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alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[-] shath@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

@burgers if metric sucks so bad why do you use it for your guns

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We mostly don't, neither do you.

Caliber is decimalized inches

Gauge is 1.67 over the cube root of the diameter in inches. Technically it's derived from lbs since the number refers to the number of lead balls the width of the barrel you'd need to equal 1 lb. Eg, a 12 gauge is the width of a 1/12th lb ball of lead.

[-] shath@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

who is calling a 9mm a 00 gauge

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