Originally posted by MarkJerling I'm an example of a fellow who went from Kindergarten through grade 12 and learned just the British Imperial system of measurement, as that was what we used over here at the time. Then when I hit my early 20's the metric system was introduced in Canada and I had to pick it up in day to day living. The odd thing is that while I can use the metric system and often times do, I think in terms of the Imperial system....inches, feet, cubic inches MPG, etc. and am in the habit of getting metric info which I then convert in my head to Imperial, as that is how I process things .
I'll see a new motorcycle with a 1000cc engine and there I am...thinking 1000cc, why that's 61 cubic inches...that is a lot of cubes and I bet that engine puts out a lot of ft. lbs. of torque (Newton Meters).
Or when I go to the hardware store and get myself a pound of nails, or a couple of 2 X 4's of lumber or can I fit in an 8 X 10 of plywood into the back of my SUV. For a guy my age it is a bit of a mix and match world up there in the old brain case.
And...for some reason in Canada, the construction industry seems still to deal in the Imperial system, not the metric system.
In the end, I kind of like the way my brain does business, and probably another reason is throughout my life , the two largest trading partners were for the most part the USA and the UK and they both used inches, feet, pounds, etc. and therefore it is important for Canadians to know both systems....but yes when I talk about measurement...I usually speak in a forked tongue....one fork is Imperial, the other fork is metric.
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Originally posted by MarkJerling An honest man!
An honest man who knows his limitations.