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Americans using anything but the metric system (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by RmDebArc_5 to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To be fair: if anyone's going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)

Also, I'm not entirely opposed to using "every day" analogies for stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah they even named their official weight measurement after the quarterpounder hamburger

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I use metric, so you tell me weight in kg and I imagine it in half the number of (2 liter) water bottles. Which I have a pretty good intuition for since I often carry anywhere between 1 and 12 at a time.

Of course if I had to suffer imperial, I would like analogies as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.

Since moving to the UK, I'm still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.