Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Yep, still a mixture. However, having said that, the oil industry up here is seriously metric. Depths are in meters, hole size is mm etc. These are multi million dollar protects done entirely in metric.
Temps are in C. Anyone who needs to convert to Fahrenheit to talk about it is usually almost senile. We've been reporting temperature in Celsius for at least 41 years. The exception is that most of us will convert to degrees F for our Bitog discussions.
Same thing for gasoline, we haven't sold gasoline by the gallon in over 40 years. Highways have been marked in km for just as long. I'm used to talking about gasoline consumption in liters per 100 km. Most who talk about mpg are old men.
However, yes, wood sizes didn't change and golf courses are still in yards. Grocery stores got special permission to sell by the pound because it sounds so much cheaper than by the kilo. Blue Jean sizes are in inches.
I heard US cars have metric fasteners. What's with that?
Yeah - when we were visiting BC and bought some produce we were surprised that it was sold by the pound. Still - most packaged foods were labeled with grams or kg. In other parts of the world I've seen prices for half kilos. And try some places where they still use taels (like in many Chinatowns when selling herbal remedies).