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How to measure things like a Canadian (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002 to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We’d need several versions of this in the UK with a decision tree required to select the relevant decision tree. It would need to take age and where you were brought up into account.

I think that the most complicated is distance. For me it is imperial for a person’s height, metric for short distances that I measure, imperial for short distances that I estimate (that one’s weird), miles for ground travel distances and time for air travel distances.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Also with a secret third option for measuring temperatures when cooking. Your cookies will be baked for 12 minutes at Gas Mark 4 and you will like it.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It would need to take age and where you were brought up into account.

And which sports you've been involved with, and how nationalistic your parents were when you grew up, and whether you've had chronic health issues, and whether your oven runs on natural gas, and whether you visit mainland Europe often.