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> I've noticed it has a lot of similarities with UK, for example the use of the metric system

I'm not sure why you think this is worth pointing out, considering that Liberia, Myanmar, and the US are the only countries not using it.

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He was referring to our 'schizophrenic' use of it. It's used differently among generations. Older people use purely imperial, whereas young people use a confusing mixture. For example, I measure long distances in miles, but short distances in meters and centimeters! I think of weights and volumes in a metric way, except when talking about the weight of a person, when I use stone (not pounds, mind you).

I might be an extreme example, but most people use an imperial-metric melange of some kind.

A bunch of old British empire countries really half ass it.

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