Metric Or Imperial???

[puddicat]

I still use imperial measurement, cant be done with the metric system ,hate it when you go into shops and you will ask for something and they say what size and i say its so many feet and inches,and they look at me as if i am from the planet zog,what your preference??

[origamimark]

How is Zog, by the way ?

I prefer imperial, but I'm 54 and it has ben downhill for me for so long I've stopped worrying about !

[puddicat]

Zog is fine,i doubt i will ever change now when it comes to recipes also tend to do them just in metric,hate having to try to convert!!!

[sophie_1003]

I was taught metric at school but parents use imperial more so have been 'brought up' on imperial so I prefer imperial for most things but understand very small measurements of length in millimeteres as opposed to frations of inches. But I'm going to have to teach in metric which is worrying because I'm rubbish at estimating eg, distances in km!

[joggerjayne]

My car does (roughly) 30 miles per gallon (I'm told).

But they sell me petrol by the litre.

So ... I have no idea how it costs to run my car.

[debbz1969]

Feet and inches every time......
somehow 200 millimetres just doesn't have the same ring

[joggerjayne]

lol

[shaneystar2]

I was brought up with Imperial round about the year dot with rods chains poles and furlongs :).
I can grasp metres (measurement ) because it's just over a yard .But I cannot for the life of me picture how many kilometres there are in a mile .If someone says it's two miles down the road I can visualise it but I cannot visualise two kilometres.
My lot measure everything in metric they were brought up with it ( at school ) and Mr.S can't handle Imperial measure either .Recipes drive me silly . I want 8ozs of flour not 500gms ..Lol..
It's the same with the currency .My old Mum used to reckon it all up and then convert it back to Lsd ...I can remember her saying to me years ago when I bought her a cream cake .It was 30p .."Six shillings for a cake ? They must have seen you coming " :))

[debbz1969]

my god zac... thats a scary prospect... my statistics would be in 4 figures.....

[sqad617]

zac.....LOL LOL very good.

[tweedie]

When I'm presented with metric weights and measurements I just laugh and say "Will you tell me in English please"

[McMouse]

I was inching across the yard and my foot caught the water meter.

[Drisgirl]

lol McMouse.

I cant fathom metric for the life of me-if at the deli I just now ask for 4 slices of whatever I want -looks like old habits die hard.We will not be moved !!!