I'm 45 and when I was growing up here in Canada, in the 70's, they just started phasing out the US type system. Looking up when, "By the mid-1970s, metric product labelling was introduced."
I'm used to KM and Celsius. 100KM when you're driving on the highway is 60MPH. Temperature makes more sense because 0C is when water freezes and 100C is when it boils. Interesting looking at a thermometer when it's cold around here because the F side sorta matches. Like -30C would be -22F. When it's -40C that's -40F. The coldest it usually gets around here is low 30's. Here's a weather forecast screenshot I took of a day like that a few years ago. http://i.imgur.com/IQsiEEb.jpg However, if it's just -20C, which is it half the year, that's quite cold when you're out. But you look like a wuss to them because it's only -4F.
I only understand a person's height in feet and inches. Like when you check an imdb profile. I think our drivers licence until maybe a couple decades ago when they came out with the photo ones, it would still only say it in feet and inches. I just checked mine it said 168CM. That does nothing for me. I only understand a person's weight too in pounds.
With distance like if you say it's 1KM away I'd understand that more than, how far is a mile. I wouldn't get that. Or how about in track and field. 100M that's what they all use, even in the States! ha, they gotcha there. I think a whole track is 400M.
Things in the supermarket, a 2Litre or 1Litre soda drink or 500ML bottle, I get that. Ounces, I'd only understand that in liquor, like a 26. You know what size bottle that is. Or a mickey is, I think 13ounces. A bottle of beer is an odd 341ML. "In Canada, in 1992, the large breweries all agreed to use a 341 ml (12.0 imp fl oz; 11.5 U.S. fl oz) longneck bottle of standard design (named AT2), thus replacing the traditional stubby bottle". I remember when I was a kid in the 70's and the adults would drink beer in those stubby bottles. Here's a pic of what those looked like.
http://journeysinto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/5b7f5bad444c298f210168d8ec9012b0.jpg
How about weed, like 1 gram for $15 or 2 for $25. Or "a quarter" is 7 grams for $70. That's a quarter ounce, I guess. Bottom of a ziplock. Or an eighth is like what half that.. so 3 and a half grams. If you can afford it, your best deal is the quarter. lol. I'm trying to lay off it in recent years, quite potent these days. Sounds like they're supposed to legalize it here anytime soon in the whole country. Even if it was I'd probably try to lay off it. The beer too. Just blah'd right out and hungover if you do that too much. Plus your body can catch a cold or something if it gets weakened. lol.
I betcha they use grams in the States too for weed like you go pick up a couple G's. But then a quarter though you'd still use that. Quite odd there, the mixing up of both.
When you go grocery shopping, signs in the store 'll say, however much per pound. On a scale it'll have either side written. But when you pay it's all in KG's. Then you're like, that costs more than I though. I just want a pound of cherries but if you get corned beef tell 'em ok cut however many 100's of grams. KG's though I don't really get it. I'd rather have a pound of something than what's a KG? lol But if it's 500grams I can maybe get it. In drinks though 2L, 1L, 500ml. I wouldn't know what ounces are other than the 26 in liquor. But a KG, I don't know.
So it is a bit of a mix-up around here all these years later. I don't think the States are gonna let go of it though. That'd be like you talking about doing what we do up here with handguns. We still got hunting rifles though. But yeah, I don't think they'll be changing over to metric anytime soon.
