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KnightHawk3 • today at 4:00 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm Australian and the only things measured in imperial units is babies (stones? But I think younger parents now use metric, but my parents only know baby weights in stones), beer (pints, but not the same as overseas I think, also it can vary by state), certain types of land units ("acerage" is a common land plot size) and height (feet and inches, for some reason people don't understand it in metric)

These are all customary usage so I'd say we are completely switched over, we couldn't tell you generally what these units look like outside of "how big is a baby" or "how tall is that person" or "is my beer large or small" really.


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Symbiote • today at 6:54 PM

Babies would be measured in pounds and ounces, as they weigh roughly ½ stone at birth.