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mesuring tape in both coentimeter and inch

#1: Lollipop (lollipop) on Dec 3, 2016

Sylvain, I grew up with imperial measure, but my children were taught metric measurement when they started school in the mid-1970s just as it was being introduced in Canada. To this day, when I hear or read a metric measurement I have no internal sense of how hot or cold it is or how long or how heavy an object is, and to this day I make the mental translation from cm to inches and metres to yards and feet, from Celsius to Fahrenheit, and from kilograms to pounds. Fortunately it comes easily to me. The only metric measurements that I became comfortable with many years ago are kilometres, because of our odometers and speedometers and the posted distances and speed limits, and litres, because of gas prices per litre. I now spend part of the winter in Florida, and when I'm driving there and back I find myself doing the mileage translation in reverse.

At least my children have some understanding of the old measurements when I happen to refer to them, but they're completely foreign to my grandchildren.

Here's something odd -- in equine competition, the hunter discipline measures the height of the jumps in feet and inches, while the jumper discipline measures those same jumps in metres and centimetres.

Same here even tough I only learn metric in school (I'm 39) my pool temp is in F my heigh is in feet and and inch and my weigh is in pound. Here in Quebec its still a mixte system that even if not teach in school stay within the collective mind of the population. My kids don t know how tall they are in meter or how they weight in kilo.

But fun fact the pool in F but if we are sick we take our temperature in celcius....go figure. Lol

I was certain that the image was a rocking chair at the tipping point untiol I read the title again and the tape measure jumped out at me. I tend to be fairly comfortable in both scales - mentally converting to the other for confirmation in most cases. Things I use more frequently, I tend to be more certain about metric, other things I tend towards Imperial.

I am comfortable with both and use them interchangeably. For example one of my thermometers in the house is in C and one is in F. I know that I like my house to be 19 C or 72 F. I am not as good with meters though

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