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Plenty of other countries still use “foot” as a measurement. Try asking a Canadian or Brit how tall they are in cm
by peteretep 5y ago
Plenty of other countries still use “foot” as a measurement. Try asking a Canadian or Brit how tall they are in cm
- thitcanh 5y agoI'm 23 buckets tall and half a periwinkle.
- goodluckchuck 5y agoYou might as well say you’re 2 .12 meters. They’re all made up. It’s just that some are helpful, and you are not.
- philistine 5y agoCanadians still use the imperial system personally but the country is metricized. We’re just stuck with paper and wood in inches because we’re next to the US.
- vinay427 5y agoThere are a lot more similarly arbitrary things than just paper and wood which are measured in imperials in Canada. I'm reminded of this (comical) guide I first saw posted on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/e1hx4f/how_to_choose_measuring_units_in_canada/ https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/e1hx4f/how_to_c...
- dalbasal 5y agoIt's on the way out, but in Ireland people are colloquially weighed in stones, sheep in kgs and feed in lbs. For a while, speed and distance weren't compatible. Metric money was a similar issue in the 60s. People still thought in shillings for decades. I read that historically (especially in Britain) entirely different counting systems were used simultaneously. Shepherds had their sheep counting numbers, sailors had a different one. Dialects ran deep, not long ago. Incidentally, it's lucky that metric never became known as "The French System."
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- auxym 5y agoSpeaking as a Canadian mechanical engineer: pretty much all raw materials. Metal bars, beams, sheet and plates, etc. Wire in AWG. Cutting tools for machining are also way more common in inch sizing. At least metric fasteners are becoming common enough that I can use almost 100% in my designs.
- chrisseaton 5y agoI think most British people under 40 would measure height in cm, so it’s dying out.
- phatfish 5y agoI can tell you (I'm English) and i would expect most people can (with those preferring feet skewing older of course). The only "in your face" use of imperial is speed limits. Maybe one day that will get fixed.
- 7952 5y agoI think they should switch to m/s. Seems far more intuitive as a way of understing speed.
- waheoo 5y agoGoing 30 down the highway. Roflmao. Edit, hey this actually works out quite well, 1 for walking speed in parking lots and 15 round town. Though I do think going the other way might be better. 3000 down the highway.
- 7952 5y agoIn Britain we overwhelming use metric in business, construction, industry or science. Things like feet for height still have resonance but more in a cultural way than practical.