10 mo. ago • 98%

Anything but metric, please.

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Americans avoiding metric

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- According to experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms).
  
  The headline is entirely from the Jerusalem post. In Israel.
  
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  This makes it even funnier
  
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  That's as heavy as 7 and a half men stuffed into a 2 foot wide beach ball
  
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- Sorry to interrupt the circle jerk, but...
  
  https://ibb.co/3B6HqF7
  
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  For those not picking up on what this image is showing: the article that wrote and used this title was The Jerusalem Post. From Isreal.
  
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- This joke was funny half a score and a fortnight ago.
  
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Please give your mass in elephants per corgi³

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- Approximately 735 kilomice per fathombushel.
  
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- This would be density. Mass in elephant and volume in corgi
  
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We will use any, and I do mean anything, other than metric as units of measurement. I think because if you do so much as measure a meter, you'll start sucking dick and change genders or something.

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- Can confirm. I started working at an Asian automotive manufacturer using metric measurements and I came out as bi and started HRT within two years. We need to shine a light on the straight man to bisexual metric femboy pipeline that's destroying America!
  
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  Obviously you don't need to answer because it's not your job to educate anyone about your identity, much less a random stranger. But I've never heard of hrt for a man-to-femboy. Would you consider yourself cis? Is femboy your gender identity, or do you consider yourself a boy who just chooses to present feminine? (I'm agender so I don't even know what it's like to identify as anything at all!)
  
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  Maybe 🤔 f you weren’t staring so much, that wouldn’t happen.
  
  (The typo made it even funnier)
  
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Is it small corgi sized or large corgi sized?

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- Probably large corgi sized small corgi sized boulder sized.
  
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  The size of an entire city in Colorado?!
  
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- I'm pretty sure a corgi is an international unit of measurement.
  
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- Just says corgi so I’d assume an average one. They’d probably have said if it was bigger, and gone to a slightly larger dog like perhaps a beagle or a cocker spaniel
  
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  Average sized corgi is not exact enough for me dissertation.
  
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"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it!"

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I guess not.

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Even a sphere with the diameter of a corgi would be 80% denser than tungsten. Oh I missed the baby part. I went with 8000 lb for the low end of an elephant.

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- They need to be more specific if referring to an Asian or African baby elephant. According to Mr Internet, a newborn African elephant is about 165 kg (364 lb.) and a newborn Asian elephant is about 91 kg (200 lb.).
  
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- How many baby elephants equal an adult elephant?
  
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  And where will they get the trenchcoat?
  
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- Until your post, I thought the description was pretty good. I can visualize a Corgi. I can visualize 4 elephants. I can visualize the mass of those 4 elephants in a Corgi shape. It gets a general idea of magnitude across and it's a neat mental picture.
  
  Four Baby elephants, though? I have a really hard time with that. Why 4 of them? Is that like 1 adult? I can't visualize a baby elephant relative to a Corgi, let alone to an adult elephant. It's all complicated.
  
  I think they had a good idea but they fucked up the execution.
  
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  I think the article author or maybe editor (whoever makes the titles) just got tunnel vision on trying for a relatable animal based comparison and nobody told them to stop.
  
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Right now, hundreds of upper middle class suburbanite Texans are furiously looking for the breeder who will sell them a coveted elephant sized meteor corgi.

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- Half the phone system in Dallas just went down.
  
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Corgis are the Queen's measurement. Elephants are the African measurement. Stop mixing and matching!

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- Is this a European or African meteorite?
  
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  gets yeeted
  
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How many nautical wombats to a baby elephant again?

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- Hey, mate. We use metric down here and wombats aren't real. We just stitch dead possums together, stuff them with plaster, and put them upside-down on the side of the road for tourists to make sure they don't speed.
  
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And once we determine how many parsecs of velocity the meteor had we can calculate AA batteries of kinetic energy.

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So... like... a teenage elephant?

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It's four baby elephants now? I swear last time I read this it was two baby elephants.

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- Careful now, or it'll be 8 next time.
  
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Who downvotes this? Especially knowing that voting is entirely irrelevant- what is wrong worn people?

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I'm pretty sure a corgi is an international unit of measurement.

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