I think I can see a tiddy or two in that number curve
Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’m not 100% sure on the accuracy of this data, but is ever there was a place to paste this information, it is here.
Average Tiddy weight per boob by cup size, in Metric and Lemmy scales
A cup = 0.454kg = 1.1 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
B cup = 0.78kg =1.9 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
C cup = 1.023kg = 2.4 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
D cup = 1.388kg = 3.3 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
E cup = 1.950kg = 4.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
F cup = 2.35kg = 5.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is. It. SOAPY?
Hegar@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
We're not asleep we're just depressed!
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s because of sleep deprivation!
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
repress your depression!
kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hecto used to be popular in sweden until like 2000 or so, when it came to food. Especially candy and charcuterie were priced and ordered in “hekto” (the “gram” dropped in speech).
kazerniel@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
In Hungary “dekagram” is the default unit when buying food from actual humans at a deli counter or market. Asking for 30 deka of cheese sounds like a more human-scale number than asking for 300 grams.
Though it’s interesting that hecto would be even better for this, as we always use deka in 10s (or at least 5s), so we could just ask for 3 hectograms of cheese for an even more human-scale number :)
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s pretty cool. Makes me think about speaking in ounces locally (NL). “3 ounce of cheese please” will get you 300g. They could ask if they cut it too fat: “mag het een onsje meer zijn?”/“Is it ok if it’s a small ounce more?”
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hecto is very used in Italy with food “I’d like 3 hectos of ham, sir”
rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
She’ll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kersone!
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Metric haters when they realize their electricity is measured in Volts (metric unit), not in “relatable” units like Sparks:
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Last night was so hot, my ac took three sparks per witchburn!
dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Hey hey, US customary units are metric:
The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before.
They just use weird provincial conversion factors, that’s all.
wieson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
They could be more metric. Just imagine this wonderful reality:
- 1 inch = 2,5cm
- -> 1 hand = 10cm
- 1 foot = 30cm
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
- 1 pound = 500g = ½kg
- 1 thou = 25μm
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funny thing is here in the Netherlands some people use pounds and ounces ( pond and ons in Dutch ) when they buy meat at the butcher. 1 pond = 500 gram, 1 ons = 100 gram
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
Oh yeah, that’ll be fine, I’m sure it will make everything simpler:
1km = 1000yd + 1000hd = 1111yd + 1hdWhat could possibly go wrong.
1 slug = … ?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
lmaooooooo
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yes please. I have no fucking IDEA what a mile is. What’s a yard. A foot. Make it make sense
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A miles is a furlong squared.
_rat@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
x2
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one’s easy :)
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
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RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
HEY YOU CAN’T DO THAT
Allero@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Majestic
lemonbun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Such a satisfying system
childOfMagenta@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
First time i see deka with a k instead of deca.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Came here for the “acshully”
Stayed for the learning.
SpinItBetter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Put this on the Ronald Reagan did it pile. Jimmy Carter started us on the path to metric and then Reagan halted it.
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Pour one out for the deci, even autocorrect attempted to remove it from my message.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We use deci for drinks all the time
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
So you would know exactly what one is to pour out.
LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m an American, WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!?
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 2 weeks ago
A kilometer is
0.000,000,000,000,001 Exameters
0.000,000,000,001 Petameters
0.000,000,001 Terameters
0.000,001 Gigameters
0.001 Megameters
1 Kilometer
10 Hectometer
100 Dekameter
1,000 Meter
10,000 Decimeter
100,000 Centimeter
1,000,000 Millimeter
1,000,000,000 Micrometer
1,000,000,000,000 Nanometer
1,000,000,000,000 Picometer
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Femtometer
or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AttometerTigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’re talking to an American. They use anything but a logical system. To explain to them what, a kilometer is, you need to put yourself in their position and go from that. Let me help:
A kilometer is:
- 167 Ford F-150’s,
- 1,150 dishwashers,
- 5,556 bibles,
- 5,263 bananas,
- 1,250 AR-15’s,
- 0.62 miles,
- 3,281 feet,
- 39,370 inches,
- etc.
To make sense to an American, you need to not make any sense. This includes swapping the period and comma around in numbers, but you already did that.
TheDarkQuark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
(you forgot 3 zeroes in Picometer)
LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks man, that really cleared it up. I understand now.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Missed some fun ones
quetta Q 10^30 nonillion ronna R 10^27 octillion yotta Y 10^24 septillion zetta Z 10^21 sextillion
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also: —
• zepto (symbol z): 10⁻²¹ (one sextillionth)
• yocto (symbol y): 10⁻²⁴ (one septillionth)
• ronto (symbol r): 10⁻²⁷ (one octillionth)
• quecto (symbol q): 10⁻³⁰ (one nonillionth)
Zensate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How about a metric ton of tiddies
Redjard@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
A full megagram?.
Zensate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A full mammogram
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Metric is officially recognized across the US. European minds cannot comprehend this.
Jiral@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If the average American mind only knew about its goverment being metric.
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
We recognize both systems so that government is not metric. Freedom units are still primarily used over metric. Metric is used in science and academia over Imperial.
I actually don’t think that the biggest barrier is the average American. I think the barrier is the logistics of replacing millions of signs and other material.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait, no, please convince my countryfolk to metricate. I’m an engineer and desperately want to be able to design things in metric. It’s so much better but the average American doesn’t know a meter from a hole in their ass
josephc@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Normalize it. Use meters and kilograms on your own even before legislation. Convince others to use it. Push back the storm. If a handful of people in your town use it then it goes from something that nobody uses to a thing that a few people (and the rest of the world) use. Be the change you want to see.
YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
“The story of the metric system starts, somewhat unexpectedly, in 17th Century England, with the proposal by the natural philosopher John Wilkins for a consistently decimal system of units. The Europe of his time was divided by the use of innumerable different systems of measure, with each country using its own traditional units (and in many cases, a lack of even national standardisation meant that different regions within countries would use their own measures). To remedy this, Wilkins conceived of a single, rational standard, based on the best science of his time, which all nations could equally share. His idea for a “universal Measure” was not adopted in his era, although that very phrase would ultimately (via Greek translation) give us the name of the metre.”Image
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Joke’s on OP, this gets me hot. Like watching some foreign, kinky shit.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I’m wide awake but here’s an upvote.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trans girl I use to know called herself femto. I assumed it was because of her foot fetish but maybe it was related to the metric system.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
usa kicked the Brits out of the usa back in the day but they stole and kept their system of measurements (and of course adapted them over time, like americans do). They avoid the metric system by a country kilometer.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
american here, enjoy your report and permanent ban buddy, youve just crossed the line big time
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Don’t make me start measuring things in decifeet just to be contrary. I have a measuring tape dividing the foot in tenths and I’m not afraid to use it.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Centi is familiar to everyone from centi-meter, I have deci in deci-Bel for my optical signals at work, and I know hecto is used for hecto-Pascal which replaced the milli-bar. But I can’t think of one for deka, can anyone give an example of a unit where deka is used often?
inbn@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why not both? It is time for the exatiddy
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Not so sure about that, buddy…
If faced with the choice of giving up the metric system forever or giving up tiddies forever, I know which one I’d choose. I can get used to a new system of measurements, but without tiddies to measure, what’s even the point?
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have to say, “da” is a bad prefix. Good thing nobody uses it.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s the only system, the imperial “system” is just some shenanigans on top of metric
KittyCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DAd Heard Karl Marx Gave The Proletariat Eleven Zeppelins Yo
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Look at that hourglass figure
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
O O
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Now do the same with US customary units. Let’s see what their hourglass looks like 🫠
M137@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s the negative space between two soapy titties.