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What do you tend to use and why?
I always find it strange that my mum doesn't understand Celsius.. and I'm always like 'wtf?' when people measure weight in pounds & stone or distance in yards.
I was educated in the 90's and 00's and never really learned the imperial systems (at all).. I learned weight in KG, distance in meters/CM, temp in Celsius and so forth.
People look at me strangely when I say I don't know what 1 lb (pound) is, but all I ever learned was kilos?
Do you only know 'one or the other', or are you a multi-measurer? What did you learn in school and what did you learn at home?
The only exception to the above is I use miles and MPH over kilometres and KPH but seeing as that's what is used on British roads, I have little choice
I always find it strange that my mum doesn't understand Celsius.. and I'm always like 'wtf?' when people measure weight in pounds & stone or distance in yards.
I was educated in the 90's and 00's and never really learned the imperial systems (at all).. I learned weight in KG, distance in meters/CM, temp in Celsius and so forth.
People look at me strangely when I say I don't know what 1 lb (pound) is, but all I ever learned was kilos?
Do you only know 'one or the other', or are you a multi-measurer? What did you learn in school and what did you learn at home?
The only exception to the above is I use miles and MPH over kilometres and KPH but seeing as that's what is used on British roads, I have little choice
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But metric is easier and more sensible.
I await the Luddites........
You're doing better than me anyway.. the annoying thing is I have no idea on most imperial measurements.. so if someone says 90 degrees F, 30 yards away or 27lb I simply wouldn't be able to visualise any of those.. I never learned them! :eek:
(or use which ever is closest to a whole or half no.):D
I'm sure you've used imperial when buying drugs, unless you just ask for money quantity, or do you buy in grams?
When buying weed you buy an '8th' which was, once upon a time an 8th of an ounce.. but that's just a colloquialism really.
An '8th' is about 1.2g here.. so I'd say that I buy that in grams too
as in
how many quarters in a weight
I guess it makes sense to use a measurement you can visualise.
Do you know why ?
A one penny piece weighs exactly 1/8 ounce. This means you can weigh it out exactly with penny, a ruler, and a pencil as a fulcrum.
So I've been told
1.2g? :eek: robbing bastards.
For the first 10 years of my life, I also used £-s-d.
You may have learned metric units but you obviously weren't paying attention in the SI units lesson.
I hasten to add, 1.2g of skunk.. usually Amnesia Haze, Blueberry cheese or similar. You could get a 2g 8th around here but it probably would be very average stuff. It's more worth it buying smaller but stronger.
Thanks to being close to London, being in a student town, as well as general inflation pushing things up and up it is a bit sucky really.
No more 3.5g 8ths! :eek:
I would have assumed it was obvious I was refering to Kilometres per hour..
An acre is the amount a man and ox could plough in a day, fourlong, (220 yards), the length an ox could plough before needing a rest.
An inch was the legth of a thumb, a foot the length of a........
A mile, one thousand steps.
I can and do use both but i still think in Imperial as do a lot of people even though they think they're metric, even that dumb blond who's 90-60-90...... what a figure!
Try dividing and sharing food, 10 can only be divided by 1,2 and 5. 12 can be divided by 1,2,3, 4 and 6. Not the measurements of science but more handy on a day-to-day basis.
That's not even a "teenth" your looking at 3.5g for an 8th
I give my height and weight in imperial and I drink pints of beer. And if anyone has a baby I can only imagine how big the babby is if they tell me the weight in imperial.
Everything else is metric for me.
Only joking I tend to use metric really... :D
And imperial sounds so much classy DF
*five pound of spuds please*
But I'll use whichever is appropriate to the situation. Miles for long distances (or when driving), metres for short distances. Always measure things in (centi)metres and weigh things in (kilo)grams but I'll happily tell people my height and weight in feet/inches and stones. But temperatures in Fahrenheit? Weight in ounces? Not a clue.