How to measure things like a Canadian.

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I saw this on a site that I subscribe to and thought I would pass it along:

Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart - HomemadeTools.net - Page 40

Originally Posted by marksbug so how is the goat measuring up? if it were a Billie goat,would you milk it into gallon /quart or liter pails? I agree!
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I guess I am half Canadian as that is about the way I think! 😁
 
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Well, how aboot that, eh? I can't tease too much, though. I've had a couple people ask me on the phone if I'm in Canada. I lived almost in Niagara Falls, and you could look across the Niagara River at Ft. Erie, Canada driving to work in Buffalo.
 
That pretty well described how I do it.

We are so messed up here. If you go to the orange box store, and look at plywood, it will say 12mm on the mfg sticker, but 1/2" on the price sign. Construction is one of the industries up here that just can't let go of imperial.

I have three conversion charts around my metal lathe, it's an old Canadian Utilathe. All of my pen designing is done in metric, but all the dials are in imperial. Sometimes it makes my head hurt.
 
The subject of what units are best will always be controversial, I suppose.

The matter of sticking with 360 degrees in a circle "sticks out" ..... I'll give the results of a Google search below .....
..... but first this interesting ( to me ) comment extracted from those results .....

"The French tried to have 100 grads in a quarter of a circle, but no one that I know uses grads." <--- INTERESTING

So, here is the link from my Google search ( not my wording of the question ... Quora's wording, perhaps ) ....

www.quora.com

Why is a circle still 360 degrees in a metric system whereas lengths are measured in multiples of 10?

Answer (1 of 4): Measurements are "best" if they are in 12s. 360 is divisible by 12 5280 (feet in a mile) is divisible by 12 12 inches in a foot etc. 12 can be divided by 2, 3, 4 and 6. Thus 360 degrees makes it easier to sub-divide into portions that are of most interest to real people. T...
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Measurements can be frustrating.... during my 40 years in traffic and transportation, depending on who I was shipping with, for, or to, I would have to use weights in pounds or kilograms, measurements in feet or meters, volume to weight in kilograms or pounds, In those days I could switch between the various measurements automatically, but today after 15 years out of the business, I would have to look up the conversions.

There was a movement some years back to convert to the metric system, but Congress being Congress could never completely agree on when/how/or if it was feasible, thus we're still in the U.S. measurement which is similar to the Imperial system. But I've noticed that some manufacturers, especially in the food and booze industries have switch... the metric measurement are slightly smaller than the imperial, but prices remained at the same level....hmmmm??
 
magpens said:
"The French tried to have 100 grads in a quarter of a circle, but no one that I know uses grads." <--- INTERESTING


www.quora.com

Why is a circle still 360 degrees in a metric system whereas lengths are measured in multiples of 10?

Answer (1 of 4): Measurements are "best" if they are in 12s. 360 is divisible by 12 5280 (feet in a mile) is divisible by 12 12 inches in a foot etc. 12 can be divided by 2, 3, 4 and 6. Thus 360 degrees makes it easier to sub-divide into portions that are of most interest to real people. T...
www.quora.com www.quora.com
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Got to love the French! Only they could logically see a quarter is evenly divisible by 10. Thanks Magpens!
 
DrD said:
We do a lot of cooking - maybe a covid thing, I don't know - and if I find a recipe in metric, I immediately discard it!
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That's totally hilarious, Don !!! . . To think you would RATHER GO HUNGRY THAN USE METRIC !!!! .... 😂 😂 😂 😂

The funny thing to me is that you must have already become fairly fluent in metric through your career !!
 
I'm with Mal. All the measuring cups etc here come with cups and ounces on one side and metric on the other. Kitchen scales, well the digital ones, can convert with the push of a button. Measuring spoons also have both on them. No big deal. Even the meat sold here has both weights and prices on the label. I don't measure when making drinks and I can get just as drunk, just as fast without measuring. 🥴 I can cook raw and burnt food in both systems with ease. 🤣
 
@magpens and @Curly my cuisine is primarily Italian ,German, and Cajun, down here I have never been unable to find a desirable recipe that wasn't in good old 'American or Imperial say you would say.

I cannot remember during a lifetime of manufacturing consulting and governmental heavy weapons development where knowledge of metric measurements was required. I can get by with some metric, eg 10mm and 7 mm tubes or 5.7 x 28 mm ammo, but that's about it.

DrD
 
I don't like metric… in cooking, baking, driving…. I'll use it in a shop if I have to (calipers and such) but I prefer inches, cups, Oz and miles 😆
 

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I was around when we converted over to metric and have to say I find it easier for the majority of things. As for food , not too worried what it weighs like it's the taste I go for ?
 
With the combined economic powers of the three nations not yet using the metric system - the US, Liberia, and Myanmar - I know the rest of the world is bound to come back to Imperial measurements soon.
 
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