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May I present to you, how to measure like a Brit
It's great fun especially when you're trying to work out how fuel efficient your car has been when your tank and fuel pump is in litres and the fuel efficiency is in miles per gallon.
Oh and you'll have a jolly time following a recipe from more than 20 years ago trying to remember what the hell "Gas Mark 4" is in centigrade for fan or convection ovens.
Oh and my personal favourite for the industry I'm in: when designing a PCB your component sizes will use imperial codes, your wire diameters will be in AWG, your track widths and PCB dimensions will be in millimetres, but your copper thicknesses will be in ounces despite the final weight for the assembly will be in grams.
There's also a difference between imperial miles and nautical miles, though I'm not sure if British long distance ships use nautical miles or not.
Aviation uses nautical miles across the western world.
How about breast milk? It is neither cow milk, nor vegan milk...
Isn't it vegan if it's sourced by consent?
Like the steak in the restaurant at the end of the universe?
Presumed consent is not consent. We cannot assume it was consensually sourced.
consent is not mentioned in the vegan society definition.
Measure in ml if it's outside, or g if it's in the baby, I think.
Or cup size, if still in the source container.
Can you measure something like, D-C--cup milk since the total volume isn't all milk?
Guesstimate based on the feel of it.. I think a scientific study is warranted and I volunteer to help guesstimate.
All right, but we're doing the study on rats as per usual and extrapolating to humans. Please turn up at the lab Monday 9am sharp.
Bear in mind that the gallon we use is different from the US gallon, too:
The reason that I thought American car fuel economy was so terrible as a child is partly because UK mpg is +20% on US mpg for the same car on the same fuel. But also, because American car fuel economy is so terrible.
It's weirder when you look at Canada vs USA. Mileage here is usually written L/100km, but back in the day the cars were exactly the same but the mileage in Canada was better because the the US gallon is only ~83% the size of a proper gallon.
Don't forget that the UK fluid ounces are different (slightly smaller) than the US fluid ounces as well
20 UK fl oz = 19.21 US fl oz
Holy crap, that's why craft beer tall cans are different from 16oz tall boys here in the states. I'd always wondered why the were 19.2.
Canada has a similar chart, with some fun modifications. For example, distance could be feet/inches, millimeters/meters/kilometers, or minutes/hours, depending on what you are measuring.
As an Indigenous Canadian ... when someone asks me where something, someone, some town, some location, the sun or a celestial object is located ... I turn my head and point with my lips.
And my distance measurements are usually answered first by asking 'why?' .... and if they give an acceptable response, I'll tell them the distance is either ... 'not far' ... 'far' ... or 'very far'
I've also learnt to point with my lips. It's pretty handy.
TIL that this is a thing in Indonesia.
I still have some doubts. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIUsyoAoLs
Thank you for posting this. So sick and tired of people saying that GB switched to Metric.
It's because we're stuck with a bunch of twats who can't let go of the past. They'll stick with Imperial measurements, mostly because the word looks like "Imperialist" and that's the side they want to be on. Jacob Rees-Mogg is a wrought-iron dildo.