jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I recently finished watching two seasons of "Real Rescues" on Netflix. The English people featured on this show regularly used words like feet, inches, meters, kilometers, miles, pounds, kilograms, gallons and liters. It's been quite a while since you switched to metric, so what's going on?

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Probably us darn Americans going over and messing them up.:):)

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Older people, like myself, can think in both, especially for all the common stuff.
Younger peple who went to school after metrification, like our sons, only think in metric.
I'm not an englishman, I'm Australian.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

It's generational as RT says. Some industries stay old school, like surfboards and the antique trade. For me to work in Australia as a cabinetmaker, I had to switch to metric in 1981. I never looked back until I started building guitars. Steel string acoustic and electric guitars as well as mandolins and ukuleles are American instruments, imperial. Classical guitars and the fiddle family are metric.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I was taught Imperial measure at school. MANY years back.. I still think in Imperial and HATE metric even though we use it.

tramsey Loc: Texas

Have you ever heard of the United States as being called a 'back water country?' I hadn't until I got curious about how many countries still use the Imperical Method of Measurement. Here's what Goggle says

"Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures: Liberia. Myanmar (a.k.a. “the country formerly known as Burma”) United States of America. Aug 13, 2008"

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Me and the birds are pretty chuffed with metric. I did my trade training in imperial and now metric is one of my most prized tools because it is so right.

The red hand on the dial indicator is mm, the black hand is 100 ths of a mm.

It's 1:30 pm new years day and 35 C, getting up there.

papajacknow20 Loc: Glasgow Scotland

As a Scot, our range of measurements are as follows;

Miles

Kilometres

Metres

Yards

Feet

Inches

Centimetres

Millimetres

Bawhairs

Bob Smith Loc: Banjarmasin

It's our way of confusing everyone by using both metric and imperial. We also use pecks, bushels, chains, groats etc. Confuses the sh*the out of Muslim extremists and unfortunately every bugger else. Hope you guys have a wonderful new year full of fun, laughs and taking amazing pictures.

bigalw Loc: Essex - UK

as well as;

half pint

pint

quart

flagon (of Ale - old English)

milliliters

litres

drams (Scotland)

shot (drink measure)

hands (as in the case of horse heights)

all you "Hoggers" have a great 2017, from this side of the pond

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

We use imperial for distances, metric for weights (mainly). Supermarkets use metric so you'll get a kg. of topside or vegetables, but if you buy off a street market they can still sell in lbs/oz's. Bottled / canned beer comes in ml's but we can still go down the pub for a pint (568ml), however spirits are no longer 1/6 gill but 25ml's. Fuel is sold in litres, consumption expressed in ltr's per 100km, but we still talk about mpg.

Engineering is generally metric except where old practises conform to old standards where some unique threads (British Whitworth for example) might still be in use. Money is 100p to a £.

It's all come about as a half baked Civil Service / Government proposal instigated in the 1970's to try and introduce metrication to a public that was hostile to anything 'European' not long after WW2. It is slowly changing as the generations move on.

Interestingly, railway bridges are still measured in miles / furlongs / chains / yards / feet from the terminus, though I expect this is more down to not changing over the cast iron identification plates, because when I surveyed a job on the trackside the accompanying railway engineer (young graduate) had no idea what it meant. You get used to it.

So long as I can enjoy a pint (or two or more) on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon watching Cricket on a 22yd. (1 chain) wicket the worlds all right with me!

norman1312 Loc: London, UK

As a genuine Englishman, I can agree with all of the above, except a 'Bawhairs', which i wish we did have.
Yes, it is generational, as has been said above.
But there are a lot of shops (like greengrocers - do you have then in the US?) that price fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces, and to h*ll with the metric system. Also the weather forecasters usually give temperatures in F and C.
So it really depends on who you are, and how old you are.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Can't remember a weather forecast in anything other than °C and mb's - until it comes to wind speeds which are measured in mph.

bigalw Loc: Essex - UK

and to a certain extent "where you are"

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

In Texas, we also use the vara, left over from Spanish grant days, to measure land. One vara=33 1/3 inches.