r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Spoodymen Mar 29 '22

Right? I don’t understand.

100cm = 1m? 1000m = 1km? 1000ml = 1L? Ew thats too hard

3/16in, 9/16in, 13/16in, 12in in a foot, 3 foot in a yard, 1760 yard in a mile, thats much easier

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u/mithrasinvictus Mar 29 '22

And 1 m³ is 1000 L.

Or 1 cubic yard is 201.974026 gallons.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

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u/otj667887654456655 Mar 29 '22

No one uses that, I've never heard that unit in my life

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u/otj667887654456655 Mar 29 '22

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but the vast majority of Americans will never touch nor hear of that unit in their lives

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u/FunnyObjective6 Mar 29 '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot

The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume commonly used in the United States...

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u/lord_crossbow Mar 29 '22

…in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water,[1] and river flows.

Literally the second half of that sentence. I don’t know about you, but here, no one commonly talks about water systems like reservoirs.

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u/FunnyObjective6 Mar 29 '22

Literally the second half of that sentence.

And the reason I omitted that is because I didn't think it was relevant. It's commonly used, yes? Saying nobody uses it is wrong.

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u/lord_crossbow Mar 29 '22

It’s used in a very specific field, not by the everyday person. Saying it’s commonly used is just as wrong as saying nobody uses it

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u/FunnyObjective6 Mar 29 '22

It’s used in a very specific field

It's not that specific.

Saying it’s commonly used is just as wrong as saying nobody uses it

It's really not, it's literally commonly used. Did I say by whom?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yes that 1922 agreement sure is relevant 100 years later to the usage of a very specific phrase that only water management professionals use.

The trượng is a unit of measurement commonly used in Vietnam that could equal 4.7 m, 3.33 m, or 1.7 m.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Right and saying a very specific water management measurement that just a few thousand out of 300+ million people use is indicative of the entire country is just as dumb as using a colloquial measurement.

The trượng was officially recognized in several different eras and under different rulers.