Hi MightyChimp! You wrote in mid:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M> Are homes built using metric components or imperial? Is the design metric or imperial?
Imperial. M> Grocery store flyers advertise in imperial with the metric prices in very small print maybe. M> M> But, how are the items actually sold? If a product is advertise Scales are metric. But noone actually realises. People talk in pounds. Prepacked meat is in grams, though. Self-serve mechanic scales mostly in pounds, sometimes small kg. BTW: Scales for weighting people are either lbs only or big lbs with small kg. I live in Canada for a couple of years now and have never even seen the reverse. Fever thermometers: 40% Fahrenheit, 30% Celsius, 30% dual Ovens: Fahrenheit M> American origin? Are the measurements imperial or USCU? Usually US. I wonder about the pint, though. Any info on that? M> What units appear on official documents, like police records and driver's licenses? Drivers license: Metric, as well as passport etc. Lately the city of Montreal put up these stickers at many metro stations that show the height so people can roughly see how tall they are when they pass by: Big signs 5' 5'6" 6' etc and a small 1,83 m below. M> Cars fuel use is still talked about in miles per gallon even though we haven't bought gas by the gallon in 25 years. M> M> How is it calculated? How in North America cares about cars fuel use anyways??? When I asked people how much their car drinks the answer usually is something like "filling it costs me $35". M> What do Canadians see when they look at their speedometers? If you ask a driver how fast he is going, will he look at the kilometres per hour and tell you miles? Km. M> What about weather? Government -> Metric. Anybody over 40 still talks in "one feet of snow" etc. Even young people. Drinks at restaurants and bars are often sold in ounces, although noone here really has a clue how much that is! And by the way: Weed is sold per 3.5 g. Rgds, Guti
