Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

The Rules:

  1. Posts must be a screenshot, crosspost, or link to someone using a bizarre unit of measurement (33 lanes wide, as heavy as 10 semi-trucks, etc.)

  2. Standard units are not allowed, unless it's a sufficiently bizarre usage of the unit (this is up to mod discretion.)

  3. Intentionally terrible units are completely fine! Satire is welcome here

  4. Curses are fine, slurs are not. If there are slurs in something you want to post, please blur them, or reconsider posting.

  5. Flag NSFW content as such. NSFW words in these posts don't need to be censored.

  6. Post titles should be just the unit of measurement used (not the thing being measured!), and should be the full name of the unit (Apples and Bags of Apples imply very different things!) NSFW units should be partially censored. If there are multiple units, list as many as you want. If the source is satire, the title should start with [Satire]

  7. In the comments be civil, both to each other AND the subject of posts.

Mod Policy:

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

This was obligatory. It's also where the community icon comes from!

As you can see, the template is fairly simple, no real frills needed.

Also, title text: The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).

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Smoot (www.youtube.com)
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[Satireish] Smoot (en.wikipedia.org)
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Obligatory

Title Text: It was finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.

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A classic clip from Family Guy where Peter is Jackée Harry's personal grocery shopper. She asks him for a "pallet of chocolate covered pretzels", a "drum of grape jam", a "desk of Cheez-Its", and a "hammock of cake"

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Adult Rhino (www.cbsnews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12238838

Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today

A satellite will likely make an uncontrolled return through Earth's atmosphere today, according to the latest estimates from the European Space Agency.

It says ERS-2, which weighs about as much as an adult male rhinoceros, is expected to re-enter at about 11:32 a.m. EST — plus or minus 4.6 hours. The agency can't predict exactly when and where the satellite will re-enter because its return is "natural."

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418 Poodles (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7368806

Anything else?

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[Satire] Units of Canada (startrek.website)
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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/3751154

Population of USA in units of Canada

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cross-posted from: https://possumpat.io/post/4683031

New unit of measurement

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33 Lane Highway (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Here's the example post for the community. Pretty simple format, no frills needed.