Lowglow
Newly Enlightened
I'm interested to see how we differ in day to day use of measurement. To me the UK seems a bit chaotic - but it works (sort of).
Give you a few examples.
Weight - UK uses stones as most popular (like on Weight Watchers etc) but medical use is kilos.
Heights are most always imperial except for medical use.
Use inches when giving generic smaller measurements but move over to metric when the tape measure comes out.
Never use fraction of an inch its always mm for smaller measurement.
Temperature is Celcius for cold and then Fahrenheit when it gets warmer (for some older people) and Celcius only for all younger people. Thermometers without both are not popular.
Food measurement we use tablespoons and teaspoons but not cups - its litres. Strange one that.
Road signs are yards and miles but we don't use yards outside of roads - and children are not taught any imperial its always metric. I don't understand this myself.
Cyclists and runners use km, walkers use miles.
Sometimes it's confusing like I bought some bungee cords where the slack length was in mm and maximum stretch length was in inches!
Myself I'm pretty much as above but I primarily use Fahrenheit as it works better for me (finer graduation of whole numbers).
What's it like where you are?
Give you a few examples.
Weight - UK uses stones as most popular (like on Weight Watchers etc) but medical use is kilos.
Heights are most always imperial except for medical use.
Use inches when giving generic smaller measurements but move over to metric when the tape measure comes out.
Never use fraction of an inch its always mm for smaller measurement.
Temperature is Celcius for cold and then Fahrenheit when it gets warmer (for some older people) and Celcius only for all younger people. Thermometers without both are not popular.
Food measurement we use tablespoons and teaspoons but not cups - its litres. Strange one that.
Road signs are yards and miles but we don't use yards outside of roads - and children are not taught any imperial its always metric. I don't understand this myself.
Cyclists and runners use km, walkers use miles.
Sometimes it's confusing like I bought some bungee cords where the slack length was in mm and maximum stretch length was in inches!
Myself I'm pretty much as above but I primarily use Fahrenheit as it works better for me (finer graduation of whole numbers).
What's it like where you are?