Comment on Don't give me none of that jazz!

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Americans might know it as the more accurate “tunsend of corn kernels”. Or similar to a “heft of wayfarer”, or a “diggerty of pebbly straw silk”.

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• Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know, but I do know what a kilometre is!

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• MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As of January 1^st^ 2023:

  • 3 280.84 feet
  • 1 093.61 yards
  • 198.84 rods
  • 49.71 chains
  • 4.97 furlongs

  Take your pick.

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  • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But how many hamburgers is a kilometer

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t the measurement usually in bananas?

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    • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, let’s say the typical minimum diameter of a burger patty is 2 inches, and the typical maximum diameter is 6 inches, with a mean of about 4 inches:

      That would mean that, depending on the diameter of the patty, and assuming all patties are the same diameter, 1 kilometer equals approximately 6 562–19 685 burger patties, with a mean of 9 843.

      (All values were rounded up the nearest integer.)

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  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m commenting here to follow in case someone replies with images similar to OP’s featuring Kilometer changes to Rod Serling, 2 Chainz, and Eddie Furlong.

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About 1000 yard.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a device for measuring kilos, obviously.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a device that measures things in thousands. A kilometer would say a kilometre is 1000 metres. I’ve bulk ordered 1000 meters if you’d like one.

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