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Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-05 00:25
Subject: [USMA:29683] metric mess in
Canada
Hello okay mighty chimp i will tell you how much
imperial is still used in Canada. All building supplys are impirial
only. Houses are measured in sq ft only.
Are homes built using metric components or
imperial? Is the design metric or imperial?
Grocery store flyers advertise in imperial with
the metric prices in very small print maybe.
But, how are the items actually
sold? If a product is advertised
You can not buy a metric cook book in
Canada.
American origin? Are the measurements imperial or
USCU?
When police give a discription of a person
on the t v or radio it is in feet and inches only.
What units appear on official documents, like police
records and driver's licenses?
If you want a metric only measureing
tape you have to really go looking for one. Carpets are sold by the
sq yd.
Cars fuel use is still talked about in miles per
gallon even though we haven't bought gas by the gallon in 25 years.
How is it calculated?
Peoples weight is always talked about in
lbs. You asked how Canadian drivers adappted to metric speeds that went
over very easily, because all the speed and distance signs were changed at the
same time.
What do Canadians see when they look at their
speedometers? If you ask a driver how fast he is going, will he look at
the kilometres per hour and tell you miles? How does he convert?
Exactly or WAG?
I think metric would have gone over a lot better
if the changes were made like they were for the speed and distances. So to
call Canada a metric country is a joke in my opinion. If there are any
Canadians on this site who can tell me where metric is been used more in
Canada i would really like to hear. Like i said in my last post i would
love to see Canada go fully metric.
What about weather?
And neither is Canada am imperial
country? A metric consumer can still do pretty well
without much an effort in more cases then in the
US.
