There's an option missing that I'd need.
When it comes to people I think in feet and inches for height and stones for weight (I even struggle with pounds in weight) - metric confuses me there.
When it's distances along the ground I think in meters for a while then miles when it gets longer.
I can picture an Acre quite easilly by a Hectare might as well be a number of grains of rice to me. It's ANYONE'S guess how big one of those things is. I suspect noone knows what a hectare is and that it's only used to make big things seem smaller.
Weights of ingredients are always in grams and kilograms.
Volumes are all metric except for fuel (miles per gallon) and milk or beer which are both always pints or halves - even when I'm in Europe.
Temperature is in Celsius.
I work in milimeters and meters (drawings for loft conversions and beam calculations respectively)
Changing between them doesn't come easilly to me.
I know it's roughly km/8x5=miles and miles/5x8=km. And I know it's 25.4mm to an inch. I need to figure it out for each one though.
God is 6 foot tall and lives 14 miles away. He speaks English (well he would being from Hampshire). He plays cricket and rugby by season and drinks real ale in pints from the wood. Glasses do not have handles and pint tankards are only made in pewter. He measures his weight in stone and his his milk delivered in glass bottles by the pint on the doorstep. Bread comes in 1 and 2 pound loaves. Sweets are bought by the quarter (lb) and horse races are measured in furlongs. Nautical distance is measured only in knots.
If anyone cares to dispute this they must pay a fine of a guinea.
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There's an option missing that I'd need.
When it comes to people I think in feet and inches for height and stones for weight (I even struggle with pounds in weight) - metric confuses me there.
When it's distances along the ground I think in meters for a while then miles when it gets longer.
I can picture an Acre quite easilly by a Hectare might as well be a number of grains of rice to me. It's ANYONE'S guess how big one of those things is. I suspect noone knows what a hectare is and that it's only used to make big things seem smaller.
Weights of ingredients are always in grams and kilograms.
Volumes are all metric except for fuel (miles per gallon) and milk or beer which are both always pints or halves - even when I'm in Europe.
Temperature is in Celsius.
I work in milimeters and meters (drawings for loft conversions and beam calculations respectively)
Changing between them doesn't come easilly to me.
I know it's roughly km/8x5=miles and miles/5x8=km. And I know it's 25.4mm to an inch. I need to figure it out for each one though.
Speaking of beer....
How many cans in a crate?
Carling comes in 'packs' of 4 or 6, or 'crates' of 8,10,12,15,18,20 or 24.
And then there are 3 sizes of can, and a few sizes of bottle.
(Off to drink a crate, may be some time).
Speaking of beer....
How many cans in a crate?
Carling comes in 'packs' of 4 or 6, or 'crates' of 8,10,12,15,18,20 or 24.
And then there are 3 sizes of can, and a few sizes of bottle.
(Off to drink a crate, may be some time).