I'm five foot twenty-five centimetres tall

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I'm curious as to what sort of units you use to measure various things, especially since I've heard that some people will use a mixture of metric and non-metric units depending on the object (one example given was measuring distances in miles but speeds in kilometres per hour, or measuring short distances in inches and feet but longer ones in metres and kilometres).

If you answer "other", or want to add anything, please comment on this entry.

Edit to add: I'm also interested in how you'd measure the diagonal of (a) a television set and (b) a computer monitor. (For example, in Germany (a) is usually in cm while (b) is usually in inches.)

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[christine.livejournal.com]

some of the things, I can measure multiple ways... for instance, short distances (ruler length), I am used to both inches and centimeters.

Also, when it comes to cooking, it is highly dependant on how much of an ingredient I'm using. For instance, I'll generally use a a tbsp to measure butter, but if I'm using a whole lot of it, I might measure by the stick (1/4 pound), or even by the pound. Same with sugar of flour (Could by by dry tsp/tbsp, cup, oz/lb).

So yeah... some of the things I'd prefer check boxes instead of radio buttons for, but I think you get the gist of my american ways :o)~