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Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.
My father hauls liquids in Canada. Never leaves the province. But on his reports he must note metric and imperial gallon.
I don't have to watch the show to know it is true. When I was in middle school we had to learn conversions for all of these (except Β°C to Β°F, cause that's too hard).
Where I live its generally imperial for estimating something at a glance, and metric for actually measuring something.
Okay, yeah that all seems correct to me lol. It sure does make us sound crazy though!
I'm pretty happy to have non-zero competency in all the systems lol. I'm a regular hobby crafter, and honestly some projects just work better in metric, some are better in imperial.
Yup pretty accurate (quebec)
Volume for drinks is also Imperial in my experience.
16oz/20oz beer, 5oz wine, 1oz liquor, etc
Yeah, that's in the food thing. What's frustrating is everything is purchased in metric denominations but in imperial-standard sizes so we get stupid crap like a 355ml (12 oz) pop can.
Traveling to metric countries is so refreshing on this. I remember being in Argentina and buying a bag of cookies at the bakery and just asking for "un cuarto" of cookies (implicitly a quarter-kilo).
Many things make sense now
This is highly inaccurate. Human height is done in cm.
Australia we still use some legacy units such as psi instead of kPa or Bar in common parlance. This stems from our parents using this. Kids nowadays will probably adopt kPa, as it's in all the door jams of cars.
My head hurts.