>>>We use Calories (ie kilo-calories). You won't hear the man in the street referring to Joules (or Ergs), esp. as most won't know what they are anyway. And "bar" for pressure.
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>>Same over there, wherever one feels the pressure, one visits the bar :).
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>>Jouls were a part of the effort to put everything into IS units, presumably to facilitate the switch into computers... until we succumbed to the lure of the Western-type laziness and saw that it's easier to change code than to change people's habits. So while we're generally metric, there are a few areas where some old units are used - inches for plumbing (but not sewers), measuring land area - while everyone knows ares and hectares, you aren't a pro peasant if you use those; you'd say "two chains of land" or "a morning and a half of land".
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>Wasn't it such disparities that led to the "O" ring shuttle disaster?
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>And, in your above para, and when you say "here" and "we" I'm never sure if you mean USA or Serbia.
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I generally assume Serbia.