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I was in England in 2006 when there was a heat wave and the temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The newspapers even had headlines saying 100 degrees.

In Canada, if that were to happen, probably half of the population wouldn't understand the headline, they have been using Celsius for so long. I was told some years ago by a Canadian that her younger brother had never learned the old measurements (the ones still used in the US).

My wife is Canadian, so this is something of interest to me. Our proximity has made the country somewhat schizophrenic. The attempt to make the lumber metric overnight was a catastrophe as the new lumber didn't fit the old lumber on half-finished structures, and that was quickly abandoned. Cooking receipes and stoves are still in Fahrenheit for the most part, and I still see the English measurements in various places, like the clearances signs in the Edmonton Mall parking lot (6', NOT 2 metres!).

Canadians (at least the ones I know) never picked up the "stones" thing for weight, but they still use pounds.

They don't even use the metric system as intended, as fish is often sold by the hundred-gram, not hectogram. The gap between gram and kilogram is far to large to be usebul, and no one uses the ones in between.

Metric is great in the laboratory. The English system (and its variants like ours) is great for real life day to day living.