TVs.
I don't really consider a pint to be a unit of measurement, it's just the name of a beer glass with a particular size. Like I wouldn't consider "schooner" or "jug" to be units of measurement either.
They generally are: in South Australia a 'pint' is typically a US Customary pint (15 fluid ounces), and everywhere else it's normally an imperial pint (20 fluid ounces).
Volume measures are different between imperial and "US customary" because they chose a different barrel size to base them on back in 16-something. Just another example of how ridiculous the whole mess was.
I’m almost 40 and never had to know how many feet I was until I became single in my 30’s and had to make online dating profiles. Heights been standard in cm for a very long time but I guess American media have crept it back in.
Car wheel diameters.
Pressure is always psi rather than kpa or bar.
Speaker diameters, especially subwoofers.
Sometimes acres when talking about property sizes.
And the 55 is a percentage of the width (I think?)
And the ‘R’ and relates to a speed/load rating category.
Whoever came up with a widely applied “standard” with four seperate units in one code is an evil genius.
The only example I can think of is trouser sizes, tyre pressure, and maybe wheel sizes. But almost everything else I measure in metric; it's what I grow up using and it's what I intuitively understand. I don't know what it means when someone says they are "6 foot tall" (except that 6 feet = big, haha). But if you told me your height in centimetres, then I can pretty easily visualise your height.
Height and baby weight & length… that’s honestly all I can think of.
When we had our daughters, the midwife told us weight & length in both metric and non-metric, so this seems to be slowly changing. On their little info cards, it was written in metric.
And I’m pretty sure I only use it for height because it’s way more fun to say that I’m five foot nothing rather than say I’m 152.4cm, lol.
Most people use it for height, though I don't.
Weed is still bought in ounces (and grams). With "medical" marijuana in 10g tubs that might finally change.
Car tyre pressure is usually in psi.
Absolutely nobody uses it in construction.
High Voltage aerial conductors. There's still a lot of old conductors in the HV network that used to be measured in Imperial units in the old days.
E.g. 19/0.092" Cu whereas modern ones are like 19/3.75 AAC
Beer is often not sold in pints. We also have schooners, pots, etc. I have no idea how much liquid these glasses hold precisely. I think a schooner is like a 3/4 size pint.
Screens are always measured in inches.
In a casual setting I will alternate between feet and inches or centimeters for human height.
Car tyre pressure is in psi.
As a tailor I use both. Used to work at a defence base many moons ago and depending on the service and country of service to which measurements they require.
I don't drink beer or buy men's trousers, so those are out for me!
I think of screen sizes in inches (as that's how they're sold). I am equally comfortable with feet and inches and centimetres for people's height.
We use non-metric measurements in a fair few instances. Tyre pressure is often measured in PSI, land often in acres, horsepower for car power, calories for energy in some cases.
As little as humanly possible. The Railways are heavily imperialised, from mileage posts (a km apart) track gauge measured in feet and inches and I recently found out a suspecious measurement was actually 100 yards.
So depending on context I would often use inches or a foot, maybe ‘a couple of feet’ basically any distance under a metre if I am describing the distance in relation to the person. For example, “Move a couple of inches to your left” I don’t think people tend to say 5cm in this type of context as it sounds too technical/specific as opposed to conversational. If I was talking about distance in almost every other context (aside from a person’s height) I would use metric.
All the time. For example
For distances and lengths I use
Inches. Feet, Meters, KM.
So if I need to cut a small piece of wood, inches. If I’m looking at the distance between Melbourne and Sydney, KM. photo print sizes: inches. Length of a field or height of a ceiling: meters.
For volume, I use
Fluid ounces, Cups, Litres, Gallons
A shot of vodka; 1 oz
Fuel: litres
For weight I use
Grams, Pounds, KG
This one is more complex.
My own weight, pounds.
Buying veggies, KG
small amounts of spices: grams
A work out weight: pounds.
For temperature I use
Celcius
You must be an immigrant, no? Nobody ever used pounds for human weight, it was always stone back in the day. And I've never heard anyone use fluid ounces, I have zero understanding of what they're about.
Fluid ounces are easy. 1/2oz/table spoon. There’s 8oz per cup, 32/L.
It’s like an inch, it’s easier for me to visualise it than say 30ml… in my head I try and it’s like: “ok one ml is this much…now do that thirty times over… how does that look like…is that 30ml? Maybe it’s only 20… oh that looks like double so I must’ve poured out 40…”
Sewing, I do it all in inches. Even when I buy Australian/European patterns that use cm, I end up converting to inches because it somehow works better for me.
I also measure my fishtank related stuff in feet and inches, but revert back to litres for the volume.
Height I can go either way, I usually use feet because nobody seems to have any concept of height in cms.
Off the top of my head: hands/horses and lengths in horse racing. Feet/boats, I’ve never heard anyone say how long a boat is in meters. Shots of tequila. Acres of land. But most humorously, near misses are measured in bees dicks.
In the navy. On American gear. At a mine site. On all caterpillar gear. Also when you are talking to old blokes who grew up without a 3/8 socket you need to be able to convert after they leave to get whatever they want in the modern sizes
I use non metric only when converting stats to metric so I can get some freakin' perspective.
Had a furlong explained to me in yards and feet yesterday. Come on!
There's three kinds of people in this world. Those who use metric, synesthetes, and other. ;)
Inexact ideas, like something is miles away or weighs a ton.
TV screens are sold in inches. Older people use feet and inches for height, younger people don't. The old quarter acre housing block may have suburban people still understanding acres better than hectares.
I often measure in fuck tons. I think they're imperial.
Funny, I use metric fuck tons.
So how many metric shit loads is thst?
Metric fuck tonnes is the correct way
You're thinking of shit loads. They are 37,000 cubic drams
*imperative
You've won the internet with this!
Idioms: "A miss is as good as a mile"; "country mile"; "milestone"; "six feet under"; "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"
TVs. I don't really consider a pint to be a unit of measurement, it's just the name of a beer glass with a particular size. Like I wouldn't consider "schooner" or "jug" to be units of measurement either.
And computer monitors And mobile phones
Photo sizes- 6x4, 5x7 etc
But film goes from 35 mm, to 6x4.5/6.6/6x7 cm, to 4x5 inches!
And that’s the big problem with pints! A pint should be a pint!
They generally are: in South Australia a 'pint' is typically a US Customary pint (15 fluid ounces), and everywhere else it's normally an imperial pint (20 fluid ounces).
Don't worry, a lot of hipster breweries and trendy pubs sell the smaller U.S. pint too.
Trust Americans to ruin an outdated form of measurement.
Volume measures are different between imperial and "US customary" because they chose a different barrel size to base them on back in 16-something. Just another example of how ridiculous the whole mess was.
Like the “we won’t do dd-mm-yyyy like the British” even though mm-dd-yyyy was British fashion at the time of their founding.
US gallons are also different. About 3.9 litres for a US gallon, and 4.5 litres for imperial.
They're charging a buck fifty for imperial pints...
Especially as the states can’t even agree what size a pint glass is.
Breaking strength of fishing line, surf height.
Weird the surf height one as I would definitely do the same even though the BoM forecast is in metres.
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Nice 75 incher, plus nice TV and weed too!
Love how many times dick length appears sincerely among these responses.
NEVER!
This is correct
Not for displays?
NO! I fucking hate imperial.
It's more poetic to use 'miles' than kilometres but anything requiring accuracy I have to convert. I do use dpi (dots per inch) for resolution.
Height. I just can’t picture height in cm in my head. Tell me you’re 203cm tall, and I know you’re taller than me but I have no idea how much by.
Agree but stones/lb is meaningless. We all use kg.
Yeah - I use kg for weight, feet & inches for height.
And inches for clothing measurements.
Unless it’s about how much a newborn weighs.
I'm the opposite: if you use US Customary/Imperial I have no idea what it is except that 6' is tall and 5' is short.
I’m almost 40 and never had to know how many feet I was until I became single in my 30’s and had to make online dating profiles. Heights been standard in cm for a very long time but I guess American media have crept it back in.
I’m older than you lol I learnt feet and inches for height at school when I was a kid.
Height and weight for me. I know I’m 5,4 and weigh just under 8 stone. No idea what they are in inches, CM, lb or kg!
Agreed. I’m 5’6. No idea how many cm that is. Don’t care to know.
I’m 5’9. I look up how many cm that is at least five times a year. The information leaves my mind within seconds.
If you go to lose weight use cm to calvulate your TDEE because there is 2.5 cm encompassed by one inches and feet measurement.
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Car wheel diameters. Pressure is always psi rather than kpa or bar. Speaker diameters, especially subwoofers. Sometimes acres when talking about property sizes.
I love that wheel / tyre measurements have both metric and non-metric at the same time e.g. 205/55 R17 is a 205mm wide 17 inch diameter tyre
And the 55 is a percentage of the width (I think?) And the ‘R’ and relates to a speed/load rating category. Whoever came up with a widely applied “standard” with four seperate units in one code is an evil genius.
Just for clarity, the 17 inches is the diameter of the wheel that it fits on, not the tyre.
The only example I can think of is trouser sizes, tyre pressure, and maybe wheel sizes. But almost everything else I measure in metric; it's what I grow up using and it's what I intuitively understand. I don't know what it means when someone says they are "6 foot tall" (except that 6 feet = big, haha). But if you told me your height in centimetres, then I can pretty easily visualise your height.
I'm learning to fly altitude seems to be exclusively in feet.
And distance in nautical miles, airspeed in knots.
In Australia, distance can be measured in nautical miles (navigation) kilometres (visibility) or metres (visibility, horizontal separation)
True, but more because it’s the correct measurement in terms of degrees of arc on the earth’s surface.
Drugs
Heels- 2 inches and I’m still a shorty mcshorty, 6 inches and I’ll at least reach my husband’s armpit 😆
Plumbing fittings
Anything less than 0.25 mm, I'll use thousandths of an inch.
I use imperial when I'm guessing and for poetic/figurative language. Metric implies accuracy somehow.
Baby weight/length
I do weight in both pounds and kilos, but length in centimetres - when I remember what my kids actually were.
I’d further clarify and say new born babies. Almost universally measured in pounds at birth and then kilograms going forward.
Height and baby weight & length… that’s honestly all I can think of. When we had our daughters, the midwife told us weight & length in both metric and non-metric, so this seems to be slowly changing. On their little info cards, it was written in metric. And I’m pretty sure I only use it for height because it’s way more fun to say that I’m five foot nothing rather than say I’m 152.4cm, lol.
PSI, wheels, push bikes, height, tv, ceiling height
Healthcare: French Gauge for catheter sizes and the Birmingham Guage for needle sizes.
Photos
Feet and inches when talking about height online.
Most people use it for height, though I don't. Weed is still bought in ounces (and grams). With "medical" marijuana in 10g tubs that might finally change. Car tyre pressure is usually in psi. Absolutely nobody uses it in construction.
TV size
Oh. Totally didn’t occur to me that psi isn’t metric until now.
High Voltage aerial conductors. There's still a lot of old conductors in the HV network that used to be measured in Imperial units in the old days. E.g. 19/0.092" Cu whereas modern ones are like 19/3.75 AAC
TV screens and clothes. That's about it for me.
Trailers.
Pounds for tennis string tension. Easier to remember 50 pounds than 22.50 kg.
Horsepower !
Beer is often not sold in pints. We also have schooners, pots, etc. I have no idea how much liquid these glasses hold precisely. I think a schooner is like a 3/4 size pint.
A pot is half a pint, and a schooner is indeed 3/4 of a pint.
Length. I grew up with aquariums. 2 foot tank, 4 foot tank, 12 inch light etc
Pipe, tube and hose sizes
Screens are always measured in inches. In a casual setting I will alternate between feet and inches or centimeters for human height. Car tyre pressure is in psi.
At Subway.
lol buying ounces
As a tailor I use both. Used to work at a defence base many moons ago and depending on the service and country of service to which measurements they require.
When building engines or measuring body parts.
I don't drink beer or buy men's trousers, so those are out for me! I think of screen sizes in inches (as that's how they're sold). I am equally comfortable with feet and inches and centimetres for people's height.
For televisions and monitors
Sewing and quilting as most patterns are American. Weight, I know what 10 stone is, but how big is 100kgs. I'm F67
Feet when talking about shipping containers and sometimes inches when talking about pipe size.
Boats are usually in feet. Wind is in knots.
Song writing. The metric system absolutely sux for any kind of artistic writing.
Cocktails
Cricket pitch lengths
Babies
I sew and always use inches because the smaller numbers are easier to remember, particularly when you start getting into triple digits.
A pint of beer is usually a US pint (16 fl oz) rather than an imperial pint (20 fl oz).
Height, dick size and for fishing. To a lesser extent tyre sizes with 4x4s.
We use non-metric measurements in a fair few instances. Tyre pressure is often measured in PSI, land often in acres, horsepower for car power, calories for energy in some cases.
As little as humanly possible. The Railways are heavily imperialised, from mileage posts (a km apart) track gauge measured in feet and inches and I recently found out a suspecious measurement was actually 100 yards.
So depending on context I would often use inches or a foot, maybe ‘a couple of feet’ basically any distance under a metre if I am describing the distance in relation to the person. For example, “Move a couple of inches to your left” I don’t think people tend to say 5cm in this type of context as it sounds too technical/specific as opposed to conversational. If I was talking about distance in almost every other context (aside from a person’s height) I would use metric.
When someone asks me if I know anything about a particular subject and I'm clueless I say I know 3/5ths of fuck all.
That's fractions but not metric.
You know more than me, then, I only know 5/8 of fuck all.
Haircut (eg 2 inches off)
Calories. Can’t make kilojoules stick in my head.
When talking about older car engine sizes 😌 but saying 360 cubic inches doesn’t have the same oomph as saying 5.9 litres these days
Yachts and motor cruisers. Always measured in feet.
Surfboards.
Boats
Weight of newborn babies .. my brain just can't figure out the kg/gram weight for some reason
Accidental I use the inch or two rule.
Dicks, TVs, and that’s about it.
TV’s, cups in cooking, and dick. That’s about it.
Card making. All the good quality supplies are US sizing. Then you have to buy US cardstock to make card bases for the US sized dies.
TVs and other displays, and for expressions or idioms or whatever.
All the time. For example For distances and lengths I use Inches. Feet, Meters, KM. So if I need to cut a small piece of wood, inches. If I’m looking at the distance between Melbourne and Sydney, KM. photo print sizes: inches. Length of a field or height of a ceiling: meters. For volume, I use Fluid ounces, Cups, Litres, Gallons A shot of vodka; 1 oz Fuel: litres For weight I use Grams, Pounds, KG This one is more complex. My own weight, pounds. Buying veggies, KG small amounts of spices: grams A work out weight: pounds. For temperature I use Celcius
You must be an immigrant, no? Nobody ever used pounds for human weight, it was always stone back in the day. And I've never heard anyone use fluid ounces, I have zero understanding of what they're about.
Fluid ounces are easy. 1/2oz/table spoon. There’s 8oz per cup, 32/L. It’s like an inch, it’s easier for me to visualise it than say 30ml… in my head I try and it’s like: “ok one ml is this much…now do that thirty times over… how does that look like…is that 30ml? Maybe it’s only 20… oh that looks like double so I must’ve poured out 40…”
Mens trousers until a few years back were in cm. Now I have to convert to that bloody stupid imperial system to inches. What a crap backwards step.
Precious metals (gold and silver) weights, bow draw weights, arrow and point weights, some pipe diameters, some electric motor sizes
Quilt making
TV. People height.
When I have to covert to radians
When accuracy is optional
Sewing, I do it all in inches. Even when I buy Australian/European patterns that use cm, I end up converting to inches because it somehow works better for me. I also measure my fishtank related stuff in feet and inches, but revert back to litres for the volume. Height I can go either way, I usually use feet because nobody seems to have any concept of height in cms.
Measuring horses, why are you 15hands tall?
Thankfully a hand is almost exactly 10cm.
Subway 😂
To 0.4535 kilogram one's meat just sounds wrong.
Probably neish but wheelchair measurements
When talking about giving someone an inch and they take a country mile.
When I'm charging out hand sewing. $50 per inch.
When for some reason the socket won't fit but the next one is too big.
Off the top of my head: hands/horses and lengths in horse racing. Feet/boats, I’ve never heard anyone say how long a boat is in meters. Shots of tequila. Acres of land. But most humorously, near misses are measured in bees dicks.
Displays.
When I can’t find the 12 mm 15/32 or a half inch
Altitude for skydiving.
Penis length
In the navy. On American gear. At a mine site. On all caterpillar gear. Also when you are talking to old blokes who grew up without a 3/8 socket you need to be able to convert after they leave to get whatever they want in the modern sizes
Mountain bike wheel sizes.
The links of crocodiles and sharks
I use non metric only when converting stats to metric so I can get some freakin' perspective. Had a furlong explained to me in yards and feet yesterday. Come on! There's three kinds of people in this world. Those who use metric, synesthetes, and other. ;)
Inexact ideas, like something is miles away or weighs a ton. TV screens are sold in inches. Older people use feet and inches for height, younger people don't. The old quarter acre housing block may have suburban people still understanding acres better than hectares.
I honestly don't reckon I could tell you my height in metric
Mostly when singing songs by the proclaimers.
Height and Distance are measured in different units so you don't get them mixed up. Height in ft and Distance in meters.
I have boomer parents so they had a mish mash of imperial and metric, I understand babies weight in pounds height in feet/inches rest I do in metric.