I prefer it being mixed. They’re used for different things/it’s contextual. I’m sorry your brain isn’t capable of understanding two different things
Growing up in the UK and having to deal with old farts speaking in tongues when buying milk or weighing flour was a pain, can’t wait until they all die.
Pride mostly.
Shoe sizes is a fun one. The ‘barleycorn’ measurement used originated in England in the early 1300s, when King Edward II ruled that the length of three barleycorns was equivalent to one inch. This was adapted for making lasts for shoes. The barleycorn measurement was also adopted later by the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.
Only decent imperial unit is pints for beer. Never let them take the 568ml away.
We are capable of using both simultaneously
It’s just beer and roads.
People keep getting this wrong, even Yanks: America doesn’t use Imperial units, they use US Customary units. Different 19th century standardisations of older ‘English units’.
Our pints etc. are slightly larger, and they use different pints etc. for wet vs. dry goods (we don’t). Our pounds are the same but we use stone (they lack this) and heavier tons (and hundredweight – theirs is actually 100 pounds, ours 112 just to fuck with everyone) – sometimes called ‘long tons’ vs. their ‘short tons’.
Yes mate, I’ll have three 568.2612 ml glasses of beer please
Out of experience I can tell you guys, Canada is a savage too. They mostly use imperial. They should be either purple or mostly purple
If the be*gians use the metric system why can’t the barrys do it too?
Because saying something like “I weight 5 and half stones”, measure an object with your inches and foots, or following a recipe in pints is so much more progressist.
We do officially use the Metric system.
Just we pick and choose which bits of it we use.
Would you expect anything less from us?
We do officially, apart from car travel. Colloquial use in milk & beer doesn’t really count because it’s still technically in metric (568mL) and human measurements are unofficial.
Australia uses metric . . . but still uses feet and inches regularly for all sorts of things, beer is sold in pints (although the definition of beer measures can vary from state to state which is **insane** and even more British than we Brits), and shoes are either UK or US sizes.
This is one thing where the Anglos definitely mess up
I guess they don’t want to use a Fr*nch invention.
When writing/speaking English, I often call kilometres miles unwillingly
It’s a pity that they exported their common sense along with their convicts 😔
We’ll take no direction from a nation who can’t pronounce caramel.
They can, but they don’t want to
Uhhhh mate, we use old British units when it comes to our beers.
But to answer your question, we are young and flexible, dad is old and hates shit.
Because we can use all measurement systems at once, all those that ever were and all those that will ever be.
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They really like stones.
I prefer it being mixed. They’re used for different things/it’s contextual. I’m sorry your brain isn’t capable of understanding two different things
Growing up in the UK and having to deal with old farts speaking in tongues when buying milk or weighing flour was a pain, can’t wait until they all die.
Pride mostly.
Shoe sizes is a fun one. The ‘barleycorn’ measurement used originated in England in the early 1300s, when King Edward II ruled that the length of three barleycorns was equivalent to one inch. This was adapted for making lasts for shoes. The barleycorn measurement was also adopted later by the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.
[Source.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barleycorn_(unit))
[More technical info.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_size)
Only decent imperial unit is pints for beer. Never let them take the 568ml away.
We are capable of using both simultaneously
It’s just beer and roads.
People keep getting this wrong, even Yanks: America doesn’t use Imperial units, they use US Customary units. Different 19th century standardisations of older ‘English units’.
Our pints etc. are slightly larger, and they use different pints etc. for wet vs. dry goods (we don’t). Our pounds are the same but we use stone (they lack this) and heavier tons (and hundredweight – theirs is actually 100 pounds, ours 112 just to fuck with everyone) – sometimes called ‘long tons’ vs. their ‘short tons’.
Yes mate, I’ll have three 568.2612 ml glasses of beer please
Out of experience I can tell you guys, Canada is a savage too. They mostly use imperial.
They should be either purple or mostly purple
If the be*gians use the metric system why can’t the barrys do it too?
Because saying something like “I weight 5 and half stones”, measure an object with your inches and foots, or following a recipe in pints is so much more progressist.
We do officially use the Metric system.
Just we pick and choose which bits of it we use.
Would you expect anything less from us?
We do officially, apart from car travel. Colloquial use in milk & beer doesn’t really count because it’s still technically in metric (568mL) and human measurements are unofficial.
Australia uses metric . . . but still uses feet and inches regularly for all sorts of things, beer is sold in pints (although the definition of beer measures can vary from state to state which is **insane** and even more British than we Brits), and shoes are either UK or US sizes.
This is one thing where the Anglos definitely mess up
I guess they don’t want to use a Fr*nch invention.
When writing/speaking English, I often call kilometres miles unwillingly
It’s a pity that they exported their common sense along with their convicts 😔
We’ll take no direction from a nation who can’t pronounce caramel.
They can, but they don’t want to
Uhhhh mate, we use old British units when it comes to our beers.
But to answer your question, we are young and flexible, dad is old and hates shit.
Because we can use all measurement systems at once, all those that ever were and all those that will ever be.