The real question I have is ... who really cares? I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature, I just convert it to terms I'm more comfortable with.
meters are used too. On roads you have longer distance in miles, but width, weight and short distance in meters. Many rural areas in Wales have signs "120m to beach".
Sometimes we use those in the US, too. Context dependent.
Me, when the term “degrees” is used without further clarification.
"A weather station in Sicily may have set an all-time high temperature record for all of Europe on Wednesday, when the temperature climbed to a scorching 48.8°C (119.8°F) amid a regional heat wave that has shown few signs of relenting."
There's also abominations like the Energy Efficiency Ratio expressed in Btu/Wh, which yes, you are reading it correctly, is the ratio of energy in IP to energy in SI. I honestly don't understand why something so useless exists.
Units actually should mean something. I use them as a quick way of intuiting about physical relationships and something like EER completely removes that intuition and just makes all EER values a stupid number to be memorized.
Miles per hour, no, that's not going anywhere, nor pints of beer, but it's hard to think of other imperial measurements in day to day use.
(and those are real pints, 26% larger than US 'pints'! So it just goes to show the imperial system isn't even consistent across countries. Yet another reason that the ISU/SI is superior...)
UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.
> I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature
because you shouldnt? it is a world standard.
The US at least tried to use the metric system.
Engineers, Scientists, Mechanics, Carpenters, etc.
I'm European, grew up with Celsius and am therefore more comfortable with it, so hardly any bias there.