The full quote in dirty imperial units:

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.

– The Fast and the Furious

How was this translated to metric?

  • @[email protected]
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    82 hours ago

    I think since it was a reference to a drag strip it was translated as a quarter of a mile everywhere else. At least where I live we use metric and we still call it eight mile, quarter mile and half mile when it comes to drag events

  • @AnAustralianPhotographer
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    106 hours ago

    The movie I saw in Australia had the quote exactly as is. I’d like to think most of us recognize that a mile is a bit longer than a kilometer and that those distances are common in drag racing, so they’re referred to as is. If we were measuring distance from driving to another city it’s in kilometers and miles aren’t used.

    Tape measures have centimeters and inches on them. If I’m using approximations I might use inches and Subway has probably been the main reason Aussies know of inches and a foot.

    If I’m doing any scientific measurement like building a cabinet etc, it’s mm and cm.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    126 hours ago

    In Malaysia we use both metric and imperial even though we only learn metric in school, so ehh it’s still quarter mile

  • @jordanlund
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    106 hours ago

    402.335 meters. Just round it down. 400 meters at a time.

    • @psmgx
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      46 hours ago

      Most US tracks are 4 laps to a mile, or about 400 meters.

      • @TheBraveSirRobbin
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        44 hours ago

        Nah most US tracks are 400 meters, but everyone says quarter mile due to rounding

  • @radix
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    56 hours ago

    The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

    • gordon
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      36 hours ago

      I live my life 400m at a time

  • @[email protected]
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    36 hours ago

    Haven’t seen the movies in German so I can’t tell you what exactly he says. But distances in miles are generally kept in miles for German localisation (except for VERY rare cases), using the German word “Meile”. Especially when it’s not actually about a physical distance but vibes. We may not use miles to measure anything but we still have expressions like “meilenweit gehen” (to walk for miles, i.e. a very long distance) so it’s not like we don’t know what a mile is.

  • @[email protected]
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    36 hours ago

    It wasn’t, not really important to the plot? If it was half a mile or mile nothing would have changed. I have no idea how many bananas is it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      I guess it being a 1/4 mile isn’t directly relevant to the plot but the 1/4 mile is a standard measurement for a drag race.
      It does have meaning.

  • @j4k3
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    16 hours ago

    Lots of people call it the 1320. So just call it the 402. It doesn’t have the same linguistic rhythm but that is just semantics.

    • gordon
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      86 hours ago

      I live my life 400 meters at a time. For those 10 metric seconds or less nothing else matters.

      • @j4k3
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        56 hours ago

        I live my life 400 meters at a time. For those 91,926,317,700 ΔtCs or less nothing else matters.

      • @Hawke
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        26 hours ago

        I live my life 400 meters at a time. For those 12 .beats or less, nothing else matters

  • @Donjuanme
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    06 hours ago

    Feels like “I live a half kilo at a time” would be excellent.

    • @owatnext
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      25 hours ago

      The first thing that comes to my mind with kilo is weight.