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  • ScampiLover@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYou gained pounds
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    3 months ago

    It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
    “That needs to move 50cm” meant it had to move exactly 500mm
    “That needs to move a foot” meant just kick it over about a foot

    It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring