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[Duque de Bragança]

No-one under 50 uses yards.

Personally I use metric for beer and milk, (human) weight, long distances (miles) and very small distances (inches); metric for baking measurements and moderate distances (metres) I have no idea how any of these relate to each other or if other people are a bit more regimented

Metric for beer ?! The pint (not metric) ?! Heretic!  Don't you know in 1984, there is only the metric pint and the litre for beer? 
OTOH, you are a young Remainer. 


You forgot to mention guns for our resident gun nuts.

Ireland, despite all his protests as not being Anglo-Saxon, is much more into imperial than its former colonial overlord. 

[Admiral Yi]

He meant imperial for the first batch.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah, sorry

First batch = imperial, second batch = metric.

[Admiral Yi]

I use metric for track and field.

[PDH]

Dividing by 10 is hard.

[Barrister]

No-one under 50 uses yards.

Personally I use metric for beer and milk, (human) weight, long distances (miles) and very small distances (inches); metric for baking measurements and moderate distances (metres) I have no idea how any of these relate to each other or if other people are a bit more regimented

In Canada we typically use imperial for human height and weight, CFL football, lumber, baking and beer.  Milk though is in litres, long distances are kms.

[The Brain]

The traditional Swedish mile is just over 10 km. The modern Swedish mile is 10 km exactly. Distances are commonly given in (modern Swedish) miles in Sweden.

[Tamas]

Personally I use metric (human) weight,

Ok, hand back your British credentials on your way out, thank you.

You are the first native I know who isn't using stones to describe human weight. I still have no idea how many kilograms that is.

[Sheilbh]

Personally I use metric (human) weight,

Ok, hand back your British credentials on your way out, thank you.

You are the first native I know who isn't using stones to describe human weight. I still have no idea how many kilograms that is.

Yeah sorry that was a mistake. I use stone

[FunkMonk]

Good to know that throughout all that's happened, the English are still the English.

[Josquius]

I completely lost track of stone when I was a teenager. Kg is the only human weight that makes sense to me.
But still. Stones beat pounds. Hate it when people use that. Or worse when people mix the two

[celedhring]

Personally I use metric (human) weight,

Ok, hand back your British credentials on your way out, thank you.

You are the first native I know who isn't using stones to describe human weight. I still have no idea how many kilograms that is.

Yeah, brit friends and stones always drove me nuts. You already have pounds! Why the need for yet another, unrelated, weight measure? 

[Eddie Teach]

Isn't stones divisible by pounds?

[Josquius]

Isn't stones divisible by pounds?

Apparently.
Can never remember by what arbitrary number.
Most people when using stone just use stone.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah, brit friends and stones always drove me nuts. You already have pounds! Why the need for another, unrelated and not particularly precise, weight measure? 

It's very mixed, but weird which bits of a metric curriculum for 40 years have made an impact and which haven't. Except for babies, or fractions of a stone, I would never use pound for weights - so I have to do the math when I hear Americans talking about their weight. Like in the butchers I'll order a kilo of something or 500g not 1 or 2 pound. No idea how the division worked out as I say at school, everything was metric.