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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  square inch of pounds

  Pound force or Pound mass?

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  • EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pounding your mom’s mass with incredible force /s

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And Americans know a pint’s a pound.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sterling?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨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”

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  • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨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.

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