Comment Re:112 (Score 1) 354
I'm a Brit born in the 80s and I don't understand pounds, ounces, feet and inches at all - and barely understand pints but that's only because that's what they serve in the pub. Whenever my parents talk to me using imperial units, I always have to convert them to metric. The only imperial unit I use daily is miles for driving, but even then I often use km - my GPS is set up for km and I think of fuel efficiency in litres per 100km. Also, I'm a skydiver and am forced to use imperial units because it's linked to the aviation regulations. That's pretty much it.
My experience is that anyone born before the 70s think in mainly imperial units, and anyone born afterwards think in mainly metric units, it's related to the metrication in education in the 70s.
It's painfully annoying when people mix units though, my dad was dictating size of wood to me once - "3 inches by 5 inches by 2 metres" "Dad!" "But that's the units the shop sells by!" and he's right. We need to get off our collective butts and either use 100% imperial or 100% metric not this annoying mix of two.