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

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[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 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 °C to °F, cause that's too hard).

[-] GreasyTengu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] trambe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yup pretty accurate (quebec)

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Volume for drinks is also Imperial in my experience.

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

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 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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[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] shepherd@kbin.social 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.

[-] SmoothSurfer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Many things make sense now

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My head hurts.

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.

[-] Braysl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] zefiax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] iegod@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] zesty@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

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