Very dull Q. Imperial or metric and how old are you?

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I'm 47 and have never got the hang of metric even though I wasn't even born when the UK introduced the metric system (apparently in 1965)

Same age.
I can’t do metric -I blame DM!

Imperial for my height, weight and clothing, metric for the kids' height, weight and clothing, metric when cooking, imperial for distance.

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Mad, isn't it? (I'm 50 btw).

I'm 57 and equally comfortable in both imperial and metric.

Me too! 😁

It's really weird. I absolutely must have been taught it at school but it's never stuck.

I’m in my 60’s & I do metric, it’s easy when you commit to it wholeheartedly.

36, and a mixture.

Metric for baking and diy. Imperial for weight and height of people.

Imperial for ordering beer in the pub. For everything else, there’s metric.

I'm 53, grew up in the Netherlands (metric) and am now equally comfortable in both.

I’m 39, metric for everything. I don’t get stones and inches etc. We always used metric growing up as DM was French so maybe that’s why!

My mum I mean. I don't blame yours 😁.

Yes I think most people have that mix and match. It's a weird system isn't it?

I always think cm are much smaller than they are and do things like buy plant pots for my window sill that have a 46cm diameter 🙄

I'm not sure the UK introduced the metric system in 1965.

I think the start of it was the official switch to decimal currency which was in the early 70s when I was in primary school.

I'm still more comfortable with stones, lbs and ounces. And I have no idea what I measure in metres or what I weigh in kilos.

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I use a mixture.
A person weighs stone and pounds
People are feet and inches
Recipes are in grams and ml
I order wood by the meter but it is often 2 by 4 (inches).
Distance driving is in miles.

Most people I know do the same as me.

Late 50’s and measure small things in centimetres anything longer than a metre I change to feet and inches. Weight is imperial, journeys are measured in miles.

66 and I do both.

Anything needs working out; definitely metric. It's so much easier working out areas for example.

Visualising I work much better in imperial. I can see 3 yards so much easier than 3 metres and with km, I have to convert to get an idea of distance.

Stones and lbs make more sense to me than kg but when I'm cooking I can work in either.

Wine is always metric, whereas baby bottles are imperial.

55

Imperial for

• my weight
• height
• road distance

Metric for

• cooking (except pastry!)
• running (I took it up late in life and 5k and 10k are standard race distances). For a walk I'd prefer miles though!
• measuring things in the house, like furniture
• buying petrol (you have to really)
• weighing luggage
• centigrade for temperatures, though I can switch them in my head fairly easily

I do metric for everything. Partly on principle.

Think it's about time the country moved over. Its what is taught in school (for ever, I was taught oy in metric), its the international standard and used for all science.

I'm 31 and use a random combination of both

Was it not 65? I just did a quick Google because I wasn't sure and it said that's when it started to become government policy/switch over.

Age 53 imperial for long distances ie miles, heights and weights of people. Can cooking either easily
Measures short distances in mm,cm or metres though am as likely to say 6" as 15cm depending who I am talking to,

47 mainly metric apart from height. I've noticed road and footpath signs that are in yards and I've no idea how far a yard is. Some are new signs of on things like cycle paths which have been constructed since we went metric so I don't know why they aren't in metres?!

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I stick to Imperial for everything unless it’s not an option. Occasionally I use metric for baking and I certainly didn’t learn metric at school ☹️

Early 40s.

Imperial for human height/weight/width and for distance.

Metric for temperature.

I use them fairly interchangeably for measuring things like furniture and for weighing food, but opt for metric if it's going to involve much maths!

Strictly chains and furlongs in this house

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Imperial for heights/lengths
Metric for weights

Can't do them the other way around!

I am just turned 60 and almost all metric, BUT I have been teaching the metric system for over 30 years so not really surprising.
I can do imperial equally for length and area (any size), volume and small weights (cooking etc).
Anomalies are that only stones and pounds mean anything to me in terms of people's weights, and only centigrade means anything for weather temperature. I think that is because the first time I had any interest in the temperature was camping in France as a young teenager. There was a huge thermometer on the campsite reception wall, and we used to check it multiple times a day to exclaim over how hot it was!