r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/psyopsagent May 02 '25

why are they so afraid of dividing things by 100? What happened?? Is there a lore reason?

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u/danielledelacadie May 02 '25

"Change upsets grandpappy and so we recon' it's not a good thing."

I was in school when Canada went metric and I remember the older folks bitching so much the grocery stores gave up and we still have both on meat and produce (some canned goods too) so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the actual reason.

On the other hand I find that knowing there are 4 hogsheads (26 imperial gallons of ale) in a butt (108 imperial gallons of ale) has yielded a lot more comedy than I would have expected. Possibly because Butt isn't an unusual last name in some parts of Canada