Apart from on road signs, speedometers, when talking about how much babies weigh, bust size, most people when they talk about how tall they are and how much they weigh, when we are buying beer in a pub or milk, measuring TVs...
Yeah the transport system is stupid, they should have kept it metric. I use kilometres not miles. Never had to measure a baby. It would be better to use cm rather than feet and inches for our height, but that's just my opinion. Ditto for tvs. My beer and milk, I measure in litres.
@shiwan pretty much.
I'm not sure shiwan, I'm sure there must be some historical reason. I use imperial all the time because that's what my mum and dad used (they were at school pre-decimalisation) and can picture imperial more easily sometimes. But for length it's a right mixture because I know roughly how far a mile is but would rather work in metres for if I was swimming, cm for measuring e.g. craft projects, feet and inches for room sizes. I just use whatever I can picture easiest to be honest.
Also @shiftingsands, they never changed it to metric I don't think so it wasn't a case of 'keeping' it metric. I think actually that might have had something to do with cars all being imperial and it would have caused problems if the road signs were all suddenly metric?
@shiwan pretty much.
It's just terrible how that system of measurement kept the US from becoming a world power economically.