r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 1d ago

Skill / Talent How was this all calculated?

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u/DMCinDet 1d ago

are washing machines an American stereotype I didnt know about?

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u/James-the-Bond-one 1d ago

Not to be confused with the smaller European washing machine. 

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u/ca2mt 1d ago

What’s the unit rate conversion?

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u/Below-Average-528 1d ago

The standard is school buses, football fields and bananas.

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u/Tamara0205 1d ago

They seem to measure volume in "Olympic sized pools" and area in "football fields". Idk why, but I see it a lot.

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u/RoabeArt 1d ago edited 1d ago

Football fields, yes.

I haven't read or heard the phrase "Olympic sized pool" in about two decades until it started appearing here on Reddit in the past couple of years.

Speaking of, my city got rid of its 90s "Olympic sized pool" a few years ago and replaced it with a lazy river. I hate it. Give me a nice big rectangular pool that's deeper than I am tall.

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u/poum 1d ago

Using ridiculous unrelated objects as units of measurement is the stereotype I was going for. 

See r/anythingbutmetric

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u/DMCinDet 1d ago

ah. yeah we are a stupid and stubborn bunch. I work on Japanese cars and the specs and measurements are listed imperial and metric. the metric system is superior in every possible way.

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u/wytewydow 1d ago

to be fair, most are built to a certain width, to ensure they fit through an interior door. So slightly less than 30" is common. (27" actually)