• @BowtiesAreCool
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    121 year ago

    And no one brings up that the UK actually uses both and in a lot more confusing way. Fuel in Liters but efficiency in miles per gallon. Speed in miles per hour but how far you drive in Kilometers. Weight of produce in grams and people in stone.

    • @CapraObscura
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      31 year ago

      And even then British gallons are different from American gallons so the efficiency numbers look really frickin’ weird.

    • @DXD
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      11 year ago

      This isn’t very accurate. Imperial is used for car and travel related measurements, metric is used elsewhere (officially). It would be nice if we switched to metric but it is OK.

      Fuel in Liters but efficiency in miles per gallon.

      Yeah, I think this is basically the only confusing and annoying imperial/metric thing we have.

      Speed in miles per hour but how far you drive in Kilometers.

      We don’t use kilometers for how far we drive. We still use miles on signage and in everyday speech, along with miles per hour. I imagine if we switched to kilometers per hour, we would start using kilometers.

      Weight of produce in grams and people in stone.

      Older generations might still use stone but it is disappearing. Even my retired dad uses kg now. Younger generations are not taught stone (for decades now), as they grow up it will disappear.

      It is a similar story to height in feet and inches. It is becoming less common, but probably slower than the switch away from stone.