but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.
I hate calories and horsepowers
Comment on everything actually important is already metric
paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The whole world uses both for various things. Even the countries that “officially” use metric. Specific global industries still use imperial. Canadian and British people are perhaps the most famous for combining the two, but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.
And of course the whole conversation is Euro-centric and ignores the historical use of traditional measurement systems in Africa and Asia, but somehow that never gets brought up.
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Yeah TVs/screens for example are typically in inches anywhere I’ve seen. There might also be the metric listed.
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a diagonal measurement so it’s literally only useful for comparing screens.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
As long as they’re the same ratio 🤪
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.
30p87@feddit.de 5 months ago
Rims are also commonly referred to in inches, at least in germany. But just as with screen sizes, it’s 50/50 with cm, the latter being more useful especially with screens.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The wheel is in inches but the tires are in metric!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
At least in the United States, tire sizes are a goofy mixture of the two, plus an indirect measurement.
A 205/75R15 tire is 205mm wide bead to bead, fits a 15 inch diameter rim, and is 153.75mm from bead to tread (75% of its width).
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
It makes sense as an Inch is a good measurement for that. You aren’t going to use mm or meters
yopla@jlai.lu 5 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
’ is feet, " is inches.
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
TV sizes in Europe are in cm.