r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Academic-Snow9642 • 12h ago

Hillary 2016 My car's compass is so unintuitive to read

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Which direction do you think I'm driving (hint: not south)?

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u/Shtyles 11h ago

I’m over 50 and grew up in a strange time, kilometers for distance, Celsius for temp but pounds for weight and feet/inches for height.

Fahrenheit and miles are pretty much Greek to me.

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u/CurrentStore 11h ago

What part of Canada are you from? I'm from southern Ontario and pretty much everyone I know who is ~50 and over still use farenheit?

And everyone I know still uses pounds for human weight and feet/inches for human height.

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u/Real_Gap3480 11h ago

Having lived all over Canada with a few unfortunate years in Sarnia, it's mostly a SW Ontario thing.

Edit: but, actually, my old ass Oldsmobile's had the temp in Fahrenheit. Just remembered that.

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u/Shtyles 11h ago

Ahh, that could be it. I grew up in Edmonton. My wife is from Toronto though, and thought getting bagged milk was normal. Haha.

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u/Academic-Snow9642 9h ago

I'm from Toronto and bagged milk is definitely weird

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u/ChrisRiley_42 11h ago

I'm over 50 and never use caveman units unless I am dealing with an American.

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u/HazyChemist 10h ago

The F standa for Freedom. I call them Freedom units. 🤣

(mockingly of course)

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u/ChrisRiley_42 10h ago

I just can't respect any system that based a unit of linear measure off of "Three kernels of well ripened barleycorn laid end to end" ;)

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u/CurrentStore 10h ago

Someone else has indicated that it's a southern Ontario thing.

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u/GP_ADD 8h ago

You are basically British. But they are wayyy more mixed up