OK, I’ll admit that it has been many years since I visited Canada but I remember seeing everything in imperial and metric. It’s labeled that way in the US on products so I assumed (yeah, I know what happens when you assume) that Canada still did it that way.
My bathroom scales are marked in kilos, pounds and stones. The dial has stones at the top, pounds directly below that and kilos under that.
As for temperature, I think we should use Kelvins, and then it’ll appear as if our summers are really really hot. 
Kilos or kilos. Why is the US still using pounds? WTF is wrong with using the accepted standard of weight (mass) measurement?
Speaking as someone born in the late 70s, I find that most people of my age group tend to be able to work reasonably well in both systems. For some things we’ll use kilos and others pounds or stone. Ditto for distance and other measurements.
It would be much simpler just to use one and I far prefer metric. But I’m aware that many people have an affection for the old system and it’s not something I care about strongly. Frankly, I’m just waiting for the old people to die off so that we can make the switch without causing too much trauma to anyone.
In America, one can easily slip a pound or 10 when describing one’s weight. Perhaps when describing one’s weight, you could slip a stone or two. What’s 2 or 3 units of weight between friends, anyhow?
Even if you are rounding to the half stone, you could still drop your weight by 7 pounds or 3 kg if you are clever in your rounding.
My cupboard has some stuff in metric and some both. I suspect if it’s canned/bottled in the US it has both and if it’s here, it’s metric only.
Weight and mass aren’t the same thing, though. Weight is a measure of how strongly gravity is pulling on you (though it is proportional to mass, among other things), and mass is simply how much matter you have.
OK, thanks for clarifying but I guess it doesn’t matter to the teeming masses who have weighed in on this subject. 
I sort of like the idea of using “stones” when weighing myself…nobody in the US would know what the hell you are talking about and you can say, “I weigh about 14 stones, plus some gravel.”
BTW, I am 28 timbers tall.
When we weigh ourselves in stones, though, we always make change in pounds - not fractions of a stone. So I may be currently 19st 3lb but certainly not 19.215st.
I for one, and maybe many of the 1960s generation, buy food in kilos but follow recipes in pounds and ounces. Not all of us are especially metric-literate for food purchase anyway. But we’ve been using both units for temperature for many years. I learned the pre-decimal and pre-metric money and weights and measures as a kid but by the time I was doing any serious science it was all in metric.
Using pounds as units of weight and units of currency never confused us. You should know that stones are mostly used as units of human weight - you might buy potatoes by the stone or half stone, but it’s inconveniently large for most other things. Coal was bought and sold by the hundredweight, half-hundredweight, or ton. Half a hundredweight is four stone but no-one would buy four stone of house coal.
To reiterate: in this context, the plural of “stone” is “stone”.
Also, England is part of the UK, but is only part of it. The use of “stone” for body weight is a UK thing (Wales, Scotland, NI as well), not exclusively an English thing.
Personally I think the UK should follow the example of Ireland, which just started using km and km/h on all its road signs a couple of years ago. No real fuss, they just did it.
I wouldn’t even mind if pubs started serving half-litres of beer, rather than pints (this antiquated measure is common to both countries in the context of pubs).
A half-litre would still pwn that wuzzy 16-oz pint they use “over there”. 
The current college generation still talk about their height in feet and inches, and weight in stones. I think most people would talk about the height of a building in metres. Large weights or distances are given in terms of elephants or football fields.
Perhaps the kids whose parents were born in the 70s will be the first to use metric only?
Don’t forget the standard measure for heights (double-decker buses) and for large geographical areas (X times the size of the Isle of Wight/Wales)
Nope. These kids (and adults!) also think of their weight in stones, and their height in feet & inches. They do however have little understanding of yards, and fully conversant with metric measurements for small weights.
Apart from when purchasing substances where a knowledge of the “quarter-ounce” is advantageous - the little tykes!
True up to a point, but I understand (*) that the higher-valued merchandise is sold in metric units.
- From a complaint I saw in the DHSS many years ago that the weekly dole was only enough to buy an eighth of a gram. Notice the interesting mix of non-decimal subdivisions with metric units.
I believe that anything in a powdered form is in metric units. I wonder what costs a weeks dole for an eighth of a gram though?
Because headlines - especially in our tabloids - have to be dramatic (or, usually, over-dramatic), so they use the bigger numbers for the high temperatures, and the smaller numbers for the cold ones …
Oh aye, I know. Although that’s how I think of temperatures myself. I started school in 1973, so I’m probably of a crossover generation.
Ok I’m probably being wooshed here, but a pint is actually 568ml so here’s your pwnage right back at ya 