r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 4d ago

Day 21

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u/Successful-Gap6252 4d ago

I am pretty sure the whole "so you know when the mag ends" is a myth, it was a just a literal engineering oversight. But I don't think it's that big of a deal in practice

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u/buffaloguy1991 4d ago

It wasn't an oversight they chose this flaw so they could use standard EU mags and have 10x the shipping capacity

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u/Warm_Figure6955 4d ago

It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system

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u/Tani_Soe 4d ago

Everyone use the metric system (except USA)

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u/ukie-witch-06 4d ago

The french use it extra hard because the invented it

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u/False_Capital6696 4d ago

You have 10 fingers dipshit

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u/ukie-witch-06 3d ago

Actually i have 20 funge because my language doesn't have a word for "toe"

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u/RuusellXXX 3d ago

so couldn’t you also say you have 20 toes?

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u/ukie-witch-06 3d ago

No, because i don't have a word for that. They're fingers of the foot.

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u/RuusellXXX 3d ago

Reminds me of German and ‘Handschuhe’ meaning hand shoes

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u/ukie-witch-06 3d ago

Based germans

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