To Canadians, British, Irish, Australians, New Zealanders, Jamaicans,

England is metric in name only and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

I still have problems consuming American media even though I sort of know how much each unit is. I think it's because when you're young, you build up a mental catalog of the sizes of various things in one unit system, so that when you're exposed to a new unit system, there is nothing in your catalog to compare to relatively.

>>79177726
Colloquially people still use inches for human height, and sometimes stone for human weight even though kg are superior. All the signs are in km but some old people might mentally deal in miles because they're useless cunts.

for me, people weigh pounds and height is feet and inches because of sports, everything else is metric
heavy weight like tonnes are confusing

just took a air canada flight that measured distance in miles though

>>79180127

As much as people (justifiably) mock Americans for being so behind on adopting the metric system, I've never heard people use stone here.

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>>79180127
>and sometimes stone for human weight

>>79177726
I'm a scientist, so I 'think' in metric.

Except road speeds, a person's weight, and, technically, temperatures (as K is the official SI unit).

>>79177726
We use subhuman units colloquially and idiomatically, at times, but they aren't in use in any official government capacity.

>>79182961
Kelvin is fucking retarded

>Hey it's 200 degrees outside
>Wow, i bet you'd melt if you stepped outside.
>Nope you'd turn into a human Popsicle

>>79183116
>Kelvin is fucking retarded
Technically, in this instance, you are retarded.

>>79177874
but I thought all the well educated young people used metric while only old dumb boomers who ruin the country by voting for brexit still use imp*rial

>>79183166
I don't get it?

>>79183279
It's rather simple: anyone who claims that Kelvin is "fucking retarded" is projecting their own sheer stupidity and ignorance.

>>79183220
Oh, they'll foreigners that because they think it's what's expected of them but there's no truth in it. The only time anyone'll actually use metric is in science.

>>79183706
they'll tell*

>>79183116

Kelvin is essential, you're retarded.

But nobody uses it for every day use, of course.

>>79182961

I used to work in a chemistry research lab, so I tried to train myself to intuitively think in kg and meters, but I just couldn't manage. Turns out it doesn't matter anyway, as now I work in a theoretical computational lab and only work in bohrs and hartrees. Well, whatever is convenient.

>>79182856
>>79182905
It's just an equivalent system to lbs, dealing in units of 14 lbs because lbs are too small an order of unit to approximate with.

>>79177726
Miles, foot (when talking about height), inch (benis)

that's it really

>>79177874
True but we do use a mix of both, as far as I've seen anyway. Miles still reign supreme mostly.

>>79186294
Exactly this. For everything else I think in metric. I will say that most other people would think in stones for people's body weight though

>>79177726
We use metric but in some case like pipe dimension and sometimes house . They still use imperial