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[–] Pietrasagh@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not only euros. 95.8% of world population have no idea why you measure length with your body parts.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait what part of my body is a mile? Are you calling me fat? :,[

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

It's OK maybe it'll still grow.

[–] Pietrasagh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Mile is defined as 5280 feet, isn't it?

I would never called you fat! Maybe slightly overweight 🤣

Funniest imperial unit I see in my work from time to time is pressure in psf. Punds per square foot - very painfull unit.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago

Then later on redefine the units by using metrics anyway because everything is fucked up.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

S-kilometer issue

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

I pronounce kilo more with an ee sound, like keylo, so I read it as skeelometre, which sounds really funny, like I'm doing a bad impression of an eastern European accent

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

entire world* the entire world use metric lol, you all are the weirdos

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That's wild all the world decided to use a European measurement system, how did that happen?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

skibidi lometer

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's kilometre.

Ironivally, the only country that officially uses kilometer is...the US.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Here in Germany, it's also called "kilometer", albeit in our German bastardization of Ancient Greek.

[–] geissi@feddit.de 7 points 3 months ago

only country that officially uses kilometer is…the US

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden all use Meter

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try kilometr in polish. What, don't like consonants so close together?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Strč prst skrz krk.

One of my life's greatest achievements was convincing a guy from Brazil that the sentence above is not ridiculously stupid.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

nah a lot of people around the world use US spelling because it is more accessible and generally makes more sense than french

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

So there's one single method left. The new communicator developed by Apple: iSlam!