Originally Posted by pdlamb

True, but I think there's some benefit to using "human-size" units. You know, like a man's knuckle is about 1", my shoe is about a foot long, 60 mph is a decent highway speed that takes you a mile to go a minute. Let's be honest, we weigh things instead of measuring their mass, even if our measuring devices translate weight into mass. And a pint's a pound, etc.

Of course, I make sure everything at work is metric.