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2y ago

I prefer speeds per Swedes

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"Dongles per snongle" sounds like a British person measuring the gender ratio at their local pub
- Americans merely adopted the nonsensical measurements. The Brits were born to them.

Reminds me of an app I downloaded the other day to help plan routes. They asked for my cars "KPL".
Like what? Who in the world says KPL? It's l/100KM.
While I'm aware that some places may use KPL, it just seems very American to go "hey, we use MPG, so they must use KPL".
- I grew up with km/L.
  I don't mind using whatever scale, but it's somewhat better for comparing the numbers that cars actually use, because with l/100km every car is five something or six something.
  Also the higher numbers are better like everything else on the car comparison cards.
  
  Yeah maybe it’s just being an American but mpg makes sense in an intuitive way, so kpl sounds like it would be rightish. I’d never guess that people would use l/100km, and I use metric somewhat regularly in my personal life
  
  I'd love to know which cars you drive with 5-6 l/100km lol
  My best vehicle is 10. My worst is 28. Unless you're a hybrid, I don't know of a single vehicle doing 5-6l/100km
- PDF >
  
  We live in a society. You can't just come into a conversation and start using PDF.
- They use KPL in Japan at least, but I doubt the app was Japanese lol
- I'd imagine they were giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming everybody uses a metric that allows for 1 conversion to tell how far a tank of fuel will take you.

Dude it's such an easy conversion between dongles and whatsits, you just don't get how intuitive it is. There are 42.48 whatsits in a dongle, and 17.49 dongles in a shlorp. Europeans are overreacting so much
- "Europeans" LOL try the rest od the world
  
  I feel like this is part of the the joke because Americans often focus on Europeans when metric comes up. I'm Australian, and I have been assumed to be in Europe a number of times by US internet commenters on the topic haha
  
  To be fair, Europeans complain the most about it.

I prefer to measure speed in football fields per minute.
- As an american, It's easier when you convert football fields to watermelons and seconds to no healthcare. One you start thinking in terms of watermelons per crippling medical debt, everything clicks. You're welcome.
  
  Is this a joke about black people not being able to afford healthcare or something?
- You make dem der figures FPH n' you got a deal. I don't wanna be going no 600 yards a minute. I wanna be cruisin at 35000 yard and hour, ya hur?
  
  A mile is about 15 football fields, so if we did switch to using that measurement, we could all be going 1,000 on the freeway.

Wait, when did Michael Cera play Chekov?

My preference is yeets per feet

Not everyone here is stupid.
- No I'm doesn't...

I'm all for the Scott Pilgrim memes

Modern tech makes a lot of this irrelevant. I can drive from US into Canada, spend 5 seconds going through my cars settings, and have everything displayed in km, even the km I have left in the tank. It's like when coders use constants in their program, and only have to remember the constant name while the number it represents can change in a config header or something. The program still runs as normal while silently using the new value.
It's not really worth caring about. Not in everyday life. I'd say differently if you were a scientist or engineer. Metric should be the measurement system of all STEM.
- You could do that in old cars too, without even changing anything. A lot of them had a separate ring inside the speedometer showing KPH. But that doesn't mean the person understands the distance when told that their destination is 47 kilometers away and they're accustomed to miles.

america kilometers

Smog per smoglle

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