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And in a few places they're different (US measuring "cup" vs UK, US gallon, etc) edit: ref https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfnjb7h https://www.bbc.co.u
by pjc50 10mo ago
And in a few places they're different (US measuring "cup" vs UK, US gallon, etc)
edit: ref https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfnjb7h https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfnjb7h
- beardyw 10mo agoUK doesn't use cups in recipes and fuel is dispensed in litres. Road signs are still in miles.
- ljf 10mo agoIt has been a long time since fuel was sold here in the UK in gallons, but most cars still are spoken of in terms of MPG (miles driven per gallon of fuel). There are steps to move this to L per 100km - but most people here still use MPG. We also use Pints in pubs, which are a different size to US pints.
- beardyw 10mo agoEngines have been in litres since forever it feels.
- bluGill 10mo agoEverywhere. All the car companies in the us switched to metric in the 1980s. You find some inch stuff once ina while - but only when the part hasn't been changed in the last 40 years.
- veltas 10mo agoIt's worth pointing out the convenient imperial units are the ones that are hardest to get rid of. The "pints" in pubs is because a pint is about how much a drink should be, in fact I've often found drinking 500ml to be just slightly too little to drink, probably because I'm used to the pint, but "1 unit" is also just a lot easier to keep than "500 units" or "50 units".
- ljf 10mo agoI would have agreed with you for a long time (especially when I was very aware of how many pints I could drink and still work well the next day), but since homebrewing and having my own beer taps, I now drink any amount I want. I have a few half pint jugs I use, but often I'll pour myself a drink that would be less than this, as that is what I actually fancy drinking at that time. That said, I exclusively drink pints in pubs.
- GJim 10mo ago> We also use Pints in pubs And so we should. A British pint is 568 ml. We will switch to smaller metric 500 ml 'half-litre' beers over my dead body. All other imperial measurements can bugger off to the history books where they rightly belong.
- Symbiote 10mo agoAustralia switched to 570ml, rounding up. Would that be acceptable?
- qingcharles 10mo agoDo they still call them pints?
- robocat 10mo agoApparently everywhere except South Australia: https://manofmany.com/culture/drinks/beer-glass-sizes-in-australia-explained https://manofmany.com/culture/drinks/beer-glass-sizes-in-aus...
- arethuza 10mo agoI'll drive 80 miles to walk 25 km to climb mountains because they are over 3000ft high (Munros) even though I think about the heights on the mountains in metres!
- hellzbellz123 10mo agoThe standard cup is not the same size between us and uk Sumthin sumthin breakfast cup
- vablings 10mo agoFuel is in litres but cars are in miles per gallon, I guess nobody wanted to do miles per litre or some unhinged calculation
- ch_123 10mo agoAs someone who generally uses metric units, but grew up around English Imperial units - if an American says that a person weighs a certain number of pounds, I need to convert to stone and pounds in my head in order to get a meaningful mental model of how much that person weighs.