memes

10310 readers

2341 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

!tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
!linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
!comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website

804

Americans using anything but the metric system (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.world

135 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, when people give me measurements in Metric, I just get confused as I have no frame of reference

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

1 meter ≈ one large step

1 centimeter ≈ width of an index finger

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

that helps with the centimeter, not so much the meter

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Its the width of 100 index fingers

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meter is about the length of your leg, if you're average sized.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

1 meter = roughly 1 european badger (with tail)

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's your frame of reference when using imperial?

[–] Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

The inch is 3 grains of barley of course! At least the kind of barley they had In the 14th century. Alternatively the length of 12 poppy seeds in a line. You probably have lots of those lying around your house right?

The foot is about the size of a clown shoe, duh!

And the mile is about the length of 1000 paces from a malnourished roman soldier

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

And inch is the length of a finger between knuckles, a foot is the obvious and a yard is the length of my stride

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

Same is true for feet, miles and whatever.

It's a matter of habit. You intuitively know how much foot is, how much mile is, and it's only a matter of time and habit that you start intuitively getting meters and centimeters the same way.

But for as long as you make this transition, remember that:

1 inch is about 2,5 cm,
1 foot is about 1/3 of a meter
1 mile is about 1,5 kilometers.

Yes, those are not super accurate, but those are simple numbers and they give you a quick idea.