Yup pretty accurate (quebec)
It’s perfectly accurate for where i live in Québec.
We prefer metric mostly, but so much of our stuff comes from or is sold to the states, so we don’t have much choice but to use both systems.
Anoying af.
Does it help knowing NASA uses metric?
Hospitals in the US use mostly metric too.
While this is true, they still manage to use different metric units than the rest of the damn world (e.g. mg/dL instead of mmol/L)! Really messes up a lot of our reference material.
There’s also weird stuff how things like fuel consumption is measured. In the US we use “miles per gallon” which makes sense in a non-metric country. I was born in a metric country where we used “kilometers per liter” which also makes sense. But then cars have this setting for European countries where they show “liters per 100km”. WTF? Who in the hell measures things like that and why?
TL;DR it’s possible to do stupid things with any measuring system.
Canada here we always use Litres per 100km, because it shows fuel consumption per a static , rather than distance being the variable value. It seems odd, but when you are doing certain math on range and fuel usage it actually makes more sense. there are articles that can explain it better than I can
Around here (rural southern Saskatchewan), imperial still has a stronghold because of our roads, farming, and other factors. Our roads are laid out on a 1 mile grid (some places it’s 2 miles north-south) and a square mile is 1 section of land (640 acres).
Even the kids who’ve never learned any imperial measures still use at least miles for distance when driving the grids. (And that’s what we call them: grid roads, not gravel roads or any other designation.) Even equipment without odometers can follow a set of directions like “4 miles north and 3 miles west” because you just count intersections.
Even our legal land locations are given using these ancient units. So I live at NW 19-20-10 W3 and every emergency service and business who needs to knows how to find me.
Fun fact: there are very few flat-earthers around here because of something called a “correction line.” The square grid doesn’t fit the curved surface, so the roads that (approximately) follow the meridians (lines of longitude) need to be offset every so often to keep them parallel. The roads that intersect those offsets are called “correction line roads” and are used as landmarks when giving directions.
I don’t know about pool temperature, but water temperature in the lake and indoor temperature are imperial with outdoor temperature in Celsius. Usually. :)
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I think you mean that all of your roads are laid out in a 1.609km grid.
Myself, I measure water temp in Celsius (pools, aquariums, lakes, oceans…), but yeah pretty damn accurate.
I’m pissed we don’t use ISO 216 (A4, A5, B-series, etc.) paper. Almost changed in 1974 but lost our nerve.
Oh, that would be great!
Relevant video on metric paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI
content warning: existential crisis
That was exactly the video I thought it was going to be! Classic.
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.
Cooking flip flops the most… Usually baking is Imperial ( ferenheit/cups/teaspoon/tablespoon/ounce (weight), fl oz (volume), etc)… But in a single recipe, I’ve turned on the oven to 350F, and mixed a teaspoon of one ingredient into 300 mL of another, then added 300g of a third with an 8oz can of another.
It’s just completely random, even within a single recipe.
American ex-pat/Canadian permanent resident here. This is all pretty accurate in my experience, though I can’t speak on using Imperial for work-related measurements or pool temperature. Just this morning I had to describe our current bout of cool weather in Ferenheit to my friends back home, and was reminded all over again how ridiculous it is that the US still isn’t on metric. This rings especially true whenever I call my mom. Seems like I have to “Hey Google” conversions in every conversation we have. Before my dad died he would keep his weather app on Celcius to report the weather to me in metric. I honestly love that he felt compelled to do that.
It was a little weird getting used to the metric system initially, but I honestly prefer it at this point. I used to argue that you could be more precise with Farenheit, as the scale was broader. However, I’ve since come to realize that no one cares whether it was 74° or 76°.
I am moving from California to BC next week. I think I will print this out and post it in my garage.
Don’t forget we also measure distance by travel time. I have to Google the KM distance from Ottawa to Toronto but I know it’s around 4 hours and 20 minutes traffic allowing.
yep, driving somewhere is almost always expressed as a unit of time. Only time I check distances is planning a trip with the trailer to get an idea of when to stop for gas, especially going up north.
Not to mention if we say miles, we almost always mean kilometres.
I use metric for everything but I use lbs for weight.
I only use fare height when forced through the means of technology that for some reason hasn’t been legislated to provide sane units mandatorily when sold in Canada
The exceptions to this would be lumber. Then occasionally I get pissed off at any Canadian company (or even government form) that refuses to follow our own standards. For instance federally, its recemmoneded to use YYYY-MM-DD unless you’re writing out the month with three letters or more in which case you can use the insane states method. Yet consistently in forms I input the date wrong cause they do whatever that other format is
the fun thing is that this graph is more-or-less accurate (I don’t have a pool so I can’t judge that one) for me despite being an American with no connection to Canada.
Saw this posted couple of days ago, but then it was “… Like a british person”. What and WHEN is The Orginal?
Forgot about deli meet for the weight. It’s always “I want 300 grams of sliced black forest ham”, and not whatever that is in imperial. Do they use ounces for that?
I’ve started asking for a specific number of slices and thickness. 16 slices of shaved blackforest ham gives me 4 sandwiches worth. Oh baby.
This is the way. One customer ever did this in my deli career and it was the easiest transaction.
Not many people realize you can do this. Just the number of slices and say either thin, medium, or thick.
