1.85m is a nice small number but saying one-eighty-five also rolls off the tongue. That hottie sharapova is right around my height, i think she's 190 though.

It's funny though in canada. if you look at trades (arguably less educated) they tend to use imperial to describe force and small measurements (such as carpenters, etc). I think most farmers use hectares instead of acres too. I also find it funny with older people. They will say the highway speed is 100 miles an hour, when they clearly mean 100km/hour. Sometimes they'll also say 15miles instead of 15km. But even the old farts can't tell you how hot 68F is.

Thinks like liquid and gas, mass (except bodyweight which is done in both) are all done in metric. 4L jug of milk, 1L of gas, 1kg of beef, 200g of sliced meat, 5kg of fruit, etc. I've never seen someone ever say i want 2lbs of apples or X (ounces?) of sliced turkey breast.

I'm sure even bamccaig can tell you how far 400m, 200m, 100m, or even 5m is. Exits on highways are about 200 - 400m after the sign and 400m is the length of a running track. 1cm is around the width of a skinny pinky, a ruler is 30cm ~ 1foot. TV's are measure in inches but i think that's an american influence. I know how bit a 19" monitor is but i could tell you the same if it were 15 rods. The actual measurement is meaningless to me.

All sciences and engineering are obviously done in metric.

edit: bytes.. kilo byte = 2^10, mega byte = 2^20, giga byte = 2^30 ~ 10^9
It's mostly metric.. but that's why 10KiB exists.

Both. If you took what I was replying to into account, it should still have been obvious what I meant though.

I was trying not to come across as saying metric was the only good system. They're both fine for all occasions if you're used to them, and pretty useless when you're not.

Because you're used to using imperial units.

Please, pray tell, what gives you the idea that I'm attempting to illustrate that imperial isn't good?

How do they study classical mechanics and physics without the metric system? Is it even possible? I mean m != F, meaning you can't compare kg with N, but you seem to be able to use lbs for measuring both masses and forces.

I guess physics is really difficult for a person not familiar with the metric system. My favourite example of the simplicity is the different units of energy in the metric system:
If you make a mass of 1 kg accelerate 1 m/s per second (1 m/s²), you use a force of 1 N.
Moving a mass with the force 1 N one metre, you use an energy of 1 Nm.
1 Nm equals 1 Ws, which is the energy that you use, if you burn a 1 W light bulb for one second (theoretically speaking, you have to use the right potential, then there's a loss in the conductors etc).
And 1 Nm == 1 Ws == 1 J. One calory is about 4.2 Joule.

The calory unit itself is not bad at all. Probably that's why it is still used even where the metric system is prefered. With one calory you can warm 1 g of water 1° C, which sounds very metric.

Another simplicity is that 1 litre == 1000 cm³, 1000 litre == 1m³. And 1 litre of water has a mass of 1 kg! And that goes for milk, juices, spirits etc. So when the recipy says add 1.5 dl of yoghurt, I don't use a measuring cup to measure 1.5 dl of yoghurt. I just put the bowl on the kitchen weighing machine and add 150 g of yoghurt.

Now you're being inconsistent. First you said mass is measured in kilograms, and then that it's measured in pounds? Make up your mind. I'm assuming here that you mean "mass" all along, because weight is measured in Newtons anyhow, neither pounds nor kilograms. Maybe we should just add "mind-shattering inconsistency" to the nails in the imperial coffin...

But really, the main problem with imperial distance units is that you can't divide or multiply them intuitively unless you want to just give up and only use the smallest one for everything. 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile... eurghh. And don't even try to get into measuring sub-inch distances. That just gets evil.

I was wondering what that stench was.

Put your socks back on man.

180cm < （´・ω・） ≤ 183cm

Can't remember anything more specific and I don't seem to have it on paper anywhere. Which kind of makes sense seeing as my last "physical" consisted of the person wondering about my lack of exercise and making sly inquiries into my sexual preference. Meh, at least it didn't cost me anything.

[more bugging the imperialists]
Another strange thing is using fractions of this and that. Like 3 3/8 inch. You need to perform some calculation to compare 3/8 with 10/24. The good thing with it is how you kind of change the precision in a binary way. 3 1/2 inches is simply 3 1/2 inches, even if the precision is +-0.2 inches. You can't say 3.5 inches, if the precision is not +-0.05 inches.

I'm 1.78 last time I checked. Though that was cheating with socks on, I believe.

190cm.

I could actually be a real protoss!

181 inches.

185.42