Re: Metrics, Re: Charles Stross, GLASSHOUSE

"Dan Goodman" <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:44bc1210$0$730$8046368a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

People who live right on the US-Canada border, and go shopping in
both countries, are probably in a position to say which system of
measurements is more natural -- if anyone is.

I live in D/FW but spend 6--8 weeks/year in sunny North York,
Ontario.

Metric or English doesn't come up in shopping. A box of cereal is
still a box of cereal, a bottle of coke is still a bottle of coke, a
tank of gas is still a tank of gas. The only time it would come up
would be in weighed produce or weighed deli stuff, but even then
you're mostly just grabbing an amount that looks right by eye, not
measuring it. Or asking for half a kilo instead of a pound. And the
occasional sign saying something like "$5/454g," which is by an odd
coincidence 1.00089867 pounds.

About the only real difference, apart from having les francais on the
box, is that American nutrition information is a little fuller.

--
Jim Battista
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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