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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
It's by far the worst here. In canada we have officially adapted to the metric system except border cities, like the one I am in and old timers who refuse to learn the new stick with imperial--which makes things confusing as hell. I grew up around Toronto and temperature is ALL in celsius, out here? nobody knows what i'm talking about, despite learning metric in school. Almost nobody in the country knows their height or weight in metric even though it's on our drivers license that way. Nobody knows how many km' they can throw a baseball or shoot a puck, despite all our vehicles are set to km/h on our spedometers. All the cars built, except from asian companies, are made with imperial. We made the change in 1981. 33 years and we still can't make a decision.
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Canada began switching to metric when I was in elementary school - I still think in imperial measures. A hot day to me will always be 90 degrees. It makes more sense to me that a 100 degree day is extremely hot and a 0 degree day is extremely cold.
What does McDonalds call the Quarter Pounder in other parts of the world?