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 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
It’s a diagonal measurement so it’s literally only useful for comparing screens.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
As long as they’re the same ratio 🤪
accideath@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.
30p87@feddit.de 5 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
The wheel is in inches but the tires are in metric!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
That’s they have centimeters (cm). When I buy a TV in Europe the diagonal size is expressed in cm.
People here have a better feeling of what 138cm is than they do for 55’ because they are just more used to it.
Neither is a better measurement, it’s just a matter of what you’re accustomed to. If you were used to banana scale you’d think 8b is easier to understand than 55’.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
’ is feet, " is inches.
Aux@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TV sizes in Europe are in cm.