All true enough. Except for temperature. Fahrenheit, which takes the coldest and hottest average European temperatures and divide them hundred-scale. It is easier to deduce where you are on that human-factor comparison than the same scale suspended between the states of a liquid no matter how common the liquid might be. 

Jim

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> On Sep 17, 2021, at 9:27 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> I was born in Scotland, first 12 years of my life there. There was metric lessons. In Canada, early 70s, was metric in school. Later in university , and for the next couple or  three decades in lab , all metric .
> 
> But…
> 
> I worked construction too. And that was all imperial measure building supplies.
> Now for the last decade , in metal work and cnc machining, it’s all imperial. Oh I get drawings and computer models of parts to make, in metric. But I convert to imperial as we have mostly imperial tooling.
> Now, in machining, it doesn’t make any diff to me if measured in mm or thou of inch. At this point it’s just numbers. Decimal inches just as understandable and logical as metric measurement .
> 
> All this background means a pretty mixed up view of measuring 
> 
> Speeds…. Driving etc… all metric 
> Volumes…. All metric ( it’s a no brainer )
> Lengths… human scale… equal metric imperial 
> Lengths smaller than one inch… equal metric imperial. Really small all metric 
> Mass/weight… weighing myself is imperial , everything else metric
> Fasteners, nuts bolts… equal metric imperial 
> 
> So mostly metric with exceptions. Anything scientific it’s metric. Machining it’s , as explained , imperial decimal .
> 
> Alistair 
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2021, at 4:01 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, it is Friday, though to me, this is Vanagon related, since our beasts
>> have metric fasteners.  I thought I had a link to an opinion piece about
>> the metric system and Canadians dislike of it, but it seems to have gotten
>> lost.  But, maybe you guys can respond anyway.  Do Canadians dislike the
>> metric system?  The article claimed so, based on the fact that retailers
>> advertise prices for items giving both metric and English weights and
>> measures.
>> 
>> So, Alistair, Bruce, other Maple Leaf types:  Care to comment on this?
>> Politics aside, which seems to be a part of it, what do Canadians generally
>> think of being metric?  Since anyone younger than 45 and Canadian could not
>> possibly remember when the King's system was the norm, I guess it would be
>> older folks who might have some objection.  Personally, I wish the U.S.
>> were on the metric system, since it is so much simpler than what we have to
>> put up with, and I would not have to worry about conversions when traveling.
>> 
>> mcneely