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)

I'm 31 and use a mixture. Metric for cooking and baking, though I still use my dad's "4, 4, 4, 2" recipe for a sponge cake metric for measuring things, e.g. a room when decorating. I work in degrees celsius and measure liquids in millilitres and litres.

Imperial for a person's height and weight - kilos mean nothing to me in that context! Also imperial for speed and distance.

I also use some random imperial things, which I think come from American TV shows. For example, I'll joke about a dish having a pound of cheese in it, even though I measure food in grams.

44 - Imperial for height and weight of people, imperial for weights with food and recipes, imperial for road distance, but metric for shorter distances (eg 500m) and length of objects.
Metric for liquids, except milk and beer (they are clearly imperial).

@FriedasCarLoad

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!

Pretty much this.

Cannot fathom Fahrenheit at all, but still don't understand metres and kilograms for human height and weight.

I am metric for smaller weights and lengths (grams / centimetres)

I'm 60 and use both, plus American cups. Sometimes all in one recipe...
Work is mostly SI units except the unit of length I use the most is the ångstrom.

42, metric for everything. Parents are 69 and 73 and also metric for everything. An adherence to the outdated imperial system is one of the things they find embarrassing about their own generation.

I do both. Mid-50s. Height and weight = imperial but distance can be both ie metres for shorter distances. Metric for volume and cooking measurements but actually prefer cups etc.

Mid forties. Metric.

I'm baffled by imperial.

Imperial - I'm early 40s. My FRSU job was in a greengrocer where we sold in pounds and ounces and I have no idea what a kilo would look like.

Mixture. And I'm mid thirties.

We have family baking recipes handed down that are in imperial, especially the ratio ones. Which I've now passed on to my DDs... so my 8&10yo use imperial recipes.

My height is in feet, my children's in cms.

Lived in other European countries, so speed was KM/Hr not MPH. It took me a while to adjust to the distances also being in km, I was amazed how quick I was getting places. (In my head 60miles on the motorway is roughly an hour).

48 and I’m with you. My mum was recently weighed in hospital and when they she was 47 kg I had to say to the nurse I had absolutely no idea what that was and could she let me know in old school measures. Made me feel really old!

I'm 68 and do imperial but can mostly convert one to the other as mental arithmetic.

I have no idea what a kilo would look like.

Back when they were introducing metric to us in about 1970, we were taught a couple of handy rhymes:
Two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogram.
And
A litre of water's a pint and three quarters.

(They taught us this after fractions, obviously )

Both - imperial for height.
Imperial and metric for weight, (my weight ) generally whichever sounds less scary.
Metric for cooking except, weirdly, scones which are 8oz of flour and 1and 1/2 ounces of butter.

@Theworldisfullofgs

51. 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 agree but Americans don't use it. Was funny overhearing a conversation on a plane coming back from America by 3 Europeans who didn't appear to know each other, were from different European countries (based on accent) lamenting America not using the metric system and half-mocking the UK was still clinging on to imperial.

We should have gone hardcore metric when we had the chance. I wish we'd switched to driving on the right as well like Sweden did. Can understand why no point for that in some other island nations but they're less likely to take their cars/lorries to places driving on the right.

I think that what comes out of this is that the UK have been typically rubbish at making a decision on this.

I am still amazed that we managed to decimalise. It's a great credit to Wilson that it happened at all.

While I love the Imperial measures, it would have made sense to go all the way.

Metric for everything. Late 50s, use metric all the time at work so it's always been far easier to use it at home too. Like PPs, I wish the country had changed over totally when it was brought in originally

42 - bit of both, blame it on my parents whom used imperial, then used metric at school.

I'm a scientist so use metric all the time at work, except when Americans tell me pressure in psi and so I know how to convert that to barg.

At home lengths are always metric (except travelling which is in miles because the road signs are in miles, and I only know the conversion in 25m swimming pool lengths: 64 lengths = 1 mile). Weight is metric except baking because recipes work better in imperial, see comment above about 6663 victoria sponge recipe. Savoury I do in metric.

Temperature is alway centigrade, volume always metric.

Weight in Newtons

Metric. 39. Imperial is stupid. I made an active effort to understand bodily height and weight in metric, it's not hard!

45 next week and interchangeable 😃

40. Imperial for height, weight, cooking. Metric for measuring.

35 and pretty much always metric, although I can mostly understand both (except no idea what a yard is or temperatures in Fahrenheit are).

I used to use feet and stone for human height and weight but have increasing moved to cm and kg.

Metric makes much more sense to be fair.

I needed to learn imperial weight when I went to Weightwatchers. I got kg from the leader for my actual weight but there were awards for losing 7lbs of a stone. I needed to tell others lbs but it was so much easier for me than them to work out my 10% and 5% goals.

Going to America on holiday where they mostly weigh in pounds made me feel a lot heavier.

Weight in fig newtons I could probably get behind.

53 here and imperial for everything.