Metric or Imperial? Or both?

[Sharky]

As a table tennis player, the net is 6" high, but we play with 40mm balls

 

[Jenkins]

Mixture of both for me as well
Size/distance - up to about a foot, I'll use metric, after that it's imperial only
Weights - people are in stone & pounds, everything else is metric
Volume - I still do fuel in imperial (divide the litre display by 4.54) but don't care whether anything else is in metric or imperial
When we changed over to decimal currency in 1971, it was my job as a 6 year old to convert new to old money for my gran - I stil do this occasionally in my head.

 

[classic33]

As a table tennis player, the net is 6" high, but we play with 40mm balls

1.50" balls replaced with 1.57" ones.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Temperature wise I use both. I like to talk Fahrenheit to the youngsters,knowing they'll ask me to convert it to Centigrade and use Celsius on the oldies knowing they'll ask for a Fahrenheit conversion. This is the nearest i'll get to being bilingual.

 

[MichaelW2]

There are two kinds of country. Those that use metric and those that have put a man on the moon.

 

[cookiemonster]

I use both. I use metres, inches, feet, liters, gallons, pounds and kg. I tend to use metric much more as that's the system here in the Far East.

 

[cookiemonster]

There are two kinds of country. Those that use metric and those that have put a man on the moon.

That didn't work too well when one of NASA's spacecraft crashed on Mars as they used metric and imperial. Several hundred million $ up the swanee.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I used both growing up, but since moving here I've used metric all the time except when riding an imperial century.

Using Kilometres took a bit of getting used to at first, but I'm very glad I only have to work in multiples of 10. I shudder at the thought of having to work out area, volume and wood warpage in imperial measurements.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

In theory the centimetre stopped existing years ago as a unit of measurement.

Yeah, replaced by the centimeter.

That aside, I agree with you.

 

[KneesUp]

Yeah, replaced by the centimeter.

That aside, I agree with you.

The official spelling is centimetre.

 

[Electric_Andy]

This is interesting and confusing. I know nothing about 5/16ths in terms of sockets and spanners, I always use metric. I use imperial for height and weight, except for small weights (in cooking for example) where I prefer metric.

 

[raleighnut]

Yeah, replaced by the centimeter.

That aside, I agree with you.

The units that are sanctioned are the Millimetre, Metre and Kilometer, the decimetre was the first to be abandoned followed by the centimetre.

 

[Sharky]

This is interesting and confusing. I know nothing about 5/16ths in terms of sockets and spanners, I always use metric. I use imperial for height and weight, except for small weights (in cooking for example) where I prefer metric.

I used to have an imperial adjustable spanner, but had to buy a metric adjustable spanner when everything came in mm sizes.

 

[Profpointy]

There are two kinds of country. Those that use metric and those that have put a man on the moon.

Those German rocket engineers were pretty smart converting everything to feet and pounds for local needs

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I used to have an imperial adjustable spanner, but had to buy a metric adjustable spanner when everything came in mm sizes.

Posted this before, but the one on the left is a Metric 250mm adjustable & the one of the right is a 10" Imperial you can see it is forged on them (if you zoom in)