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The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System (thelemmy.club)
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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

IMO, the UK especially has no room to talk when it comes to measurement systems. They still use an unholy hodgepodge of imperial and metric and on top of that they have just a few weird as fuck things, like using 'stone' to refer to people's weight and nothing else.

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