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[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's funny that Europeans complain about Americans being dumb but also can't comprehend converting units of measurement.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

We can comprehend it. We just don't see why we should be the ones doing it instead of the few idiots who still measure things with their feet like a bunch of fetishist cavemen

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We could, but why should we? I can easily switch between grams, kilograms and tonnes. Hell I can tell you that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I am not going to deal with gallons per square inch of pounds

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

square inch of pounds

Pound force or Pound mass?

[–] EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Pounding your mom's mass with incredible force^/s^

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And Americans know a pint's a pound.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well you know, the full saying is "a pint's a pound the world around, except the UK where it's several quid, and really mostly in the US, Liberia, and Myanmar"

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends on the flesh you're rending - the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended over camp fires; it's been this way since 2006AD so it's a pretty well established system. Semper fi, Imperialism.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended

Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.