have you grown up to be semi-metric?

[Gothic]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

When I started school, I was taught both systems as they were just starting to change over, so it was really confusing.

When I started in the cheese-making business, all the ingredients were measured in metric and all our equipment was in imperial, so we always had conversion charts everywhere. I now work with rubber matting for livestock and everything is in metric but all the farmers still work in imperial!!

[Trickyvee]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

I need to rename this thread semi-metric

[Austin Maxi]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

I tend to mix units quite a bit.

I sometimes do that.

....and then I fall over!

[Richard1978]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

I tend to mix units quite a bit.

For small measurments I use metric, but for long distances I always used miles.

When cooking I always weigh out in grammes.

For body measurments I tend to use feet & inches, & weight in stones & pounds.

At times I've been interested in planes, & always seemed to use imperial units, mostly because books always seem to use feet (for dimensions & altitude) & pounds (for weight & jet power).

[HG]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

I'm mainly old school, weights I use pounds (except in the gym where all the weights are in kilos), heights and width I use feet and inches, liquids I use pints. Distance I use miles even when running 10k races.

I can and do convert them though when I need to when buying stuff etc.

[kazboot]

Re: have you grown up to be semi-decimal?

You raise a very important point here, Tricky.

My husband is a chippy so I've grown used to measuring floors and the like in metric, but waist measurements etc. I can only do in imperial.

Also I prefer pints and gallons to litres, but use both and the same is true with my use of pounds and ounces/grammes and kilos.

Aren't we funny in Britain? We cannot let go of the old ways.

[Trickyvee]

I was just thinking about this after talking about 'old' money on another thread. Having grown up being taught decimal but living with a generation still talking pre-decimal, do you now have a mixed approach when dealing with weights and measures?

I tend to measure floors etc in metres and centimetres, but heights mean nothing to me unless we're talking feet and inches, and on the road it has to be miles. Food is measured in g and kg and ml, but I still hanker for a quarter of sweets and when I'm assessing the damage those sweets have made, I'll tot it up in stones and pounds.

And another thing...why does Europe embrace the centilitre while the UK doesn't?

It's all very confusing.