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SyllabubCute3004@reddit

The Slack Handful is my favourite unit when cooking

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PatchcordAdams@reddit

I like lumens. I was trying to find some stuff online for a lighting course I was doing and stumbled across to foot-candle! Horrific.

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DreamingofBouncer@reddit

Wales, measuring countries in number of times Wales would fit in it

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Conscious-Ball8373@reddit

There is in fact a while system of units based on Wales as the unit of measurement: https://share.google/ECyv3pZCfx1cEr3AN

Yes not without its problems. For instance, the units of area and length are not consistent, with one square linguini bearing no resemblance to the nanoWales. Also, time is completely omitted from the system, being left as a derived unit,, linguini per percentage of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum. Arguably, though, these problems are small compared to those facing Americans on a daily basis.

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flippertyflip@reddit

Wales would fit inside Wales exactly once, for reference.

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keithmk@reddit

Is that including the islands such as Anglesey?

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OldGodsAndNew@reddit

Incase anyone's wondering, Wales would fit in England 6.3 times and in Scotland 3.7 times

It would fit in Russia 823 times

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Sugared-Lemon-Zest@reddit

How many football fields is that?

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Soukchai2012@reddit

Thats a shitload of tennis courts

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wintermute023@reddit

But how many tennis courts are there in an Olympic swimming pool?

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ToManyTabsOpen@reddit

some shite youtube channel I quickly closed did a meaurement in "costco carparks"

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No_Topic5591@reddit

It's normally used as a metric unit of environmental degradation:

1000 penguins = 1 polar bear

1000 polar bears = 1 area of rainforest the size of Wales

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Retiredandrelaxed@reddit

Bananas for scale. How many bananas fit in Wales?

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

That is oddly a thing it seems.

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Acceptable-Sentence@reddit

https://youtu.be/h6c5jNiXSMQ?si=ObVDIuWy8Qmwy93J

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

That was funny 😁

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ChanceBranch1146@reddit

Hands.

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bondinchas@reddit

The mileposts on our motorways measure in kilometres, but the signs show distances in miles.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

And exits in yards

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bondinchas@reddit

What's really annoying is when using Google Maps or Waze, you're forced to use either all metric, or all imperial. I want miles, but I don't want distances in feet, I want metres. "Turn right in 275 feet" WTF!

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Madeline_Basset@reddit

One year, my county council's free newsletter thing reported the amount of grit they'd spread on the roads that winter.

Measured in polar bears.

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

Divide feet by three to get meters. It's close enough for stuff like that.

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Noetherson@reddit

By the time I've done so I've missed my junction

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netean@reddit

IIRC correctly the exit markers for junctions on motorways and dual carriageways are actually in metres: 300, 200 and 100 intervals.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Not according to the government.

Motorway signs, signals and road markings - GOV.UK https://share.google/4G7cnSYkoFS6Q4Y05

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poke_pants@reddit

And the digital gantry signs tell you in time.

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Madeline_Basset@reddit

I like to measure vehicle fuel efficiency in cubic kilometers per light-year.

Not unreasonable - 40 miles per gallon is about 0.67 km³/ly

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MisstianoPenaldo@reddit

Everything in metric, the only non metrics I know are pints and miles but I don't see the point in them being non metric

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DeadBallDescendant@reddit

So pubs didn't have to replace every glass they owned.

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MisstianoPenaldo@reddit

I mean sure, but surely there's a transition period - pubs don't keep glasses forever and I wouldn't say it should be mandated, just going forward swap it over

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TheThingwithTheFeath@reddit

Parsecs, because Han Solo got it wrong in Star Wars and I’m a nerd. (It’s a unit of length, which comes from how much nearby stars seem to move over time in the night sky)

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

Millihelens.

Helen of Troy was said to have a face that launched 1,000 ships (I assume she looked like a slipway).

Millihelens are a unit of beauty showing how many ships a specific face could launch.

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Demostravius4@reddit

I'm literally sitting opposite my MIL who is called Helen. She found this very funny, we've now moved onto what the collective noun for a group of Helens should be.

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dwhite21787@reddit

Wheels. Helen wheels.

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Scotchnittenpoopen@reddit

An orgy of Helen’s

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Watchkeys@reddit

This is brilliant.

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StarGazing55@reddit

I know right, this person has just made my day. I will now be looking at everyone's face trying to gauge how many Millihelens (MH) or indeed Helens (H).

Friend: "Mate, they were pretty good looking, like an 8/10 for sure."

Me: "So around 647 MH then? Or 0.65 Helens, rounding up of course."

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No-Jicama-6523@reddit

MH would be megaHelens! MilliHelens would be mH.

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EUskeptik@reddit

I guess either Sydney Sweeney or Zendaya must be around the 2500 mark.

-oo-

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utukore@reddit

The /10 scale just became ancient history. Millihelens are the new standard.

We have a roof, but need a zero floor to properly bracket.
Any suggestions, other than 'your mum' ofc.

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Politicub@reddit

I really like this, thank you

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Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit

so it takes one millihelen to launch one ship then?

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

Yup, it can be converted to 2.5kJ.

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swoticus@reddit

However a millihenry is a legitimate scientific unit

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R2-Scotia@reddit

This is or used to be spelled out in the Guiness Book of Records

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Geezer-McGeezer@reddit

My coke comes in grams.

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Ok_Youth_5560@reddit

But your dealer might buy it in ounces pounds or kilos

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EntrepreneurAway419@reddit

Mine does it in tonnes

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peelyon85@reddit

I thought it was 3 for a ton?

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2muchroom@reddit

3 bags are about a gram

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McOnePot@reddit

3 bags are supposed to be between 1.2g (0.4g tickets) and 1.5g (0.5g tickets)

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detinUi@reddit

1 bag is 0.5 round my parts

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

Bash that's cut to fuck in somebody's garage. 3 for a ton, you're only feeling that first line and then the rest does fuck all for the rest of the night. You could snort all three grams and feel the same as you did after the first line.

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ToManyTabsOpen@reddit

But the real measurement is rails, lines and bumps?

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adymann@reddit

I believe there's two types of keys.

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Meta-Fox@reddit

Yup. One key for me, another for thee.

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TheGorgieGeorgie7492@reddit

My beer comes in gallons.

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Acid_Monster@reddit

Yet you can buy both a gram and an “eighth” which is 1/8 of an ounce.

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pielad@reddit

New born babies are measured in kg now ‘round my way

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mike9874@reddit

My kids were 4.2 and 4.0Kg when they were born. People used to look at me confused when I said it and ask if that's about 9 pounds.

9lb is 4.1kg, so the answer is yes for both kids

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saxbophone@reddit

Thank goodness! The thought of still enthusiastically using these obsolete measurements irks me!

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Miss_Type@reddit

They're not obsolete if people are still using them.

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keithmk@reddit

My youngest was born nearly 50 years ago and we were told his weight in kg

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

Oh I was told in pounds and ounces for a new born last year. I suppose they converted it.

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No-Jicama-6523@reddit

There’s usually a chart on the wall next to the scales.

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pielad@reddit

Maybe depends where you are. Kg since 2022 for me…people still love to use lbs and ounces though when they ask. I always as whether they work in old money or new money if they ask.

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matto1990@reddit

And the night red book has a table at the back to convert from kg to lb and oz

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Rawshark96@reddit

The stramge thing is that the red book converts it differently than a calculator would. No idea why.

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KeepOnTrippinOn@reddit

My mate I work with measures distances in boots. He doesnt seem to realise people wear different sizes.

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Acrobatic-Ad584@reddit

Football fields and buses

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Sugared-Lemon-Zest@reddit

Yup. School buses. Did you know that the Space Shuttles had cargo holds so big that you could have fitted a school bus in there?

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Acrobatic-Ad584@reddit

Excellent! That's a lot of luggage

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Made_Up_Name_1@reddit

My favourite unit of measurement is Planck lengths.

Unfortunately there are (probably) 618,714,249,917,246,969,073,568,217,886,410 in a cm so it does confuse the guys down the timber shop when I send my order in.

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

When you want a metre of wood and you ask for 61,871,424,991,724,696,907,356,821,788,641,000 plancks and they deliver you a whole rainforest

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PHILSTORMBORN@reddit

At least we don't really use fahrenheit any more.

The ISO (216) A, B and C standard for paper sizes is my favourite. I won't have a word said against it.

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

The paper standard is completely underrated. The average person genuinely has no idea how easy it makes life. The US just has seemingly arbitrary sizes for their paper and none of it makes sense

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glytxh@reddit

That paper standard is mathematical perfection made tangible.

Its wonder is only equal to its seeming banality.

My favourite size is A5.

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Southern-Bandicoot@reddit

At least we don't really use fahrenheit any more.

Degrees Rankine is a difficult unit of temperature measurement to use.

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ACharredCell@reddit

Also, I actually weigh myself in kilograms and can never remember how much humans are meant to weigh in stone and pounds.

When the doctor asked me my weight recently I said "56" and then, after a short pause, added awkwardly "kilograms!" as though she might've thought I meant 56 stone or indeed 56 pounds... 😭

On the subject of doctors, it really winds me up when my blood test results come back with no units specified. We used to get told off at school for omitting the units!

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Fine_Cress_649@reddit

I weigh myself in kg because I know I was 11 stone when I was 25 and I don't care to know how that relates to what weight I am now.

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

LOL I feel that. I'm way too big, like 170KG at the moment. That's nearly 30 stone, but I want to be below 20 like I was when I was a kid

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keithmk@reddit

I too use Kg for my weight and cm for my height. I no longer drink draft beer so drinks are in ml or litres. I had to give up my licence on health grounds about 7 years ago so again distances are all Km to me. I no longer have an image in my mind of the old outdated units

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No-Jicama-6523@reddit

It’s milligrams of mercury, mmHg, but 120/80 is correct because the units cancel.

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ACharredCell@reddit

Nah, not blood pressure -- blood tests for various things (hormones, iron/ferritin, vit D, calcium, etc. etc.... to be honest I can't remember them all), some of which are not always reported in the same units, making it slightly confusing when the units are omitted (though I think usually you can figure it out). Thanks though!

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

Christ, how small... I mean how tall are you to be 56 kilogrammes?! I'm literally double your weight and I'm not exactly overweight

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ACharredCell@reddit

166 cm, so not actually underweight! (Though I was for a long time and possibly still recovering from that -- not sure whether I have reached my "set point" weight yet). You three with significantly higher weights than mine almost certainly also have significantly greater muscle mass; my arms were 100% marshmallow until very recently 😅

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Arbdew@reddit

Used to have a maths teacher who would shout "2.3 what? 2.3 elephants?" if you left the units off. Sometimes she'd switch it up to tigers. Those were exciting lessons.

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ACharredCell@reddit

Thanks for this, I might try using something similar on the next medical professional with whom I have to discuss my blood test results... 😂

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flippertyflip@reddit

56 is tiny. I fluctuate around 90kg. Not fat, just very tall.

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wintermute023@reddit

I fluctuate around 95. I’m not that tall. 😢

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CaffeinatedDaddy@reddit

Pint

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Freedom-For-Ever@reddit

kts - for measuring boat speed.

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lordntelek@reddit

Buttload. Self explanatory. It’s a real unit of measure. 477 litres of beer or wine.

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repair-it@reddit

I used to laugh when timber came in metre lengths and imperial widths.

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Formal-Proposal7850@reddit

It still does in Canada

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CoffeeandaTwix@reddit

And at least nominally in the UK where we use Canadian Lumber Standard for dimensional timber...

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ron_mcphatty@reddit

Due to rigorously embedded initial training I enjoy reporting the occasional millibars of pressure at work, even though I should be using hectopascals.

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CoffeeandaTwix@reddit

Especially in vacuum application, pressure is probably one of the measurements that sees the highest number of units used in a given application, Bar, Pascals, Torr, PSI, mmHg

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PresterJonny@reddit

I used to love a gram

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yossanator@reddit

Planck Length

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cappsy04@reddit

Bawhair

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CoffeeandaTwix@reddit

Or for tighter gaps, the imperial cunt hair.

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Acrobatic-Shirt8540@reddit

As in "half a bawhair away from..."

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lardarz@reddit

Horsepower

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CommonSpecialist4269@reddit

My favourite is the slug. Approximately 32.174 lb mass.

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No_Explanation_6416@reddit

Knobs. Knobs of butter

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ihathtelekinesis@reddit

I don’t mind as long as you don’t pronounce kilos as “kg”.

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Sxn747Strangers@reddit

British imperial but can use metric fairly interchangeably but not for miles and pints, they’re still miles and pints.

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Alternative-Sea-6238@reddit

Newborn babies are weighed in grams. It's just that the parents constantly insist on knowing in pounds and ounces, despite the fact that we switched to metric decades ago.

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UmaUmaNeigh@reddit

Hands. Used to measure horses to the withers, or shoulder. 4 inches to a hand, eg: 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.0 hh

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RTB897@reddit

Imperial for estimating and metric for doing actual measuring.

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bondinchas@reddit

And both systems to buy the wood and plumbing you've measured for...

A 2.4m length of 4"x2", and a 15mm compression joint with a 3/4" thread.

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Serendipity_Shadows@reddit

And when the invoice comes, it's 2400 x 100 x 75. And do you want that as 2.4 lengths or 2.4 linear metres?

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francisjosephmurphy@reddit

A beer.

Not a pint, a beer.

A unit of time, of value, of members of a group, and still a tasty beverage.

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

I only do metric. People tell me the other measurements and I smile and nod. I even repeat them. I have no idea what they are though.

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Paulstan67@reddit

I quite like some of the old fashioned measurements.

Football pitches.

Tennis courts.

And of course double decker busses.

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James_White21@reddit

Football pitches, double decker buses and elephants are the universal units of measurement

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CalicoDesertOasis@reddit

Tbf I measure my height and weight in metric. 67kg and 170cm just makes more sense than like... 10 st 7 lbs? (Says Google) and 5'7".

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Longjumping_Pilot840@reddit

Units are great! Especially in the UK where they are ALL used.

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BoomalakkaWee@reddit

I measure the brightness of torchlight by the Blean.

http://meaningofliff.free.fr/definition.php3?word=Blean&lang=

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Whulad@reddit

Pints

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CCaravanners@reddit

Anything / Everything Metric, not a hint of measurement in the Feudal System!

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glytxh@reddit

I kinda like the chaotic nature of living in the UK and using half a dozen different measurement standards just going through daily life, without really thinking that hard about it.

It’s a delightful mess, but also really British.

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Scotchnittenpoopen@reddit

Same, it’s a glorious hodgepodge

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glytxh@reddit

Kinda sums up the broader language and culture too. It’s just a bit of everything all at the same time, brewed for a few thousand years.

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prustage@reddit

The League.

I'd much rather say "I've travelled forty leagues to be here" than "I just drove 200km".

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BraveLordWilloughby@reddit

Yard. I used to work with a lot of old farts who became violently ill at the mention of foreign muck like the metre.

Stone and Pounds is grest also. Especially in its older form, when a Stone was not universally 14Lbs. A Stone of corn may be X amount of Lbs, whilst a Stone of beef was Y amount of Lbs.

IlThough it worked well. A live cow was X-Lbs to a Stone, whilst the butchered meat was Y-Lbs to a Stone. The ratio was worked out so that if you took an 80-Stone beast to the butchers, you recieved back 80-Stone of meat. The ratios of Lbs-Stone had to he different to take into account the wastage and bones, which traditionally belonged to the butcher.

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jonpenryn@reddit

i favour the trad units myself. a *uck ton or even a Metric *uck ton, which is comprised of many Shed loads, smaller quantities are a tad or even a smidgin, or a dash.

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Kirstemis@reddit

My favourite measurements? From smallest to largest - a gnat's bawhair - a dollop - a good dollop - a shed load - hunners - absolute fuckton

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Scotchnittenpoopen@reddit

Thumb.

As in rule of thumb.

Apparently you could beat your spouse with nothing wider than a thumb. Jeremy Beadles wife asked for his other hand.

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helpnxt@reddit

Ml or Kelvin

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Fast_Apple_2237@reddit

As a cricket fan I would say chain

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miseod@reddit

Buttload

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shornscrot@reddit

Sorry but we don’t have litercola

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Watchkeys@reddit

I like that we measure ourselves in feet, but horses in hands. Never understood why we don't measure them in 'hooves', which would keep the 'feet' parallel going and yield rougly the same results.

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windy_on_the_hill@reddit

An 'ell' is the same as a cubit? New one to me.

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Watchkeys@reddit

Bloody 'ell ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ell

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Arbdew@reddit

Ponies are now measured in centimetres, so 128cm, 138cm, 148cm corresponding to 12.2hh, 13.2hh, 14.2hh.

Personally, I am fond of hundredweights. I can estimate the weight of a cow or a horse in hundredweight, but have to do the conversion in my head to kg. Takes a bit longer to get the right dose of wormer for them. Can't beat the relation between a long acre and width and length.

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Rowing_Boatman@reddit

I work with GSM (grams per square metre) a lot

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copperstallion69@reddit

W chuj

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fuk_ur_mum_m8@reddit

I remember having to use "barns" during my degree. Fuck knows what it's for but I still think it's a stupid name for a unit, and hence my favourite.

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THXORY@reddit

Depends where you buy your milk. Many supermarkets sel it in litre bottles. And the bottles also always have a litre measurement on. Personally, I don't ever look at the pint measurement because I was only taught metric measurements at school

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windy_on_the_hill@reddit

The specific measurements of particular industries in times past.

A goppenful (spelling entirely questionable) was a double handed scoop of meal or animal feed.

E.g. "Put three goppenfuls in that bucket for the calves."

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ec362@reddit

“Today on North Norfolk Digital, we’re asking…”

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Remarkable_Movie_800@reddit

I measure and weigh myself in kilos and cm. I measure everything in decilitres, litres etc. Weigh everything in grams.

Unfortunately have to drive in miles lol I know how much 100 metres is, but not really sure about yards.

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CCaravanners@reddit

You only need a speedo that’s capable of showing speed in the feudal system (miles/hour). Everything else on your car and gps can be set to metric, odo can be in km and you’ll even get a MOT pass in that unit. Distances on road signs go to precisely where anyway ;)

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WheresWalldough@reddit

Chains

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stu55sy@reddit

Rods, poles and perches. Bushels and pecks

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NoobOfTheSquareTable@reddit

An acre is objectively the best as it is the area a full team of oxen could plough in one day

This is a far more useful measurement than a hectare, two of which you could plough in a 5 day week which is pure coincidence because of comes from the French standardising everything so 100 square metres. They are just lucking that it vaguely lines up with the remaining 7 day week system the tried to ditch and the work an ox team could do if you work 5 days of it

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wintermute023@reddit

Is that a standard acre? Or a Devon acre, or Yorkshire, or anywhere else?

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ImNotHalberstram@reddit

I'm so very lost

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NoobOfTheSquareTable@reddit

An acre is just what a family could plough in a day with an ox team, it’s a measurement that came from life

Now, in the revolution the French were standardising everything and so they standardised land areas to give the world the metre and then from this they made the hectare which is tied purely to metric measurements and nothing to do with how much a family can work. Purely by coincidence 2 hectares is very close to 5 acres

Now, if you plug this into the 7 day week with 5 days working it looks sort of useful.

Now the problem is the french also tried to turn the week into a 10 day system to follow the metric system which meant that the hectare is only sort of useful because the 10 day week failed to be adopted

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Shitelark@reddit

Never break the chain...

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AnonymousGimp@reddit

Remember, 80 cricket pitches to the mile 🤣

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

*wickets 😛

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WheresWalldough@reddit

A square chain is a unit of measurement in Indonesia, though they treat it as 400 square metres.

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AnonymousGimp@reddit

Ah Ok . Here in the UK it's 1/80 of a mile. I didn't realise or expect it to mean something different in another country

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WheresWalldough@reddit

no it's the same thing. 22 yards is roughly 20 metres

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Vehlin@reddit

10 chains to a furlong and 8 furlongs to a mile

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JohnCasey3306@reddit

Pica and points ... Because I'm a pretentious typography enthusiast.

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Draigdwi@reddit

The Sami in north Scandinavia measure distance in reindeer pee. Reindeer pee at exact distance when they walk, iirc it was 7,5 km.

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Sugared-Lemon-Zest@reddit

This is more or less correct. Let's add that it's when a reindeer is pulling a sleigh.

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

Wait they pee every 7.5km? That's real odd.

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Draigdwi@reddit

I haven’t checked. Just read it somewhere.

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ConsciousRuin7493@reddit

We measure things in angstroms at work!

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Organic-Violinist223@reddit

When I overlap protein structures to look at conserved atoms we too use the Â!

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Sugared-Lemon-Zest@reddit

It's Å, isn't it?

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swoticus@reddit

I had a weird moment recently where I'm used to talking in nm and considered angstroms to be a silly tiny unit and the language of atoms. Then I realised a nm is only 10 angstroms and I'd been living in the atomic world all along.

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MaverickFegan@reddit

Knots

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dazed1984@reddit

Miles. Marathons are 26.2 miles not 42.2km.

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fussyfella@reddit

I am in my 60s and learned nothing but metric units at school and having trained and worked in Science, I despise Imperial units and wish the UK would just bite the bullet and do metrication properly.

If there is one unit I really really hate it is stones, I mean what idiot though 14 was a great size for any unit?

If you want one SI unit I like most, it is the radian, after all having π as part of a definition is pretty cool. More practically I like tonne (or metric ton) as it is so close to an Imperial ton, you can just use it in conversation without bothering to say which one it is. Of course American's are not quite so lucky as their ton is a bit smaller but hey, their use of units is even madder than the British ones.

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-thisname-@reddit

An area the size of Wales

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glytxh@reddit

The ‘couple of weeks ago’.

It can mean any point between two weeks ago, and some point in late 1997.

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Formal-Proposal7850@reddit

glytxh@reddit

Remember the other day when that whole Covid thing kicked off?

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Formal-Proposal7850@reddit

I do. Do you remember the other day when Bojo got stuck on the zip line?

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glytxh@reddit

What an innocent time that felt like.

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FantasticMrPox@reddit

What the fuck are you on about? 1997 was a couple of weeks ago.

...

Lalalallalalalalalalalalalla

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glytxh@reddit

I’m afraid to take a nap these days just in case another couple of years seemingly just evaporate.

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RecentTwo544@reddit

The Metric Foot - exactly 30cm.

Invented and used by the BBC in their TV studios and I believe still gets some use in the film and TV industry today.

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dexington_dexminster@reddit

As a non-body builder, it amazes me how many kettle-bell enthusiasts have no idea what a pood (пуд) is.

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

What is a pood?

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bondinchas@reddit

I remember when I was a kid, the price of coal was given without any units. ie "13".

That's because there were 20 shillings in a pound and 20 hundredweights in a ton, so if something was 13 shillings per hundredweight, it was also 13 pounds per ton.

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mhok80@reddit

The 'fuck tonne'... Just a vague huge amount of something

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68_namfloW@reddit

Everything I buy I convert into how much diesel or beer I could buy.

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Formal-Proposal7850@reddit

Conversely, units of measurement I hate:

football pitches (I have never been to a football match)
London busses (double decker? bendy bus?)

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CapableSong6874@reddit

metric

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Thislsnotmythrowaway@reddit

Planck

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Worth_Gap4226@reddit

You know what's grey and comes in pints?

A elephant

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zoidao401@reddit

Rankine.

So we have Celsius, 0 is water freezing, 100 is water boiling. Nice

Then we have Kelvin, the Celsius scale shifted -273.15, so that 0 is absolute 0. Not much use in everyday life, but for scientific applications it has a place.

These make both make sense as measurements, in different contexts, but both still make sense.

Then you've got Fahrenheit, set to, for some strange reason, water freezing at 32 and boiling at 212, human body temperature was meant to be 100, but actually ending up at 98.6. The only redeeming feature I've ever been told, is 0-100 Fahrenheit is roughly the survivable environmental temperature range for humans. How true that is, I don't know.

Then we come to Rankine.

We take Fahrenheit, the scale with no scientific use, and shift it's 0 point to line up with absolute 0, something that is only useful in scientific contexts.

Its completely and utterly pointless, yet it exists. I relate to it strongly.

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dDtaK@reddit

If you’re still giving your height in feet and weight in stones you’re part of the problem.

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Williamishere69@reddit

Coke comes in pints at the pub if its from the tap

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FootballAndBicycles@reddit

Beer comes in 440ml, 500ml or 568ml, in cans. But pints, half pints (or third-pints apparently) in pubs

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OptionalQuality789@reddit

Can also come in 330ml cans.

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douxsoumis@reddit

MASTER CYRINDERRRRR!!

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feckarse-drinkgirls@reddit

568ml is an imperial pint iirc

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ClickerKnocker@reddit

Last time I came in a pint, I got barred.

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honestlyVERYhonest@reddit

So sorry man. My dad owns a bar and after close, anything goes. You're welcome to join the party.

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TakovacsPlays@reddit

Large boulders per small boulder.

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MonsieurGump@reddit

Carlos?

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cyanicpsion@reddit

'an area the size of Wales'

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thomasthetanker@reddit

"An Olympic Swimming Pool"....
I'm guessing very few of us could tell you if their local swimming pool is Olympic sized or not.

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box_frenzy@reddit

Cake and bread comes in slices

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rFAXbc@reddit

I've never weighed my doctor so not sure which system of measurement I would use

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Shitelark@reddit

2 Barn-Megaparsecs of sugar in your tea?

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

Stones. I can picture someone’s weight in stone, but not in pounds or kg. I can picture a pile of soil or sand in kg, but not people for some reason!

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TumblyBump@reddit

Wales.

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nemmalur@reddit

The yard of ale. A fluid measured with a unit of distance, served in a glass trumpet thingy.

Horses measured in hands.

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Far-Simple1979@reddit

Imperial. The metric system is the tool of rhe devil - Grandpa Simpson

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CR1SBO@reddit

Cheese is measured by the wheel

(Granted, there is no singular standard size of wheel)

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I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit

Cubits and leagues

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realestately@reddit

My wife's favorite is inches. I have several.

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CR1SBO@reddit

Where did you get them from? Asking for my wife

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saxbophone@reddit

New born babies are measured in pounds and ounces, yet you weigh yourself at home in stones, and the doctors in kilograms.

Lol, what‽ NO! 🤣

Sounds like someone's projecting their adherence to the use of the obsolete measurements! I weigh myself in kilograms, and I doubt I'm alone!

My favourite unit of measurement is the decilitre, being one tenth of a litre. My second-favourite is the lumen, being the rate of luminous flux (that's brightness to you and me).

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

I was being rhetorical with the post comment.

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

Same here. I used to weigh in stone, but switched 10 years or so ago

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saxbophone@reddit

Whenever anyone mentions weight in stone or ounces, I haven't the faintest clue what they're on about. I can understand pounds, as a rough conversion between these and kilos is relatively trivial.

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Dolphin_Spotter@reddit

The Barleycorn. UK shoe sizes are measured in Barleycorns.

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CF_Zymo@reddit

Smoots

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matto1990@reddit

The correct answer!

Fun fact: Oliver Smoot (who the unit is named after) later became the president of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and then later the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

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CR1SBO@reddit

Sounds like a standard Smoot worth of work.

If we can accept a unit be for both length, and effort in the field.

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yearsofpractice@reddit

My wife’s units for measuring the size of bees is individual fruit/veg - cherry tomato / grape / etc

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R3ddit300@reddit

PINTS

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RickCheesecloth@reddit

It comes in pints?

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CR1SBO@reddit

Call him a horse

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VeryTrueThing@reddit

The barleycorn. Never used it but on name alone it's my favourite.

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

You have used it loads! Shoe sizes are incremented in barleycorns!

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VeryTrueThing@reddit

Fantastic! I never knew that. Thank you.

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Draigdwi@reddit

And pepper corn for rent.

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cowboysted@reddit

I like barleycorns, known as shoe sizes. Adult shoe sizes are in numbers of barley corns.

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hunsnet457@reddit

Yard but that’s only because I haven’t got a clue how big they are. 50 yards? Could be anything.

*Because this is reddit: I don’t want to know, I want to keep the mystery alive.

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saxbophone@reddit

A yard is roughly a metre but slightly shorter

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hunsnet457@reddit

Could. Be. Anything.

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saxbophone@reddit

It's 0.9144m

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RickCheesecloth@reddit

The Tad

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ohmygoshtoomanynames@reddit

I don't have one, but I now have my new chat up line! Sure to woo all the EVERYONE with this question.

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Roofless_@reddit

Bananas

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KCPRTV@reddit

Pirateninja.

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BulldenChoppahYus@reddit

The Blue Whale is the single best unit of measurement. I am 0.08 blue whales tall.

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DifferentWave@reddit

For those old enough, being able to visualise how big an LP is/was is useful because you can then measure in 30cm increments when you’re out and about.

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Fine-State8014@reddit

A hogshead

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Time-Reveal-1056@reddit

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

Ohh I remember a pork barrel is a unit of measurement too, it's 200lbs/90.7KG

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Inner-Device-4530@reddit

My first job was at an engineering supplies company, where we sold transmission and drive chain. It was purchased from our supplier by the foot, we stocked it by the meter and sold it by the link.

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Impossible_Volume811@reddit

The great British pint is originally a French measurement, just like litres.

It came over in the 1300’s from Old French and for centuries we had different size local pints.

The official British pint size was finally settled on in 1824.

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FootballAndBicycles@reddit

And the American pint is just sadness in a glass when you order a beer and get just 473ml

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3_box@reddit

Your arm from elbow to wrist is the same length as your opposite foot. (Left arm to right foot & vice versa using palm upward)

Only issue I have is that my feet are a half size different....makes me wonder if my forearms are also half a shoe size different...I just don't have enough flexibility to check...yet! 🤣

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messedup73@reddit

In the winter I use centigrade and in the summer I prefer Fahrenheit remember my teacher explaining how to interpret each way.The sat nav in my car shows how many km to our destination but the fuel gauge says miles when we do a long car journey Im forever googling roughly when we have to stop for fuel my husband does the driving .I prefer stones and ounces for my weight but some ask for kg which is annoying.

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Sea_Pomegranate8229@reddit

Gold and Steel are both measured in Ounces, but which is heavier?

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nico735@reddit

I seem to remember someone measuring a hike in Greek cigarettes 1 = about 15 minutes or 2 furlongs, weird no?

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No_Topic5591@reddit

Grain.

Badminton shuttlecocks are sold in a range of "speeds" to account for the different atmospheric conditions (temperature, pressure, humidity) in different venues, which have a huge impact on the shuttlecock's flight.

These speed ratings, ranging from 75 to 79, are actually the weight of the shuttlecock, measured in grains - an old unit equal to the weight of a single grain of wheat (or 1/7000 of a pound) - equating to a weight between 4.86g and 5.12g

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Superspark76@reddit

Milk doesn't come in pints any more, it comes in half litres.

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

4 pints of milk

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Educational_Worth906@reddit

Not always. Tesco (first place I checked) sells pints, also marked as 568ml. And they do 2 and 4 pints, also marked in litres.

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Electricbell20@reddit

Smoots

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eejit_features@reddit

Bawhair: unit of measurement in Scotland. Basically close enough that a hair from your balls can just pass through

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firerawks@reddit

calories. of which 1000 calories makes 1 Calorie

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Penners99@reddit

My favourite length is 6 feet, but I can’t fathom why.

(I’ll get me coat)

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nico735@reddit

It comes from cricket, it’s the number of shoes a cricket wears, 6.

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obedientgirldream@reddit

definitely stick with pints

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SpecialLengthiness29@reddit

3 pints = a leg of beer because after 6 pints I'm legless.

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FrostyAd9064@reddit

Trying to explain to people not from the UK that Coke bought in a pub comes in pints, but bought from the shop in litres.

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swoticus@reddit

I walk in miles but run in km. I ride bikes in either depending on my mood. I have my Garmin set to miles and Strava set to km and I'm constantly switching between the two mentally when I'm out.

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Sad-Wrap6555@reddit

for awkward misinterpretation my favourite is the mil

cos it sounds like its a mm but is actually 1000th of an inch..

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mpjr94@reddit

Slug

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

It turns out that is a real unit of measurement 🙃

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JustJavi@reddit

And don't forget we get paid in whay feels like shillings.

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dnf1957@reddit

I used to work in Engineering and worked to microns, eg 0.001mm (1,000 microns in a millimeter) I also worked in calibration and worked to 0.00005mm.

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SoylentDave@reddit

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kalendral_42@reddit

Cricket pitches - everything is the size of x number of cricket pitches

Or things being the size of an Olympic swimming pool - news flash even an Olympic swimming pool is bigger than an Olympic swimming pool as they add a few inches each end to place the touch/turn pads

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AfterCook780@reddit

Beer in a pub in pints. Beer at home in ml.

Suitcases volume measured in litres despite us putting solids in them.

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thejaysta4@reddit

It’s Reddit, shouldn’t it be bananas? 🍌

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

Where can I find my scrolled bananas statistic on reddit?

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ACharredCell@reddit

I enjoy using furlongs in relation to canal boating (also locks, of course, as in "how many locks away from Fradley Junction are we?") because it makes me feel satisfyingly nautical.

...I also have no idea what they actually mean.

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YetAnotherMia@reddit (OP)

I really want to go on a canal trip on a narrowboat one day. Measuring in furlongs, following maps, all the locks, I'd nerd out.

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Wise-Independence487@reddit

Banana

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bobajob2000@reddit

A bawhair.

That car was a bawhair away from hitting me!

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