More like over 45 I'd say. I am 45 and spent interminable junior school maths lessons converting from miles and furlongs and chains to kilometers and metres and from gallons and pints and gills to litres. When metrication arrived I breathed a huge sigh of relief and abandoned imperial measurements immediately
The abandonment of the good old Gill prompted my refusal to buy spirits in the pub..... Nobody knew what a gill or 1/6 of a gill was but when they went metric I was in the pub having gone through the calpol thing with my daughter when it dawned on me that 25ml was 5 teaspoons of spirit. Then I did the maths and worked out that you could get 40 measures out of a litre bottle etc etc
The only time I use a length measure for travel distance is when my satnav is giving me a countdown to a junction, when I will use either miles or kms, depending on which country I am in. Otherwise, I measure travel by time - half an hour's drive, five minutes' walk etc.
Can you still get milk in pints? I buy it in 500ml packs.
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I certainly fit into that age group and I readily think in either system and use both almost interchangeably, except for temperature; I never learned to think in Fahrenheit. I wouldn't use fractional inches for small measurements either, but it may just as readily be thous (0.001") as millimetres that I use.
We learned everything in imperial, including furlongs, chains and rods/poles/perches (Though I only learned the other day that a perch is actually a unit of volume not length, at least to a stonemason)
I remember collecting all the orange metric conversion cards "A litre of water's a pint and three quarters" etc, and don't remember any emphasis on metric until secondary school where the science subjects used SI, but half the maths books were so old they didn't, half of them used old money too.
I still "think" in imperial, for any units I care about, I can estivert on the fly ...
nightjar Can you still get milk in pints? I buy it in 500ml packs.
Actually I admit it I buy 2L cartons of that hyper filtered stuff, it may be a bit more expensive but it has an amazingly long life even after opened, I don't think I've ever had any go "off", yet it doesn't taste like something associated with ration coupons ...
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