My experience?

Metric was adopted here probably around the 1960s/1970s.

My parents born in the early 60s learnt imperial, i learnt metric.

I was however taught imperial, though i barely remember it past:

12 inches in a foot, three foot in a yard. The rest is greek to me and in terms of stuff like acres, fathoms, leagues, ounces, pounds, tons and stone i have no idea.

I do however still use it with regards to my height: 5ft 11 and weight 11 stone odd. However in terms of my weight i have no idea how it's worked out.

It also sucks because i work in a hardware store. I work essentially in the biggest retail hardware store brand in the UK. I don't know what this is in USA, Home Depot or something.

The problem is that people over about 40 come in and ask for stuff like 6 by 4 wood and i am like "i don't know imperial units that well".

Buttttttttttt eventually they will be dead and metric will reign supreme.

The reason why metric is so good is because it's uniform and works in increments of 10 while imperial is all over the place.

Let's be honest here though you can just make up your own units of measurement as how do you actually determine what distance is, i could make up that my height is one blarg and twice it is two blarg. There you go, new standards of measurement.

Klimbatize wrote:

Why are we still using a base 10 system? Base 12 makes way more sense. You can divide 12 by 2,3,4,6...but you can only divide 10 by 5. Dumb.

What about 10 by 2 or by 10 or by 1?