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Victoria man pushes for Canada to go fully metric (cheknews.ca)

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Trades, architecture, engineers, railways, weights and measures people from industry Canada, aviation, roadwork, steelmills, steelworkers, coffeeshops, farmers, clothing, textiles, restaurants, recipes, and many more!

I suppose you don't live in Canada? Imperial is everywhere.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trades - except electricians apparently

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Try to buy wire in mm2 and watch the guy at the electrical supply counter look at you like you have 3 heads.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 minutes ago

Good point - but they sell it by the metre. Aaarrrggghhh

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca -3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

"I suppose you don’t live in Canada? Imperial is everywhere." ... 🙄

I suppose you don't know as much about Canada as you think you do.

I could add to your list btw, but not with that attitude of yours.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I didnt mean anything by that.