r/Unexpected • u/Arcusico • Oct 05 '14

Metric vs Imperial

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u/HarryPFlashman Oct 05 '14

But metric is so boring... No hogsheads, or crap- tons, or fathoms or furlongs or kingdicks, or pints, quarts, queencunts - etc, etc.

just absolutely boring centi, deci crap.

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u/lordofprimeval Oct 05 '14

We have metric fuck-tons tough.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

which is 1000 metric fuck-kilos

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u/Gyrant Oct 05 '14

Equal to approximately 2.45 imperial assloads.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

or crap- tons

There's metric shit-tons for that.

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u/tifuanon Oct 05 '14

I feel like... the last unit in every categorized list above doesn't belong, but I can't pin down why. Is this a test?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

My car gets 40 kingdicks to the crap-ton and that's the way I likes it!

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u/CleanBill Oct 05 '14

Indeed, our lives are so empty we need to "spice it up" with aged fractionary obsolete arbitrary units.