nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 24 days agoHow many hands long do they get?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down112file-textcross-posted to: lemmyshitpost@lemmy.worldshitposting@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1115arrow-down1imageHow many hands long do they get?lemmy.mlnutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square19linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: lemmyshitpost@lemmy.worldshitposting@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·24 days agoBritish and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate
minus-squareGiveOver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·24 days agoAmericans being confused by stone is my favourite part of all the unit related arguments. This is how the rest of the world feels about your entire system of measurement! Have a taste of your own medicine!
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-224 days agoUm, ACU is a result of British Imperial. Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations. Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference: one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian Today it’s defined as: the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name. This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant. (I use both ACU and metric every day, they’re simply different).
British and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate
Americans being confused by stone is my favourite part of all the unit related arguments. This is how the rest of the world feels about your entire system of measurement! Have a taste of your own medicine!
Um, ACU is a result of British Imperial.
Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations.
Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference:
Today it’s defined as:
Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name.
This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant.
(I use both ACU and metric every day, they’re simply different).