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Similar! I'm British, so the weight of everything is in kilos; unless it's very heavy, in which case it's interchangeably tons or tonnes; or it's a person, in w
by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Similar! I'm British, so the weight of everything is in kilos; unless it's very heavy, in which case it's interchangeably tons or tonnes; or it's a person, in which case it's in stone. Except that now I've been living in the US for years, I still think of everything in kilos, but people in pounds.
As this timeline points out, _under the hood_ everything is metric and has been so for a very long time (and this is true of the US too). I find it hard to get worked up about.
- guenthert 4y agoThe problem in the US is the difficulty in comparing measures and prizes. I was surprised when I asked around and a good share of people didn't readily knew how many ounces are in a pound while at the same time the supermarket lists prizes of competing product alternatingly in either.