Don't you guys switch on us now - I'm just re-learning the "standard"!
 
We used metric back in Canada. Technically. To the younger generation, I guess the transition is done, but for people in their 30s and 40s, not so much...
 
 
Even in Canada, I'm 6'3" , 200 lbs. For most of my life, Montreal was 400 miles from where I lived. If you travelled, you'd figure out the "miles per gallon". There was a quarter of milk in the fridge. And so on...
 
For the longest time, the only place where we actually used the metric system was in school. But eventually, some things did come into effect - the ones people had no option but to learn. When they sell gas by the liter and speed limits are in km, you do make the transition. 
 
But most people still calculate their height and weight in feet, inches and lbs.
 

robert_e_bone
I remember when our good old USA tried converting to the metric system - for about two weeks.
 
We have other strengths, it seems......
 

Explaining how the average person might benefit from the conversion wasn't one of those strengths. 

"But most people still calculate their height and weight in feet, inches and lbs."
 
ha-we went metric in 1966 but still commonly refer to wheelrims,cubic capacity,bra size and penile length in inches

That's only because an inch is bigger than a centimetre...    

phew-thought I was going to be reprimanded there but I`d say you have already worked out we are just grubby little boys,deep down,and really quite harmless.
cheers

yorolpal

What does "awaiting approval" mean??

The story of my life? 

I prefer to think of it as "Avoiding Disapproval". 
 
I'm an optimist.