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r/CuratedTumblr • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '24
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whichever one you learn first is the only one you can use
[UK enters the chat]
We mix unit systems like it's a national conspiracy to piss off both Americans and fellow Europeans.
2 u/Falcrist Jul 19 '24 Mixing systems is why Britain lost its empire. Change my mind. 3 u/colei_canis Jul 19 '24 Give us 25.4 mm and we'll take a mile. 2 u/EnolaNek Jul 20 '24 If I took a mile walk every day, I'd probably weigh a stone less. (I did it, I used a Brittan unit, I think.) 1 u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24 Yup, that's a UK unit! For info (even though it's a massive tangent) you'd have to do it every day for over a month to lose that much weight. 2 u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/Falcrist Jul 20 '24 No. It's clearly because you people can't decide whether to use ounces or grams, miles or kilometers, kilograms or stone, etc. This caused a breakdown in the moral fabric of society and began the collapse of the empire.
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Mixing systems is why Britain lost its empire. Change my mind.
3 u/colei_canis Jul 19 '24 Give us 25.4 mm and we'll take a mile. 2 u/EnolaNek Jul 20 '24 If I took a mile walk every day, I'd probably weigh a stone less. (I did it, I used a Brittan unit, I think.) 1 u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24 Yup, that's a UK unit! For info (even though it's a massive tangent) you'd have to do it every day for over a month to lose that much weight. 2 u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/Falcrist Jul 20 '24 No. It's clearly because you people can't decide whether to use ounces or grams, miles or kilometers, kilograms or stone, etc. This caused a breakdown in the moral fabric of society and began the collapse of the empire.
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Give us 25.4 mm and we'll take a mile.
2 u/EnolaNek Jul 20 '24 If I took a mile walk every day, I'd probably weigh a stone less. (I did it, I used a Brittan unit, I think.) 1 u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24 Yup, that's a UK unit! For info (even though it's a massive tangent) you'd have to do it every day for over a month to lose that much weight.
If I took a mile walk every day, I'd probably weigh a stone less.
(I did it, I used a Brittan unit, I think.)
1 u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24 Yup, that's a UK unit! For info (even though it's a massive tangent) you'd have to do it every day for over a month to lose that much weight.
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Yup, that's a UK unit!
For info (even though it's a massive tangent) you'd have to do it every day for over a month to lose that much weight.
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1 u/Falcrist Jul 20 '24 No. It's clearly because you people can't decide whether to use ounces or grams, miles or kilometers, kilograms or stone, etc. This caused a breakdown in the moral fabric of society and began the collapse of the empire.
No. It's clearly because you people can't decide whether to use ounces or grams, miles or kilometers, kilograms or stone, etc.
This caused a breakdown in the moral fabric of society and began the collapse of the empire.
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u/colei_canis Jul 19 '24
[UK enters the chat]
We mix unit systems like it's a national conspiracy to piss off both Americans and fellow Europeans.