Its time to retire the metric system in favor of something base 12. Base 10 is for children who need to count on their fingers, base 12 is easier to divide into quarters or thirds. Babylon was right.
Comment on how do you slice it??
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
americans be using anything but the metric system
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Americans be using metric all our lives.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only 2 liters. Other drink sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and pints.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Let’s not go there. T’is a silly place.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Daily Mail is British
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
But they’re the sort of British that yearns for the good old days, when we still had shillings and inches and diphtheria and jumpers for goalposts and no womens’ rights and all that great British stuff.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system