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[–] 94 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ayo the car thing is absolute bullshit.

10mm bolt for the fuckin brake caliper but 3/8 for the fuckin slide bolts?

Get the fuck outta here

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't know what car you're driving but I think you're just using the wrong size wrench/Allen key

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    My last car was a 2012 ford fiesta. The lug nuts are 19mm. The caliper bolts were 10mm and the slide bolts were 3/8.

    The car before that was a 2001 cavalier. Not only did it have metric and standard bolts but the slide bolts were fuckin Allen heads.

    Like literally why?

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    [–] 79 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget the most important US measurements of them all: 5.56, 7.62, 9, etc.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    .308 is 7.62, civilian measurement vs military (there's actually implications related to pressures, sidewall thicknesses, machining tolerances, but yeah same same)

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Also, the imperial system is defined through the metric system.

    In using imperial, you're just using metric with extra steps.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    In the UK, weed is measured in authentic receding British imperial units where an ounce weighs one less gram every year.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The army uses metric almost exclusively. It’s where I learned it.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the main problem US people have with metric is their aversion to anything that has more than two syllables.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Far worse: It’s laziness.

    I was teaching a friend how to make ravioli (yes, really) from the class I took while over in Italy. I bring my scale to measure the dough and the first thing she does is use the scale to get the right measurements and then, scrapes the contents into an imperial measuring cup. Worse, she was totally pissed when the semolina was not a perfect match to the 00 flour (mass and all that).

    She is a tried and true American. She just wants to whip out her 1 cup without measuring weight and can’t fathom why the dough just “wasn’t like I taught her”.

    By the way, the super secret Italian recipe is this: Ingredients per 2 people (spaghetti or tagliatelle) 100 grams total of: 50% white superfine flour 50% semolina Add 1 egg per 100 grams of flour

    For ravioli, you want more superfine (00) flour so the pasta sticks together better. So like above, 100 grams total of: 60% superfine flour 40% semolina

    Add 1 egg per 100 grams of flour.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)
    • talking to my european friends
    • talking to my african friends
    • talking to my asian friends
    • talking to my south american friends
    • talking to my north american friends (exceptions apply)
    • talking to my oceanian friends
    • talking to my antarctican friends
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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    My favorite fuckery is when Europeans see shit like 25.4mm, 27.2mm or 31.8mm and it's because of imperial bullshit

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not to mention that every single food product has metric measurements on the label as well.

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    Last panel should be the entire US Customary System, which is literally just a rescaling of the SI ("metric" system) units. US Customary is derived directly from SI.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Bicycle parts entered the chat

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I literally learned lessons on metric in public school

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    When I was young I lived in Puerto Rico for a few years (1980's). Milk was sold in either one litre cartons or one gallon jugs. Distances in road signs and road markers were in kilometers but speed was in miles per hour. Fuel was sold in litres but fuel usage is in miles per gallon.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You forgot measuring bullets.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Bullets are a weird, dumb one. Yes, kind of. But also: .308, .303, .30-06, .50 BMG .30-30, .45-70, .38, .32, .44, .45, .50AE. Then nonsensically basically all "30 calibre" are the same diameter, which is exactly not quite .3 of an inch. Most of those are calibrated by the metric system (as many imperial measurements are today), but the terminology exists in the imperial system.

    And then there's fuckin gauges for shotguns smh.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    The whole world uses both for various things. Even the countries that "officially" use metric. Specific global industries still use imperial. Canadian and British people are perhaps the most famous for combining the two, but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.

    And of course the whole conversation is Euro-centric and ignores the historical use of traditional measurement systems in Africa and Asia, but somehow that never gets brought up.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Let's not forget that the Apollo space program used SI units at every step, except for displaying it to the astronauts.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Which sports use metric in the US? Gridiron football uses yards, auto racing uses miles, baseball uses feet, etc. The only sports I can think of that use metric are track and swimming, and those aren't as popular outside of Olympics time.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    What are you talking about with the weed? It's sold in pounds, ounces, quarter ounces and "half quarters" which is as ridiculously un-metric as it gets.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    not to mention, the imperial system is just the metric system in disguise. An inch is defined as 25.4mm, and not by some universal constant, like a proper measuring system.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (17 children)

    Yeah, but you still have work tool measurements in 5/8, 7/32, and 13/64 or whatever the fuck dumbass measurements.

    I say this as an American that hates the way tools use measurments here.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I was just in the states and I didn't think the budtender understood grams so I was careful not to use that language lol

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