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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

anything but metric

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anything but metric

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  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    You use apples because they didn’t have bananas back then

    • Etterra@discuss.online
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      And gooseberries are just too small to be convenient.

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    So, like, half a Smurf?

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      Precisely

  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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    The Hello Kitty unit of measurement is recognized by all.

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      She also weighs three apples, and is a human -not a cat.

      • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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        Me And my wife argued about this all the time. It took forever for her to realize she was arguing weight instead of height. 😂

        • lime!@feddit.nu
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          the smurfs are three apples tall, she may have mixed them up

          • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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            That is an interesting factoid. I always figured the top be 1 apple at least.

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    I need something more modern. How many sauce packets is that?

    • Soku@lemmy.world
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      Before or after shrinkflation?

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    !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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    Are apples a standardized measurement? How many centimetres is an apple? How do you measure the apple? Is this person using this measurement jokingly or are they serious? So many questions.

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    it’s all relative.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      A convincing system to end a discussion, while crushing a coco with the other hand.

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    Keyboard nerd Chyrosran22 usually makes fun of imperial units in his videos.

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    Looks to me somewhere between two fingers

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    usa_irl

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