• quickpen
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    1 year ago

    I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.

    Two can play at that game, lol.

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      1 year ago

      Eh… The graph shows

      “Inches in 8.33 feet”, and those 3’s will go on forever like 8.333333333333…

      Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.

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      1 year ago

      It’s actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces

      But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone’s mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.

      Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system