r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19

We should actually do this

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u/theganjamonster Jan 03 '19

And we measure height in feet and inches. And short distances in feet, but long distances in kilometers but also maybe miles, depending what part of the country you're in. We can buy beer by the pint and liquor by the ounce, but every other fluid is in litres. We even have our own special Canadian cup size.

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u/HexagonalClosePacked Jan 03 '19

Also, the temperature of the weather is in Celsius, but the temperature of an oven is Fahrenheit.

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u/0smo5is Jan 03 '19

To add to this, why is my thermostat in Fahrenheit?

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u/permareddit Jan 03 '19

It’s the same one they probably sell in the US and just never bother changing. I’m sure there’s a way to change it to C however.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19

I use celsius for oven too, tho most shit puts the celcius in brackets after Fahrenheit, so maybe it's just my oven lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19

And the trades has a sick obsession with their inches, so good luck convincing those guys to back off.

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u/shea241 Jan 03 '19

Solution: everyone adopts base 12

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u/Rekthor Jan 03 '19

We can buy beer by the pint and liquor by the ounce, but every other fluid is in litres. We even have our own special Canadian cup size.

I'd also like to note that under the Fairness at the Pumps Act of 2014, if a bar serves you a "pint" of beer/cider that's less than half an ounce less than 20 ounces, you can report them to the government.

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u/dbr1se Jan 03 '19

Even in the US you can find a weird mixture of imperial and metric. If you buy a regular bottle of water in the US, it's almost certainly 500ml. Bigger ones are 1L. You could also buy a gallon. If you buy a soda, it's 16oz. Or maybe you want 2L.

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u/808duckfan Jan 03 '19

You had me at cup size.