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Probably because boomers who grew up with the imperial system are the only ones who can afford swimming pools in Canada.
by _ofdw 4y ago
Probably because boomers who grew up with the imperial system are the only ones who can afford swimming pools in Canada.
- unfocussed_mike 4y agoHaha. Also I guess because the larger unit makes for easier comparison. For example, while we in the UK we still habitually use imperial measures to weigh ourselves rather than metric, we don't know our weight in pounds, but in stones and pounds, which gives a more manageable/comparable number. It's so habitual to do that, that many people (including me) can't easily do the mental maths conversion to a US-style imperial weight at all. It still enrages me that there are 14 pounds in a stone but 16 ounces in a pound. What kind of system of logic is that?
- na85 4y agoThat's why I'm of the opinion that, just as with the Oxford Comma, only godless heretics eschew the metric system. I can't tell you how many feet are in a mile, or at what temperature water boils in farenheit, or what the fuck a quart is, and I gleefully don't care!