Do you think in metric or imperial?

[schmalex]

My wife thinks in metric and imperial at the same time. I often get given measurement such as 4", 2.5cm if I get sent to homebase / the garden centre etc.

[wildcat45]

I agree with temperature as was said earlier. Zero is freezing, that's logical. 32 isn't. For me it's metric up to about 15 and then I think in Fahrenheit.

It's cold it must be minus two out there. Went on holiday, it was lovely, temperatures in the mid seventies.

The odd thing was that my late Dad, born in 1927 thought like this. He got his first car with an outside temp sensor and was always referring to the temperature in Celcius, until the summertime when he'd not get what 20c was and just say the gague said it was "bloody hot"

[HarryFlatters]

Metric in the office, imperial on the golf course

[Moonhawk]

Mojooo said:

Hooli said:

37 here & Imperial all the way. I refuse to talk french I'm English, live in England & use English measurements. We're restoring a cottage at the moment & enjoying pissing off window suppliers etc by saying we want stuff 32" rather about the same in MM. It's an English cottage & it'll be rebuilt in English just like it started off in 1640ish.

The UK Parliament opted to go metric in the 60s (nothing to do with the EU as such).

The English way is metric.

Not to mention that what ultimately became the metre was first proposed by an Englishman (John Wilkins) anyway......

[Looket]

I think entirely in metric with the exception of beer. But then I'm a Euro.

Some imperial measurements have come to 'make sense' with time, such as distance and speed. I no longer need to convert them back into metric to understand, I just 'know'. Others, such as MPG are completely arbitrary and mean nothing to me. All I know is that the higher the better but I can't really relate to the actual number unless I start doing a bit of mental arithmetic behind the wheel.

[Morningside]

Distances - Imperial.
Small measurements - Metric.
Large distance >1" - Imperial
Fuel - Imperial.
Weight - Imperial.

And I use the centigrade scale.

[Axionknight]

I'm 26 and work for an oilfield service company, everything is done to imperial measurements and weights, but outside of work I use the metric system with which I was brought up.

[Zwolf]

A bit of both. mph, mpg, bhp & PS, lb ft or Nm (kW are too much faff to remember the conversion), miles, gallons and litres, pints, kg (weight of vehicles, I couldn't tell you how many hundredweight a metric tonne is, let alone f**k about with short and long Imperial tons) etc.

Especially when it comes to tyre sizes, muddled convention that they are.

Depends on the application, basically. The conversions are mostly simple enough to remember and do with a bit of mental arithmetic and basic times tables.

Edited by Zwolf on Friday 3rd October 15:51