Someone should sell 10mm sockets by the gross.
Seems everything you buy at Ikea comes with a 13mm wrench. I now have a bunch of 13mm wrenches.
Someone should sell 10mm sockets by the gross.
I wish we could just get with the the rest of the world and go metric. I drive up to BC Canada a lot and those 110 KM highways signs are challenging. "sorry officer, I was only going 120". And, buying grams of lunch meat at the deli is a challenge too. "500 grams please".
When it comes to cooking, not only does the US use goofy measures, but we tend to use volume instead of weight. That's why two people can make the same recipe with drastically different results. Making bread using volumes just plain doesn't work.
No reason a person can't be fluent in both systems.
No reason a person can't be fluent in both systems.
No reason a person can't be fluent in both systems.
No reason a person can't be fluent in both systems.
I'm fine with our US units of measure... except one. We need to get rid of this "below zero" temperature concept. Metric is even worse.
No reason a person can't be fluent in both systems.
Or all four systems... in medicine, even though essentially all countries use the metric system, there is a divide between those that use weight per volume measurements (such as the U.S. e.g. mg/dL) and those that use moles per volume (such as the UK and Canada e.g. mmol/L).Or all 3 systems when you factor in the difference between US and Imperial measurements...
mg/dL ... mmol/L
exclusively hear pressure in millibars. Sneaky metric invasion.
I'll disagree. Canada went metric when I was in grade school. My parents and all the other adults didn't have much of a problem with it.
It's not even close to learning another language. All you're doing is changing the unit number for a few measurements. Once you know what 30C feels like you don't need to know that it's 86F. Once you've bought 200 grams of lunch meat 2 or 3 times you don't need to know that it's a little under a half pound, you know that 200 grams gets you a certain amount.
And then there is meteorology. Inches or mm of mercury, or how about standard atmospheres? Bars? Millibars? Pascal's? Hectopascals?
It's a bit of a mess, but really, the inches of mercury should be thrown away. Nobody cares anyway. During hurricane season, you now exclusively hear pressure in millibars. Sneaky metric invasion.
When I was in meteorology class, we mostly focused on thickness, which is a really geeky way to track pressure. Even in 1983, this was expressed in meters .
Even the "flavors" of metric can be vexing.mBar might be metric but SI is Pascal with hectoPascal hPa = 100 * Pa not quite a proper SI but accepted because 1 mBar == 1 hPa because 1 Bar == 100,000 Pascal.
Not too mention that the report pressure is usually not the actual pressure. It is corrected for what would be "normal" at the specific altitude or location.
I guess some Canadians had trouble learning it, as they went backwards on the conversion for some things like grocery stores. Putting lbs and kilo prices on things. This is in Ottawa Ontario, but I've seen the same in Quebec.
And then there is meteorology. Inches or mm of mercury, or how about standard atmospheres? Bars? Millibars? Pascal's? Hectopascals?
It's a bit of a mess, but really, the inches of mercury should be thrown away. Nobody cares anyway. During hurricane season, you now exclusively hear pressure in millibars. Sneaky metric invasion.
When I was in meteorology class, we mostly focused on thickness, which is a really geeky way to track pressure. Even in 1983, this was expressed in meters .