Measurements

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

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Here’s my contribution, $1.99US/pound. Today was the last day for that price.

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It’s so weird seeing a tape measure without inches and centimetres I stared at it for a moment unable to figure out what on earth was going on.
Who says your brain becomes inflexible as you age.. poppycock

 

[TastyReuben]

It’s so weird seeing a tape measure without inches and centimetres

Centimetre?…isn’t that some kind of bug or something?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Centimetre?…isn’t that some kind of bug or something?

If you consider the rest of the world a bug then yes

 

[grumpyoldman]

let me see if i understand this , your used to seeing a tape measure with inches AND centimeters on it ? because sometimes the ones i have bought have both on them, others just inches
i never really cared as long as one edge had inches

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

let me see if i understand this , your used to seeing a tape measure with inches AND centimeters on it ? because sometimes the ones i have bought have both on them, others just inches
i never really cared as long as one edge had inches

Yes inches and centimetres.
We’re in a unique spot of switching to metric decades ago but somehow still holding on to imperial.
Some things are still sold in yards.
We measure distance in miles and speed in miles per hour.
Fabric is often sold in yards.
We buy a pint of milk or beer (not many people know how much that is in metric) and beer n cider is still allowed to legally be sold in pints.
Weight is often still spoken of in stones and pounds.

So yer we still operate both, most things are metric now but you’ll spend about 20% of your time converting measurement one way or the other!

 

[grumpyoldman]

i remember back in the 70s the U.S tried to convert us to the metric system ....it failed miserably now we are back to our old system inches ,feet , miles and so forth

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

i remember back in the 70s the U.S tried to convert us to the metric system ....it failed miserably now we are back to our old system inches ,feet , miles and so forth

I think it was in the 70’s here too and wasn’t welcomed but it was easier to impose by changing the law and the school curriculum.

 

[JAS_OH1]

i remember back in the 70s the U.S tried to convert us to the metric system ....it failed miserably now we are back to our old system inches ,feet , miles and so forth

Wwll if you look at labels, both are often included. Like most bottled water is .5 liters (16.9oz). As a child of the 70s I quickly absorbed some of it back then that seemed pertinent--such as that a quart of Coca-Cola was pretty close to a liter, which helped me with many things over the years, such as when buying fuel in Canada as an adult!

 

[TastyReuben]

As a child of the 70s I quickly absorbed some of it back then that seemed pertinent--such as that a quart of Coca-Cola was pretty close to a liter,

I know a gallon is 3.8 liters, because it’s printed on every public urinal in the US.

I remember when they were teaching us the metric system when I was a kid, and our teacher asked which was bigger, a gallon or a liter, and they’d just started selling 1-liter bottles of pop in the stores.

She called on me, and I casually answered that a gallon was bigger. She must’ve taken my apparent confidence as being in possession of specific information, because she proudly asked me to explain to the rest of the class, so I said, “Sure. A gallon of milk is obviously bigger than a liter of pop.” - I had to sit out in the hallway the rest of the lesson for being a smart-ass!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I know a gallon is 3.8 liters, because it’s printed on every public urinal in the US.

I remember when they were teaching us the metric system when I was a kid, and our teacher asked which was bigger, a gallon or a liter, and they’d just started selling 1-liter bottles of pop in the stores.

She called on me, and I casually answered that a gallon was bigger. She must’ve taken my apparent confidence as being in possession of specific information, because she proudly asked me to explain to the rest of the class, so I said, “Sure. A gallon of milk is obviously bigger than a liter of pop.” - I had to sit out in the hallway the rest of the lesson for being a smart-ass!

Don’t you just love those old school teaching methods!

 

[badjak]

But that's an American gallon ..
There's also a British gallon, which is bigger...

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

But that's an American gallon ..
There's also a British gallon, which is bigger...

I know I didn’t want to complicate matters, our quarts are different too

 

[TastyReuben]

But that's an American gallon ..
There's also a British gallon, which is bigger...

I know I didn’t want to complicate matters, our quarts are different too

And pints! That was the first thing we learned arriving in the UK and ordering beer - “Congratulations, you get four more ounces than you’re used to.”

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

And pints! That was the first thing we learned arriving in the UK and ordering beer - “Congratulations, you get four more ounces than you’re used to.”

I didn’t know about pints!

 

[TastyReuben]

I didn’t know about pints!

That’s fair, I didn’t know about gallons. If I had, I’d have ordered my beer by the gallon!