Certainly got a chuckle out of this.

Canadians are surprisingly confusing with their measurements when they're so easy to understand about most other things.

more like cagaydians

I wonder if this will change thanks to the current and likely long-term antagonism between the USA & Canada.

Speed I'm bilingual in, I'm old enough to remember when we changed from miles to km and watching the road signs gradually get replaced. Manitoba also runs a grid pattern on roads throughout a lot of the southern province, having at least a gravel/dirt road nearly every mile, so you kinda grow up with that burned into your brain.

Temp wise, C all the way. Fahrenheit totally screws me up. I know 70 is around room temp but beyond that I need to convert it for my simple brain to understand.

It's a bit out of date, and definitely varies by individual, but broadly, yes.

Like I'll weigh myself in kg and give height in cm but most people won't understand it outside a medical context.

And most cooking is in grams or Celsius, except my oven, which is F.

Is it for agriculture?

Imperial. Sorta.

I literally use units like mL per acre for something like boron application with fertilizer.

100 is body temp so you can use that one to convert the highs. No idea what freezing would be in F

It is easier for me to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. The actual equation is (9/5)C+32. I usually just double the Celsius, add 32, then subtract a few. Gets it close enough.

Doubly colonized. Very porous border with supplies all engineered in ‘freedum units’.

Some industries have been extra slow to convert, usually due to supply chain dependencies. Also generations have to die before giving up key habits drilled into them as kids. I distinctly remember grandparents talking about mass in stones, yet canadian-born.

Settler states can sometimes be stuck in preserve old ways while imperial centers move on. Metis fiddlers sent a delegation to Scotland (? or thereabouts) to reteach them forgotten reels from a few hundred years ago.

We’d need several versions of this in the UK with a decision tree required to select the relevant decision tree. It would need to take age and where you were brought up into account.

I think that the most complicated is distance. For me it is imperial for a person’s height, metric for short distances that I measure, imperial for short distances that I estimate (that one’s weird), miles for ground travel distances and time for air travel distances.

F

Add and then subtract an indefinite amount is what gets me

European variant:

[ is it displays? ] -yes-> [ inches ]
 ↓ no
[ is it screws? ] -yes-> [ inches ]
 ↓ no
[ metric ]

You must be younger, because this diagram is spot on for me

Well, screws are more complicated. We mostly use M sizes which are metric. But when it comes to plumbing and compressed air thread sizes you get into imperial terretory fast.

As a Canadian-American living in Japan.

Height/Distance: metric

Cooking: metric (ml for volume, but I normally translate all recipes into weights and just throw things into a bowl on the scale) for both amounts and temperatures

Weight: metric

Speed: metric (m/s for wind, kph for basically anything else not science-y enough for other units)

Certain products: bicycle tires (maybe frames?), screen sizes, and more I'm forgetting.: inches but not called inches and almost always with the size in mm/cm written next to it. I have never met a Japanese person who knows what an inch actually represents unless they lived in the US or work closely with the US in certain industries (e-commerce is one for unit conversions)

Property sizes: In my own usages, metric (square metres). Dealing with Japanese real estate, home centers, etc: 帖 (jou the counter for tatami mats) and 坪 (tsubo the counter for area).

Consuming:

• soda, milk, water and whatnot: metric
• 日本酒 (nihonshu, what most people would call "sake" in the west): x合瓶 (x goubin; where x = 1 -> 180ml, 2 -> 300ml, 4 -> 720ml or so); masu (a box being around 8 shaku -> 144ml); ｘお猪口 (x ochoku) for x sake cups.
• other alcohol: I still sometimes will refer to a 750ml liquor bottle as a fifth if I'm not thinking about it

This is ignoring all of the counters Japanese has (一枚 one flat object like a sheet of paper, 一本 one cylnindrical object like a pencil/cigarette/whatever, and dozens more). Bonus: they're not all the same between Japanese and Chinese which feels weird. I don't know about Korean on that part since I think the counters are mostly written in hanguel anyway.

"Time" haha, no no no! You mean "Conventional Sexagesimal Time".

Everyone loves the metric system until you bring up metric time, go ahead, go find your biggest metric fanboy/girl and ask them how they measure the passage of time, I'll wait.

It would need to take age and where you were brought up into account.

And which sports you've been involved with, and how nationalistic your parents were when you grew up, and whether you've had chronic health issues, and whether your oven runs on natural gas, and whether you visit mainland Europe often.

Can't believe Canadians use fahrenheit for cooking. Must be because of American cookers.

Any Mexicans here? Is it the same there for cooking?

Ireland: everything is metric except....

• human height, very slowly changing
• pints in the pub
• human weight for older people who still use "stones" (this is quickly declining towards zero). A stone is 14 pounds.
• I think some plumbing stuff as a hangover
• edit: oh yeah, TV's as someone else pointed out

You bring up an excellent point! It's not present on the chart, but we are also one of the most accepting of LGBTQIA2S+

Be excellent to each other!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

This is not funny, it's a fucking problem. I'm a metric purist and have an unreasonable negative emotional response when others are not.

also,

construction drawings: mostly imperial
Office paper: imperial (8.5x11, etc)

This is also a question for our friends in the UK: if I weigh 13 stone, would those be large stones or just medium ones? Would those stones be granite or some other type? I'd prefer pumice, if I can have that.

Also with a secret third option for measuring temperatures when cooking. Your cookies will be baked for 12 minutes at Gas Mark 4 and you will like it.

Late 40s. My parents never really got comfortable with Celsius or distance in km for any context.

Seconds are SI. Makes perfect sense to use kiloseconds, milliseconds. Hours are not SI but they are convenient.

Not sure what point you're tryna make.

Tires are in inches, screws really aren't. Who wants 3/8 key?

I guess the Canadian being so measured must be that 4th route, Mass. 😜

American, can you quantity your negative emotions in a 4 point precision float of 9/11s so I can follow along?

I think mexico is weird because officially it uses metric and a lot of people know that, but as you go north closer to US you get people who say millas, libras etc. This is my experience as a non-mexican who spent a few months over there and drove all throughout it.

i feel your pain. this feels like my arguments my wife and i have about whether to measure something by weight or volume when we're cooking (i always say weight, she always says volume. it's gotten to be a running joke where i will get the scale out for water just to tease her if we're in a good mood)

Canadians may not be bicontinental, but they are a little euro-curious.

Why limit youreelf to only 1 or 2 ways of measuring things?

12 miles away? 12 kilometers away? Boring.

126,720 hot dogs away is much more whimsical and fun.

What time did I post this comment?
9:04pm local...or... -2hands of daylight!

Wait, the Arctic-Americans do meteorology in Centigrade?

Yeah trade relationships between Canuckistan and the First World just weren't meant to be, were there? Next you'll tell me you still have a king and spell "color" with a U.

Centigrade

For the last time its celsius

I thought you weren't supposed to deadname. So much for the tolerant left.

What's that in smoots?

I'm an American, I'm comfortable working in metric and normal.

Brother centigrade hasn't been a thing since the 1940s, and it isn't exactly equivalent to celsius.

Is a stone 14 nautical or statute pounds?

Iron freezes somewhere around 2800F, at 5 PSI.

My next doctor's appointment is on October 20th, how many kiloweeks is that from now?

Bicycle tires are both; 28inch 37x622 for example.

The Nazis haven't been a thing since the 1940's but here we fucking are.

Well maybe if you'd adopted the metric system this wouldn't have happened!

Shhh, don't let them know that we use it for food packaging and drugs.

being excellent to someone does not mean removing their comment

I never understand why Imperial shows up so much in these posts.