Do you use metric or Imperial for weight

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Just wondering when measuring weight what units do you use. For myself having done engineering in college I'm almost fully converted to using Metric (grammes and Kilo's) and I've lost track of Imperial (pounds and ounces). My gf keeps telling me she has to loose so many pounds and to annoy her I ask what's that in kilo's to get a blank expression.:D

A few years ago I walked into a supermarket and asked for 400grammes of mince meat. The girl behind the counter got totally confused and asked what's that in pounds I replied dunno but the scales reads in grammes when the display says 400 that's how much I want. I turned away for a few seconds, when I turned back and read the scale display it was now reading 4grammes poor girl was well confused. I was in a different supermarket with my brother another time and I said to him watch this person get confused and I did the same thing and they too got confused. It's doesn't happen anymore now

I'm not doing it intensionally it's just I find the metric system so much easier to use.

Tar.Aldarion

Imperial, but of course.
Both for cooking.

MrJoeSoap

The only thing I ever really weigh is myself, which I do in stones.

Scraggs

Metric ftw. I don't even understand the imperial system which drives my parents mad.

alleepally

Metric for weight. still can't do km's though.

Roen

Metric for weight, although I was reared in the imperial age.

iFight

Imperial for weight, metric for the rest.

Metric for most things. Weight in Stones mainly because the old weighting scales in my parents house had it in stones! Pounds for meat, and I think that's all the imperial I use (bar the occasional mile...)

Kojak

I always use imperical weights for when I want to know my own weight (i.e. stones and pounds). I only use Kg's and grammes when I have engineering work to do.

Also on the subject of Imperical Vs. Metric: How many people use Km's instead of miles. I always use miles (much easier to understand) even though we are all supposed to gauge distances in KM's :rolleyes:

ferdi

Scraggs wrote:

Metric ftw. I don't even understand the imperial system which drives my parents mad.

yeah my mother too, she'd be going on about "mix in a half bushel of flour and a quintal of baking powder..." wtf like?

Stephen

Metric all the way. Imperial weights and measures are old hat that Brits and Americans can't let go. I haven't a clue what a lot of imperial measurements are. Bushels, furlongs, leagues, roods, hogsheads... right, whatever you're into yourself.

I'm fully used to KM's now after spending a few weeks driving in europe with no miles at all on the clock.

Redrocket

* 2 cups all-purpose flour, stirred or sifted before measuring
* 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 egg, slightly beaten
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 2 tablespoons melted butter

for cooking, it does seem a little handier than measuring out in grams

Wishbone Ash

I'm fairly good - I know my weight in metric, imperial, and in 'pounds' as they prefer it in the US. Can't really see why it is a problem for some??

quickbeam

My own weight in stone and pounds, though I can get by in kilos. Every other weight is metric.

Distances and temperatures all metric too.

Hydroquinone

stevenk wrote:

* 2 cups all-purpose flour, stirred or sifted before measuring
* 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 egg, slightly beaten
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 2 tablespoons melted butter

for cooking, it does seem a little handier than measuring out in grams

That's not imperial, though; cups are what Americans use to measure things for baking. Imperial would be ounces and pounds.

As for me, I can do pretty well in either. I know my height in feet and inches or metres, and my weight in stones or kilos. No problems with miles or kM.
Shame beer doesn't come in litres, though!

county

imperial i would use for weight,in fact i would use imperial for most things

mike65

I'm mixed - I think in MPG but never pints of anything! A house can have 1300 square feet of space and I'm happy but the same in cubic metres has me looking confused.

Mike.

Tar.Aldarion

county wrote:

imperial i would use for weight,in fact i would use imperial for most things

Ah yeah, apart from your Metric death march.

peasant

Having grown up using metric, my mind only works metric.

However, since I moved here I've come to grasp with miles, acres and half acres, mpg (sort of) and mph (only to lose them again:D ) and PINTS

But stones, ounces, fluid ounces, degrees Farenheit and most of all fractions of inches ...you're welcome to them ...not for me ...

An anectode:

Irish girlfriend visited the continental abode and while in the bathroom I heard her rummaging for the weighing scales and stepping on it. So when she emerged, I asked her" so, what do you weigh?" and she answered:

"Haven't a clue, the bloody thing is all in Kilometers!"

Feral Mutant

The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

I use metrics for pretty much everything, except heights. I prefer to use metres but it's easier for me to visualise feet. As for speeds and large distances (km and miles), I'm useless at estimating or visualising those in any system. I usually end up using metres per second, the only reason being I can picture a few metres and then something moving that far in a second.

oRlyYaRly

I use imperial for the weight of people and height of people and metric for everything else.

byte

I would usually use both.

I'd use metric for measuring small stuff, and weighing some things. Though if I'm buying meats, I'd usually use imperial measurements and for distance (though I'm getting used to km now too).

Fraggle Rocks

I'd use both, even though i was reared in the metric age. I dunno how may cms tall I am, or how many kilos.

Faith

I use imperial for my weight, and usually for baking. I'm slowly coming to grips with the metric system, though. I learnt to drive in kilometres, so that's no problem. I could tell you my weight in kilos, and when I'm in Edinburgh and have no kitchen weighing scales, I bake in metric too.

I know a lot of Americans, so I can roughly change Celsius into Fahrenheit, if necessary.

Civilian_Target

Either or - did physics, living in the UK and have lived on the continent.
I'm 6'5" (193cm), 82kg (12.5 stone) and I think a half pound of mince is about 240g, there's just over 2 pounds in a kilo.

Fahrenheit, however, makes no sense to me.

county

Civilian_Target wrote:

Either or - did physics, living in the UK and have lived on the continent.
I'm 6'5" (193cm), 82kg (12.5 stone) and I think a half pound of mince is about 240g, there's just over 2 pounds in a kilo.

Fahrenheit, however, makes no sense to me.

freak;)

phantom_lord

metric for weight. Imperial for distance.

dlofnep

Stone for normal stuff. Kilos for competition weight. For distance, miles. Height feet and inches.

Badly Drunk Boy

Metric. But I usually know the imperial equivalent.

(Imperial is for losers. Americans.)

biko

Metric for everything except height and weight.

kevmy

Civilian_Target wrote:

Either or - did physics, living in the UK and have lived on the continent.
I'm 6'5" (193cm), 82kg (12.5 stone) and I think a half pound of mince is about 240g, there's just over 2 pounds in a kilo.

Fahrenheit, however, makes no sense to me.

I also did (doing) physics so I not only know how to use both (since nasty American text books use imperial) I know almost all conversion factors.
1 pound = 454 grammes (think of a pot of jam)
1 inch = 2.514 cms
1 kilometre = 5/8 mile
Farenheit = (C/5 * 9) + 32 (it doesn't really make any sense take abritary point and start there)

Most things I instinctively do in metric. But my own weight and height I would do in metric thanks to parents and doctors measuring my in imperial as I grew up grrrr. But as I said I can easily convert.