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)

43 (and a physicist which might be relevant).

Metric for everything except driving speeds and driving distances.

I've had cause to convert foot-Lamberts (in a US-written paper) into SI before!

I'm 47 and do a mixture

Height, human weight and driving distance I prefer imperial

Cooking weights and measures and exercising distances I prefer metric.

Bilingual. 49.

Almost bilingual. I'm not sure how big a hectare is, but I can imagine an acre.

The example above makes me realise I think of plant pots either as inches or litres... this may be because the last lot I got were big outdoor pots, so I needed to think about how much potting compost to go in them. I probably go to litres once it's over a 10" pot.

At school, we were mostly taught metric, but we're given a good grounding in imperial because it still came up so often, so we needed a good understanding of it.

I wish they'd stop talking about cars doing miles to the gallon. I have only ever bought petrol in litres, though we still drive miles.

I can 'do' both. I'm 50.

Metric for almost everything. Car speed imperial, height and weight when talking with most there are imperial, but metric for me, FirtBit is in KM and I track my weight in KG, everything else is metric.

Oh, and mid thirties

I'm 34.

Imperial for just about everything, except weighing out ingredients in grams, but that's only because that's what's on the recipes so I'm used to it.

I picked it up from my parents, I suspect. I just think in imperial. I remember being nine or ten and being asked my weight in kilograms for some maths class chart-making exercise (wouldn't happen now!). I had no idea. Told the teacher I only knew it in stones and pounds.

I also know more about old money than most people my age seem to but that's due to reading Enid Blyton and similar as a child and asking questions about it.

A complete mix and match here.

I’m comfortable with cm and mm up to about a metre then I switch to imperial.

Imperial, 51.
DH is 48 and completely metric.

44 and I use both depending on what's being measured.

Height in imperial
Weight in imperial
Long distance in imperial (miles) but if I'm using a tape measure I use metric

Baking, either depending on what recipe says

To me it's a bit like being bilingual. I can do both but I prefer one over the other in certain situations.

Height and weight (of humans) for me are Imperial but cooking weights are metric.

As a previous poster said, long distances are Imperial but small things are metric.

I'm 54.

Imperial for baking, weighing myself, long distances (so I work in miles, but not yards), pressure.

Metric for short distances (I can manage , most lab measurements (weight, length), temperature.

I’m 46.

Oh also, very weirdly, centigrade for low temperatures and Fahrenheit for high ones, with a muddled bit in the middle. I don't know why - maybe the weather forecasts years ago liked the drama of very low and very high numbers, so stressed them accordingly?

Imperial, 35.

40, Imperial.

42. Metric all the way (well, except driving). I can't understand why anyone uses a much harder system.

Weight in Newtons.

In my 40s use both. I'm not great at driving speeds in kph though and have landed a few speeding fines in various countries

42, I'm not sure I know which is what.

I measure distance in miles, speed in miles per hour.

Curtains in CMs
Waist in Inches
Temps in C
Liquid in Mililitres, Litres and pints

My lounge is 15feet long and 9 feet wide, but my TV is 32inches.
Miles per gallon but petrol is bought in litre so I dont actually know how many litres are in that gallon.

Oh dear...
I'm going for a lie down.

Late 40s, I'm comfortable with both but use metric for nearly everything.

People's height and newborn baby weight is all I switch to imperial for.

I’m 57. A mixture like most of you. Height and weight Imperial. Distances and speed imperial but can convert very easily. Temperature centigrade. Baking either. Dress-making metric but quilting (which is very American-led) imperial.

Metric - baking/cooking.

Imperial - mine/children's height and weight; measurements - eg for clothing and distance; volume think in pints not litres.

Mixture - I’m in my 40s English.
Parents grew up with metric

• my own/adult weight metric, height I’d have a good idea in either. I’d have no clue a baby though - I’ve never been told the weight in metric of any friend or relative.

Cooking metric, but at shop when order at counter might say either 1/4 lb of cheese or 250g

I know how much a pint of beer or milk is and a litre/500mls of water

I've lived in Europe for 15 years so fine with all metric except for height, I still struggle when someone is described in cm!

Television and penis sizes are always imperial though, doesn't matter where you live

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38 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.

I'm the same as you and I'm 36.

39
Both, imperial for distance (as in journeys), height and weight (people) curtains, metric for cooking weights/volumes (oh except pints) measuring furniture/small things.

DIY some times has to imperial because it matches the stuff in the house, skirting boards and such - I imagine people in newer houses don’t have this problem.