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Nikki and Donald should have a bicycle race for 1/4 mile to declare the winner.
It would be a death too good for Trump, but I'll allow it.
BUT NO STAND-INS!
You know trump would use an electric bike
If it’s all downhill and Donnie can keep the wheels straight, he might win cause of gravity.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Imperial mile, a 1/4 mile is about 3.15 ounces.
In metric 1/4 km would be 250 meters, because metric makes sense, and k means thousand, and a quarter of a thousand is.... TADA 250! Go figure.
In Imperial 1/4 mile isn't 250 anything, or any other round number of any unit that would make sense, because imperial is stupid, making any conversion a chore. Yet some people keep using it because reasons?
What do you mean? 1/4 mile is 15,840 inches. Totally logical.
Ah yes silly me. Now it all makes sense. 😋
Nobody knows.
That was hilarious.😉 Ah yes flaffenfeit too, where 1 square foot of cotton increased 23 degrees flaffenfeit is 728 megajoule.
But in metric 1mm3 water = 1gram, increased 1C°= 1 calorie. I'd say one of those systems is better, and it aint imperial.
A mile was originally "mille passus", which was Latin for 1000 paces because that's what it was, making 1/4 mile 250 paces. Not exactly precise by modern standards, but actually a logical measure for walkable distances.
That's some pretty long paces? So why not use those instead of yawns? Then at lest there would be 1 point where imperial made sense. Not much, but better than nothing.
A pace is two steps. The Roman gradus, or step, was half of that, roughly in the neighborhood of a yard.