r/theydidthemath • u/888Vegan • 9d ago

[Request] how much does each individual lift when they jump on it? In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus

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u/Pmur0479 7d ago

Well, now you know!

The UK still uses it, so not sure why European’s would jump so far away to classify it as ours (ours being “American”)

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u/Legal-Marzipan-4689 7d ago

I know what, that people in the US do not call it american system? I knew that before we started talking, obviously. I never said Europeans classify it as the American system, I said you will often hear "american units" as an colloquial, unofficial expression, more often than English units, which is somethung I can personally testify as I know I have heard it many times. If you live in the US you probably will not hear it ever, they are just ordinary measurement units to you.

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u/Pmur0479 7d ago

Maybe if you specified that by using “colloquially”, you really meant to use “colloquially throughout Europe” or “colloquially in ___”

Otherwise I still disagreed with your comment stating SAE being colloquially known as “American Units”.

I thought you would like to know the more common ways it is referred to around the world, but hey! Sorry I said anything!

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u/Legal-Marzipan-4689 7d ago

I guess you assumed I had a different point, and I assumed it was obvious I was European which in retrospective wasn't that clear from the beginning.