• BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Weirdly, I thought years. Like these were elves or something.

      I’ve been playing too much D&D, I need to spend some time in the real world.

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      It’s what most of the world uses. Tea-ville and Yeehawland are the only two that typically use imperial still.

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        We don’t even use the same type of imperial either

        If France could just lie for a few years and say that they’re adopting the British system, it might persuade us to finally metricise properly out of spite and I’d be extremely grateful to them

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        Most of London The UK uses Miles Per Hour for speed limits. That’s just the biggest example off the top of my head. Your assertion is inaccurate.

        Edit: A weird thing to downvote but ok. It’s more than just London, it’s the whole UK.

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      It’s nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn’t 12, it’s 12floz.

      Or so my metric companions don’t shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn’t 355, it’s 355mL.

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      Yeah I had to read it twice to figure it wasn’t years. And I use metric, so I know exactly how tall these two are but for some reason it didn’t click on the first read

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        I think the anime picture adds to it. I thought it was about the “my witch girlfriend is actually 500 just in a childs body so its not pedophilia”

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        I guess one upside of living in a country that uses both metric and imperial frequently is that these things tend to click pretty quickly. The lack of consistency is annoying, though.