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  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    French invented metric system…

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah this is imperial washing. they setup a colony and left it with an antiquated system of measures, then cheated off their neighbor for a better one.

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      • Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the worst part is, they didn’t even adopt it completely. They were not even going the complete mile.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And legally America does use the metric system…

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      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.

        In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.

        So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.

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    • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And at least Americans use a consistent system of measures. Not the weird half breed that the UK uses.

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      • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the more metric the better. in that regard, the UK is better than the US. of course, both are inferior to any other country which only uses the metric system

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        fucking stones.

        they measure thing in stones, still. the uk acts all uppity about metric shit and still uses imperial garbage variably all over.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This meme wasn’t created to ridicule Americans, it was created to enrage the French, and to a lesser extent the Germans.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    French created the metric system.

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    • xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But isn’t it very British to take everyone else’s shit and claim it as their own?

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Only if it’s something really old and they can put it in a museum.

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But they don’t do that with the metric system.

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      • knowone@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Very true. But also is for French people too though, to be fair

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  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The thing is that the imperial system comes from Britain. It’s just that US decided to keep it.

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    • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So same as soccer

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      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was an international group that met in France that created the metric system.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The British didn’t even begin to adopt the metric system until in the last third of the 20th century or so, and even then thr transition was not immediate.

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      • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or complete

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is offensively incorrect.

    Deer are closer to 1.75 bicycles tall.

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    • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One Imperial deer is 1.74832 bicycles. If you’re going to use a retarded system, you must also use retarded significant figures.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s 1 3/4 bicycles. Not the weird ass decriminalized number you seem to think it is. We do fractions in daily life not decimals.

        I saw a yearling buck eating grass along the driveway yesterday afternoon that had only one antler. I wondered if he was 1/2 a buck or a .50 buck since he had just the one spindly fork horn antler. Will all the does think he’s ugly and not breed with him? Will the other bucks laugh at him and refuse his challenges? He will probably end up in someone’s freezer later this fall anyway, so perhaps my story doesn’t really matter.

        But the story isn’t about changing anyone’s views on what is the “best” measuring system to use. It’s about the foolishness of it all. G20/G21 the machines no longer care, why do you?

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, most deer are taller than bicycles

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unless it’s a muntjac deer. Then it’s more like 0.4 bicycles.

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    • elvith@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe they’re as tall as bicycles are long?

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The British have a stupid mix of Imperial and metric. We usually measure distance in meters/centimeters but feet and inches are still used fairly regularly especially if you’re measuring the height of a person. Large distances are usually measured in miles unless you’re going for a run in which case you probably use km. Then you go for a drive and measure your speed in miles per hour, and your fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Except you now need to fill up so you go to the petrol station where the prices are listed in pence per litre. Most other liquids are also measured in litres unless you’re buying milk or beer.

    Then if you’re weighing things you probably use metric, unless you’re weighing a person or you’re an old person cooking. Temperature is also measured in celcius unless you’re old.

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    • Taiatari@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget to give your weight in stones and a horses height in hands…

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      • knowone@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the size of your land in acres/hectares. And a lot of ingredients in cups. And distance sometimes in yards

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    • jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We even measure the same thing using different standards. The three tyre measurements are taken in mm, mm, and inches.

      I put it down to us being smarter than everyone else.

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess the silver lining for the British is they have more familiarity with both types of measurements than the purests.

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except they only know the amounts/frame of references for the specific things they’re used to, so it’s not like they can do the conversion any better than the rest of us. Canadians have a similar (though different) system as well.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Beer depends on where you get it. Bottle/can? ml. Glass at the pub? Pint.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    American recipes are the worst. Two fingers of milk, a cup of sugar, one box of pre-packed cake mix, a glass of corn syrup…

    They’re allergic to actual measurements.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sugar, cake mix, and corn syrup!? Better add a pinch of salt (to taste) to balance out all that sweetness!

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hamburgers is probably not the worst measurement for a cow, it removes all conversion.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The English measure weights in stone.

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    • javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually we use both. For example, body weight is (traditionally) stone and lbs, but parcel weight is usually kg.

      The same is true for length; height in feet, but stuff like room measurements in cm.

      I think the only area where we’re actually consistent is traveling distance? All signs and gauges are in Mph rather than Km/h. In fact the only time I can think of someone talking about distance in kilometres, is to do with sports (IE a 5k/10k running event).

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In Canada, which transitioned to metric in the 70s and 80s, people’s height are still measured in feet in casual conversation. Weights for groceries still often have lbs and kgs with them.

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      • meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Brits should never lecture someone on having a sane measurement system when even Americans are more consistent.

        Like say what you want but a pound is a pound whether it’s at the grocery store or on my bathroom scale.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One problem metric solved was that each country had their own value for inch, mile, pound etcetera. This is partially fixed by everyone but the US going to metric. But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans. Similar for inches, feet, and so on.

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    • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans.

      I find it tedious when someone pretends not to understand a conversation just to make some academic point, don’t you?

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He jokes on you i only use kilofeet when talking about long distance. Now everyone is confused by saying 318 kft.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That second phrase can be useful information…

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
      1. But don’t be fooled. Between brain, bones, and waste you’ll only get shut 200 double quarter pounders out of them. A little more if you add beef or pork fat to make them juicy.
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      • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:

        12345\. Blah blah...

        This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.

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      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        X. is what Lemmy uses for numbered lists. So

        `1. Stuff

        1. Stuff
        2. Stuff
          `
          Becomes
        3. Stuff
        4. Stuff
        5. Stuff

        To avoid that you could write 400\. rather than 400.

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do the hamburgers include lettuce, tomato, onion, or any condiments?

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  • BandanaBug@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anything but metric lol

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  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    37 degree commie = 98.6 degrees freedom.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      310.15 degrees King

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is useful information that tells you how many hamberders a deer corpse can make

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Minus the bones and skin

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People like you are the reason that they invented the guillotine on the very same occasion.

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  • razzazzika@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but the 800 hamburgers are including bones, how many legit venison burgers could you make out of a average deer?

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have seen American food stamdards, it’s 800.

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  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair it does help put into perspective how much of an animal (in this case deer) would make up as a burger

    I prefer measuring in football field turf rolls though

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  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shout-out to horses. They’re measured in hands (4 inches) but ONLY up to their shoulder. The neck, head, and ears don’t count towards their height.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, it is called shoulder height.

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  • this@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just an American but I feel this is probably offensive to French people.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shit, did we move on from Giraffes?

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