Miles or Km's

[Gythral]

I drive miles and walk km, and climb in meters.
Obviously this is related to the fact the our motor vehicles are mired in ancient history and protectionisum, and our maps are metric!

Climbing & hiking in the USA is much more fun, some maps are inch:mile with 40m contours, others inch:mile with 120ft contours & none are very accurate... (1 set of maps I've got havent been updated since the 1940s)

beer = pint
whisky = ml

Both by the bottle

[morag1]

Must admit I think in terms of miles when walking and time going up hills ie 2-3 hours to the top, 1-2 hours back down, or whatever

I dont really measure my drinks, just make it a large one, that'll do nicely

[mrssanta]

...Guys you live on a strange island

and proud of it

[Border Reiver]

It's got to be imperial measurements...for a start imperial sounds better than metric. The only thing I can relate to in metric is money & I still sometimes think of two bob, ten shillings etc. Otherwise, anything presented to me in metric gets converted to imperial. Does anyone know how many km per litre their car does? Of course not - it's mpg. Thank goodness Munros will always be the magical 3000ft or more.

[Red Peak]

It's got to be imperial measurements...for a start imperial sounds better than metric. The only thing I can relate to in metric is money & I still sometimes think of two bob, ten shillings etc. Otherwise, anything presented to me in metric gets converted to imperial. Does anyone know how many km per litre their car does? Of course not - it's mpg. Thank goodness Munros will always be the magical 3000ft or more.

Spot on, although I can just about get by without having to convert back to old money. But as for everything else, I'll always convert back to imperial

[simon-b]

Km's for me. Could have a host of reasons, but just the way I've always thought about it. It's a more logical scale for me, in part because I also think of ascents in metres. Also, maps inc. Memory Map works in km's and I've been spending far too long on that since 2007...

And the O.S. grid system has always used square km. That made it complicated when the scales were in inches per mile and contours gave heights in feet. It's much simpler now everything on the map is metric.

[ChrisW]

I cycled from Banchory to Aberdeen on the Deeside way, at one point along there is a small yellow sign that has an official warning about live electricity x metres and x inches from that spot...it made me laugh

[kmsharp]

Drive in miles, walk in kilometers. Mainly due to the LR grid being in kilometers so it's easier to estimate distance from the map.

Keith.

[kfrweaving]

Didn't take too long for people to go from talking about walking... to drinking
But i must get my head round talking in km's more when i am walking now.
Very interesting to hear peoples thoughts though

[Mal Grey]

Hmm.

Distance
Miles & yards for travelling, cm & mm for measuring things properly, but inches for a quick estimate!

Height
Feet primarily, but pretty good at working in metres now

Weight
Kg & g. And stone!

Temperature
Celcius when its cold, Fahrenheit when its hot. Err...

Liquids
Pints for alcohol, gallons for fuel, litres for drinking water!

Area
Acres and square feet. Oh, and football pitches of course...


I'm sure there's some logic in there somewhere....

...actually, I doubt it.

[fasgadh]

Furlongs! 5 of 'em to the klick, 8 to the mile. Personally I measure my days out in hours.

[alanbatty]

Oddly enough I think kilometres for distance but feet for ascent/descent - and I'm ancient

I'm with you on that one. I think the decimal / metric system is how it should be as it is all in base 10 (like our fingers) but hypocritically I just can't let go of feet. 3000ft sounds much mightier than 900m. I suppose you could try and sound really impressive and use feet instead of km for distance. You could notch up some awesome stats

[Red Peak]

Temperature
Celcius when its cold, Fahrenheit when its hot. Err...

I wonder why we do that?

When our office gets stuffy, we complain that it's pushing 80 (Fahrenheit), but never that it's pushing 27 which it would be in Celcius.
Yet when we're talking about a really cold day on the hills, we say it was down to about -4 (Celcius), but not that it was down to about 24 which it would be in Fahrenheit.

Maybe the higher number for heat and the lower number for cold helps to emphasise the point

[Mongoose1981]

Anything but Norwegian miles. Turns out they are 10 times one of our miles or some nonsense, I got in bother at work when I told our Norwegian Offshore manager we had 90 Norwegian miles to go as I thought he was taking the proverbial when he asked UK or Norwegian miles. Mentalists.

[dacky]

Miles for distance, walking or car. Feet for hight, hills or people! Though I do tend to judge a walk on the amount of time it will take rather than the distance or amount of ascent.

With drink it has to be pints followed by drams!