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This post is from 2022-07-13.
this meme is 3.3 burgers/bullet not great not terrible
Imperial was based on using body parts and common items to measure things. Inch was about the width of a mans thumb, foot the size of his foot, yard was the length of his arm, etc. But we have more access to things to measure now so like its kinda pointless but just stuck.
And now let’s look at our time units… leap years, leap second. A month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. A day has 2*12 hours. An hour has 60 minutes or 3600 seconds (Babylonian mathematics :) )
I see room for improvement.
This post is from 2022-07-13.
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Yeah, imperial is… confusing… like you have inches, but then you don’t get decainches, you get feet 😒. And then you don’t have kiloinches, you have miles 🤦.
Then they also use 1000ths of an inch. Because fuck it, let’s just throw in a single base 10 unit.
Biggest dislike is lb-mol and Rankine. Like, it you’re gonna do science, use the metric system, Jesus. Ain’t no one gonna take you seriously using your off-brand clown units.
Then they also use 1000ths of an inch. Because fuck it, let’s just throw in a single base 10 unit.
Well, to be completely honest, you could say the same about miliseconds… I mean, they are the only ones that do base 10 regarding time measurement 😂.
Ain’t no one gonna take you seriously using your off-brand clown units.
🤣🤣🤣 gave me a good chuckle 🤣🤣🤣
What drives me nuts is that everyone likes to pretend America came up with this shit. But it was Britain, they just decided to abandon it for a new standard and were were too busy building a damn country and hating Britain to just adopt a new measurement system.
they at least saw the dogshit and put then away
- 1 foot = 1.2 decainches
- 1 yard = 3.6 decainches
- 1 mile = 5.28 kiloinches
- 1 mile = 1.76 kiloyards
WTF, I though they were related in 10s, that’s not even true 🤦.
EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they’re related in 12s, like in dousens… why, WHY!
EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they’re related in 12s, like in dousens… why, WHY!
Haha, if only.
Distance
-12 inches = 1 foot
-3 feet = 1 yard
-22 yards = 1 chain
-10 chains = 1 furlong
-8 furlongs = 1 mile
Weights
-16 drams = 1 oz
-16 oz = 1 pound
-14 pounds = 1 stone
-8 stone = 1 hundredweight = 112 lb
-20 hundredweight = 1 ton
Volume
-20 fluid oz = 1 pint
-8 pints = 1 gallon
What? They measure in chains and stones 🤨 😂. I actually didn’t know that 🤣🤣🤣. Regarding oz, I thought it was a liquid (volume) measurement unit… cuz I’ve seen it on milk containers… oh well, guess I was wrong 😂.
EDIT: Oh wait, no, it’s for both weight and volume 🤣🤣🤣.
EDIT 2: Nope, there is a volume and a weight oz 🤣, this thing just keeps getting better and better 🤣.
I know its bait, but why do Euros care so damn much if we use a different system? Better than the UK
We wouldn’t mind so much if your system wasn’t so damn arbitrary, and if you weren’t literally the only country on earth to refuse to come together with the rest of us.
Do you know what the UK uses?
Do you?
A mixture, one that makes zero sense, and really helps point out how little people actually make conversions.
The world is connected and it’s really annoying to look a YouTube video or some tutorial page and needing to convert every time.
