Metric v Imperial

[Robot Chicken]

Inspired by BarrelofFun on another thread talking about Rebecca Cartwright, I'm asking do you use metric or imperial in every day talk? I would use feet for sure.

Tedebear. I saw her filming in '99. I went on a Home and Away tour. She was about 30 metres away.

So...METRES and CENTIMETRES or FEET and INCHES?

 

[Cian]

metric. since they changed the speed limits (2 years ago) everythings in them anyway.

 

[Starry]

Metres and centimetres only.

I don't even know how long a 'foot' is.

 

[Loft23]

I almost always use metric units apart from when referring to my height and weight.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

I use both

 

[Bob!]

mainly imperial.

I must be of that 'certain age' that I always believed was reserved for people far older than me!

 

[dougdeep]

I don't even know how long a 'foot' is.

It's the length of my foot. How many people know their height in metres?

 

[Silent Bob]

I don't even know how long a 'foot' is.

I could show you.

 

[Frutos]

It's the length of my foot. How many people know their height in metres?

I think my height in metric would be just slightly under 2 metres, but if anyone asks I just tell them I'm 6'5'' and they seem to understand that.

PS: 1 foot = 12 inches, 1 inch = roughly 2.5 cms, so 1 foot = roughly 30 cms

 

[Starry]

I could show you.

HAHA.

And I don't know how many Doug, I know that I am 1m73cms though.

 

[dougdeep]

I've been 6ft 1in for ages, I don't think I'll change now.

 

[Ned]

I've been 6ft 1in for ages, I don't think I'll change now.

Oh yes you will mate. People shrink as they get older FACT

 

[pasty]

Feet and inches all the time. It's an age thing surely? I'm the wrong side of 40 and couldn't tell estimate a metre if my life depended on it. 3.28 feet though, no problem.

The number of times I've measured stuff in the house in feet and inches, only to get up to B&Q and find everything in bloody metric crap. Grrrrrrr

 

[John Dorian]

Lol.....its a dead heat. only cause i clicked the wrong one.

 

[Ned]

Feet and inches all the time. It's an age thing surely? I'm the wrong side of 40 and couldn't tell estimate a metre if my life depended on it. 3.28 feet though, no problem.

The number of times I've measured stuff in the house in feet and inches, only to get up to B&Q and find everything in bloody metric crap. Grrrrrrr

The last time I went to B&Q with metric measurements the young assistant asked me what it was in feet and inches:thud:

 

[withdeanwombat]

Metric?


Thats for Johnny Foreigner,isn't it?

 

[Gwylan]

I don't know about age, I'm nearly 50 and as I was taught in metric, I measure most things in metric: metres, kilometres, kilograms, celsius (in fact, I particularly struggle on Fahrenheit).

However, it's always pints and gallons for me. I can't cope with estimating volume in metric.

 

[dougdeep]

Bring back the British Thermal Unit.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

They were just about finalising the change over when I was at school so I can use both.

 

[Icy Gull]

Centigrade or Fahrenheit is the bigger question