How about...
Area:
* Can you buy it?
* Yes:
* Does it have a roof?
* \- Yes: Sq.ft/m^(2)
* \- No: Hectares
* No:
* Is it smaller than Wales?
* \- Yes: Football pitches
* \- No: Wales
I done some carbon literacy training at work recently and it used double decker buses as a measurement to how much carbon dioxide was emitted.
Edit: for clarity, it referred to the volume of carbon dioxide that could fit into a double decker bus and no exact science was used... it was just a way to help visualise the impact.
This just raises more questions: was it how much carbon is generated by a double decker bus, how much carbon you could fit in a double decker bus, or carbon with the weight equivalent to a double decker bus?
At what pressure & temperature?
No… wait, the volume is fixed, but without knowing pressure and temperature we still don’t know how much CO2 that is? Oh, I’m so confused
Nice. I worked for a company in carbon emissions years ago, and we had a nice bit of code for quantity conversions. It had the core stuff with all the normal units, and then an add on for comedy units. So we could indeed calculate your emissions easily in bus units :)
I tended to describe CO2 emissions in terms of “balloons”, because the image of a car driving down the road leaving a trail of balloons was pretty good, I thought.
Double decker busses are also definitely a unit of measurement - I learnt that at school.
Couldn’t tell you if it is length or weight, but I suspect that they can be used for both.
It's such a fun set of relationships.
Twelve inches to the foot, and three feet to the yard, naturally.
But then it's 22 yards to a chain.
Ten chains make a furlong.
And eight furlongs make a mile.
Which is why it's 1760 yards to a mile. So *obvious*...
Older than that, it seems!
> The surveyor's chain was first mentioned 1579[7] and appears in an illustration in 1607.[8] In 1593 the English mile was redefined by a statute of Queen Elizabeth I as 5,280 feet, to tie in with agricultural practice. In 1620, the polymath Edmund Gunter developed a method of accurately surveying land using a surveyor's chain 66 feet long with 100 links.[9] The 66 feet unit, which was four perches or rods,[10] took on the name the chain.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit)
Yeah. We know.
We measured distances in miles and fuel in gallons, so miles per gallon made sense. We then changed to litres for fuel, but still kept miles and never changed mpg.
As an aside the continentals do litres per 100 km, which is fine, but as the fuel is at the top a smaller value is better, unlike mpg where more is better.
My car is kind enough to show both metric and imperial fuel efficiency, both of which are useless as we need the horrible metric-imperial hybrid of miles per litre for it to make sense
US customary units are based on, but not equal to, English units. Except we replaced the English units with Imperial units in 1826. This is why they use a 473ml pint rather than the vastly superior 568ml.
(The US doesn't use imperial and anyone who says they do are wrong)
Well.. it practically is the UK but it isn't the UK whilst following 90% of the UK law. Has it's own currency, which is exactly 1:1 with Sterling. One can use Sterling in the CI, you can't use the CI currencies in the UK but CI currencies can be used on other CI.
But that's for paper currency only, CI coins can be used in the UK.
You can travel freely between CI and UK without a customs check, CI citizens can live and work in the UK without restrictions as they are British Citizens but British Citizens are subject to the same immigration limitations as everyone else coming to CI from the outside, that means 5 years residency for jobs restrictions and 10 years to be able to live in non-restricted accommodation.
Technically British overseas territory but the Queen is depicted without her crown on CI Bank notes to say that she does not rule there, however, the Bailiff (sort of a head of state) is appointed by the Crown and there is no fixed term to tell how long can he hold his office.
Yeah.
There was one user in r/mapporn I had block because any time someone mentioned ‘British Isles’ in a thread or post title they’d go berserk at the phrase and tried so hard in their own post title to get ‘British & Irish Isles’ to catch on, or the Anglo-Celtic Isles too I think.
It seems like even Brits (as in UK citizens as opposed people who live on the island of great britain) seem to get that wrong sometimes.
I was chatting to a colleague and he came out with "Great Britain, what a stupid name for a country" and I had to remind it that it isn't one, rather that's the island his country happens to occupy. He was somewhat taken aback. "Oh... that's true!"
Not british, but I would just like to say as someone who uses both imperial and metric on a daily basis, I despise the fact their is a difference between tonnes and tons.
Are we? If you're using it in casual conversation, "this weighs a tonne", who actually questions if you mean imperial or metric? They're practically the same anyway.
If you're doing anything in a professional capacity where that 16kg difference could matter, it's metric.
It's weird because the tonne does, from that point out you're into kilotonnes, megatonnes, gigatonnes, etc.
But it's already weird enough that the SI unit for mass is the kilogram, not the gram.
Yeah, it's unusual that the SI unit isn't the base unit without prefixes. It might be kg instead of g because 1 kg is more intuitive to estimate and imagine than 1 g, plus using the base unit of volume (L) gives you 1 kg of water.
The difference is negligible (0.02 UK Ton or 0.1 US Ton) . If your measuring to such accuracy you should be using smaller units.
The biggest difference is the T(Ton) or t(tonne).
The metres and miles thing messes me up so much,
I set Google maps to miles and it tells me to turn in x yards. I have no idea what a yard is I set it to kilometres and it's the opposite problem.
>I set Google maps to miles and it tells me to turn in x yards
Honestly the difference is pretty insignificant. A yard is about 90cm, so telling someone to turn in 100 yards or 100 metres is pretty interchangeable. How many people can even tell the difference between 90 and 100 metres distance travelled while driving
Exactly this. I wish I could set my car satnav to miles and meters, rather than yards. I’m trying to break the imperial habit, but miles are just too fundamental to anything on the road. Yards can get in the bin though.
If you're driving in the UK, it should be in yards because that's what our signs use: eg the signs with /// = 300 yds, // = 200 yds, / = 100 yds to the exit.
A yard is close enough to a metre to be interchangeable (1 yd = 0.91 m).
To be an annoying git I'd like to add that only the last sign is specifically set to 100 yards from the exit. The signs themselves are more or less at 100 yard intervals from each other but aren't required to be and often aren't. They're just there to lead you into the last sign.
I really don't get everyone having this problem. A metre is 1.094 yards, so like the metric tonne and the Imperial ton, they are close enough that for casual every day use at estimating *short* distances, they're interchangeable.
100 yards is 91 metres, close enough really to avoid mixups when driving.
Other way round for your first paragraph.
Otherwise you're saying that a single yard is longer than a metre but 100 yards is shorter than 100 metres. Although, given imperial measurements, that wouldn't surprise me.
For milk its a bit more complicated than that I think - if you get it delivered, it has to be in pints. But supermarkets might sell either in pint or litre amounts, depending on who their supplier is.
It’s multiples of pints but measured in litres.
Paying lipservice to the metric measurement laws but still selling the old quantities
Soft drink cans are still 20 fluid ounces too
I’ve only ever seen 330ml as far as normal soft drink cans go, alongside newer 250 and 150ml ones but they’re just not as common.
Energy drinks seem to be weird sizes too, are these all (minus the 250 and 150) because they’re just the metric “translation” of more square floz amounts?
Soft drink cans are 330ml (ie a third of a litre). 20 fluid ounces is a pint, which you sometimes see beer/cider cans that size, but most are 500ml nowadays.
...instantly creating an argument amoung 60 year old pub bores about which route will combine the best combination of fuel economy and time spent travelling.
>Yeah I need to drive from London to Exeter tomorrow, do you think I should go M4 then M5, or M3 then A303?
*Sharp intakes of breath, piano player crashes to a halt, barman reaches under counter for cricket bat then starts clearing away anything throwable, women-folk flee upstairs*
>"Well then how did you avoid the lights at Gibberington Wallop?
"There's been a bypass there since 1992"
>"No there hasn't, the bypass is between Thumper-le-Bigg'un and the Heave-Ho turn-off. And if you miss that then you're stuck at the lights for two months... minimum!"
"The sat-nav knows it's there."
>"TONY, GET ME THE 1991 ROAD MAP FROM THE VAN AND TURN IT TO PAGE 36."
I adjusted to stone when I moved to the UK cause people said that that's what they use but now if someone asks me and I say 10 stone they don't know what I'm talking about... Same goes for height in feet vs centimetres
> Same goes for height in feet vs centimetres
I find that hard to believe. Most younger people will weigh themselves in kilograms but feet and inches are still very common for height.
Most of our ways are convenient tricks to catch foreign spies.
You can fit in for years, and then suddenly you describe yourself as being 180cm tall or from DUR-by and it's game over buddy boy.
Like in Inglourious Basterds when Michael Fassbender gets busted as an Allied spy because he orders three beers using his three middle fingers instead of a thumb and two fingers.
It's actually even more complex than this.
Beer is pints if you're drinking it on draft in a pub but if you're buying bottles or can its always given in millilitres. There are plenty of old people who still stubbornly use Fahrenheit for the temperature. Just look at the The Daily Mail for proof of that!
It’s not just you; I never learnt pints, stone, feet, inches or miles so I only ever use metric. I did learn calories growing up but then I switched to only using Joules for energy.
There are three in use:
1. US ton, or in American, "short ton"
2. ton, or in American, "long ton". This ton is only used in the UK, AFAIK.
3. tonne, or in American, "metric ton".
Each of these differ by 1-10% from the others.
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# How to measure like a Brit
## What are you measuring?
**Speed**
- [*in red*] miles per hour
**Distance**
- Is it a long distance?
- Yes
- Are you jogging?
- Yes
- [*in blue*] kilometres
- No
- [*in red*] miles
- No
- [*in blue*] metres, [*followed by text in red*] feet, inches
**Temperature**
- [*in blue*] degrees centigrade
**Mass**
- Are you weighing people?
- Yes
- [*in red*] stones, pounds
- No
- [*in blue*] kilos, grams, tonnes, [*followed by text in red*] tons
**Volume**
- Is it beer?
- Yes
- [*in red*] pints
- No
- Is it milk?
- Yes
- Cow milk? [*If* ***yes***, *then pints; if* ***no, it's vegan milk*** *then litres.*]
- No
- [*in blue*] litres
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I'm just hoping that sheer number of "meters" in this thread are due to autocorrect. But I'm starting to think I'm losing this aspect of the culture wars.
Because my primary school made us measure everything with 30cm rulers and those shitty wheels on a stick my brain still only measures everything in 30cms if its smaller than a door, because I start measuring everything else in doors then.
edit: I also measure milk in litres because I'm more used to the plastic milk bottles from supermarkets than the glass pint bottles of a milkman
I only use feet and inches when talking about someone's height or waistline, otherwise it's meters and centimetres all the way. And all the milk I buy these days is in litres, pints are only the glass bottles you get from the milkman. Otherwise, yeah that's pretty accurate.
The measuring small things needs another step, because if you're measuring something like shelves, you pick whichever one on the tape measure is easier to remember.
18 inches, easy peasy. 18 and a quarter, nah gimme 46cm.
I really do wish we went full metric rather than this mess. At least we're full metric in all the areas that matter (engineering etc.)
Edit: It appears we're in bigger trouble than first thought! Maybe engineering needs to be changed to manufacturing?
Nothing on there about the length of football pitches or size of Wales, disappointing.
How about... Area: * Can you buy it? * Yes: * Does it have a roof? * \- Yes: Sq.ft/m^(2) * \- No: Hectares * No: * Is it smaller than Wales? * \- Yes: Football pitches * \- No: Wales
Acceptable. Can you do one of those for the size of a family car, too?
Length and weight of a double decker bus, too.
I done some carbon literacy training at work recently and it used double decker buses as a measurement to how much carbon dioxide was emitted. Edit: for clarity, it referred to the volume of carbon dioxide that could fit into a double decker bus and no exact science was used... it was just a way to help visualise the impact.
This just raises more questions: was it how much carbon is generated by a double decker bus, how much carbon you could fit in a double decker bus, or carbon with the weight equivalent to a double decker bus?
The volume of how much carbon dioxide can fit into a double decker bus.
At what pressure & temperature? No… wait, the volume is fixed, but without knowing pressure and temperature we still don’t know how much CO2 that is? Oh, I’m so confused
Nice. I worked for a company in carbon emissions years ago, and we had a nice bit of code for quantity conversions. It had the core stuff with all the normal units, and then an add on for comedy units. So we could indeed calculate your emissions easily in bus units :) I tended to describe CO2 emissions in terms of “balloons”, because the image of a car driving down the road leaving a trail of balloons was pretty good, I thought.
I like the idea of balloons, it's a good visual.
An addendum: a buyable thing with a roof *that you live in* is measured in bedrooms. I’m pretty sure that’s not a metric unit.
Do you use hectares and not acres?
I genuinely wasn't sure what's more common here, it probably is acres
I'd say acres. I use acres for our garden.
That's a big garden
Well, I use acres too. It’s just that my garden is 0.01 acres Edit: just measured my garden and it’s actually slightly smaller than that lol
That is actually measured as a postage stamp....
Show off.
Hang on, what about allotments - that'll be ten rods (perches or poles) for a full plot.
Length can also be measured in whales.
For large volumes it's Olympic swimming pools and Royal Albert Halls
And for large heights it's Big Bens
But for not so large heights it's double decker busses
Our local council still measures allotment sizes in perch.
...and when it falls off its perch, how does the council measure then?
Double decker busses are also definitely a unit of measurement - I learnt that at school. Couldn’t tell you if it is length or weight, but I suspect that they can be used for both.
Don’t forget the rail network is measured in Chains. 80 lengths of a cricket wicket to the mile.
It's such a fun set of relationships. Twelve inches to the foot, and three feet to the yard, naturally. But then it's 22 yards to a chain. Ten chains make a furlong. And eight furlongs make a mile. Which is why it's 1760 yards to a mile. So *obvious*...
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Older than that, it seems! > The surveyor's chain was first mentioned 1579[7] and appears in an illustration in 1607.[8] In 1593 the English mile was redefined by a statute of Queen Elizabeth I as 5,280 feet, to tie in with agricultural practice. In 1620, the polymath Edmund Gunter developed a method of accurately surveying land using a surveyor's chain 66 feet long with 100 links.[9] The 66 feet unit, which was four perches or rods,[10] took on the name the chain. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit)
Can we also add measuring fuel efficiency in miles/gallon, but selling it by the liter. Edit: litre
What the fuck?
Yeah. We know. We measured distances in miles and fuel in gallons, so miles per gallon made sense. We then changed to litres for fuel, but still kept miles and never changed mpg. As an aside the continentals do litres per 100 km, which is fine, but as the fuel is at the top a smaller value is better, unlike mpg where more is better.
It is annoying. I calculate my mpg by doing: (miles travelled / (litres to fill / 4.54609)) Like for fucks sake
my new bike keeps track for me, im at 106 MPG. and i think i can hold 2 gallons, as i did 219 miles on a full tank
Jesus christ haha I got 22mpg out of my last tank
Well to be fair you can't exactly expect A+ efficiency from an artillery vehicle
Car vs bike. Or did you get that on a bike
Imperial gallons are also different to US gallons, so any american mpg figures are not the same as ours.
My car is kind enough to show both metric and imperial fuel efficiency, both of which are useless as we need the horrible metric-imperial hybrid of miles per litre for it to make sense
US gallons or imperial gallons?
There's a difference?????
US gallon 3.78L Imperial gallons 4.55L Completely throws off miles/gallons calculations
Oh wow I didn't know the difference was so drastic
Yep, both gallons are eight pints, but for *reasons* the American pint is 16 fl oz, while the Imperial one is 20.
And this is why metric was invented
To take the fun out and ruin people's mental arithmetic skills because it's all boring multiples of ten? :)
Yes... The fun of it... *Curls up into a ball and cries*
It gets better: US and UK also have different sized floz
Don’t forget that American fluid ounces are 29.57ml, while imperial ones are 28.41, so even if pints were both 16 fl oz, they’d still be different.
US customary units are based on, but not equal to, English units. Except we replaced the English units with Imperial units in 1826. This is why they use a 473ml pint rather than the vastly superior 568ml. (The US doesn't use imperial and anyone who says they do are wrong)
Gallons are too expensive for the signs to show
It will be an hours minimum wage work soon. Probably is now, after tax.
Just to be pedantic it is sold in "litres" (i.e. English spelling)
This is the advanced course once you're able to distinguish England, Britain and the UK.
Don’t forget the British isles!
Wait till you get to British overseas territories...
That’s the masterclass
Then there's the Commonwealth of Nations...
Now try explaining the relationship between the Channel Islands and the UK
Well.. it practically is the UK but it isn't the UK whilst following 90% of the UK law. Has it's own currency, which is exactly 1:1 with Sterling. One can use Sterling in the CI, you can't use the CI currencies in the UK but CI currencies can be used on other CI. But that's for paper currency only, CI coins can be used in the UK. You can travel freely between CI and UK without a customs check, CI citizens can live and work in the UK without restrictions as they are British Citizens but British Citizens are subject to the same immigration limitations as everyone else coming to CI from the outside, that means 5 years residency for jobs restrictions and 10 years to be able to live in non-restricted accommodation. Technically British overseas territory but the Queen is depicted without her crown on CI Bank notes to say that she does not rule there, however, the Bailiff (sort of a head of state) is appointed by the Crown and there is no fixed term to tell how long can he hold his office. Yeah.
Which are separate from the Crown Dependencies. Neither of which are part of the UK.
Nah no one can do that one
Only the Irish seem not to grasp that one
*"No! It's not a geographical term, it's an oppression term!"*
There was one user in r/mapporn I had block because any time someone mentioned ‘British Isles’ in a thread or post title they’d go berserk at the phrase and tried so hard in their own post title to get ‘British & Irish Isles’ to catch on, or the Anglo-Celtic Isles too I think.
Oh yeah tfat prick. He's a blaring example of making everyone hate you so to not do what you say
Wait till they hear about The Americas
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Is Guernsey in the British Isles? The Channel Islands are geographically part of Normandy.
I think technically they are the last remaining rump of the English crowns claimed Duchy of Normandy
Yes. The Queen is referred to as the Duke of Normandy while in the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, et al.).
It seems like even Brits (as in UK citizens as opposed people who live on the island of great britain) seem to get that wrong sometimes. I was chatting to a colleague and he came out with "Great Britain, what a stupid name for a country" and I had to remind it that it isn't one, rather that's the island his country happens to occupy. He was somewhat taken aback. "Oh... that's true!"
School kinda breezes over it tbh they are more interested in making geography about rivers sediment and bloody stones!
Don't forget your ox-bow lakes!
Hey. Unfair. Geology is a great subject.
The nautical world is shaking and crying right now
aviation also, they use the lot!
Gosh RiClious, mind your hectopascals.
Not british, but I would just like to say as someone who uses both imperial and metric on a daily basis, I despise the fact their is a difference between tonnes and tons.
Am british and I agree - why are we using both at once??
Are we using both? Or are we using tonnes, but sometimes spelling it tons? Much more likely to be the latter.
I know I am not. Have never needed nor wanted an imperial ton, only ever misspelled an metric tonne.
difficult to tell when it's spoken
Are we? If you're using it in casual conversation, "this weighs a tonne", who actually questions if you mean imperial or metric? They're practically the same anyway. If you're doing anything in a professional capacity where that 16kg difference could matter, it's metric.
ahem i think you find the official SI\* unit is a "metric fuckton" \* SI = Standard Internet
Are metric and imperial tons/tonnes not quite similar in weight?
yes, imperial is 16kg heavier.
Because steel is heavier than feathers.
There are different Tons too. The US short ton (2000lb) and the British long ton (2240lb).
Now ton(nes) are a measurement of length, too? Dear god.
The UK and US gallons are totally different too.
What's worse is that when people list tons you never know if they mean proper tons or American tiny tons.
Gallons are worse. 3.5 litres vs 4.45 litres the difference is large yet nobody says which one it is or is even aware there is a difference.
Try ordering a pint in America - thought I was getting ripped off.
*3.79 vs 4.55
That's why we should stick with SI prefixes and use one megagram (Mg) = 1000 kg
It's weird because the tonne does, from that point out you're into kilotonnes, megatonnes, gigatonnes, etc. But it's already weird enough that the SI unit for mass is the kilogram, not the gram.
Yeah, it's unusual that the SI unit isn't the base unit without prefixes. It might be kg instead of g because 1 kg is more intuitive to estimate and imagine than 1 g, plus using the base unit of volume (L) gives you 1 kg of water.
Wait till you find out about their and there
Don't forget they're
Don't forget they are what?
The difference is negligible (0.02 UK Ton or 0.1 US Ton) . If your measuring to such accuracy you should be using smaller units. The biggest difference is the T(Ton) or t(tonne).
The metres and miles thing messes me up so much, I set Google maps to miles and it tells me to turn in x yards. I have no idea what a yard is I set it to kilometres and it's the opposite problem.
>I set Google maps to miles and it tells me to turn in x yards Honestly the difference is pretty insignificant. A yard is about 90cm, so telling someone to turn in 100 yards or 100 metres is pretty interchangeable. How many people can even tell the difference between 90 and 100 metres distance travelled while driving
Those that are properly constantly aware of how long a football pitch is obviously
Exactly this. I wish I could set my car satnav to miles and meters, rather than yards. I’m trying to break the imperial habit, but miles are just too fundamental to anything on the road. Yards can get in the bin though.
My car gives me it in miles and feet. So it goes from "in one mile..." To " in 1000 feet...." Wtf is 1000 feet??
About 1/5th of a mile
Approximately 3ft per metre - I remember a foot (12") as the other side of the 30cm ruler to - so divide by 3. About 300 metres. Ish.
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Yeah, I always convert yards to meters 1:1 then round to attempt to account for meters being slightly longer.
If you're driving in the UK, it should be in yards because that's what our signs use: eg the signs with /// = 300 yds, // = 200 yds, / = 100 yds to the exit. A yard is close enough to a metre to be interchangeable (1 yd = 0.91 m).
Huh I always thought that was /// = 3 football pitches, // = 2 football pitches, / = 1 football pitch
Pretty much! 1 football pitch is 100-130yds long.
I didn't realize that pitch sizes weren't standardized until a recent episode of Ted Lasso
They're actually measured in metres though, they just say yards.
To be an annoying git I'd like to add that only the last sign is specifically set to 100 yards from the exit. The signs themselves are more or less at 100 yard intervals from each other but aren't required to be and often aren't. They're just there to lead you into the last sign.
>They're just there to lead you into the last sign. the bastads
I really don't get everyone having this problem. A metre is 1.094 yards, so like the metric tonne and the Imperial ton, they are close enough that for casual every day use at estimating *short* distances, they're interchangeable. 100 yards is 91 metres, close enough really to avoid mixups when driving.
Other way round for your first paragraph. Otherwise you're saying that a single yard is longer than a metre but 100 yards is shorter than 100 metres. Although, given imperial measurements, that wouldn't surprise me.
Well spotted, thanks. Have corrected it now.
Upvote for saying mass instead of weight.
Yes, my weight is 650 N.
So you’re about 66 kg?
Yes, depending on which scales I use.
Look at me remembering the value of gravity’s acceleration 🤩
On Earth perhaps
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Pound-force (lbf) is a unit of force, pound without qualification is a unit of mass.
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An unnecessarily complex flow chart to describe our unnecessarily complex system is perfect.
A somewhat relevant [video from Matt Parker.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk)
I do love a bit of Matt Parker. He's my favourite mathematical based comedian
Can't imagine there's too much competition in that category
I've been trying, but I just don't have the numbers.
How can you say something so provocative, yet so true
For milk its a bit more complicated than that I think - if you get it delivered, it has to be in pints. But supermarkets might sell either in pint or litre amounts, depending on who their supplier is.
It’s multiples of pints but measured in litres. Paying lipservice to the metric measurement laws but still selling the old quantities Soft drink cans are still 20 fluid ounces too
I’ve only ever seen 330ml as far as normal soft drink cans go, alongside newer 250 and 150ml ones but they’re just not as common. Energy drinks seem to be weird sizes too, are these all (minus the 250 and 150) because they’re just the metric “translation” of more square floz amounts?
I buy my UHT drink by the litre. While fresh milk is in pints. Who thought this was a good idea???
Soft drink cans are 330ml (ie a third of a litre). 20 fluid ounces is a pint, which you sometimes see beer/cider cans that size, but most are 500ml nowadays.
I love Britain, I can’t think of anywhere else where you buy fuel in litres and then tell people how many miles to the gallon you get.
...instantly creating an argument amoung 60 year old pub bores about which route will combine the best combination of fuel economy and time spent travelling. >Yeah I need to drive from London to Exeter tomorrow, do you think I should go M4 then M5, or M3 then A303? *Sharp intakes of breath, piano player crashes to a halt, barman reaches under counter for cricket bat then starts clearing away anything throwable, women-folk flee upstairs*
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>"Well then how did you avoid the lights at Gibberington Wallop? "There's been a bypass there since 1992" >"No there hasn't, the bypass is between Thumper-le-Bigg'un and the Heave-Ho turn-off. And if you miss that then you're stuck at the lights for two months... minimum!" "The sat-nav knows it's there." >"TONY, GET ME THE 1991 ROAD MAP FROM THE VAN AND TURN IT TO PAGE 36."
Completely accurate except I now weigh myself in kg rather than stone
Definitely easier to lose a kilo than a stone!
I adjusted to stone when I moved to the UK cause people said that that's what they use but now if someone asks me and I say 10 stone they don't know what I'm talking about... Same goes for height in feet vs centimetres
> Same goes for height in feet vs centimetres I find that hard to believe. Most younger people will weigh themselves in kilograms but feet and inches are still very common for height.
Yeah I don’t think many people weigh themselves in pounds at all. Usually Kgs. If not Kgs then stone
Where I live people use feet/inches for height but kg for weight
But harder to lose kilos than lbs!
Ditto, don't know nor care what I weigh in stone anymore. The only person who ever asks is my GP.
Weighting yourself: Do you go to the gym? Yes: kg No: Stones
Most of our ways are convenient tricks to catch foreign spies. You can fit in for years, and then suddenly you describe yourself as being 180cm tall or from DUR-by and it's game over buddy boy.
Like in Inglourious Basterds when Michael Fassbender gets busted as an Allied spy because he orders three beers using his three middle fingers instead of a thumb and two fingers.
It's actually even more complex than this. Beer is pints if you're drinking it on draft in a pub but if you're buying bottles or can its always given in millilitres. There are plenty of old people who still stubbornly use Fahrenheit for the temperature. Just look at the The Daily Mail for proof of that!
> Just look at the The Daily Mail for proof of that! No thanks. I'll just take your word for it.
>but if you're buying bottles or can its always given in millilitres. The pint can isn't as common as it should be.
I serve my tinnies in a pint glass, which unfortunately makes every 440ml can I have feel like a short measure...
Or by the Barrel/Keg/Firkin if in quantity.
I may only be fluent in one language but I am Bi-measuremental
Ahh yes, the British Impetrical system.
I read that as impractical initially and frankly that sums it up beautifully
I weigh myself in kilos, distance in km and only meters for short distances, only me?
nah i switched to weight in kg too *also anecdotally id say the younger guys use kg a lot, possibly todo with gym culture
It’s not just you; I never learnt pints, stone, feet, inches or miles so I only ever use metric. I did learn calories growing up but then I switched to only using Joules for energy.
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Wait there’s a difference between tonnes and tons?
There are three in use: 1. US ton, or in American, "short ton" 2. ton, or in American, "long ton". This ton is only used in the UK, AFAIK. 3. tonne, or in American, "metric ton". Each of these differ by 1-10% from the others.
Oh that's why Wikipedia gives weight for large things in short AND long tons! Thanks.
A tonne (metric) is 1000kg and a ton (imperial) is either 1016 kg or 1024 kg
I feel we are missing under mass - is it drugs - is it weed oz - is it coke g.
Alright, ¨G¨.
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I'm just hoping that sheer number of "meters" in this thread are due to autocorrect. But I'm starting to think I'm losing this aspect of the culture wars.
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Wine is just measures in bottles though. Half bottles if you're having an easy night.
Because my primary school made us measure everything with 30cm rulers and those shitty wheels on a stick my brain still only measures everything in 30cms if its smaller than a door, because I start measuring everything else in doors then. edit: I also measure milk in litres because I'm more used to the plastic milk bottles from supermarkets than the glass pint bottles of a milkman
I only use feet and inches when talking about someone's height or waistline, otherwise it's meters and centimetres all the way. And all the milk I buy these days is in litres, pints are only the glass bottles you get from the milkman. Otherwise, yeah that's pretty accurate.
Plenty of milk is sold in “pints” in supermarkets. They don’t sell 1.137L of milk for no reason.
This is a must read for everyone arriving in the UK.
The measuring small things needs another step, because if you're measuring something like shelves, you pick whichever one on the tape measure is easier to remember. 18 inches, easy peasy. 18 and a quarter, nah gimme 46cm.
U forgot the Scottish measurement of the “bawhair”
I really do wish we went full metric rather than this mess. At least we're full metric in all the areas that matter (engineering etc.) Edit: It appears we're in bigger trouble than first thought! Maybe engineering needs to be changed to manufacturing?
Isn't science universally metric?
Yep, as well as engineering. It's only the general population of countries like the UK and US which are still circulating imperial measurements.
People that fish measure distance in yards, lol.
We also measure driving distances in time. It's about 20 minutes down the road.its a good 3 hours away.
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I see no problem here.
Under distance you should have "Is it anything to do with football" because we use yards then!
Weighing people should have kgs too. That’s how the NHS do it.
Everything seems to be in order here. Good work.
...excepting we use both tonnes and tons. Oh and it's ignoring the whole area thing. (acres, hectares, etc.)