There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
This works because imperial is a much more conversational system. 100F is hot outside 0F is cold. A foot is a good approximate distance for measuirng human sized thing and an inch is a good approximate distance for measuring hand sized things.
Metric is only better for calculation and since outside of stove efficiency all you are doing is summing weights in a spreadsheet conversational units are more important than calculated units.
A good example of this is liters vs cubic inches for backpacks. It’s much easier to under stand the difference between 20 and 40L than 1200 to 2400 cubic inches. The litres are the more human sized unit.
So for weight ounces makes sense as it’s the smallest unit that is meaningful. Shaving a gram is meaningless, most kitchen scales are only accurate to +/- 3g anyways.
In conclusion intermixing both systems of units to have the best conversational set units that are suited to the human scale makes the most sense.
liters, inches, feet, ounces, lbs, kilowatts,