Needs a "metric except for TV/monitor size" option.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 249
America uses metric when it matters : 9 mm and 2 grams 😂
3 weeks ago | 223
Personally, I use: miles for driving km for running meters/mm for materials ft for height of person Inches for screen size. ....It's chaos.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 123
I'm american, so we tend to use double bacon cheeseburgers, but if accuracy is important, we use whoppers from burger king
3 weeks ago | 10
What a question xd as someone from the netherlands i have never heard anyone use miles or feet in real life, only on tv or the internet 🤣
3 weeks ago | 54
As an engineer I prefer the metric system but as an American I am forced to use the imperial system.
2 weeks ago | 12
Tyres on a car are truly odd. Tread width in mm / wall height as a % of tread width and wheel size in inches 🤦♂️and all on the same item
3 weeks ago (edited) | 24
I’m a HVAC technician In Australia and we still refer to pipe sizes in imperial. Everything else for me is metric (eg: pressures and Temps)…etc.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 2
Metric made sense working in a lab but I prefer imperial units for everything else. Having a measuring system where units are evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 16 etc. is more convenient for most common tasks without a calculator. People can learn both if they need to.
1 week ago | 0
I’m middle aged and British, I can manage both. But I find different weight and measurement scales are suited to different things. Whilst metric is well handy, especially when it comes to small weights and lengths. Imperial will always have its place
1 day ago | 0
Depends. If I'm building something, inches/feet. I use F/C interchangeably. If I'm driving somewhere, I go by time.
3 days ago | 0
I exclusively use the distance measurement of football fields exclusively. When a European corrects me that it would actually be 9.52E-4 football fields (~10cm), I inform them that my answer of 9.11E-4 was in REAL football fields.
2 weeks ago | 7
I use imperial at work and have for the last 4 decades. I do design work at home and use metric, especially in cad. It's much easier to use round numbers than imperial inches
2 weeks ago | 0
I started hiking a lot in the past few years. I have a good feel for how far a mile is. When I look at a new trail my main concern is feet/mile of elevation gain. I can use metric, but I just have to convert to something I know experientially. To keep motivated I try to average 1000 feet of elevation per day.
2 weeks ago | 1
Being 63, we used imperial at school and later metric. Now, a mixture of both, with metric as I work in engineering, with imperial at home. I can see an imperial measurement in my head better, I also use fractions for spanner sizes. I think imperial. I started my toolmaker apprenticeship, where we used metric at college and imperial at work, which we called 'English', which is a term that is used in the US by older people. Britain changed our capacities around the time of Queen Anne. Hence, the UK gallon & pint are bigger than the US. The official measurements in the US are metric, but they refuse to change, one very rare good thing about the US. I still have some AF imperial & Whitworth spanners and BSF and UNC & UNF tapes & dies, why I don't know, as i haven't used a toolprofessional for over 25 years...I just can't get rid of them. They bring back memories of my days as an engineer...
2 weeks ago | 0
As a modern 🇬🇧 citizen I'd love to say it's purely metric/SI units but sadly I'm forced to use both. Personally I'll use meters for length. Most products are legally obliged to quote their dimensions in metric, with the notable exception of TVs (although that's worldwide), and Milk which is obliged to quote litres first but is still packaged in whole Imperial Pints. Then there's vehicles: * Road signage as Miles * Fuel sold in Liters. * Engine efficiency in Miles per Gall
2 days ago | 0
I’m a native born U.S. citizen (20 days before we launched to the moon), and the only time I use Imperial is when ordering a beer in a British or Irish pub, because an Imperial pint is bigger than a US pint or a half-liter. But I do use the International Yard and Pound on occasion.
3 weeks ago | 2
The Engineering Mindset
Which measurement units do you personally use for length/distance.
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