That joke is some deep cut Canadiana right there. 
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Probably wondering whether you meant an Imperial Gallon of 4.55l or an American Gallon of 3.79l a.k.a. the old Wine Gallon.
(My old 80âs beater, which was basically an upholstered roller skate, got 52mpg in 
, but only 43mpg when I was in the 
)
I challenge you to find in , at least since the FTA/NAFTA/USCAM, a real cup measure thatâs 284mL instead of an cup at 239mL. Never mind that 
cup measures seem to split the difference at 250mL. 
Thatâs one reason Grandmaâs old Empire-days recipes donât work, eh?
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I was lucky enough to be ~10 when we changed to metric, so I was mildly aware of the importance of mileage ratings when buying a vehicle. By the time I bought my first car, it wasnât a problem though.
But my father often cursed the inversion from small numbers good, big numbers bad⌠he was a car salesman for many years.
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Milage in the electric car is cursed - miles per kilowatt-hour.
I hate kwhs.
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You gotta bear in mind that the US is mostly uphill.
(so Iâm told)
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Yup. Both ways. But as long as youâve got a trunkful of bootstraps youâll be just fine.
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I started running years ago.
5K and 10K then 13.1 miles and 26.2 miles.
I trained for all of them with 1/2 mile splits. I can barely do math with a calculator let alone in my head as Iâm running.
Some races mark the distance as kilometers and miles. Because Iâm no longer fast I rarely use a watch anymore and just run. No more math.
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I think of road speeds in miles/hour, so my bike tracker shows me miles/hour while Iâm out and about.
Home computer grabs the logs that are stored internally as m/s, and finally shows me km/h and km.
In we say âmiles per hourâ but we really mean âkilometer per hourâ, but you never refer to the distance, always to the time it takes to drive there (but if you do, you say âmilesâ but you mean âkilometersâ).
Peopleâs height is in feet. Gas is in liters. Milk is in bags (donât ask me how many liters in a milk bag). Beer is in two-fours, pints at the tap. Temperature is C if youâre age < 50, F if your > 60, ages in between is a bit of a grey zone. Rain falls in millimeters but snow fall is in inches, wind: same as distance kind of, but youâre more likely to measure it by what blew over/blew off your roof. Building material is definitely in feet and inches (except a 2"x6" is not just shy the 1/4" for milling, but is now barely over 5" wide for some reason) but your buildingâs natgas is in cubic meters and power in kW/h.
(And our cousins wonder why they canât quite pass for around Canadians when theyâre out of the states on vacationâŚ) 
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On that subject, how is dimensional lumber dimensioned in places where metric has been around forever? Seems a mouthful to say â50mm x 100m studâ or â122cm x 244cm plywoodâ.
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Three states â Arizona, California and Nevada â have agreed on a plan to conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026 â roughly the equivalent to the amount of water it would take to fill 6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
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That Randall gave a volume for Brocaâs area bothers me (probably more than it should)
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With added spurious accuracy of decimal places in the body of the article. We canât possibly just quote temperatures in Celcius as they were in the original Instagram post.
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I was thinking the same thing when I read that
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