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I’ve just .........Imperial or metric what do you work in.
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I’ve just put the metric side of a rule against my old chap.
It just didn’t seem right.
The only time I think I use metric is when out running I measure my runs in kilometres and pace in minutes per km and when I’m cooking I use metric measurements.
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My first job was in a mechanical and electrical engineering consultants office so I learned to do everything there in millimetres.
Generally, I use millimetres, centimetres, inches, feet, metres and miles though.
I use imperial or metric for cooking depending on what the recipe book says
I do like to mix it up but I never get confused. |
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"My first job was in a mechanical and electrical engineering consultants office so I learned to do everything there in millimetres.
Generally, I use millimetres, centimetres, inches, feet, metres and miles though.
I use imperial or metric for cooking depending on what the recipe book says
I do like to mix it up but I never get confused."
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"Imperial, I've always worked in that.
Working out clearances, if someone gives me metric I'll convert to imperial as it makes more sense to me.
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I can imagine 30psi, no idea what 2 bar feels like. |
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I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible. |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible."
Stone... igneous? |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible."
Oh god yes Fahrenheit and centigrade I actually go metric there. I can’t even spell farenfart |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible.
Stone... igneous?"
It makes sense to me. |
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"As an engineer I default to metric /SI except for
Human body dimensions
Driving (not through choice)
How long to roast meat on Sundays
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I don't even know what the metric equivalent to 1hr 40mins would be.
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"I'm a right hash of imperial for distances in miles, imperial for sizes for sheets of wood/boards and for when accuracy is important I will use metric for lengths of wood 
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I’ll be on honest working to mm makes the maths easier than to 1/32 of an inch. |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible.
Stone... igneous?
It makes sense to me. "
Well that can't be a good sign. |
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"As an engineer I default to metric /SI except for
Human body dimensions
Driving (not through choice)
How long to roast meat on Sundays
I don't even know what the metric equivalent to 1hr 40mins would be.
Cal"
6 fathoms. |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible.
Oh god yes Fahrenheit and centigrade I actually go metric there. I can’t even spell farenfart "
It's not been called Centigrade since 1948! |
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over a year ago
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Centimetres, inches, grams, miles, stones and pounds, millilitres.
Mix up but unless I can have an actual visual representation of it I don't know what it represents if someone just says 'That's about 5 centimetres'. |
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"Metric is just easy  "
Well it's sort of not. a foot being 12 inches means it can be immediately divided into 2, 3, 4 and 6... Base 12 is pretty awesome. Maths would be so much easier if we used the Duodecimal system... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, 10, 11, 12... |
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"Imperial, I've always worked in that.
Working out clearances, if someone gives me metric I'll convert to imperial as it makes more sense to me.
I can imagine 30psi, no idea what 2 bar feels like. "
Isn't Bar an Imperial measure too? I thought the SI for pressure was kilo-Pascals
Cal |
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Mosh mash of both, but imperial is my go too.
I then have to convert it in my head to metric so younger people working with me know what I’m on about.
Conversely I will be given information in metric and have to put it back in old money so I can picture it.
For example some one refers to a 20 acre field I can see that block of land in my head, but if they said 8 hectares I’d be lost until I put it back in acres.
They’re exactly the same by the way. |
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"I like whatever scale has the right sort of numbers around where I am. 6ft, 13st... As much as I'd rather it was 12st 6lb, those are good numbers for what we're measuring there. 82kg... ehh it's too big a number, harder to get hold of. as is 50 farenheit, when 10 celcius is more tangible.
Stone... igneous?
It makes sense to me.
Well that can't be a good sign."
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"While I intellectually understand metric is superior, my brain thinks in imperial. I have no visceral sense of what 2.54cm looks like, but I know exactly what an inch is. "
I'm absolutely the opposite 
An inch is about 2.5cm, a yard is about a metre, and if you start talking about stone I'll go looking for a geologist |
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Both.
When working on building sites years ago you had to use both. Timber and some bricks tend to come in imperial sizes and occasionally metric too. But I prefer metric for the accuracy, imperial is good for speed.
When I have used the scales to weigh myself last year I used imperial for that too.
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over a year ago
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Metric - being able to divide and multiply by 10 is so much easier for distance, weight and cubic capacity.
When at sea, its similar to imperial - nautical miles are based on one minute of latitude and 60 of those in a degree. |
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over a year ago
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Stick to one or the other, just not both. NASA got caught with their pants down by this once!!
Even though I'm a child of the metric era (just), I still struggle sometimes converting between old and new money  |
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over a year ago
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"I’ve just put the metric side of a rule against my old chap.
It just didn’t seem right.
The only time I think I use metric is when out running I measure my runs in kilometres and pace in minutes per km and when I’m cooking I use metric measurements.
What about you fellas and fellatinas. "
I measure mine in pixels. It’s massive on a HD screen.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As Al Murray says in his metric Vs imperial sketch...
Lets let the lady’s decide. Which would you rather have... 12 inches or 10 centimetres?"
Not sure that Al's read the conversion chart properly |
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over a year ago
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1.4 inches works for me, also 1 metre and 3/8ths of an inch , one apprentice l worked with held his tape and thumb at the required measure and walked through the site like that to mark the work |
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The rest is metric!
