Exactly. I don’t even really notice. If I need to be precise I either do the math or think of meters as yards (eventually distance makes this unworkable, but at play scale it rarely matters).
Yeah take it with a grain of salt, or uh...0.053 mL.
Yeah it never really caused us any trouble either. We just did a little rounding in combat settings, but estimated farther distance. In more recent years in our RPG games during combat situations I don't even bother worrying about characters or creatures speed or range and just let players move as they want within reason. Only exception is in encounters that pivotal to the outcome of the game, which I'll let the players know that were using the rules speed and range. Obviously, another exception would be something like an encounter with a creature that is significantly quicker than the players such as Quicklings, or a creature with reach.
Where you are, maybe. Round here if someone says something is x "kay" or x "kays" it means they're trying to say it's x-thousand.
kind of like x-thousand meters?
Just go back to 1790 and remove the last holdout. That's when the US Congress (and Secretary of State Jefferson) got around to fulfilling Constitution Article I, Section 8 of (congress shall “fix the standard of weights and measures”). That's when they decided that everything was already in British units and why spend the money to change things now (what with a new nation and everything)? Given the things purchased and amounts spent around that time, it's clear that it could have been done, if there was a will to find a way.
