Isn’t daily mail in the UK?
Comment on how do you slice it??
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I don’t get why Americans are doing their best to avoid the metric system. It’s always weird discriptions. Like dishwashers, or in this case, half a giraffe. Just use bananas if (cubic) meters are too complex.
morkyporky@suppo.fi 8 hours ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
As a USian, even we are baffled by measuring things in hands and stone.
wischi@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Exactly. The only real unit is football fields.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
bstix@feddit.dk 7 hours ago
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Other people (me) hate it.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Neat, thanks for letting us all know!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.
So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.
I’m deeply sorry.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 minutes ago
It’s not like we don’t have imperial units to use. It’s just easier to visualize an object you’re familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.