Thinking in Kilo's
 

I've stopped doing it, it's a weight off my mind

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

Haha .... BUT have you stopped thinking in kilo's or pounds? Oh, I've just realised that maybe the US doesn't have that stupid law about you being a criminal if you sell produce by the pound! :)

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

But they might if you sell produce by the kilo instead of pounds!

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

I never could think in kilos, or meters/kilometers...and how nice to be back using farenheit.

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

I used to work for an engineering firm ... always perplexed me as to why the drawings would show a mixture of metric and imperial measurements ... I can work with either, but it's irritating when they mix the two!

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

Im weird - I work in Farenheit for hot and Centigrade for cold :eek:

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

cos it's less scary in the cold using C :D

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

:D I have to use both metric and imperial in my daily work, but I prefer using imperial measurements, and when I see miles to a destination I know roughly how far that is I'm lost with kilometers. :D

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

But at least km's don't change...miles, tonnes and all those imperial measurements are different over here...

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

"One eighth" = ?

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

a henry...

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

Indeed :D

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

No, a mile is a mile, and a pound is a pound.

Tons are different, 2,000lbs in the US, 2240 in the UK (as opposed to "tonnes", being 1,000Kg, as are pints and gallons.

In any case I went through the entire education system in the UK infant school to university, learning the metric system the whole way, but I still, and always did, use feet and inches for woodwork/ DIY, pounds and ounces for cooking, and think in gallons for gas. The metric system may be good for science and engineering but it's useless for every-day measurements. :mad:

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

No it is not!!...give me METRIC SYSTEM any day!

I find it mildly amusing that my kids are au fait with imperial measurements, but get 'thrown' with the metric system which is dead simple!

Re: Thinking in Kilo's
 

tell me about it, at least it's all nice and clear :)