he weighed as much as 16 stones.
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Jan 2 2006, 11:47 PM
I thought they meant he weighed as much as 16 stones.

lol, nice work AA, very nice. :D
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