We’re not asleep we’re just depressed!
That’s because of sleep deprivation!
repress your depression!
How about a metric ton of tiddies
A full megagram?.
A full mammogram
Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children
Hecto used to be popular in sweden until like 2000 or so, when it came to food. Especially candy and charcuterie were priced and ordered in “hekto” (the “gram” dropped in speech).
In Hungary “dekagram” is the default unit when buying food from actual humans at a deli counter or market. Asking for 30 deka of cheese sounds like a more human-scale number than asking for 300 grams.
Though it’s interesting that hecto would be even better for this, as we always use deka in 10s (or at least 5s), so we could just ask for 3 hectograms of cheese for an even more human-scale number :)
That’s pretty cool. Makes me think about speaking in ounces locally (NL). “3 ounce of cheese please” will get you 300g. They could ask if they cut it too fat: “mag het een onsje meer zijn?”/“Is it ok if it’s a small ounce more?”
Hecto is very used in Italy with food “I’d like 3 hectos of ham, sir”
Deka is too small to be useful tbh, maybe it’s used with medicines or drugs?
I have to say, “da” is a bad prefix. Good thing nobody uses it.
Such a satisfying system
Why not both? It is time for the exatiddy
Because you end up with the mess us Brits have. And no one wants the mess we have.
indeed…
don’t think anyone has used stones for weight since the 80s. I’ve only heard kilograms my entire life
The most insane part is that British ton is 1016 kg and American is 907 kg
Pints are also much bigger on the east side of the Atlantic than the west.
The only change I’d make is distance
Is it a long distance > no > are you doing DIY > yes > cm, mm, inches > no ( what’s currently on the flow chart)
american here, enjoy your report and permanent ban buddy, youve just crossed the line big time
Not so sure about that, buddy…
If faced with the choice of giving up the metric system forever or giving up tiddies forever, I know which one I’d choose. I can get used to a new system of measurements, but without tiddies to measure, what’s even the point?
Missed some fun ones
- quetta Q 10^30 nonillion
- ronna R 10^27 octillion
- yotta Y 10^24 septillion
- zetta Z 10^21 sextillion.
Also: —
• zepto (symbol z): 10⁻²¹ (one sextillionth)
• yocto (symbol y): 10⁻²⁴ (one septillionth)
• ronto (symbol r): 10⁻²⁷ (one octillionth)
• quecto (symbol q): 10⁻³⁰ (one nonillionth)
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HEY YOU CAN’T DO THAT
thank you for your service
Majestic
Look at that hourglass figure
It’s the negative space between two soapy titties.
O O
Now do the same with US customary units. Let’s see what their hourglass looks like 🫠
I’m an American, WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!?
A kilometer is
0.000,000,000,000,001 Exameters
0.000,000,000,001 Petameters
0.000,000,001 Terameters
0.000,001 Gigameters
0.001 Megameters
1 Kilometer
10 Hectometer
100 Dekameter
1,000 Meter
10,000 Decimeter
100,000 Centimeter
1,000,000 Millimeter
1,000,000,000 Micrometer
1,000,000,000,000 Nanometer
1,000,000,000,000 Picometer
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Femtometer
or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AttometerYou’re talking to an American. They use anything but a logical system. To explain to them what a kilometer is, you need to put yourself in their position and go from that. Let me help:
A kilometer is:
- ~167 Ford F-150’s,
- ~1,150 dishwashers,
- ~5,556 bibles,
- ~5,263 bananas,
- ~1,250 AR-15’s,
- ~0.62 miles,
- ~3,281 feet,
- ~39,370 inches,
- etc.
To make sense to an American, you need to not make any sense. This includes swapping the period and comma around in numbers, but you already did that.
I would call it an upvote, but I will give you +1 Eagle Scream for the accuracy of your AR-15 unit measurement.
Same accuracy as seen during school shootings, am I right?
Thanks man, that really cleared it up. I understand now.
(you forgot 3 zeroes in Picometer)
thank you for pointing it out :-)
Hey hey, US customary units are metric:
The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before.
They just use weird provincial conversion factors, that’s all.
lmaooooooo
They could be more metric. Just imagine this wonderful reality:
- 1 inch = 2,5cm
- -> 1 hand = 10cm
- 1 foot = 30cm
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
- 1 pound = 500g = ½kg
- 1 thou = 25μm
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
Oh yeah, that’ll be fine, I’m sure it will make everything simpler:
1km = 1000yd + 1000hd = 1111yd + 1hdWhat could possibly go wrong.
1 slug = ... ?Funny thing is here in the Netherlands some people use pounds and ounces ( pond and ons in Dutch ) when they buy meat at the butcher. 1 pond = 500 gram, 1 ons = 100 gram
Yes please. I have no fucking IDEA what a mile is. What’s a yard. A foot. Make it make sense
x2
A miles is a furlong squared.
A mile is a 1000 paces walked, counting only one foot in most places. Different countries take different steps so a mile is different in each country. Somewhere between 1.5 and 2 kilometer is the most common.
A yard is almost one meter, so I’ll allow it.
It makes sense for a system where you want to easily divide quantities and only can work with the fingers on one hand.
A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one’s easy :)
I’m wide awake but here’s an upvote.
