• @cogman
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      1310 months ago

      The only issue I have with this is there’s a British gallon (that is DIFFERENT from the American gallon) that is used to measure milk. :D. That was the only place I saw gallon being used.

        • @cogman
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          710 months ago

          Still british units :D. In 1826 Britain decided to redefine gallon to mean “10 pounds of water”. The earlier standard was 231 cublic inches (potentially meant to be 8 pounds of water). The US never adopted the new gallon.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gallon

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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        310 months ago

        When I think tonne, I think 1000kg. When I think ton, I just think of the vernacular “tons of stuff” type expression.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        I mean there is have metric ton, british ton and american ton. Or tonne. Idk, its all the same in our language.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      110 months ago

      Actually, as much as I dislike imperial units, when it comes to body temperature I do think in Fahrenheit. Mostly because that’s how my mum would tell if we were too sick to go to school. 99 - just a little ill, but you can have the day off. 100 - pretty ill, probably at least 3 days off. 101+ - super mega ill, off all week.