Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend

woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve updated the unit of measurement’s name to Jerhalves.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Americans would be more prone to use giraffe halves really, in the normal world there are sensible units of measurement, in the US there aren’t, that’s why the joke.

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• Subdivide6857@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t want to hear about how many American football fields are in a mile?

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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literally nobody knows

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    Amazing!

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s Saturday Night Live. It’s an American Humour* channel by the corpos.

      * the cringy type of humour - I do not understand why people like it. Oh well.

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      • moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In freedom land, we spell that American Humor, you commie

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sucks - I keep hearing that kind of thing from more and more people, the last one in Canada. Fwiw, it is a Saturday Night Live sketch, poking fun at ourselves as to how we inconsistently use measurement schemes, like some less popular sports use meters, but the most popular ones use the English ones like feet. I wonder why it is blocked, wherever you are.

      If anyone knows, I would be interested in hearing: like should I not share YouTube videos anymore these days? Or only share/avoid certain corporate types? (Whereas certain others such as CPG Grey’s videos would truly be a tragic loss if they could not be shared) I presume Piped videos would likewise be blocked too? Are they blocked only in certain countries, or like most ones outside of the USA? Is the URL still useful, like to put into Vanced or some such, or would something else help better like the title, or again should I just not share them? I don’t know any of these answers but in any case, thank you for sharing with me your experience here.

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• hakase@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A mi is one mile in sensible units.

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• Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A thousand Roman paces. A pace is two steps, each about 1m, so 1mi is about 2km. The conversion from paces to meters isn’t exact, and definitions have shifted over time.

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