Yeah, it makes no sense to me, a 44 year old English guy who was taught metric at school, with a little imperial because our society still uses it in certain places.

In essence, I think it’s because the Boomers still have a stranglehold. Few years back there was a story about a sign put up in a park somewhere announcing the distance to a local attraction in metres. Some local boomer kept removing the sign, or changing the distance to yards or some shit, as if the sign was meant only for his use.

Whoever made this seems to think tonnes are Imperial…? Isn’t a ton basically just a megagram? Or am I confused?

canada

The U.S.'s flowchart is pretty complicated, too.

We sell soda in 20oz, 1L, and 2L bottles, or 12 ounce cans. Fountain drinks are measured in ounces.

Wine and liquor are sold in 750ml bottles (and other larger format bottles measured in liters), but individual servings are generally measured in ounces.

Our bullets/ammunition are also mixed, probably because we did standardize our military on NATO standards, but also love our legacy calibers and have a bunch of calibers that aren’t used in the military.

And the U.S. isn’t unique in having a bunch of ways to measure energy (joules, calories, kilowatt hours, therms, BTUs), but we’re somewhat unique in having too many ways to measure power (watts, BTUs/hr, horsepower).

As an American I’ve been metricating rather than just waiting for my country to get on board and it’s not as hard as I’d expected. Everyone in my life hates that I’m doing it but I’m liking it

I heard UK buys liters but but measures mileage in miles per gallon. Is that true?

This is the reason I set my phone’s language to Irish English… I needed an English language option that uses sane measurements for everything.

Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.

Very nice. Now let’s see Canada’s business card measurement flowchart.

no no don’t look at us focus back on america

in all seriousness it gets worse when you consider age then the one for are you weighing people needs another split for are you under 40 split for metric and imperial also cows milk can be litres too if it’s lacto free or organic speed is also tracked in kmph for bikes I think though not sure my bike defaulted to that though had to fix it to mph cause I couldn’t understand it distance might have an age split too as I think of distance in kilometres but I know my gramie thinks in miles but I don’t know on that but I know there was a study that showed the split between age groups on weight of people that showed 30 but it was a bit ago not sure how long so I just said 40 the road signs are in miles and yards so maybe it’s a driver vs not thing

also canada’s even more disgusting atleast we’re consistent on celsius canada changes between fahrenheit and celsius for different things

Well still see Fahrenheit used if it’s a hot sunny day. If it’s a cold day we use Celsius.

Complex decision trees are something I can accept.

Using both imperial and metric tons isn’t. It’s even more unacceptable to believe you can distinguish them by some dismorphic plural.

UK isn’t a serious country, we conquered half the world just for the bants

The only thing I learnt living in england is I weigh approximately 8 stone(s).

Still don’t fucking understand miles, because I lived somewhere with transport and never got a car.

Almost the entirety of the decision tree applies to America too.