Comment on One Expensive Mistake
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 days ago
even worse, Americans cant even get a pint right and will short you 4oz
TaterTot@piefed.social 2 days ago I consider myself a fairly “progressive and open minded American”. I have even paid lip service to the superiority of the metric system.
But I can say with sincerity, this is the first thing that has ever made me truly care about metric vs imperial… or conversions in general.
They’re both imperial though. The Brits are fucking weird. They act like they use metric, but they swap between them like crazy. The US and British have different versions of several measurements with the same name though. If you look into the history of the measurements, some of them get insane with dozens of different potential values.
Then ask for a tip…
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I like how it just devolved from metric vs imperial to imperial vs imperial