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You know the problem with that one. I suggest Herren Rennen instead.
Yes, Herren Rennen is much better, Dankeschön!
You're welcome, mein Kerl. Bitteschön!
This is THE way.
Yeah, imperial is... confusing... like you have inches, but then you don't get decainches, you get feet 😒. And then you don't have kiloinches, you have miles 🤦.
What drives me nuts is that everyone likes to pretend America came up with this shit. But it was Britain, they just decided to abandon it for a new standard and were were too busy building a damn country and hating Britain to just adopt a new measurement system.
they at least saw the dogshit and put then away
Ok, ok, you're right, I won't tease you guys any more about this 😂.
It’s easy though. 1 mile is approximately 8,448 bananas long.
- 1 foot = 1.2 decainches
- 1 yard = 3.6 decainches
- 1 mile = 5.28 kiloinches
- 1 mile = 1.76 kiloyards
WTF, I though they were related in 10s, that's not even true 🤦.
EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they're related in 12s, like in dousens... why, WHY!
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It’s not like base ten is some magic thing that’s better in all aspects. I’ll admit that imperial is inconsistent sure, but a dozenal system makes sense when you need to divide things a lot. One foot being twelve inches means you can half, quarter, third, or sixth it without dealing with fractions
I have to agree though that this is true. Still, it makes it more difficult if you have to work with 10s, like take a 10th of the measurement.
EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they’re related in 12s, like in dousens… why, WHY!
Haha, if only.
Distance
-12 inches = 1 foot
-3 feet = 1 yard
-22 yards = 1 chain
-10 chains = 1 furlong
-8 furlongs = 1 mile
Weights
-16 drams = 1 oz
-16 oz = 1 pound
-14 pounds = 1 stone
-8 stone = 1 hundredweight = 112 lb
-20 hundredweight = 1 ton
Volume
-20 fluid oz = 1 pint
-8 pints = 1 gallon
What? They measure in chains and stones 🤨 😂. I actually didn't know that 🤣🤣🤣. Regarding oz, I thought it was a liquid (volume) measurement unit... cuz I've seen it on milk containers... oh well, guess I was wrong 😂.
EDIT: Oh wait, no, it's for both weight and volume 🤣🤣🤣.
EDIT 2: Nope, there is a volume and a weight oz 🤣, this thing just keeps getting better and better 🤣.
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Then they also use 1000ths of an inch. Because fuck it, let's just throw in a single base 10 unit.
Biggest dislike is lb-mol and Rankine. Like, it you're gonna do science, use the metric system, Jesus. Ain't no one gonna take you seriously using your off-brand clown units.
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And now let's look at our time units... leap years, leap second. A month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. A day has 2*12 hours. An hour has 60 minutes or 3600 seconds (Babylonian mathematics :) )
I see room for improvement.
- perennial calendar
- specifically, leap week calendar
- bonus: leap week calendars can use ISO 8601 week numbering since it already accounts for leap weeks
There is always a room for improvement. :)
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I mean, I feel kinda same too but maybe someone will find a better things to write.
Where is the first picture from? I've only seen the statue in Bremen (Germany), but never really looked up what it meant or where it really comes from.
Please help me I've been balancing the donkey on this seesaw for 30 years
Are you the cat or the dog? (By the way the cat's just pretending to help.)
Imperial was based on using body parts and common items to measure things. Inch was about the width of a mans thumb, foot the size of his foot, yard was the length of his arm, etc. But we have more access to things to measure now so like its kinda pointless but just stuck.
I wonder if someone made the imperial side make sense in imperial either via length or weights lol.
That would be a challenge :)
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