Metric vs Imperial system

[WildIsProGamer]

Me chillin in Antarctica using the penguin system: “I am 30 steps ahead of you…”

[Ollie.H-]

I live in Britain and our measuring system is weird.
We use both metric and imperial and this can lead to some weird things going on. For example, my mum uses the metric system (Metres, Kilometres, Grams, Kilograms etc.) But I use the imperial system (Miles, Feet, Inches, Pounds, etc.) And this can lead to some confusion and I often have to get a calculator to translate Miles to Kilometres so my mum can understand it. Most of the population tend to measure distance with Kilometres but height with feet and inches. We don't usually say, "I'm 175cm tall" we tend to say, "I'm 5 foot 9." Despite measuring distance with Kilometres, we still measure speed in Miles Per Hour.

Now that I think about it, we are really confusing.

[liamfoxy]

As a Canadian.. we should be yellow as well. Most of us are fluent in both, especially if you work anything trades. All construction materials are still in imperial.

[Intrinseque]

Le mètre is the best gift from France to the rest of the world.

[idontknow]

75 degrees Fahrenheit: 😎☀️
75 Degrees Celsius: ☠️🔥

[orange]

Blue : the good
Red: the bad
Yellow : the ugly

[foxychinstrappenguin]

In the UK we use a mixture of both, height in imperial, weather in metric, distance in metric, speed in imperial, d*ck size metric, etc.

[Mr.Yeet]

As an American yes metric is better but learning a new system is something most Americans wouldn’t be willing to do

[Big-Chungus]

In UK generally older generations still use imperial while younger generations use metric. We also only really use imperial to measure very specific things like the height and weight of a person.

[evermæn]

Imperial did spread in the British Empire, metric was just seen as being so much better

[noaerrr]

We are mainly on the metric system in the UK, we only use imperial for miles

[bukai_oklm]

It pisses me off that there are only3 contries in the whole world that dont use the metric system and we always have to calculate everything when we talk with strangers like i mean cant they just adapt???

[adragol_cabaret]

I am a Brit and can confirm we use both. It's weird, yes, but it's kinda convenient if travelling abroad, or speaking to foreigners because we learn most units of measurement.

[Spikus]

Myanmar actually doesn't use the imperial system, but it uses it's own system completely different from both, the imperial and the metric one.

[Jack-bhpy]

in Canada I would say we use a mixture of both Imperial and metric

[crispyfries]

As a British person, it sorta makes sense but i think we lean closer to the metric system more. You only really see the imperial system used in road signs and thats really it. While we mainly use metric when talking

[Wheninflight]

I wish we and Liberia would follow the rest of the world. Would be nice if we could also go over to Celsius.

[jumpvelocity]

In the Greater Toronto Area where I live, height and weight is measured typically with imperial, distance is usually in metric, and temperature with celsius. Other things can be a mix of both.

[clonescope]

Interesting to know the US government does use metric for a lot of things mostly relating to International relations and trade the military uses it a lot now mostly because of NATO.

It's just at this point it's so ingrained that people are afraid to switch heck there's a stretch of us interstate I think it's in New Mexico and it starts at the border with Mexico goes in for a bit that's all in metric so all the road signs speed limits all metric.

[shovel]

i hear a lot of talk about kilometers vs miles but in america, we measure distance (from home to the store for example) using time. we dont say "the store is 10 miles away" we say that the store is a 15 minute drive. i like this better than both miles and km