• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The ironic thing is that the imperial system comes from Britain. It’s just that US decided to keep it.

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    This is offensively incorrect.

    Deer are closer to 1.75 bicycles tall.

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      One Imperial deer is 1.74832 bicycles. If you’re going to use a retarded system, you must also use retarded significant figures.

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    This meme wasn’t created to ridicule Americans, it was created to enrage the French, and to a lesser extent the Germans.

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      yeah this is imperial washing. they setup a colony and left it with an antiquated system of measures, then cheated off their neighbor for a better one.

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        the more metric the better. in that regard, the UK is better than the US. of course, both are inferior to any other country which only uses the metric system

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        fucking stones.

        they measure thing in stones, still. the uk acts all uppity about metric shit and still uses imperial garbage variably all over.

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    That second phrase can be useful information…

    How many double-sized hamburgers is it? 600?

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      1. But don’t be fooled. Between brain, bones, and waste you’ll only get get 200 double quarter pounders out of them. A little more if you add beef or pork fat to make them juicy.

      ETA: I have no fucking clue what is going on with the formatting.

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        X. is what Lemmy uses for numbered lists. So
        `1. Stuff

        1. Stuff

        2. Stuff ` Becomes

        3. Stuff

        4. Stuff

        5. Stuff

        To avoid that you could write 400\. rather than 400.

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          Ha, yeah. I wasn’t thinking about it. It’ll just stay as a list starting with 400 then.

          You’re awesome for letting me know for next time.