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 51, and use metric.

DH and I run our own business in the upholstery/soft furnishing trade and not one single person EVER measures anything in metric even though all of our suppliers and online ordering systems are in metric. First job of the day is opening a google window so I can convert inches to centimetres. I've even hidden all the tape measures and replaced them with metric ones but the fuckers still come back off site visits with every single measurement in inches.

I'm surprised I've got any hair left..............

I don't understand (and don't want to learn it) metric measurements. I was born in 1959 so am really old.

I'm a mix.

People are feet&inches and stones&lbs (except I know Dd2 is 154cm)
Cooking I can do either, and I have weights for both.
Measuring will generally be metric
Volume is litres

I'm 55 and was taught entirely in metric.

Imperial for cake recipes, newborns, height and weight of people, distances of walks, vinyl records, beer, sheds, aniseed balls, fruit and veg, and Eight Miles High by the Byrds and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers (metric just isn’t very rock and roll). Maybe a few others.

Metric otherwise.

I’m 45.

What is there to understand though? It's all powers of ten, with volumes and length measures directly related. You're only a year or two older than me, so you're not 'really old', they started teaching us metric in primary.

64, both but I worked in a lab for years so used lots of different measurements.

58. Use metric for most things apart from long distances.

I mostly use imperial though I'm quite comfortable with metric and can switch between them. I find imperial more user-friendly: an inch, a foot and a yard are all lengths I can easily imagine, likewise oz, lb and stone. And I find it more useful to be able to divide medium length units (feet and yards) by 2,3,4 and 6, rather than just 2 and 5.

But like PPs I use celsius for cold temperatures and fahrenheit for hot (90 in the shade!), switching at 10/50. Then for body temperatures I'm quite happy with either over 98.4/36.9.

I am 57, I learned metric in school in Scotland but life was still imperial when I lived there. I moved to the USA where everything is still imperial but I work in science, where everything is metric. I have spent most of my life mildly confused

52, metric, Irish, in Ireland. It's been a while since I can recall seeing ounces on anything in the shops.... I think we were taught both at school though! But imperial is so confusing, I've forgotten it.

Early 40s. A mix of both depending on what's more practical/ intutitive. Human measurements are imperial.

Running means I'm pretty good at converting distances. Smaller distances are more satisfying in km, but anything over 16km is better in miles. 21.1 km sounds so much more tiring than 13.1 miles 😂

You don't have to learn the metric system. It's just units of hundreds or thousands.
1000 grams is a kilo. 1000 milimetres is a metre. There, you've learnt it.

Pedantically- The Americans don't use 'imperial', they use US Customary Units. They were based on English units from before Britain overhauled them to create the Imperial system. So there are differences- some subtle, some significant like the paltry 16floz 'pint'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedStatesscustomaryunits

I am 43. Metric for everything. It is more scientific, there isn't stones and pounds and science!

@ErrolTheDragon I only found out fairly recently that a 'cup' is a fixed amount. I thought it was very imprecise, like, lob in a cup. What, a tea cup, a mug? But it's 200 mls or 4 oz

Metric mostly but people don’t make it easy. Born 1976.

English cups are different from American cups.

60 and use imperial for measuring people and travel distances/speeds.

For everything else it depends on the context. My primary education was imperial measures and my secondary was metric. I can use both equally well.

Also fluent in LSD.

A US cup is 8 fl oz - half a pint for them.
On that basis a UK cup should be 10 fl oz I suppose but cup isn’t generally a measure here, is it.

54 - 100% imperial.

I’m in my 30s. I use a combination depending on the context. I’d use metric if I was weighing food/ small items but for people I only really understand pounds and stone. I’d use metric for short distances (eg: 100 metres) but then would use miles. Would mostly use millilitres for liquids. If mostly use cm for size/ length (eg: 10cm, 1.5 metre) but would use feet and inches for the height of a person.

Younger than both my parents who would be embarrassed if they had to use imperial for anything as they think it so old-fashioned and Daily Mailesque.

I’m 33, I use imperial for my height and weight. I use metric for quantities of food/drink and to measure stuff around the house. Thinking of it actually I realise I think of my baby’s weight in imperial but her length in cm, not sure why!

30 and a mix.

Heights and weights in imperial.

Lengths in metric.

33 and I use a mixture.

Miles for driving.
Km for walking/running.

Oz for baking.
g/Kg for most other weighing (e.g. suitcases).

Stone/Lbs/Oz for human weight.
Kgs for pet weight.

L/ml for liquids except beer and milk.

m or ft for land measurements.

m/cm for height up to 5ft then I switch to ft and ".