I hate

Yes, very similar to pounds then I guess. Either that or I have the numbers wrong (very likely, can't google). All I know is that jin are stupid and not standard. Kg or bust!!

I have a favourite US guitar repair YouTube channel, it drives me nuts when they refer to 9/64ths of an inch... Idiots, but also geniuses... Ugh...

I like that metric is based around the weight of water, in that a litre of water weighs a kilogram. As you can apply that to various liquids with more or less accuracy, it makes judging amounts in recipes that much easier. For instance if the recipe calls for 225gm of apple juice, you could get away with using scales if it’s easier.

I think I've posted this before, and someone inevitably posted the reason, but

Why is it a kilogram? 1 litre should = 1 gram surely. Arbitrarily a thousand times smaller.

I think the original definition of a gramme was that it was a cubic centimetre of water at melting point, at sea level. That makes a cubic metre a metric tonne.

Except it’s not, it’s a bit less. Also water is densest at 4 degrees but I don’t know if the units were re-defined to account for that or not and cba to utfs.

1 litre = 1000 cubic centimetres,
thus,
1000 cubic centimetres weighs 1000 grams.

...and that's a bit over a yard.

I watch a lot of American "makers" on YouTube and am not a fan of the mental arithmetic involved when they say "just take about 563 thousandths off that". Or, ".479, that's exactly what I wanted". And then tenths are even smaller, cos they mean a tenth of a thousandth, not a tenth of an inch.

It's weird, I've spoken to a few Americans over the last few weeks and they really don't get celsius. They also thought we used kilometres because we're Europeans.

That'd be too reasonable.

On the cup chat...

In the States you have measuring cups which are a set size, so as long as you have a set it's extremely easy.

Still doesn't fix the problem with inaccuracy with part cups or dry ingredients.

They also thought we used kilometres because we're Europeans.

We use kilometres because beiks, surely

The recipes take that into consideration and the cup sets you buy contain half, quarter, etc. cups.

Pfft. They can't even fold their paper in half. A4, A3, A2, go!

Entertainingly I'm of an age where I use combinations of metric and imperial.

Weights between about 5 and 25 stone are considered in imperial. Weights under/over that in metric.

Anything above half a mile in imperial, lower than that in metric (apart from height which is obviously imperial). Although things under a metre I may do in either (although accurate measurements will be in mm).

Accurate liquid measuring is in metric. Estimates are in imperial.

The only thing I'm pretty fixed on is celsius (although I can mentally convert for talking to Americans and old people).

Obviously there's always scope for using something stupid like a chain or a hundredweight in conversation.

Anyone ever bought their truluv a metric diamond?

The A/B/C international paper size standard is a beautiful thing indeed

Pints though, obviously.

US pints or UK pints?

Can't wait till Brexit Nd we get our units back.

Got absolutely dogpiled on twitter for saying although I am primarily metric I use imperial for certain things.

The main bit was the Fahrenheit gang raving about the massive inaccuracies of Celsius. Ok let’s all do Kelvin

Poor Kelvin, he has it coming.....

I've heard old, (presumably brexitty) people claim,
'It all started going wrong after Decimalisation!'
Bring back the Half Crown, Florin, and fix Sterling at $4 to the Pound.

They'll all start saying 'Degrees Kelvin'.