OT - None Metric measurement question

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
drives me nuts that most food items are still in imperial... one of the Last hold overs i guess... I am lucky that i can kind of work with both of them...

ask any 12 year old about miles , pounds , cups and they will look at you with a blank look...

which is good in my books...

Hmm.. well not quite true, at least not 5 years ago when I was 12. I (and almost every other 12 year old I knew) had a good working knowledge of both Metric and Imperial systems. After all, when someone asks you how much you weigh, do you tell them you weigh 160 lbs, or 73 kg?? Everyone I know tells me in pounds, not kilograms. (Forgetting of course that pounds are a unit of force, while kilo's are a measure of mass) Or when asked for your height, do you tell them in feet and inches, or in centimeters or meters?? If someone told me they were 183 cm. tall, I would have take a while and figure out how tall that actually was! Now, if they told me instead that they were 6 feet, 1 inch tall, I would know exactly how much that was.

I think that people of my generation will use a combination of both systems, because that's what we've grown up with. Our parents used Imperial, we were taught in Metric at school.

[ August 04, 2004, 17:33: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]