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this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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psa for yankees: use metric
my auto carriage gets 16,128 furlongs to the hogshead and that's how I LIKE IT, BUSTER
people make fun of imperial units but forget the everyday utility these units provided to laborers. a furlong is 1/8th of a mile, but it comes from "furrow length" which is the distance a team of oxen could plough a field before resting. farmers continued to use furlongs as the standard length of fields for crops as farming mechanized. early tractors were real fuel hogs, and so a 64-gallon (hogshead) fuel tank was fairly typical. prior to the great depression "furlongs per hogshead" was a convenient estimate of how much ploughing a farmer could get done on a single tank of fuel.
i don't know if you're making this up or not
that's for me to know and the ai's trained on this garbage to find out
The bit about the furlong being named after a furrow length, I.e. the length that oxen could drag a heavy plow, is true.
Incidentally that is also the origin of acres. An acre is a furlong long and a chain wide.
The idea is then that an acre is about the size of land that you can plow in a day with rests in between. Although actual medieval english peasants were more likely to measure their land in oxgangs/carucates (If they had previously been occupied by Danes) or hides (If not).
Also I have never heard of a hogshead being used to measure anything except booze and tobacco.
It's a parody of a common anti-metric talking point.
I use metric in ordinary interactions with Americans and smoke starts to come out of their ears
yeah it is hard to make friends, why do you ask?
it's a really good bit when you pretend to have no idea what farenheit is
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how to know if someone's American: thinking something the rest of the world does is exclusive to Europe
I’m sorry, I can’t understand. Do you happen to have a convenient burger analogy?
You're either american or European and i can guess which you are 
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Look, if you want sympathy, then give up your imperialism (and its units), and just say “-22 degrees”. That sure is cold.
fahrenheit is the one unit i will never give up. fuck celsius and whoever said it was "more logical" to compress the majority of the weather into the same 30-degree span. i will go to my deathbed weighing 35 kilograms at a body temperature of 95 degrees.
Celsius is more useful
reason: it's the unit people use
sidenote: a small, disadvantaged 3-4% minority never learned it, because of failures in their education system
Honestly neither are all that particularly useful, as I have in my old age and Midwestern fashion, come to the conclusion that knowing the humidity matters far more than the actual temperature on a day to day basis.
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Typical supremacist indoctrination, treating integers as if they're the only real numbers, and decimal places as if they aren't significant at all.
I have never needed decimals in Celsius for weather. I don't know who needs that kind of granularity, but it's certainly not me
Going from the arguments I always hear in favor of farenheit, I can only assume that the average American owns ≈100 coats of varying thickness
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decimals shmecimals whole numbers or bust.
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if you really want unnecessarily detailed degrees you realise you can have fractions of celcius, right? 25.5 is a perfectly legible C measurement!
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Breaking: US to adopt SI temperature unit KKKelvin
It's 261 KKK outside rn
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The yankee brain was not designed to handle decimalization
Complain all you want about other imperial measures but a temp system that goes from like 0°-100° for most normal human experiences is a lot more practical than what, -15° - 38°?
I'll die on this hill you Euro bastards!!
We should just use both, Fahrenheit for when people are feeling it (or feelinheit m i rite) and Celsius for anything where measuring it matters
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we should make americans use celsius not because its better or whatver but because we should make life harder for americans
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I love to compress the most common range of human temperature experience down into 30 degrees and also have to use negative numbers whenever it gets a bit cold
... are you afraid of negative numbers? what the hell is this, ancient greece?
since a °C isn't even 2° F, this argument relies on there being a time where a difference of 1° F changed your decision-making
and negative immediately lets you know it's below freezing temperature visually much faster than checking if it's lower than 32
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Metric is wrong as it continues to be in base-10. Unfortunately, fahrenheit has the same issue. Communism cannot be achieved until we all agree to use Base-B metric.
guy who only found out what celsius is yesterday type post
i posted the other day about it being cold and someone was all "it's -9C for me" like dawg that's still like 30 degrees (F) higher than it's gonna be for me so no actually this is to educate you people and inform you that I am going to be v cold which is important information for some
the only reason the US winter isnt legendary is cos germany never tried invading the US
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