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takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The imperial system and the US customary system are different for volume and weight

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    FRENCH‽
    first i was for it, now i’m against it

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fer it

      Again it

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        its black hagrid

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So same as soccer

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  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.

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      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You Malaysian?

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    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.

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      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…

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  • javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.

    I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And was mostly used by public schoolboys who called rugby “rugger”.

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