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Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Where I live its generally imperial for estimating something at a glance, and metric for actually measuring something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, yeah that all seems correct to me lol. It sure does make us sound crazy though!

I'm pretty happy to have non-zero competency in all the systems lol. I'm a regular hobby crafter, and honestly some projects just work better in metric, some are better in imperial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup pretty accurate (quebec)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They missed an important one. If it's distance related to COVID, it's measured in hockey sticks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Many things make sense now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is highly inaccurate. Human height is done in cm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only medical records. Amongst the general populace it's feet/inches.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Australia we still use some legacy units such as psi instead of kPa or Bar in common parlance. This stems from our parents using this. Kids nowadays will probably adopt kPa, as it's in all the door jams of cars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My head hurts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ontario checking in, 100% accurate. Actually I would add home temperature (like the thermostat) under F, but body temperature (like checking if you have a fever) under C. Also we're so used Americans using miles for distance/speed we'll sometimes use it in idioms ("They ran out of here at 100 miles per hour!”). I never realized this change between measuring systems wasn't the norm until I started chatting with Europeans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am in Ontario and all me thermostats have been metric. Thankfully too as it's always confusing when it's in imperial.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Naw, metric for everything except cooking temp and body weight.

[–] Prewash_Required 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know anyone that discusses pool temps in anything but imperial

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If I had a pool, I would probably hate if I had to set the temperature in black and white; so I would look for a pool that specifically uses Colour.

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