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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're just so used to them ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Also, decimeter needs to be more normalized, describing everyone as "1 point whatever" meters tall is lame

[โ€“] teft@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where I live people say the height in centimeters, not meters but it's usually said like One Eighty Three instead of One Hundred Eighty Three.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't get over the American obsession with labelling liquids in Oz, what is that?

A lot of people don't understand where the Oz measurement comes from. 1 Oz of water is the smallest amount of water necessary to melt one witch. It used to be that it was also a measurement of witches in a given area, 4 witches of varying goodness was considered one Oz.