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Dear Canadian contractors, industry, and others still using non-metric measurements (inches, lbs, miles, gallons, tons, etc) mostly ‘because-America'.
Since America officially and royally sucks now… can we just do metric now?
Please? PRETTY PLEASE?
Only metric, please.
Forever and always?
Thank you so much.
@chris Does that mean Canada would finally start using A4 paper and its much more sensible family of paper sizing?
It wasn’t long ago that I was writing a blog entry that came around, somehow, to paper sizing. And I wanted to look up how many backward countries aren’t using “letter” sized paper, only to be totally humbled when I discovered that Canada is one of only around ten counties on the planet, along with the U.S. (shocker!) that use that sizing system.
@reay when I first moved here I found the size “letter” so confusing the first time I encountered it. I thought the printer was expecting me to put envelopes in it. Kept checking the tray and trying to figure out why it thought my document was “a letter”.
#FBPE Yes, yes make it happen! Letter paper is stupid. I never appreciated the versatility of 'A' sized paper till I moved here. I took for granted the ability to scale up / down for print outs without having to repaginate. You can print out large spreadsheets on A3 easily. None of that here. You want bigger? try tabloid - different page proportions. You want a booklet of Letter page folded in half? No, you can't do that...
@calvintaplay @reay @chris Absolutely! Starting with requiring all ovens sold in Canada be in Celsius. I'm so tired of constantly converting cooking temperatures...
@dermoth @calvintaplay @chris Pretty sure mine can switch from F to C.
I don’t mind if there’s the option, but yeah, it shouldn’t default to only F.
