A lot of engineering in the US (especially civil) still uses standard. Believe me, I would prefer metric because it makes calculations 100x easier, but there's a lot of legacy stuff out there.

"Standard"? Isn't it called "imperial"?

It's not standard if there's only one industrialized country left in the world that uses it :)

Indeed. Although here in the UK, I find it frustrating that whilst we use metric for literally everything, we use MPH and miles for distance. It's illogical.

If I utter kilometers to anyone, they look at me funny.

I spent 5 years training myself to unlearn imperial in about 1990.

UK friend of mine told me he's a big fan of kilometers, "because you got more of them" :-D

Engineers also write j when they mean i so what do they know, really!

Not in europe it's not!

And I was talking about the US.

correction: metric would make calculations 1 hecto-x easier

Hell, it's the 21st century now, I'll use Google:

"700 foot-pounds = 9.49072564 × 109 ergs"

Somehow I don't think that helps. Are you happy now?

Yes - thank you :)