Comment Re:Americans can do anything... (Score 1) 48
...but you can't make us understand the metric system.
BTW, what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen monarch butterfly? In furlongs per fortnight, please.
Canada officially adopted the metric system 55 years ago. We still use both imperial and metric in daily lives. Ask a person of their height or weight, many will respond with feet, inches, and pounds. Long distances may be described in miles or kilometers. Certain items such as drill bits are almost exclusively in fractions of an inch. Temperature is in Celsius but we intuitively understand Fahrenheit. Volumes are in litres but we're somewhat comfortable with pints and cups. Gallons get a bit murky because US gallons are smaller than imperial gallons.