BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).message-squaremessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up1512arrow-down127
arrow-up1485arrow-down1message-squareA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square161fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down6·1 year agoWhat is this metric shit? I’m an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!
minus-squarezoe@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agou guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoYou say that like there’s a problem. It’s twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.
minus-squaresapetoku@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoMy car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
minus-squareFlightyPenguin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI don’t know what a hundredweight is, but I’m just guessing based on American experience that it’s a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.
minus-squarejvisick@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year ago1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoChevrolet camaros per gun.
minus-squareUnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoAr15s per school shooting.
What is this metric shit? I’m an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!
u guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet
You say that like there’s a problem. It’s twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
I don’t know what a hundredweight is, but I’m just guessing based on American experience that it’s a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.
1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.
burgers per bald eagle
Chevrolet camaros per gun.
Ar15s per school shooting.