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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This needs updating, there's a shift to weighing people in kilograms now. Thank god

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ours in Canada is only slightly simpler.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What vital bit of weights and measures do you leave out?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    In Canada speed is always kilometres. For distance we don’t really use miles for jogging but most know the conversion if they are avid runners the rest the same. For temperatures it’s Celsius but people in border towns may use Fahrenheit. For weight for people official documents will be kilograms but most people talk in pounds, no stones. For measuring it can be both metric or imperial ie cups. For liquids it always in metric so millilitres or litres but if you go to the pub you can order pints which people think of in ounces and depending on the pub could be 14-20oz.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Distance gets measured in time units too sometimes.

    “I’m about 10 minutes away from there now” for example

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "Are you measuring your knob?" should be in there somewhere.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago*

    On the distance thing, I’ve always seen it as: if you can measure it with your body, it’s feet; else metres.

    My table is two feet long, but my neighbour’s house is ten metres away. It sounds weird and maybe I’m weird, but that’s how it works in my head.

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