Six foot two, eyes of blue. kg v lb. cm v ft + ins

You are right Harmony I used some poor examples to show how useless I was at conversion.
I don't know my own height in cm although I believe it's on my passport.

When reporting crimes, do the heights of the suspects or victims get a mention? I know they say "well built" when they mean large and always ages.

Nothing so useful on our butter packets Gundy
I mainly use guesswork.
Enjoy your hot buttered roll!

RE: butter I don’t know how it is sold in Britain, but in the US it’s sold in one pound packages (16 ounces).

Each package has four 1/4 pound sticks (4 ounces). Each stick has tablespoon markings on the wrapper too. It is perfect for baking/cooking for exact measurements.

You can also buy it in a one pound block but measuring out what you need would be harder.

Mmm, 😋 I need a hot roll to go with this conversation.

I have never taken to decimalisation at all for weights and measures, centigrade and Farenheit and kilometers and miles. but when handling money I find it extremely easy.

I still, after all these years, when something on Amazon is given in cms. I ask my Alexa unit, how many inches is so and so cms. Alexa spends all her time giving me weights and measures advice especially when I bought a new air fryer and everything was in Farenheit. My smartphone and computer have all being amended to state the old measurements.

I haven't talked through all the responses, but I'll start by saying that 5 inches is 12.5cm, not 25cm, that's 10 inches, and I don't know anyone that could walk in 10 inch or 25cm heels.
Also, 6ft is 183cm, not a straight 180 for some reason.
I am 56 and was lucky enough to be educated using cm, metres, litres, kilos etc, whereas all my family and friends (who didn't go to my school) were still using imperial measurements, so I very quickly learnt how to convert in both directions.

Grammaretto I never noticed pendants! Typical! I try to be clever and come a cropper! 😁😂

Knitting needles too Saracyn I know the metric ones make more sense as they go from narrowest #1 to widest#12 but the old ones are measured from narrowest #12 to widest #1!!
They are roughly the same size somewhere in the middle.
If you happen to buy vintage knitting patterns, as I do, and don't have the old needles, chances are your finished garment will fit nobody. 😉

@vegansrock, sewing is tiresome in this respect. My beautiful Pfaff Quilt Ambition 2.0 sewing machine has the usual grooves showing seam allowances and they are in eighths of an inch, whereas the sewing patterns I tend to use are in centimetres. Annoying.

JennyCee

Ex dancer. You must be buying a lot of unwanted material!
I metre measures 39.3700787403 inches.

I think what Ex-Dancer was saying was that dress material is sold by the metre but ths width is still in imperial measurements.

I used to do a lot of dressmaking. Now we buy material by the meter - but its 48" wide

It reminds me of when DH went to buy some wood for the trellis and asked for 5" x 2" wood.
The man at the builders' merchants said "it comes in metric measurements now".
DH asked for three metres and the man said "Oh, we sell it by the foot".

Ditto to everything! Lol

Ex dancer. You must be buying a lot of unwanted material!
I metre measures 39.3700787403 inches.

Ugh, here in Canada it's so mixed!

distance - km and time! As in 30 minute drive.
Short lengths are mostly imperial. I'm 5'4"
cooking - cups and teaspoons - no weights ( I don't have a kitchen scale)
liquid volume - both! pints of beer (16 oz), litres of milk.
Weights - mixed again! my weight is in lbs, we don't use stones. My workout weights are in pounds. I work in a field that uses metric tonnes. I buy deli meat by the grams, but apples are sold by the pound.

It's so confusing... but we are used to it!

I automatically convert percentages into fractions!

I did notice you wrote pendants BTW. In case that was an observation test.

Thanks for telling me Lizziepop .
I do know the 15cm is 6 ins rule etc.
I was trying to illustrate the confusion of it and ofcourse the fact that you would never describe your heel height in metric.
Quite a few posts now and yours is the first one to comment!

If I'd said she wore 10inch heels I think someone would have noticed 🤣

Grammaretto I'd be astonished if anyone said they wore 25cm heels! That's almost 10" 😮 If you think of the 12" rule* you used in school, that's now a 30cm rule. That always helps me to visualise small lengths. And so, 10cm is approximately 4". A metre is approximately 39".

*The pendants among us, (I'm one) know that it's a rule rather than a ruler! The King is a ruler. I always told my Y2 class that! (Only back then it was the Queen of course) 😂 A 12"/30cm rule is a standardised measuring device.

MickyD

Here in the depths of Ireland if you ask a passer by for directions it’s usually “a mile and a bit” up the road. The ‘bit’ is usually about 10 miles 🤣.

In Australia, ask directions and they'll say, take the first left.
That could be a couple of hundred miles further on 😁

Here in the depths of Ireland if you ask a passer by for directions it’s usually “a mile and a bit” up the road. The ‘bit’ is usually about 10 miles 🤣.

keepingquiet

I think we've shown in this country how to two methods can sit side by side.

I just wish when we enter our weight they would stick to either metric or stones. I hate it when they ask for pounds- is that American pounds or British pounds?

American pound weights are the same as British pound weights. However American don't use stones as a measure of weight so a ten stone person in Britain will be a 140lb one in America.

American volume measures are tricky. The American pint is 16 American fluid ounces and the British pint is 20 British fluid ounces. I understand this dates from the eighteenth century or possibly earlier, when there were two types of gallon, the wine gallon, and the beer gallon (which was 25% larger). A pint is one eighth of a gallon. America standardised in the wine gallon and the wine pint, Britain standardised on beer.

American fluid ounces are very slightly bigger than British fluid ounces, though can be treated as equal for most normal purposes. This is again the result of standardising on wine, an ounce of wine takes up more room than an ounce of beer because wine has more alcohol in it, which is less dense than water.

I thought for the moment you had spotted me about!

Thank God we can keep the words in the language, Oreo.
We can use them for anything we like , just not for measuring stuff !!!
Those lines quoted are lovely , particularly the Robert Frost one .... how he can get a city kid like me to imagine the woods is truly marvellous......

Half a pint of lager please.
Not 300ml please!

I have absolutely no idea about all the stupid centimeters, meters, etc. If someone on the internet is mentioned at centimeters I have to Google it to feet.

I hated it when at bus stops it said something like ''next stop is 1,245 steps''. What the bloody hell is all that rubbish about? Why not just say 1/4 of a mile?!

I've only ever used feet, miles, etc. etc and always will. I don't have a calculator for a brain and have no idea about cm and so on!

''They dug down into the ocean at 300m''. WHAT?! Googled it to 984 feet. Ah, now I know how deep they went!

maytime2

I was told years ago that a rule of thumb way of converting centigrade to farenheit was to multiply by 2 and add 30. e.g. 10 degrees centigrade = 20 +30 = 50 degrees farenheit.

I don't understand the metric system at all. I spent sometime yesterday on the laptop converting grams into ozs. I fancy trying the cheese scone recipe from the latest Jamie Oliver programme. I needn't faff with a weighing scale then as I know that a heaped tablespoon is equivalent to 1 ozs.

I made a cake today and just used the tablespoon and throw it all in the mixer method.
It seems fine, although I might take more trouble if we were expecting guests.

No wonder I can't make scones 😁

Grammaretto

I agree that I wouldn't want to return to LSD although 12 divides more times than 10.....

Metric wins on ease of use where imperial is clumsy and difficult to learn.
However imperial wins on intuition.
A foot being round about a human foot length. Everyday measures come naturally to most of us.
It's ingrained in the language so will take a long time to lose.
i.e.
Tons of work
Miles and Miles
Milestones for children's development
Inching forward

It would be like losing an ancient language, losing all these old weights and measures!