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[–] Johanno@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We could, but why should we? I can easily switch between grams, kilograms and tonnes. Hell I can tell you that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I am not going to deal with gallons per square inch of pounds

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

square inch of pounds

Pound force or Pound mass?

[–] EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pounding your mom's mass with incredible force^/s^

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And Americans know a pint's a pound.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well you know, the full saying is "a pint's a pound the world around, except the UK where it's several quid, and really mostly in the US, Liberia, and Myanmar"

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on the flesh you're rending - the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended over camp fires; it's been this way since 2006AD so it's a pretty well established system. Semper fi, Imperialism.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended

Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, just making fun of imperial.

Car widths being the result of roads built by the Romans is historically charming, but that kind of thing is not the basis for a measurement system you should expect people to take seriously. It's just a series of band-aids on band-aids.