It's often said that people under a certain age have only been taught and think in "metric" units.
But how true is it? Have a rough guess as to how much of evryday stuff you think, and speak, in metric and/or imperial?
As a starter, i'll estimate 4/5ths imperial, 20% metric. |
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The other thought is How easily can you convert from one to the other?
eg most jet airliners cruise at say 35-37,000 feet.
Can you readily convert this to miles, metres or kilometres.
Does it matter as long as it lands safely and you get yer bags within the hour? |
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All imperial at work, at home a mixture of both... Driving all imperial of course, except for fuel being in litres! Strange how a car's ecomony is still expressed in Miles per gallon, yet we were forced to accept metric fuel measures! |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
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I've just been trying to convert litres in to gallons, think I got it right in the end 4.54609 litres = 1 imperial gallon (not forgetting a U S Gallon is different) Have to say my brain hurts now though  |
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My class where the first year to be taught "new" money. Apart from that im still feet and inches and old temperatures although i can convert lbs to kilograms lol. I know im 155cm tall cause it told me somewhere lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am a bit messed up and confused. I know cms and inches, feet, metres not yards, stones and lbs not kilos, litres not gallons, miles not kilometres. I must have been learning during the changeover. |
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"going into a pub and asking for "568ml of bitter" is just going to wrong.... soooo wrong!!!  "
It is actually. It's one of the statutory exceptions. Beer and cider must be sold in pints. Wussy halves are permissible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Imperial all the time.I convert millimetres into inches in my head but thats about it. I'm always moaning about the price of petrol but i actually have no idea how many litres in gallon. kilometres? ain't got a scooby |
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