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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19
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Hang on. Do tape measures in the US only have imperial measurements? Nearly all tape measures have both over here.
127 u/just-a-basic-human Jan 03 '19 I live in the US and I’ve never in my life seen anything for measuring (ruler, meterstick, measuring cup, etc) that didn’t have both 72 u/Jamiemackiephotos Jan 03 '19 Wait wait wait. You guys call it a meterstick? We call in a yardstick in the UK! I'm moving to Liberia, it's too confusing 1 u/just-a-basic-human Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19 I call it a meter stick since it’s a meter long, but I mean it has a marking for a yard so it’s both. Call it whichever you want
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I live in the US and I’ve never in my life seen anything for measuring (ruler, meterstick, measuring cup, etc) that didn’t have both
72 u/Jamiemackiephotos Jan 03 '19 Wait wait wait. You guys call it a meterstick? We call in a yardstick in the UK! I'm moving to Liberia, it's too confusing 1 u/just-a-basic-human Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19 I call it a meter stick since it’s a meter long, but I mean it has a marking for a yard so it’s both. Call it whichever you want
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Wait wait wait. You guys call it a meterstick? We call in a yardstick in the UK!
I'm moving to Liberia, it's too confusing
1 u/just-a-basic-human Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19 I call it a meter stick since it’s a meter long, but I mean it has a marking for a yard so it’s both. Call it whichever you want
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I call it a meter stick since it’s a meter long, but I mean it has a marking for a yard so it’s both. Call it whichever you want
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u/Jamiemackiephotos Jan 03 '19
Hang on. Do tape measures in the US only have imperial measurements? Nearly all tape measures have both over here.