Fast Five: How do you measure|Pad Patter 11.7

1. Petrol is measured in Litres now, but people still refer to the petrol consumption in miles per gallon. Petrol pumps have both measures on so people can use the one they understand most, but it's sold by the litre.
2. Baking in grams.
3. Time - we use both. For daily living we use 12 hours with am/pm. The children's medical equipment uses a 24hour clock.
4. Food - kilos
5. Speed - mph as our road system still uses miles. It's odd as I was taught km per hour in school.

Length and height measurements are in mm, cm, and km
Liquid measures are in ml, cl or litres
Distance by foot/cycle is in km, but people still use miles for car travel.
Body weight is in Kg.

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? By how hard it hits my wallet? lol Gallons

2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) For baking, cups, ounces, etc. But cooking like a dinner or something, I very seldom measure anything

3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? 12 hour, but my military/first responder son uses 24 so I often have to translate

4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) Pounds of food, and pounds it adds to me

5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) mph.. My car has a button that switches the digital speedometer to kmh and I am bad for accidentally hitting it and then freaking out when I look and see 100 on the display

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? Gallons

2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) Cups and Tablespoons

3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? I'm a 12 hour gal, but one of our friends was in the military and keeps the 24 clock and it throws me everytime. After noon I have to do math in my head to figure out what he's saying.

4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) pounds

5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) MPH

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else?
Liters

2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?)
cups or tablespoons, it depends if it's a liquid or not, let's say, if it's milk, could be 1 cup, then flour, it's spoon. ( actually it depends on the recipe, some people could count sugar, flour and other solid ingredients as cups)

3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock?
both

4. Food? (pounds? kilos?)
kilos

5. Speed? (mph? kmh?)
kmh

Anything else you think you measure differently in your country?
temperature it's Celsius. and we use the metric system, for any measures, cm, m, KM.

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? gallons
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) cups, ounces, tablespoons
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? 12 hour clock
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) pounds
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?)mph

 

1. Petrol in liters
2. Baking? cups or mls (1 cup = 250 mls)
3. Time? 12 hours am and pm
4. Food? grams and kilograms
5. Speed? km/hour

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? - Gallons
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) - cups, ounces, T and t. When I'm dieting, I measure my protein in grams.
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? - 12 hour clock.
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) - pounds
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) - mph.

6. Swimming - yards for some meets and meters for other meets, depending on the season.

I grew up in the generation before the metric system became a thing in the states, so I'm really bad at converting. And since it never really stuck here, I kind of ignore it.

 

The generation before mine do. Metric came in when I was a kid.

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? liters
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) cups/tablespoons/mils
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? 12 hour
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) We're supposed to measure by kilos but weight is often given in pounds too.
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) kmh

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? Liters
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) Cups, tablespoons, mls and grams, depending on the ingredients and their quantity, and probably all of them in one recipe
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? Officially 24, but I prefer 12
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) kilos
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) km/h

bonus: Height: meters and centimeters. I'm 1.70m tall

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? - liters
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) - basically gr for solids and ml for liquids
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? - both
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) - kilos
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) - km/h

C for temperatures

I'm (almost) 1.60m

Not exactly a measure, but for the dates we use the format DD/MM/YY, so it was a bit confusing at first for me seeing something like 07/15, like... wait, a fifteenth month??! Lol

 

Lol at the topic but so much this as well

Typing the date in the subject line for Pad Patter when I'm often a day ahead as well means that's usually the hardest bit of the post for me! (And it has made me love the 1 Jan, 2 Feb etc even more! )

 

Yepp! That's us - confused and confusing!

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? Gallons
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) Cups, Ounces, Tblspoons
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? 12 hour time frame
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) Pounds
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) Mph

 

1. Gasoline? Gallons/liters/something else? gallons
2. Baking? (Cups? ounces? tablespoons? something else?) cups/tbs etc
3. Time? 12 hour or 24 hour clock? 24 hr clock
4. Food? (pounds? kilos?) pounds
5. Speed? (mph? kmh?) mph

I don't know when I got in the habit of using a 24 hr clock but I like it and of course it always confuses Dick. My car, my computer, my kinda clock. LOL I also lived through the change to Metric in the UK ... so I understand such things as weight in stones when I'm reading a book but still cannot compute whether a character is skinny, medium or fat!

 

Can I just copy most of @IntenseMagic 's answers? Seriously, they're hilarious as well as spot on; only differences is I learned how to translate the 24 hour clock during my short stint as a Navy wife ... and I don't need kmp to look down and see the speedometer at 100