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Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.

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[–] trambe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yup pretty accurate (quebec)

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

They missed an important one. If it's distance related to COVID, it's measured in hockey sticks.

[–] SmoothSurfer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Many things make sense now

[–] Braysl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ontario checking in, 100% accurate. Actually I would add home temperature (like the thermostat) under F, but body temperature (like checking if you have a fever) under C. Also we're so used Americans using miles for distance/speed we'll sometimes use it in idioms ("They ran out of here at 100 miles per hour!”). I never realized this change between measuring systems wasn't the norm until I started chatting with Europeans.

[–] zefiax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am in Ontario and all me thermostats have been metric. Thankfully too as it's always confusing when it's in imperial.

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Australia we still use some legacy units such as psi instead of kPa or Bar in common parlance. This stems from our parents using this. Kids nowadays will probably adopt kPa, as it's in all the door jams of cars.

[–] zesty@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Naw, metric for everything except cooking temp and body weight.

[–] Prewash_Required@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know anyone that discusses pool temps in anything but imperial

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

If I had a pool, I would probably hate if I had to set the temperature in black and white; so I would look for a pool that specifically uses Colour.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I wish this was all in metric

[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

This is extremely accurate, as far as I've seen in western Canada.

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