POLL: Should Canada return to Imperial Measurements.
tritium @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:19 am
In the 1970/80's Canada went Metric.
Our largest trading partner, the United States still uses Imperial Measurements. MPH, Pounds, Feet, Inches.
Should Canada return to Imperial Measurements, to ease and harmonize trade with the United States.
Metrication in Canada
hurley_108 @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:23 am
All of science is based upon metric. Imperial measure is a throwback to an unenlightened age.
QBC @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:23 am
Oh no your not!!!!!
Took me 20 years to get this metric crap down pat, I'm not going to re-learn Imperial now...... ![[bash]](./images/smilies/bash.gif "Bash")
plus the, the rest of the world is using metric, no point in going backward
USCAdad @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:24 am
It's shameful that the US still stays with the Imperial. Once switched over to metric why would anyone change? Just so that you have to have two sets of tools for everything?
Wullu @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:31 am
There is no force on earth that is going to make me learn physics all over again using slugs, inches, quarts etc.
The metric system is probably the most natural system ever devised. We naturally think in terms of 10, just look at your hands and feet.
tritium @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:35 am
QBC QBC:
Oh no your not!!!!!
Took me 20 years to get this metric crap down pat, I'm not going to re-learn Imperial now......
plus the, the rest of the world is using metric, no point in going backward
Took me 20 years to get this metric crap down pat, I'm not going to re-learn Imperial now......
plus the, the rest of the world is using metric, no point in going backward
Yeah, Canada just went Metric, but I never bothered to learn. I bailed on Canada and moved to the USA.
I just can't figure this shit out and always think in Imperial.
Somebody says -15 - it's like o.k. it has no reference point with me, it's just a number.
You say 14F yeah it's cold. 75F, great room temp. 90F I am off to the beach.
This metric shit is just stupid to me.
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:45 am
The fact is Canadians use parts of both.
We buy liquids in litres such as gas and milk and measure temp in celsius and that is where it stops in everyday use.
Outside of KM nobody descirbes distance, area or measurements in anything but inches, feet and acres or sg ft. Not even kids use kilo's instead of pounds.
Maybe it is different outside Alberta?
Wullu @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:49 am
lily lily:
$1:
The metric system is probably the most natural system ever devised. We naturally think in terms of 10, just look at your hands and feet.
We did a whole specualtion on how things would be different if we had any other number of fingers and toes and no, we weren't drinking.
It's called binary, octal and hexidecmal and I hated learning them all!
10 is NOT 2 !!! 
BartSimpson @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:50 am
lily lily:
The metric system is a lot easier to learn.
Out of curiosity - who are the US's largest trading partners and what systems do they use?
Out of curiosity - who are the US's largest trading partners and what systems do they use?
It's all six-of-one and a half-dozen of the other to me.
camerontech @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:53 am
I learned both, when I was taking surveying class my teacher would flip a coin to see which system we would use for an assignment, heads for metric, tails for english. It's all the same to me
Wullu @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:56 am
grainfedprairieboy grainfedprairieboy:
The fact is Canadians use parts of both.
We buy liquids in litres such as gas and milk and measure temp in celsius and that is where it stops in everyday use.
Outside of KM nobody descirbes distance, area or measurements in anything but inches, feet and acres or sg ft. Not even kids use kilo's instead of pounds.
Maybe it is different outside Alberta?
We buy liquids in litres such as gas and milk and measure temp in celsius and that is where it stops in everyday use.
Outside of KM nobody descirbes distance, area or measurements in anything but inches, feet and acres or sg ft. Not even kids use kilo's instead of pounds.
Maybe it is different outside Alberta?
I tend to think in terms of metres and kilos, but that may be a function of years of techincal training and habit with the navy. I have been 72kg for 16 years now..... no idea what my wieght is i pounds.
Clogeroo @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:58 am
The United States does not even use the imperial system exactly many of their numbers are off from the British one we had. We have never even had a common system with them nor has anyone really ever. I suggest the united states adopt metric all their schools in science already use it for chemistry and whatever else. All your products you buy are already in metric and just have us standard next to it. Also with all the Mexicans coming to the states it is only a matter of time before metric is officially adopted.
I think we learned imperial one day in school and the entire class was confused and troubled by it and everyone just wrote decimals in the place of the fractions and no one knew what anything was. Metric is easy everything is in tens and no stupid fractions just nice neat decimals. Everything is in metric here and no way is anyone going back.
Wullu @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:03 am
lily lily:
Wullu Wullu:
lily lily:
$1:
The metric system is probably the most natural system ever devised. We naturally think in terms of 10, just look at your hands and feet.
We did a whole specualtion on how things would be different if we had any other number of fingers and toes and no, we weren't drinking.
It's called binary, octal and hexidecmal and I hated learning them all!
10 is NOT 2 !!! I think we learned binary in grade 3 or 4, and it seemed like quite the concept. It seemed weird to learn what "10" really meant.
If we were cartoons and only had 4 fingers, the big 4-0 would mean something completely different.
No weirder than having someone tell you that FFD4 is 65492........
LOL it definitly takes some brain wrapping for sure!
bootlegga @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:06 am
tritium tritium:
Yeah, Canada just went Metric, but I never bothered to learn. I bailed on Canada and moved to the USA.
I just can't figure this shit out and always think in Imperial.
Somebody says -15 - it's like o.k. it has no reference point with me, it's just a number.
You say 14F yeah it's cold. 75F, great room temp. 90F I am off to the beach.
This metric shit is just stupid to me.
Actually, you're talking apples and oranges. The Fahrenheit and Celsuis systems have nothing to do with the metric system. They are simply two different ways of measuring temperature.
And the metric system makes way more sense, moving in 10s, 100s, 1000s. The Imperial system is just plain stupid. 12 inches in a foot, 4 pints in a quart, 16 oz in a pound...sheesh.
The fact is that there are millions of Americans who use the metric system every day of their life. The US armed forces, scientists, medical professionals, etc. It's the USA who needs to change to get in step with the rest of the world not us changing to get in step with them.
BartSimpson @ Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:09 am
Who really wants to go to Timmie's for a box of just ten doughnuts?
You KNOW you want a dozen, admit it!