tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post433560605718352431..comments2024-03-19T05:26:43.471-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: Weights and MeasuresStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-75319129965218771572007-09-30T22:12:00.000-04:002007-09-30T22:12:00.000-04:00Funny thing - I'm a science grad student (i.e. sci...Funny thing - I'm a science grad student (i.e. scientists work in the metric system), in my 20's, and I still use both!<BR/><BR/>Furthermore, a few of my friends around the same age and I were recently talking about just this - the only reason we knew our height in cm or our weight in kg was because we had memorized it from our driver's license.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-33044052097628945212007-09-20T17:29:00.000-04:002007-09-20T17:29:00.000-04:00This is exactly the same experience I have, a mish...This is exactly the same experience I have, a mish mash mixture of everything. I'm 37, but my sister in law who is 35 has almost all metric with no understanding of imperial measurements at all. Just goes to show where we were in the government implementation timeline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-56926292543786072752007-09-20T10:25:00.000-04:002007-09-20T10:25:00.000-04:00Hah! I thought I was the only one with a freaky hy...Hah! I thought I was the only one with a freaky hybrid of Imperial/Metric internalization.<BR/><BR/>Long distances are in km.<BR/>Short distances are in feet. (I watched Aliens last night, and had to keep converting the rangefinder's distances from meters to feet in my head)<BR/><BR/>heavy weights are in pounds<BR/>small weights are in grams<BR/><BR/>liquids are in litres<BR/><BR/>temperature is celsius<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure why they didn't just throw the switch and teach us all metric at once. It's not like we had a really thorough understanding of weights and measures at that age anyway, and now there's a whole generation wandering around with a messed up hybrid of measurement systems.<BR/><BR/>Now, to try reintroducing the metric clock and calendar...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com