That Canada is the true mongrel (or should that be mangler?) of weights and measures? The only thing that we're truly metric on is temperatures.
We buy butter by the pound (only it's marked as 454 grams), coffee by the pound (907 grams), but milk by the liter. Safeway advertises frozen chicken breasts at $2.99 a pound and then lulls the listener into thinking that's a smokin' deal because it comes in a 4 kilogram box. $3X4=$12, right? Nope, $3/lb X 4 kilos = $26 and change!
The construction industry has got to be the absolute worst. A 2x4 is still a 2x4 but conduit is still sold and measured by the foot (10' lengths, approximately 3 meters) and wire is sold by the meter. In this one you truly have to be bi-measural! (and no, that is not bi-sexual!)
When I spent a month in Calgary, I got used to the weather man giving the temps in C. Being an American, I'm a bit slow.
ReplyDeleteYou're not slow Lou, it's just not what you're used to. Temperatures in celcius is pretty easy to relate to. Water freezes at 0*C anything lower than that is COLD (in my books anyway).
ReplyDeleteI'm so confused.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much how I felt in grade school when we had to learn this crap, Moogie. We had already learned Imperial measurements and now we have to relearn that a foot is not a foot any more. The metric system was supposed to make things better because it's all base-ten!
ReplyDeleteThe metric system is a Commie plot.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
wv: hasmsia. I think they were trying to say "miasma," as in describing the metric system.