Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

The Rules:

  1. Posts must be a screenshot, crosspost, or link to someone using a bizarre unit of measurement (33 lanes wide, as heavy as 10 semi-trucks, etc.)

  2. Standard units are not allowed, unless it's a sufficiently bizarre usage of the unit (this is up to mod discretion.)

  3. Intentionally terrible units are completely fine! Satire is welcome here

  4. Curses are fine, slurs are not. If there are slurs in something you want to post, please blur them, or reconsider posting.

  5. Flag NSFW content as such. NSFW words in these posts don't need to be censored.

  6. Post titles should be just the unit of measurement used (not the thing being measured!), and should be the full name of the unit (Apples and Bags of Apples imply very different things!) NSFW units should be partially censored. If there are multiple units, list as many as you want. If the source is satire, the title should start with [Satire]

  7. In the comments be civil, both to each other AND the subject of posts.

Mod Policy:

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Baths (lemmy.world)
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I wonder how many showers that converts to?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27622355

Americans will use anything other than the metric system

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A British person making a video about a Czech stadium, and not just using metric?! Not an American in sight, and yet...

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Swimming Pool (www.nbcnews.com)
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Motorcycle (lite.cnn.com)
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Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN

Updated: 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025

Source: CNN

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.

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Smoot (www.youtube.com)
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A classic clip from Family Guy where Peter is Jackée Harry's personal grocery shopper. She asks him for a "pallet of chocolate covered pretzels", a "drum of grape jam", a "desk of Cheez-Its", and a "hammock of cake"

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