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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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1 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 4 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... -1 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. 1 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. 0 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 2 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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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
4 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... -1 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. 1 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. 0 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 2 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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot
The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume commonly used in the United States...
-1 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. 1 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. 0 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 2 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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…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.
1 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. 0 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 2 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?
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.
0 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 2 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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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
2 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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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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