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This needs updating, there’s a shift to weighing people in kilograms now. Thank god
I lost two stone last year. I wasn’t on a diet, I just threw them in the river behind my house.
Honestly think gym culture has been a big change in this. People want to know how much they can’ lift Vs their weight
Distance gets measured in time units too sometimes.
“I’m about 10 minutes away from there now” for example
Han Solo has entered the chat.
Temperature can definitely have an “are you over 60?” question with yes pointing to Fahrenheit (or maybe that’s just my mum)
As much as I dislike imperial, I’m still used to using Fahrenheit for body temperature. 99 mild fever, but you still have to go to school. 100 stay at home. 103+ you’re dying.
The vegan milk part is so specific but so true!
Milk is litres as well now, depends in the brand though.
I prefer metric to imperial, but if milk changes from pints to litres, it’s probably for shrinkflation since they can shrink the bottle from 2.272L to 2L and most people won’t notice.
That’s exactly what happened with beer. Newky Brown was the last hold out, now even they do 500ml bottles. Some cider still has pints, but I think even they’ve dropped down.
Ours in Canada is only slightly simpler.
What vital bit of weights and measures do you leave out?
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.
