BarqsHasBite to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).message-square166fedilinkarrow-up1544arrow-down129
arrow-up1515arrow-down1message-squareA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).BarqsHasBite to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink16•2 years 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-square@zoe@aussie.zonelinkfedilink6•2 years agou guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet
minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink5•2 years agoYou say that like there’s a problem. It’s twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.
minus-square@sapetoku@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink6•2 years agoMy car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
minus-square@FlightyPenguin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•2 years 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-square@jvisick@programming.devlinkfedilink5•2 years ago1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.
minus-square@UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zonelinkfedilink2•edit-22 years 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.