anyone else fed up with

I was taught both at school
I too visualise in feet inches and yards.
I can only think in stones and ounces
Kilo means nothing to me on the bathroom scales

I follow recipe in whatever measurement its in.

In the Supermarket/ butchers etc I use a bag of sugar (in my head) If I need to work out pounds to kilos or
vis versa as I know 1 kilo = 2.2 pounds

Temperature don't mind either way F or C.

I also have a DH on hand to translate!

Apparently I'm extremely peculiar (perhaps they're right). I find it's much easier to really judge the price of something by turning it into old money, 18/9d is a 'real' price, 93p sounds much cheaper and might lure me into thinking I have a bargain, when I haven't. 30p to use a loo at Liverpool Street station sounds trifling until you consider it is actually 6/- which is exorbitant, especially when you see just how many people queue to use it. Their profit margin is astounding. And yes, I've read this back and they're right, I AM peculiar, but "new" money still feels foreign to me.

GRANNYKNOT, I was also living in SA, in 1965. when they introduced the metric system. As I remember, everyone had six months to learn it. After six months, the imperial system was totally banned. I was in the building trade and for that period you could buy imperial measuring tapes, or an imperial/metric one. Then it was metric, whether you could handle it or not. In fact I think it was a criminal offence, if any businesses used imperial, after the six months. It may have been harsh, but everyone learned. I myself find the metric system, vastly superior, to imperial.

I dont live in the UK so use metric but can still convert some things keeps my mind alert! I do like the 24hour clock system makes life easier than am and pm

I happily use the metric system for everything, partly because I taught it for years and now because I live in France. I remember crying over the multiplication and division of imperial weights and measures at school and can't imagine why anyone would want to use them. However when I go shopping I often ask for "une livre" (a pound) and our greengrocer loves it and has a moan about how the young don't understand it anymore. ?

And shoes? What about their sizes? I only know I'm a size 6.

I'm still an inches and yards girl, I do understand some metric measurements, I'm a prolific knitter so I convert mm's to inches before I start. I still cook in ounces, measure in pints but weather can be in C or F.

Quick conversion centigrade to Fahrenheit....double it and add 30.....
One really stupid thing about going so metric is....OUR HOUSES we're built in imperial measurements NOT metric.....boy does that cause problems.
I grew up with £sd, inches, feet, miles, pounds and ounces and stones!!!!! Bring it back.....make Britain British!!!

I too use both having taught science in metric for years. I do very rough conversions in my head:
I know a pound of mince is roughly half a kilo eg 500 g so 250 g is roughly half a pound. Also 2 oz is about 50 g so you can work out roughly how heavy any quantity is for cooking. But still have to think of weights of people iin imperial eg babies or myself!!
. Length is easy i just think of a foot ruler -12 in is about 30 cm. so a yd (3ft) is about 90 cm so a bit shorter than a metre. But like g dostances like km i find harder.
Temp is also easy for me in fact i hardly understand farenheit now. Just remember in celsius (centigrade) O degees is freezing point of water 100 is boiling point and 37 is body temp - much easier than F!!

I'm ambidextrous! weight is in stones. Travel in miles. Cooking in grams and measurement like height of plants and how far apart to plant in metric.

I'm another one who can only visualise size or weight in lbs and oz or inches and feet. I always buy meat in lbs, butcher seems to have no problem with it. Babies weights still seem to be given in lbs or is that because its usually a gran telling me? I asked my dgc if they still came up against inches etc they said no only thought in metric.

I used to have a 22 inch waist which seems to have translated into hundreds of centimetres over time ..........I blame that on metrication.

annie a metre is about 39 inches but don't take my word for it if you're measuring for curtains

I think in centrigrade
DH does know a quick conversion, I think it's 16C = 61F and work from there but I could be wrong.

Lbs is from the Latin for libra (scales)
A pound was libra pondo
'What the Romans did for us'

Ounce is from uncia (Latin) via Medieval Italian - onza apparently.

When did Europe 'go metric'?

If I was told to walk a kilometre I wouldn't know if this was three yards or three miles. The extent of my knowledge on metric stuff is to change cms to inches, divide by ten and multiply by four and I think a metre is just under or just over a yard , but could be so wrong

Alima, I too am left handed , enough complications with that

And what about temperatures? I know it's getting hot when it hits the 80s, but centigrade??

I went shopping for dining tables; measured the existing one in millimetres and then found they were good old feet and inches in the shops!

I'm in my early 70s and think in both but probably visualise in feet and inches so try to do conversions in my head when I'm shopping.
10cms = about 4 inches is helpful to remember.
I think fabrics have been sold in metric for years
1lb = about 450gms

I still think of distance in miles, height in feet and inches and weight in stones and pounds

When anyone talks to me in Metric, I ask them to repeat in in English! No disrespect intended whatsoever, I just need to understand!

Since I came to live in France I now think in kilograms, especially for body weight. My sister thinks of her body weight in stones so she can't really understand that I weigh more than I should! I remember when decimalisation first came in, everyone used to ask, "what's that in real money?"

I'm all metric (grew up with decimal system in SA).

I think it is bonkers that "pounds" are abbreviated as "lbs" ... what? and "ounces" as "oz"

I' guess I'm mainly metric. (Food,fabric, fuel etc.) although I find longer distances very hard to visualize in metric and whilst DH (an Engineer) talks in "Milly's" I often have to convert back to feet and inches.

I think engineering measurements are still in thousandths of an inch.
Were we to return to Imperial measures people at school from the 70s would find it very hard to get to grips with.

I still can't properly get my head around metric measure, despite having lived in two
European countries. I still order things in pounds and ounces, and, like bags I have a balance scale with both types of measure. I do try, but I think I'm a bit of a lost cause now.