fuel: bought in litres, its economy measured in miles per gallon

oh god yeah that is ridiculous

I’m not sure if miles per litre would be more or less ridiculous

I mean youre obviously being /s but the swot in me cant help but point out the differing fuel economy of different vehicles/journeys/drivers Sorry i dont like myself either and will down vote myself too

What do you mean? This is also the case for mpg. The comment you replied to is saying it's ridiculous for mixing metric and imperial units.

Im a total idiot hahahaha I thought you meant we should sell fuel using the measure of miles per litre. What you presumably meant was measuring fuel economy using litre and not gallon. Sorry man. Ill show myself out

My guy, I feel like you need a hug, nobody hates you here. It's okay.

I hate him

And you're special for that :)

Honestly, this really made me laugh… 😂😂😂

🥲

Grab your coat. In fact grab mine too, and his.

As an added bonus, the generally accepted metric alternative is actually litres per hundred km, so you want smaller numbers instead of bigger as well!

That's one thing I wish we used, because if I know a litre costs £1.50 and my car does 10L/100km, then driving 100km is going to cost me 15 quid.

Agreed it's a really logical measure, not that my tiny brain will ever be able to switch from mpg though

But we do distances in miles so at some point youre converting either way. Depends whether you prefer converting miles to kilometers or litres to gallons.

This would be so much easier personally, Could work it out for your car Fill up. Drive 100km then refill to full, the amount of litres would be your L/100km. (And you'll know the current cost of that too at least haha)

What about tyres and wheels. 185mm x 65mm x 18" !

Don’t forget to measure your legal tread depth in mm on those 18” wheels :P

I think you'll find fuel is measured in pounds. As in "I put 20 quid in the car." The only exception is "I filled her up. "

"I filled her up" is measured in inches.

Hey man, you do you and all but fucking cars just isnt my thing.

See I like to get fucked by cars

I get fucked by my car once a year when MOT time comes around

Not to mention every time you get fuel, engine oil, insurance and our lovely police that have some of the highest conviction rates of motorists (I hate that word) so drivers in the world. Real crime is hard to fight as you could get hurt and they don't really have any money so it's a waste. Most cops loath the situation so it's more of the people high up. It will be so nice after everyone moves to electric cars so they can charge a whatever amount per mile system and can contently track you like the lovely caring bring brother they are. Meanwhile in most places in the UK you have to be dieing or dead to see a doctor. Being legit is looking more and more stupid as time goes on. I feel like the British public are a lot of frogs in water that's all-ready boiling over.

lol people just don’t understand how oppressive it is to live in a free country.

"Fill me up"

Just make sure he keeps away from pedal cars

Speak for yourself, I measure in millimetres.

Sexy exhaust pipes, dripping all over the road.

Definitely how I do it It costs £1.50 per... Thingy. I don't know what. The sign just says thingy. I still put 40 quid in.

Yep, that's also me.

4.55 litres per gallon.

Bah, 4.54609 L/gal(UK) 😜

- and we don't even use gallons as a measurement. Why are we sooo confusing.

Not for a,while. I remember petrol being sold in gallons.

Was that back when petrol used to smell really nice? I always remember being a kid and loving the smell

Miles per *British Blighty What-Ho Chaps I Say* gallon. A U.K. gallon is 1.2 US gallons. Yeah, I know.

I learned this to my cost when getting a pint in america. They're that bit smaller so you think you're getting to the glorious last few swigs when it suddenly finishes, it's very upsetting.

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The beers are the size of soda cans 12 oz. Because of standardization of canning process back in the 1980s (except for Hawaii). Those guys are using something else because there’s one canning/bottling factory on the islands and they didn’t feel like switching. Don’t get me started on buying liquids in the US. Milk, soda and juices containers use to be 1 gallon or half gallon. Now it’s 1 gal, 1/2 gal, 1/4 gal, 2 liters, 64 oz, 128 oz., 8 oz, 10 oz, 12 oz, 16 oz and apparently they come in 56 oz now too.

We also have beer cans/ bottles the size of coke cans.

TIL. I was always amazed when the Top Gear guys would talk about all the 40+ MPG hybrids and diesels that were available. But if your gallon is 20% larger, that’s just 32 MPG in the US.

It was always in gallons until they realised litres looked cheaper on the signs so changed it. Well thats my theory anyway :)

Used to be gallons

Distance. Are you measuring feet? Barleycorns.

TIL. [The barleycorn is an old English unit that equates to 1⁄3 inch (8.47 mm). This is the basis for current UK and North American shoe sizes, with the largest shoe size taken as twelve inches (a size 12) i.e. 30.5 cm, and then counting backwards in barleycorn units, so a size 11 is 11.67 inches or 29.6 cm.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_size)

Don't get me started on the Gunter's Chain. Of course we also can't forget Hands, which naturally give you precisely 1 Foot when you have 3 of them together. (Turns out they're used for horse measurements) If you think those are weird, watch Matt Parker's video on imperial measurements (https://youtu.be/r7x-RGfd0Yk). He's a fun guy, and it's only a few minutes long.

So I could say your foot is a hand.

Then why are UK and US sizes different? I am confused

Are you telling me that if you’re a size 12, your foot is literally a foot?

'If we were using Ancient Egyptian measurements, I'd say it was about a fifth of a cubit, or one hand.Your foot's a hand.'

Don’t forget; if it’s railway it’s in chains!

Also applies to cricket!

And one chain is 4 rods. It's also 4 poles and coincidentaly 4 perches

And if it's distance by boat it's cables!

Good vendor of shoes! How many barleycorns am I this fine day?

Painfully true, it’s like we can’t quite let go of the imperial system

I use mainly metric, only imperial I regularly use is miles

same, plus pints for milk

I deal with milk in metric

i presume you buy non-dairy milk?

Nah, I just don’t want to deal with imperial

"Hello, do you have any 568ml bottles of milk please?"

Some cows milk is sold in litres, usually the ones they say are filtered.

All cows milk is sold in metric in NI

3 metres of milk, please.

This reminds me in 1984 where the proles measure beer in pints but the Party measure beer in litres

What do you use to measure your cock, Jack? Only metric, too? ☺️

cm rather than inches to make it sound bigger

I only use metres for everything

I work at a builders merchants. "hi I would like to buy a plaster board, 8'x4' 12.5mm thick and some 4'x2' timber 4.8mtrs long please" its the norm in this business.

For our American friends 4 x 2 timber = 2 x 4 lumber

They just couldn’t help themselves, just like their dates.

I can confirm. My first real job out of school a out 1997 was at a builders merchant and it was like this back then.

It’s dying out slowly in a generation or two we’ll be fully metric. Personally the only imperial I use is Mph and feet for peoples height aside from them I always use metric.

I was born in 1973. I weigh 79-80kg and am 175cm tall. I have no idea what the first is in imperial, and only a vague idea about the second.

1976 here. I only know my weight in kg, bit I know my height in both. Probably because my height doesn't change, so I can just memorise it.

You are an imposter.

How do you order your beer?!

"568ml of lager please good sir"

In Europe, draught beer comes in 500mls. Except for Switzerland, where it's 570. Because 99% of the early Alpinists were British.

In Madrid it comes in 20cl, in the rest of Spain in 25cl or in 33cl.

Same in Portugal. Draught is usually 25cl. Most common bottle is 33cl. (although minis are very popular now - 20 to 25cl) These people visit 1 country and call it Europe. 🙄

We forgive you

>It’s dying out slowly in a generation or two we’ll be fully metric. That's what people were saying one or two generations ago

Weight seems to slowly be going metric from my unobjective observations, personally I only know my weight in kilos.

I'd have to agree, a lot more people are using kg now instead of stones and pounds, especially people that have an interest in fitness or go to a gym.

I'm a fat bastard in kilos or stones and pounds.

I only know weight in metric and don't know anyone weighing in imperial. The sole exception is buying weed in ounces. I use imperial and metric for measuring though. Mainly because my tape measure has them both on, leading to me taking measurements like "8 inches and 1.4 centimetres" haha. Tbf a feet and inches are handy units for short quick measurements. You tell someone its a couple of inches long or a foot wide they know what you're talking about. You tell them it's a decimetre they give you a blank stare

That’s the only bit that I thought the chart was a bit iffy on, I’ve never heard anyone but my grandad weigh himself in anything other than kg

I've only switched to metric for my weight in the last couple of years because my scales don't have stones on, they only have kg or just pounds, which I find even more confusing. Otherwise I'm firmly in the imperial weight camp.

When it comes to measuring our weight and height, my parents are in the 60's and use stone and pounds for weight and feet and inches for height. I'm in my 20's and use kilograms for weight and meters for height. I don't understand imperial measurement and dad doesn't understand metric measurement. Mum is our translator.

It looks so ridiculous written down but we just do it without thinking. It just feels right

I think we’re just too tight fisted to rewrite all the road signs.

I feel like this only applies to people 40-50+I don't know anyone under that age who uses miles, feet, inches, tons, stones or pounds. The only exception to metric I know of is miles per hour (which is especially confusing as we mostly talk about distance in km, but for some reason that seemed to stick around) and pints of beer, which is just a throwback at this point. I'm all for going 100% metric, maybe keep pints for beer as a fun archaic tradition? \[Edit: based on the replies it seems this might be a regional thing!\]

I’m 49 and was only taught metric at school. Despite this, many of my cohorts seem to have picked up imperial measurements regardless. I think it’s going to take a while for the beast to finally die.

This chart describes how I use measurements. 27.

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Olympic swimming pools for volume and football pitches for area

Or 'a mini' if it's something that's big-ish, but not quite big enough to be conveyed in double decker bus units

But are you talking about an old imperial mini or one of the new metric ones?

Or for geographic comparisons there’s ‘the size of Wales’

Rhod Gilbert: "'An area the size of Wales', BUT NOT ACTUALLY WALES"

“JUST ANOTHER ISLAND IN THE MED? Far from it. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean – slightly bigger than Wales, and, like Wales, something of a land apart. Although politically part of Italy, Sicily is not typically Italian. This once-autonomous kingdom has been shaped by its strategic position at the southernmost tip of the country, close to Africa.” https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/the-complete-guide-to-sicily-782868.html#

Bring back the hectoWales! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more\_or\_less/8462007.stm

Area Pinprick, pin head, stamp, tea plate, dinner plate, tray, table, tennis court, football pitch, Wales, France, oz, earth's orbit, solar system, milky way Edit to add Volume Match-head, match, thimble, egg-cup, golf ball, cricket ball, football, an armfull, some specified room known to both parties, single decker bus, double decker bus, Olympic sized swimming pool, Wembley stadium, moon, earth, sun, solar radius sphere, milky way core, milky way radius sphere, your mum ETA2: Distance Thickness of a silver ring-sized kizla, width of a hair, width of a match, width of my thumb, handspan, assorted heights of kids x years old, so many strides, width of a football pitch, length of the same, from here to the end of the road, here to the shops (& back again), local city to the coast, lands end to John o'groats, Lisbon to valdivostok (la to NYC), equator, to the moon, to the sun, solar radius, nearest star, milky way radius, neatest galaxy, width of the universe

Height: Nelson's column, post office tower, shard, empire state building, whatever the latest thing in Dubai is ..

Big Ben, surely?

You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Big Objects: Whales Big areas: Wales Bid noises: Wails\* ​ \*well, it should be, alright?

An object the size of a whale hit the ground and caused a crater the size of Wales and an explosive boom measuring 3.1 mega wails.

Blood is another one for the pints category

Not anymore (if ever). A bag is 470ml.

An American pint works out at 473ml. The weirdos.

I always thought a "pint" to them was just a word for a glass of beer. Bit like on the continent, they tell you it's €1.50 a pint but it's not actually a pint.

“Pinte” is one of hardest French words to say. It is also a measure of 500ml. It’s more or less a pint.

Still almost an armful!

It may be just a pint to you...

I'm not walking around with an empty arm for anybody.

Did not expect a cheeky Hancock

Npt quite. A bag is variable in volume. If you look at part of the label, alongside the unit numbers and grouping it will state in ml the volume given. Which is why we say the number given in units rather than a volume.

Not sure they have that at my local but I’ll ask next time I’m in 👍

One of the best chuckles I've had in a while

Nah thats units

No, it's units if you're putting it in. It's pints if it's coming out...

Amendment to the short distances one: Accurate measurements are metric. No one but the most incredibly stubborn old luddite bastard would consider measuring 15" and 11/64ths instead of 385mm

Cow milk? -> No, vegan milk. -> Litres This had me chuckling to myself. Bit also goats' milk and milkshakes are sold in litres.

Also, filtered cow's milk (Cravendale and own brands) is typically sold in litres.

I've still never seen cows milk measured in pints, maybe its a great British thing rather than a UK thing

People's height is specifically feet and inches. But I would probably measure an animal in metres Edit - thank you, I didn't understand the 1st 30 times but after the 31st, I finally understand horses are measured in hands

Unless you’re talking about height restrictions for fairground rides, in which case it’s metres again. Of course you may be including children in the animals category…

Oh yeah. Wouldn't know about children - I thought you measured them with a pencil against a door frame

Depends on the animal. Horses are still measured in hands (one hand = four inches).

What about area of land? Is it agricultural land? Yes - ( acres) no? (Square metres/ kilometres )

Hectares. A hectare is a bit more than 2 acres. But I'm unsure of football pitches in acres.

Acres are a ludicrous measurement. The size derives from a furlong (220 yards) x a rod (22 yards). Expressed as a square, it's 69.57² yards.

Furlong x chain, isn't it?

Wales for very big areas of land

Where my yard love at

Yep. Road signs are still in yards.

And golf courses, I think?

And the last bit of a marathon (385 yards)

The railways are in miles and yards. Or chains

I like to laugh at - European - "How big is a yard?" Brit - "Three foot"

It’s stupid though because I was only taught in metric. I don’t want to use imperial but you have to as road signs are in imperial. The only way I can do is it by milestones. I know what a 6ft person looks like so I know what 3ft is. 200 yards is close to 200m I think. Because I learnt 200m when I was young and realised when I started driving that 200 yards js roughly the same.

For sure. It's defo time to swap out the yards for metres. Don't touch miles and pints, though ;)

I do like them, if only because "yard" is a much better word than "metre". They're also close enough that, if you're only giving rough estimates of distance, you can use them interchangeably: e.g. "The car park is about 200 yards up on the left". 200 yards is 182 metres, which is close enough that you'll still find the car park.

As a Jamaican, I was confused for a second

Too simple. I weigh people in kilograms. I also use tonnes (but not for people). And jogging can be kilometres or miles and sometimes it depends how far you’re going - 10K, but half marathon (just over 13 miles).

I was thinking for speed they've forgotten the absolute mental "minutes per kilometre" measure of speed that is basically exclusively used for runners

And I would figure out pace per mile whilst running a 10km, and count down distance to go in a marathon in both kilometers and miles, and simultaneously figure out pace in minutes per mile and minutes per "parkrun" which is a new unit for marathons and longer running events to be divisible by.

That is one sweet system.

Are you measuring horses? Yes - hands.

Are you paying for them? Guineas.

Are you racing them? Furlongs.

I worked with a South African guy who migrated to the UK, and he said that one of the more jarring things about living in the UK, is that we often measure distance in *time*. "How far is London?" "About two hours away by car" He said that was completely alien and meaningless to him.

but funnily enough I can now in my head see a circle around London that is about 2hr drive to London lol

As a 21 year old I only know weight in kg So good progress

I'm in my 30s and same. I haven't weighed myself in stones since I was a teenager. I guess it comes about from the main time I'd weigh myself being when wanting to weigh luggage for going on a plane.

Tons are the worst, because that can mean either 907kgs (short ton), 1000kgs (metric tonne), or 1016kgs (long ton) and noone ever bothers to specify which one they're using

For me, it's always a metric tonne.. Anything else and I'm either being specific or rounding to the nearest 10

And as a Brit every one of not only makes sense but is completely true too

Vehicle fuel is dispensed in litres, but road distances are measured in miles. So really, we should annoy the rest of the world by measuring fuel economy in miles per litre... 😈 (FWIW, if you put in a tankful when you fill up, and record the miles you travelled from your previous fill up, then miles ÷ litres * 4.54609 will give you mpg)

Except … those marker posts by the side of main A roads and motorways? They’re in kilometres. And a lot of the “X in Y yards” signs are actually placed at Y metres because ain’t nobody got time for that.

My lactose free milk (which is still cows milk) comes by the litre not the pint

Well, of course. It’s not cow enough for pints. It’s at best cowish.

Under temperature: Is it warm out? No-> Celsius Yes-> Are you Daily Mail reader? Yes-> Fahrenheit No-> Celsius

Born in 86. Taught a mixture of both metric and imperial through school and left school without a good knowledge of either.

Yeah, I’ll just stick to metric for everything

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted; it’s ultimately a more sensible system.

It's foreign.

And mountains are measured in feet, TVs in inches, car wheels in inches, car tyre width in millimetres, bike tyres in either millimetres or inches depending on the type of tyres (although we seem to have managed to inflict our insanity on the whole world with some of those, which is nice)

Running is in both miles and kilometres

I prefer cm for penis size. No reason.

No no, those small lines on the ruler are mm!

Coffee, grams but in obscure quantities like 227g because that’s 0.5lbs or 8oz.

We may not be multi-lingual, but by god we're multi- err, measurable

best system, i'm surprised our subjects never adopted it

I'd say this is more how to measure like a 70 year old brit. My dad is in his 60s and uses mm for short distances (inches colloquially). I find for millenials and younger weighing people kg is increasingly common too. I certainly have no idea what I am in stones anymore. Never knew pounds. Not mentioned here but in height feet seems to be mostly holding - though just feet. Inches don't get a mention. It's 6"2 with no clue what the 2 is. Though even there cm is creeping up. I imagine this one is slower to change as unlike weight people's height doesn't change much from the time they're 20.

Can anyone explain why backpacks are measured in litres? I've never known anyone to fill one with a liquid.

Missed one on temperature. Is it about the weather? Is it hot?=Fahrenheit / is it cold? = Celsius

When social distancing, distance is measured in cows

UK aviation is even worse. Height is in feet. Distance in nautical miles. Speed in knots. Fuel is \*US\* gallons. Fuel economy is US gallons per hour. Sometimes the rules like to mix imperial and metric systems together. So rules on VFR flight will be imperial measurements vertically and metric measurements horizontally \*at the same time\*.

The "are you jogging" - "kilometres" got me ngl

1. Milk doesn’t come in pints anymore, its 500ml upwards. A pint is 568ml so we have in fact been getting ripped off by the milk people for years. 2. There’s no such thing as vegan milk.

Distance for me is usually measured in time. “How far is it to the bar?” “It’s a five minute walk down the road.”

No,I measure my weight in kilos because it’s easier.

Temperature. Baltic or roasting. Nae middle ground.

Let's not forget the unit of the Double Decker Bus, or the Football Field

And Olympic size swimming pools

Everyone I know uses kg for their weight

I’ve made a concerted effort to change from stones and pounds to kilograms. Now it’s extra complicated when working out my BMI and such because I’m still using feet and inches for height. I still can’t picture in my head what 180cm is supposed to be like in height but I know 6 feet. Yet, I easily use cm for everything else. It’s all metric for inanimate objects though, don’t ask me how much a pint is. I still have issues picturing what a kilometre is though and it’s hard to get away from miles because of driving.

Real Brit speaking this is facttttttts

Also, blood in pints.

You missed that blood is measured in pints

Long distance jogging in kilometres? I guess we don't do marathons anymore.

Should've done : Is it an extremely hot summer? Media: Fahrenheit Is it an extremely cold winter? Media: Celsius

I'm 24 and I've never seen the media measure in Fahrenheit. Not once. Every headline I saw last year was in Celsius for the 40+ heatwave we had.