Metric or Imperial? Or both?

[Ian H]

I time-trial in miles and audax/tour in kilometres. I measure in either. But never use Fahrenheit, cos it's weird.

 

[Ian H]

I always love this sign !
So obviously put up by someone that did not understand the metric system.
Why not say the clearance in imperial measurement is 175.19 inches (or 2,100 1/12th's !!)

At school in the 60s I was taught decimetres and decametres.

 

[Brains]

Get the measurement system wrong and the cost can literally be astronomic
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

NASA lost the $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used pounds of thrust while NASA's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation.

 

[EltonFrog]

£.s.d. Me.

 

[Brains]

£.s.d. Me.

Hippy!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Both for me, i prefer metric.

When i used to price driveways and patios I'd use either metric or imperial, older people like square yrd
Youngsters like m2

Weight is so much better in kg and grams

 

[classic33]

Both here too, far easier to say it's an 8' x 4' sheet than a 1220 x 2440 but then no-one says 3/8th" ply it's always 10mil

I always ask in imperial measurements. Tends to confuse some younger ones though.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I'm bi, today I bought a 75mm 6 foot round post.

Corr - that's short and fat

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Corr - that's short and fat

It's even shorter now that half (or 1/2 or 0.5, take your pick) of it is in the ground!

 

[gbb]

Both. Anything of reasonable length or height, imperial, someone telling me they're 1.48 mtrs high means nowt to me. Small stuff..metric.
I did mess up the other week with sub mm measurements. We had some 0.12 teflon tape I needed to order. Without thinking I asked for 12 thou. It came in much too thick

 

[Salty seadog]

I use both, 150 yards is an 8 iron.
32°f is freezing but 32C is sweltering.
I'm just over 6' or 183cm. 16 stones at the moment, 10Kg over my normal due to injury and lack of cycling. My fastest speed on bicycle is 49.6mph.
Having worked at sea for 26 years there are all those nautical units too.

 

[gavroche]

I was an engineer for 30 years in this country but brought up in France so I can do both with no problem. Must admit that the metric system is a lot easier and simpler.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

A right mixture. I grew up making model railways at a scale of 4mm to the foot so was always going to be confused.

 

[classic33]

A right mixture. I grew up making model railways at a scale of 4mm to the foot so was always going to be confused.

Not OO guage?

 

[KneesUp]

Those of a certain age are all to aware of the problems caused by mixing inches and centimetres.


I do speed, a person's height and trailers in imperial, sexagesimal for time and angles, and metric for almost everything else.