Do you think in Metric or Imperial ?

[mortalmerlin]

The UK went metric in 1972, I think 36 years is long enough for the change over.

It's a messed up system when you buy fuel in Ltr, and think of milage in mpg. Or food in gramms but your body weight in stone, tyres in inch diameter and mm width.

Interestingly though the distance signs for juncions on many roads in Belgium are 1600m 800m and 400m or 1 mile, 1/2 mile and 1/4 mile. And trains pass on the left as they should.

 

[mortalmerlin]

Nobody uses decimetres or decametres either, but they're perfectly valid units.

When we calculate PCB prices for electronics we pay per decimeter²

 

[Wayland]

The UK went metric in 1972, I think 36 years is long enough for the change over.

It's a messed up system when you buy fuel in Ltr, and think of milage in mpg. Or food in gramms but your body weight in stone, tyres in inch diameter and mm width.

Interestingly though the distance signs for juncions on many roads in Belgium are 1600m 800m and 400m or 1 mile, 1/2 mile and 1/4 mile. And trains pass on the left as they should.

It might be if you're 36 but I was educated in both because the change over happened while I was at school.

I think in both systems, my mum thinks imperial and my brothers kids think in Metric.

 

[widu13]

Inches and feet for small distances, metres for longer distances, miles for long distance and acres for large areas. I grew up on the cusp of the change over, so not many converted to metric straight away (still haven't)

 

[Andyre]

I'm always doing that.

I use whichever graduation on the rule is nearest the size I want.

Does some peoples head in though.

I used to work with an older electrician who would say " cut that to 24 inches and 6mm" instead of 24 1/4 inches.
Used to do my head in.

Saying that i can work in both easily although i always walk in Km's

 

[ecobandit]

that poor bloke in sunderland must be turning in his grave he got prosecuted for flogging banana,s in pounds but kept fighting theres still a long way to go and I doubt if we,ll ever fully go metric, anyway I,m just nipping into the garden for half a dozen eggs,here chook chooks

 

[BigShot]

that poor bloke in sunderland must be turning in his grave he got prosecuted for flogging banana,s in pounds but kept fighting theres still a long way to go and I doubt if we,ll ever fully go metric, anyway I,m just nipping into the garden for half a dozen eggs,here chook chooks

Surely that should be 1.2 deca egs?

Hell I even know the origins of the phrase - I eve tried it once but couldn't calibrate the knot distance properly. Its only a measure of speed through the water in original form - not speed over the earth too........

but thats another story!

Ain't that where a "log" gets its name from? Not ships log, but the thingymabob for measuring water speed on modern boats where not using GPS.for SOG.


EDIT - this might intrest you (and it is still related to Nautical Miles )
From Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_log

Initially, the log-line was not knotted and the length was measured directly on the line. With the introduction of the nautical mile as a standard unit of measure at sea in the 15th century, the line began to be marked at equal intervals proportional to the nautical mile and to the time interval used for measurement. Initially, the markings were in the form of knots in the line. Later, knotted cords were worked into the log-line.

Originally, the distance between marks was 7 fathoms or 42 feet used with a sandglass with a 30 second running time. Later refinements in the length of the nautical mile caused the distance between knots to be changed. Eventually, the distance was set to 47 feet, 3 inches (14.4 meters) for a standard glass of 28 seconds.

That might help your calibration.

 

[MikeE]

Personal I use usually Imperial, professionally Metric, though I can and do switch all the time!

 

[Mang]

We where given a load of jobs at work recently and a younger college muttered 'Yeah, and we can stick a broom up our ***** and sweep the floor'. I replied that this was impossible for me as I am an imperial fitting (being 41) and that the work brooms are metric.

 

[British Red]

Surely that should be 1.2 deca egs?



Ain't that where a "log" gets its name from? Not ships log, but the thingymabob for measuring water speed on modern boats where not using GPS.for SOG.


EDIT - this might intrest you (and it is still related to Nautical Miles )
From Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_log

That might help your calibration.

Stunning.

The world might be a simpler place without such information, but, to this crusty old man, it will be a poorer one.

A group of skylarks is just that - but "an exaltation of skylarks" is both more evocative and just as meaningful to me. I know collective nouns is not the same as units of measure but perhaps it is...a methusalah of champagne or a hogshead of mead have soul and history in my mind.

Everything can be boiled down to numbers but there is some truth perhaps that it is possible to understand "the cost of everything and the value of nothing"

Red

 

[Shambling Shaman]

I know collective nouns is not the same as units of measure but perhaps it is...

Would it be a "Thicket of Bushcrafter's"??

 

[LazySod]

A Hangover of Mooters????

 

[pwb]

I was taught in metric and use both at work.
Metric is used for things like plumbing pipes, rolls of wire etc.
In the saw mill it's mostly imperial. Interestingly the saw, which is under seven years old,is graduated in inches.

Pete.

 

[jungle_re]

Im a land surveyor by trade so measuring is my job and although its all carried out in metric when getting other people the adjust things the inch is a great measurement, it amazing how many measurement easily break down to the inch, njust easier than saying 25mm. KM are orid though the mile is much easier to get you head arround. So i like using both

 

[calibanzwei]

A bit of both for me.

 

[drewdunnrespect]

can use both and can convert from one to other given a calculater

 

[Melonfish]

I'm comfortable in both tbh, rough measurements mind so i'll think of an inch as 2.54cm and a yard as a meter or so. acre's and hectares throw me tho.

 

[armie]

I'm comfortable in metric (SI) only.
As XKCD says, one isn't easier than the other, you just have to have reference points:
http://xkcd.com/526/

 

[DavidJT]

We have such a weird mix of both in this country. I still think in Miles/Gallon for consumption, but £/litre for petrol cost.
Pint of Beer, but a litre of milk. etc

 

[Toddy]

Thank you for the link
Love the tshirts

cheers,
M