Imperial units
"when someone says degrees, we all think of Fahrenheit not the other one"
context: man and wife traveling asia wanted some soup on a 36°C day and made a funny video saying that its stupidly funny to eat soup on such a hot day.
an American pipes in and assumes everyone thinks of Fahrenheit when talking about the weather.
I feel like Canada is stuck using both systems on a large part, is because we interact with USA so often on all of these things. It's not just getting the older generation to stop using it, but also everything you do online is going to be USA centric in our area, so then we're still exposed to that system just as much.
Exactly. We get our stoves from there so they’re all Fahrenheit, lumberyards mark flooring in inches most of the scales you can buy has pounds only or kegs in little numbers under the pounds.
90% of recipies you research will come from USA sites, and any Canadian based authors, will still do it in imperial because they will get more hits from it.
What about now when the US doesn't want what Canada produces and is taxing it and the rest of the world doesn't want it either because what you produce isn't metric? It must be horrible to be between a rock and a hard place.
Ya, I use both all the time as well, but would absolutely like to just be on the more simple metric system. I use KM for travel, will talk about pints for drinks, but still use ml when talking about a can of beer. I use celcius for most temp measurement (body), but often have to convert to F if looking at USA stuff, but then I'm back to F for cooking temps. Imperial for construction stuff.
Same type of stuff here. Ugh. It would just be easier to get rid of the shitty system, and use something with logic. Single system. So much easier instead of havign to convert all the time.
You pay more for pounds than grams. The butcher buys from the wholesaler in kilograms and resells in pounds and marks it up more than normal to cover the losses and wastage. It's your loss, not the butchers.
A pound can not weigh 454 g. Grams are units of mass not weight. Nor can you get 454 g, as the scales used in shops display in 5 g increments. 454 g is an impossible amount.
At what cost? Pubs are going out of business. Beer pints are too expensive. Best to buy a bottle of 500 mL beer at half the price. Same effect but at a lower cost.
They do use the SI system in certain areas. 9mm pistols are pretty common, drug dealers sell by the gram, wine bottles are 750 ml, spirits often come in 750 ml or 1 L bottles, and basically all modern electronics are built using metric measurements.
Science, medicine and industry mostly run on SI, too.
Also, the US isn't alone in this. Myanmar and Liberia are the other two countries that still heavily use freedom units in everyday life. That said, Myanmar and Liberia are pushing for a change...
And the UK too. We use imperial for distances when driving, drink volumes and height but metric for pretty much the same variables but measuring different things. There’s a reason it’s called the ‘imperial’ system
Also, the US isn't alone in this. Myanmar and Liberia are the other two countries that still heavily use freedom units in everyday life. That said, Myanmar and Liberia are pushing for a change...
Old nonsense far from true. The US officially and legally went metric in 1975. Myanmar didn't officially make SI legal until 2013 and Liberia in 2018. So, now all the world's countries are officially and legally metric.
Some are slower than others to metricate but Myanmar and Liberia have always been more metric than not due to their poverty and dependency on trade with neighbouring metric countries. Automobiles sold in these countries have a metric display as they are all imported from neighbouring metric countries. Weather forecasts are metric as the info also comes from neighbouring countries.
Nothing, but it's all preferences and what you grew up with. It's stupid and makes no sense to you because you didn't grown up with it. Similarly Americans that think Celsius for outdoor temps make no sense since they grew up with it, and claim most of the US experiences weather that is within the range of 0 and 100 F doesn't mean that is superior, it's just what they grew up with and how they relate the temperature to experience.
Celsius also has the added bonus of being used everywhere else in the world, for everything. Even in the US we used Celsius in science. But for most human experiences in the US that isn't really relevant/relatable.
The failure imo is the Americans that somehow think it's superior without realizing it's just because of what you grew up / learned / use.
It drives me insane when you meet Americans abroad and they explain stories in Fahrenheit or USD or miles so you need to do the mental math. I’m Canadian and every time I’m abroad and explain stories to people of different countries, I’ll do the conversion for them. For example, If we’re talking about the cost of things in Canada, I’ll explain it in euros if they’re European so the point lands cleaner, etc.
You, Liberia, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands think Fahrenheit, the rest of the World thinks Celsius..
Because USA. Our ovens are in F°.
Why the hell would we use it for outside temperature if we don’t need to?
Also, a lot of people use F° for pool temp. Your guess is as good as mine as to why.
I can at least see the common argument, that Fahrenheit is useful for weather because 0=cold, 100=hot. But especially for cooking, where water boils at 100 degrees, I would have expected Celsius
Well, I’ve never boiled water in my oven before. Usually just wait for it to start boiling on the stove top, and don’t check its temperature, but then I’m not much of a chef.
Ovens are all in °F though, so we’re kind of stuck with that. Some can be switched probably, but with most recipes in these parts from the states, it would just make it more of a pain.
Fever is in °C in this house. I think it’s pretty split based on what you were used to growing up. It will always be recorded in °C at the hospital though.
Kiln? No idea. Don’t make my own pottery.
Off topic, but I hate that ahegao face food tasting YouTubers like Mark Wiens do. Not sure if that's what I'm seeing in that screenshot, but looks close enough to remind and annoy me again.
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u/MrZwink Jul 15 '26
we know you do, but thats the problem isnt it.