pounds vs kilos - geek alert! Anyone switched units after using this forum?
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Escloflowne wrote: »MireyGal76 wrote: »I. AM. CANADIAN.... er... confused.
Height = feet and inches
driving speed = km/h
driving distance = kms
weight = pounds
running distance = miles
swimming distance = miles
drinks = ounces for hard liquor; everything else is usually Litres
food measurements = sometimes grams, sometimes ounces depending on the label
temperature = mostly Celsius... unless it's over 100F. hehe..
essentially... I AM RANDOM AS HELL
google conversion factors are my best friend.
Dude...you run in miles and "mostly Celsius"!? Deletes from FB and MFP!!!!
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Might as well delete me from everything too because I do almost the exact same thing as this. haha0 -
I remember when the US was officially going to switch to metric. I think I was in middle school... They had us do all this extra work to teach us the new system. It was like a drop dead day - "On this day at this time we will switch all things!" - Yeah, that just plain didn't ever happen.0
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Escloflowne wrote: »MireyGal76 wrote: »I. AM. CANADIAN.... er... confused.
Height = feet and inches
driving speed = km/h
driving distance = kms
weight = pounds
running distance = miles
swimming distance = miles
drinks = ounces for hard liquor; everything else is usually Litres
food measurements = sometimes grams, sometimes ounces depending on the label
temperature = mostly Celsius... unless it's over 100F. hehe..
essentially... I AM RANDOM AS HELL
google conversion factors are my best friend.
Dude...you run in miles and "mostly Celsius"!? Deletes from FB and MFP!!!!
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Might as well delete me from everything too because I do almost the exact same thing as this. haha
I guess it's because you guys are in the middle of Canada, that's where we send all our "broken" ones
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ColinsMommaOC wrote: »I remember when the US was officially going to switch to metric. I think I was in middle school... They had us do all this extra work to teach us the new system. It was like a drop dead day - "On this day at this time we will switch all things!" - Yeah, that just plain didn't ever happen.
I remember that too. I was in third or fourth grade, maybe fifth.
I use metric quite a bit in my job (I work with overseas manufacturers) and for my metric friends I try to do my best to convert the units. I do wish the United States would convert already, but yeah, this country gets all upset and bent out of shape if a woman should be featured on a bill.
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I can think about food better in grams than ounces. I bake a lot and was weighing food items in grams before I began the weight loss journey. I have to translate from metric to my own damn system when it comes to food. If a cookbook says X number of ounces, I literally pull up a conversion chart to see how many grams that is to really get it. Liquid, though, in small amounts, I'm good on either system and can have a mental idea of it in the other system in small amounts because all of my liquid measuring stuff is labeled in both.
I'm good on temperature in either system and can come pretty close to converting on my own, at least when it comes to temps from about 60 - 104 degrees. I can translate from 97-102F to the decimal in C without even thinking about it. I just know the conversions by rote. But I think of temps in F first. Kelvin, I would always have to do the math, but since I left school, nobody has ever tried to use or spoke to me in Kelvin.
Pretty good on stones insofar as body weights go. I hear "14st, 7" and I don't have to convert. Not so good for, say, a car. I'd be converting. As far as body weight goes, I rather like the stone system, honestly. It took a while to grasp, when I first started hearing people tell me their weight in stones. The first time, I was like, "Stones?" I seriously thought I might be talking to a crazy person, lol. But after using it a lot, I like it.
I'm really good on CM to inches and vice-versa when it's under 6".
Distance, kind of. Up to 5K, I'm alright, over that, I'm doing math. Or maths. Why do you people pluralize math? Speak English!
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Escloflowne wrote: »Escloflowne wrote: »MireyGal76 wrote: »I. AM. CANADIAN.... er... confused.
Height = feet and inches
driving speed = km/h
driving distance = kms
weight = pounds
running distance = miles
swimming distance = miles
drinks = ounces for hard liquor; everything else is usually Litres
food measurements = sometimes grams, sometimes ounces depending on the label
temperature = mostly Celsius... unless it's over 100F. hehe..
essentially... I AM RANDOM AS HELL
google conversion factors are my best friend.
Dude...you run in miles and "mostly Celsius"!? Deletes from FB and MFP!!!!
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Might as well delete me from everything too because I do almost the exact same thing as this. haha
I guess it's because you guys are in the middle of Canada, that's where we send all our "broken" ones
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We are not broken!!! It's a feature!
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I think for most Canadians, it's an age thing. My parents' generation thinks much more in the "old" system 'cause they learned miles, feet, inches and pounds in school. My generation learned metric, but we still grew up with parents who spoke imperial. Our kids' generation is much more exclusively metric.
It's also an English/French thing, but I covered that in my last post. In French here in Quebec, it's 99.999% metric, both officially and colloquially.0 -
The only really downside to metrics when lifting, is the conversion to metric makes it seem like you lifted less.
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If you study anything science-related, you must use the metric system. I think in the U.S.A. as well.
I'm from Europe, so of course I think in cm and kg. BUT while dieting I sometimes set MFP in pounds because it takes less time to lose 1 pound than 1 kg.
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lemurcat12 wrote: »I never think of 1760 yards in a mile. I think of it as 5280 feet in a mile
Me too. I've told this story before, but I will again.
Some years ago, before my first triathlon, I got up in the middle of the night and could not sleep (I had to leave around 4:30 anyway), and so tried to calm myself by watching the summer olympics, which were then on. Half asleep (but used to the various conversions between metric and imperial due to my training), I saw what seemed to be a longer running race and decided that was something to watch. It was 5000 meters, which of course meant nothing to me. So I thought -- a meter is basically a yard, so that's about 15000 feet or about 3 miles -- oh! it's a 5K. Followed immediately by the thought: oh, right, of course 5000 meters is 5K.
Only in America.
Lol, i did this as well. I used to watch the 5,000 metres and the 10,000 metres on the track and think jeez these races are so long it's crazy. And then I too did triathlon and I was like oh that's a 5k and a 10k.......
I run in km/h because I can't visualise running distance in miles but I bike in miles per hour because km/h on the bike mean nothing to me! Makes my Garmin interesting.
Weight is generally lbs, never kgs, but quite often stone because I've either got 5 stone to lose or 70lbs!!!
I'm quite good at converting ounces to grams though, probably something to do with my misspent youth 0 -
I work with scientists from the USA (I'm Australian) and if I ask them something science related they talk metric. ie the field area we are working in is "1.5km by 2km", something weighs "2.6kg" or moved at "15km/hr" but if I ask them how far it is to the next town its "about 4 miles".
When I comment on the mile thing they were like "Oh yeah you guys only do metric" like I was the freak when most of the rest of the world "does" metric officially.
I am a cross over, I think in metric but my parents mostly do imperial so I can convert...except for the stone thing, I just can't visualise that.0 -
See, and to me the miles and feet are intuitive. It's probably just because it's what we're used to. I like that feet are divided up into 12 inches and those are divided by 8. It makes the math fun instead of working all in tenths.
Don't you mean it makes the math needlessly confusing? Hehe.
You Americans always needing to be different...
And yet, still the most awesome nation on the planet.0
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