• don@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    British and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate

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      24 days ago

      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!

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        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:

        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).