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

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of these are more to do with age or products imported from the US than anything. For example with the temperature one, I would never give the temperature of anything in f, but my parents' hot tub only displays temperature in f. Also my parents follow a flowchart like this much more than I do because they grew up with a more mixed system. Like they will sometimes give distance in miles whereas I would only ever in km. However there are some of these that even I do. Like I would only ever give my height and weight on feet, inches, and pounds.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I work with a lot of French people (guess my city) and I had to memorize my height and weight in metric like some sort of crazy person!

That being said metric is truly superior and I use it in almost everything else other than air temp while baking or roasting.

[–] jannis@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago
[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I work with a lot of French people (guess my city)

Ottawa

[–] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there a lot of French people in Moncton?

[–] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the 2016 census, half of the population there could speak French.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't mean francos, I meant French. My city is full of people fresh from France. French speaking Canadians use feet and inches like the rest of Canada.

[–] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After rereading your comments that should've been obvious to me. Although I somehow missed it first time around.