28th February 2004, 9:27 AM
I like Metric, it's easy to remember conversion when they're all based on factors of 10
Canada is strange though, because of how near we are to the US imperial is still used for some things. Everyone knows their weight in pounds, and height in feet. But for distances we think in kilometers and meters. In gorcery stores prices are advertised in pounds but at the tills they're in kilograms because that's what they have to be sold in, sometimes customers forget this and they look at the price per unit on the screen and don't notice it's kilograms instead of pounds and freak out.
Canada is strange though, because of how near we are to the US imperial is still used for some things. Everyone knows their weight in pounds, and height in feet. But for distances we think in kilometers and meters. In gorcery stores prices are advertised in pounds but at the tills they're in kilograms because that's what they have to be sold in, sometimes customers forget this and they look at the price per unit on the screen and don't notice it's kilograms instead of pounds and freak out.