What if we switched from pounds to kilograms overnight?

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Calm_Secret_1523@reddit

Your statement carries a lot of weight.

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hal2k1@reddit

Weight is a force, not a mass.

In the US there is indeed "mass confusion" because mass is measured in pounds but the force of weight is also measured in pounds.

In the global SI system mass is measured in kilograms but weight is measured in Newtons.

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Ewetootwo@reddit

Imagine walking into a pub in London and pulling out a kilogram note to buy a pint, mate!

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Apprehensive_lad1960@reddit

The Septics will piss emselves mate, please don't confuse them more than they already are (if that's possible 😉)

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lestmak@reddit

You’ve certainly considered the gravity of it all…

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2BallsInTheHole@reddit

There's that word again! Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational field in the future?

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Bentup85@reddit

It would be bananas on a massive scale!

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Alicam123@reddit

lol nice joke.

My brother just reminded me that Americans hate metric but use mm for their guns and bullets sizes……..

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thenasch@reddit

It's worse than that, some are metric and some aren't. 9mm, .30-06, 5.56mm, .223, etc.

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hide_pounder@reddit

Ant tires. LT235/75-R15

Width and aspect in mm, rim diameter in inches.

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supacrispy@reddit

Makes me wonder what the conversion rate from British pounds sterling to kilograms would even be

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NYY15TM@reddit (OP)

The same as from Schrute Bucks to Stanley Nickels

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Aescorvo@reddit

*Heavier

(OP didn’t say switch to using kilograms instead of pounds. Our pounds become kilos.)

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Githyerazi@reddit

IE: I now weigh 200 KG instead of 200 lb. So, heavier.

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Serious comment - a number of European countries (including France!) use "pound" (livre etc) as exactly 500g. The pound was used across Europe before the metric system, varying a bit, but was about half a kg or a bit less. Similarly in China there's at least one traditional unit that is now defined as a simple metric figure.

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NYY15TM@reddit (OP)

r/Kemosabe

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