It's a bit entertaining when you look at the British and they use a mix of imperial and metric but in reverse (distances in miles, peoples height in cm, etc)

Kee-cotton-picking-ryst! Somebody does something worse that we Yankees do it?

I need evidence of that but I’m 88 and don’t want to move to Canada and start school again.

It's funny how the metric system was adopted in the seventies but the imperial system still remains in people's habits. When they talk about a missing person in the news and they tell his height and his weight in metric, it doesn't ring much of a bell with me.

in the late 80s the Mulrooney government (Conservatives - surprise surprise) decided to keep metric but allow business to advertise in imperial. This means that a grocery store can advertise hamburger at a 1/lb but they have to sell it to you in grams . . makes sense doesn't it?

Wikipedia even addresses the confusing Canadian metric / imperial system. It’s quite interesting.