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minus-squaregigastasio@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-210 hours agoMetric vs. imperial seems to generate an awful lot of feelings. Edit: Ah shit, here we go…
minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 hours agoI don’t get why this is a divisive topic. We’ve got arbitrary nonsense units vs sensible easy to understand measurements, where’s the debate? Clearly my preferred system of measurement is superior.
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·8 hours agoIt’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 hours agoI don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 hours agoHonestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoI’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoBritain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoAnd yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoYeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
minus-squareCyril Strobe@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours agoWow, really? That’s interesting
minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 hours agoI can’t fathom why. (That’s 1.8288m)
minus-squaregastroglizzy@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·11 hours agoMetric is good for math written on paper. Imperial is good for the guy working in the middle of a field without any way to measure.
Metric vs. imperial seems to generate an awful lot of feelings.
Edit: Ah shit, here we go…
I don’t get why this is a divisive topic. We’ve got arbitrary nonsense units vs sensible easy to understand measurements, where’s the debate?
Clearly my preferred system of measurement is superior.
It’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
Si verdad.
Britain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
Wow, really? That’s interesting
I can’t fathom why. (That’s 1.8288m)
Metric is good for math written on paper. Imperial is good for the guy working in the middle of a field without any way to measure.