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)

The US fluid ounce is slightly larger than imperial - 1.04. They're defined differently en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce

In my 70s, using both roughly equally.

Late 40s - a mixture

Weight and personal measurements - imperial
Furniture and other items - metric
Cooking - whichever is listed first in the recipe book

@EBearhug

Ah, like Webster's spelling. :-)

Well the drive to standardise English spelling made sense. But it was underpinned by that "throw of the yoke of the oppressors" chip the revolutionaries had whipped up.

44 - metric for everything apart from the car which insists on using miles! I run so quite used to converting km to miles and vice versa.

40, both

I'm 5'2 and can run a sub 30 5k

Running has really boosted my conversion of distances.

I tend to cookwith metric.

@DGRossetti and @EBearhug - your conversation made me think of this 😁

34

Metric for everything. I can understand feet/inches but don't naturally think in them.

I do use miles / mph but am equally comfortable in km

My parents are in their 60s and are the same, but they're both scientists

I use imperial for human heights, weights, and long distances.
Metric for pretty much everything else though.
I learned metric obviously, but imperial for certain things has just hung around!

37, it's a real mix.

I can do metric for smaller length measurements, though will sometimes use imperial especially when sewing. Longer lengths are usually imperial - it drives DH mad because he uses metric, so that's made for some fun conversations when measuring up in the new house 😂

Weight is usually imperial unless I'm cooking.

Basically I'm not consistent at all, and I can't convert them either.

Metric, 43. I went to school in a metric country though

55. Like most use a mix- my weight is imperial, cooking is metric, longer distance is miles but shorter distances esp for young people (go 100m turn right,) is metric. Temperature usually c but can convert to f pretty easily. Swimming is metric, walking is miles, beer in pints, wine and spirits in ml. Works fine for me!

I'm 45. Metric except for bodyweight and pints of beer.

[quote LBOCS2]**@DGRossetti* and @EBearhug* - your conversation made me think of this 😁[/quote]
Yes, but do they have the useful measures quite often used in the U.K.: the double decker bus, and the size of Wales. As the latter is an area, a simple dimensionality check will avoid confusion with another unit of weight or volumes seen in the media - the whale (various species).

Don't forget, Fahrenheit for when it is warm (phew, it's 75 degrees out there) and Celsius when it is cold (brrrr, it's minus 3)

I am 67 and at school we used metric for science (first cgs, then MKS and then SI) and Imperial for everything else. When I went to university in 1974 I decided to use SI metric to the maximum extent and Imperial as little as possible. I assumed I was ahead of the curve and eventually everyone else would catch up. I was gobsmacked at the determined opposition that was put up against the government's metrication programme. Carpet sellers didn't like the fact that the number following the £ sign was larger, as a square metre is larger than a square yard. The courts eventually struck down their attempts to sell by the '0.84 square metre' but the conservative government under Thatcher was full of people who loved our quaint units and the Metrication Board that was running the programme was scrapped. The whole process is a shambles and a national disgrace. Most depressing is where things have been going backwards. The plumbing industry took 20 years to switch from specifying boilers in British Thermal Units per hour to using kilowatts. Nowadays portable air conditioners are on sale and they are sold in BTUs per hour instead of kW. Worse still, the American habit of calling BTUs per hour as BTUs adds to the confusion. Dinosaur politicians are openly calling for a return to Imperial instead of pressing forward and completing the metrication process. We may be an island but we need to be using the same units as the rest of the world in order to trade without confusion and error.

61 and use both. Obviously metric for everything work-related, I'm a scientist. If it was anything else where I had to do calculations I'd also use metric as its** so much easier and is logical unlike the inconsistent mess of imperial measures

Imperial is mostly just for cooking for some recipes, or for weighing pasta and rice out of habit.

My own banana muffin recipe is a mixture of cups, ounces and millilitres.

My DM, who'd have been nearly 100 now, was a primary school teacher and was perfectly happy teaching and using metric. DF was a science teacher so obviously he was delighted when the curriculum switched to SI.

46
Metric apart from
some traditional ones- pints of milk/beer

miles

babies weight - someone says they had a 6lb or 9lb baby I can picture that, I wouldn’t if given the metric

I got used to stones and pounds at Weightwatchers- think I was the only one that asked for a conversion and there were awards for losing 7lb

I do a mixture but temperature is always in Fahrenheit in the summer as I know 73 is hot but use centigrade in winter because I know 3 is cold.

oops I'm 54

Cook in metric, occasionally think in both. Am 66.

Metric mostly, can do both, 64

60 and do both metric and imperial, depending on what's being measured. Oh, and I use celsius below 25 degrees and fahrenheit above. Figure that one out.

I do draw the line at pounds, shillings and pence though.

In my 70s.

For fabric and ruler and tape measuring I do both.
For height and weight and distances I think Imperial.
I have got used to centigrade temperatures now and don't try to convert.
For cooking I use 'the weight of two eggs' and usually lbs and ozs, but if a recipe is all metric I use the other side of the dial and measuring jug. I just know that a pound of mince or stewing beef are 454 gms and one ounce is about 28 gms.

I did maths for a long time at school so I used both there.
When decimalisation came in (1971??) people said it would be so much easier to have everything to the base 10 and that made me fume. Folk are always looking for the easy way out. In Imperial we had to think in 16s, (oz= 1lb), 20s (shillings in pound) etc. etc. and it kept our brains in trim. Yes, I do think a farm labourer of 1924 would have known what a half-cwt of tates looked like and how many you'd need to make a ton.
The human brain can cope with so much more than people think it can.

43. I use metric for everything except sponge cake and chocolate mousse. And driving distances. And beer 🤭