Tonnes? Do they mean megagrams?
We think they’re referring to the british ‘Long ton’ which isn’t used much anymore
I think they mean a metric ton, as it’s painted in the same colors as the other metric units.
‘Tonne’ is red with the metric ones and ‘ton’ is blue with the imperial
That’s what I said.
My bad, misread
As an American I’ve been metricating rather than just waiting for my country to get on board and it’s not as hard as I’d expected. Everyone in my life hates that I’m doing it but I’m liking it
I love that you’re doing it. Sincerely, an Australian who loves the metric system.
Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.
It’s like this wonderful xkcd
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The “is it related to work” is a little misleading. Most industries are mostly imperial but government regulations and communications are all metric so things like fisheries end up being pretty metric.
Yeah it’s extremely relative.
My industry uses both, regularly, because we have machinery from both the US and Europe.
I heard UK buys liters but but measures mileage in miles per gallon. Is that true?
Yes. Also a US gallon is 3.79 litres but a UK gallon is 4.55 litres, so one US mpg is 1.201 UK mpg
This is asinine
Edit: but who’s the worst offender? The freedom gallon or the UK one?
both of them. The rest of the world has moved on
Lmao fair
Whoever made this seems to think tonnes are Imperial…? Isn’t a ton basically just a megagram? Or am I confused?
Apparently there’s also a (mostly outdated) unit called a long ton (or “ton”) not to be confused with a metric tonne (or “tonne”). TIL.
A long ton is about 1.016something metric tonne.
TIL! Thanks.
The U.S.'s flowchart is pretty complicated, too.
We sell soda in 20oz, 1L, and 2L bottles, or 12 ounce cans. Fountain drinks are measured in ounces.
Wine and liquor are sold in 750ml bottles (and other larger format bottles measured in liters), but individual servings are generally measured in ounces.
Our bullets/ammunition are also mixed, probably because we did standardize our military on NATO standards, but also love our legacy calibers and have a bunch of calibers that aren’t used in the military.
And the U.S. isn’t unique in having a bunch of ways to measure energy (joules, calories, kilowatt hours, therms, BTUs), but we’re somewhat unique in having too many ways to measure power (watts, BTUs/hr, horsepower).
Very nice. Now let’s see Canada’s
business cardmeasurement flowchart.no no don’t look at us focus back on america
in all seriousness it gets worse when you consider age then the one for are you weighing people needs another split for are you under 40 split for metric and imperial also cows milk can be litres too if it’s lacto free or organic speed is also tracked in kmph for bikes I think though not sure my bike defaulted to that though had to fix it to mph cause I couldn’t understand it distance might have an age split too as I think of distance in kilometres but I know my gramie thinks in miles but I don’t know on that but I know there was a study that showed the split between age groups on weight of people that showed 30 but it was a bit ago not sure how long so I just said 40 the road signs are in miles and yards so maybe it’s a driver vs not thing
also canada’s even more disgusting atleast we’re consistent on celsius canada changes between fahrenheit and celsius for different things
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but Canada doesn’t use stone, do they?
dunno I just know their chart is worse and they mix systems for everything
I’ve never seen fahrenheit or miles in Canada.
The only thing we fuck around with is human weight/height in imperial, and I blame that on US TV.
My milk is in litres. My rice is in kilos. I drive in kilometres and the distance is in ‘klicks’. Our mountains are thousands of metres tall.
ive heard pools use Fahrenheit in Canada
You dropped these, friend:
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no I didn’t
Oh, is no punctuation a British thing?
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Well still see Fahrenheit used if it’s a hot sunny day. If it’s a cold day we use Celsius.
I’ve literally never heard anyone use fahrenheit ever not even my gramie and she still thinks of things in pre decimal money sometimes
I’m not positive if you’re making this up ✖‿✖
I like that metric is red. Red for bad. shit system, no character, too easy. French 👎👎👎💩
I understand you like imperial better. It is after all a system designed by and for people that need to count on their fingers and haven’t figured out the use of the decimal point yet.
This is the reason I set my phone’s language to Irish English… I needed an English language option that uses sane measurements for everything.
Complex decision trees are something I can accept.
Using both imperial and metric tons isn’t. It’s even more unacceptable to believe you can distinguish them by some dismorphic plural.
UK isn’t a serious country, we conquered half the world just for the bants
The only thing I learnt living in england is I weigh approximately 8 stone(s).
Still don’t fucking understand miles, because I lived somewhere with transport and never got a car.
A kilometre is about 1/10,000th the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
A mile is 1,760 yards. Why? Because I said so!
Honestly just consider it to be 1.5 km. It’s close enough for most circumstances
The Fibonacci sequence is also handy (since the golden ratio is not too far off the miles km conversion.
2 mi ≈ 3 km
3 mi ≈ 5 km
5 mi ≈ 8 km
Etc
1 mi = 1.609344 km Golden ratio ≈ 1.618
