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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

What is this metric shit? I'm an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!

[-] FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know what a hundredweight is, but I'm just guessing based on American experience that it's a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.

[-] jvisick@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.

[-] zoe@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

u guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You say that like there's a problem. It's twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.

[-] sapetoku@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Chevrolet camaros per gun.

[-] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ar15s per school shooting.

this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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