[chatmasta]

That's hilarious. For me, running track and cross country taught me the metric system. :)

Even as an American, it feels way more natural for me to express distances < 1km in meters, not "yards" (seriously the most wtf unit) or feet.

[ajford]

Out of curiosity, why is yards a WTF unit? It's within the realm of a meter (~10% smaller), and as far as I've seen, about the distance of a large gait. That's how my father and grandfather taught me how to estimate large distances (room/house sized distances here), via a large pace that roughly matches a yard (usually within 5%).

Now I really have no preference on feet-meter scale other than the fact that I find the need to fall back to decimal meters or tens of centimeters when I can use feet for a more round number. I'm terrible at gauging distances, so I have very little use for either without a direct measurement.