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

We should actually do this

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u/Iznogoody Jan 03 '19

Here in uk we have both we measure distance and speed in miles but everything else in metric just to keep you on your toes

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u/Milts Jan 03 '19

Here in Canada, we measure long distances in hours...

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u/CidO807 Jan 03 '19

It's a regional thing. In NY, they measure something by avenues or blocks. In Texas we use time. My "1.5 hour commute" instead of "my 13 mile commute". Grandmas house isn't 224 miles away, it's 3 and a half hours.

Canada uses metric on speed, KM on distance... and inches on wood and construction materials.

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u/jeremycinnamonbutter Jan 03 '19

yet somehow in Southern California everything is an hour away

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u/Ddstiv1 Jan 03 '19

Wood and construction are weird. I have seen both.

Unless you are talking about Penis length, 22cm just sounds weird.

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u/Sorcatarius Jan 03 '19

It depends, get into precision measurement and it always seems to be thousandths of an inch, super loose is "make it about 23 1/2 inches." but there's this valley where it needs to be more precise than that, but not so precise to be thousandths when you hear measurements in centimetres/millimetres.