Reality Check by Dave Whamond for January 24, 2021

Parochial Merkins pretending they aren’t behind literally the entire rest of the world.

No. I mean let’s go get a freakin’ pint.

A Pint is not a freakin’ halfliter on anorexia. It’s 568 ml!

They may take our lives, but they’ll never make us go METRIC!

MY wife and I were raised in different religions, but neither of us ever converted to our spouse’s religion. (Horrors, a mixed marriage!!)

That guy’s all hat and no calamari.

And that beaver…Dam!

Oy!

A league is a unit of distance, not depth — need to convert it to kilometers.

Feh. Give them 2.54 cm and they’ll take 1.609344 km.

So many here unable to see the reality. America has used two measures on their packaging for decades for domestic and export items. A great deal of what they ship north is bi and tri lingual on the packaging. Yet the weak knees in Europe who cannot really even use one correctly, like to slag them. Truth is to convert road signs to metric would cost several trillion dollars and no one is gonna add that to the debt. I think Americans do just fine with either one just like older Canadians. And while we say we are metric a great many of our products like construction goods are imperial. We embrace the hybrid just like the USA does.

Learned metric almost 50 years ago in the 7th grade. When the class realized how easy it was, one student asked the teacher why the US had not converted to metric. The teacher gave and honest and matter of fact answer: “Because we’re stupid.”

It always seems odd to me when I see pills dosages listed at 1000 mg, I guess just saying 1 g sounds boring? Maybe they should say 1 billion ng to get people thinking it is really strong?

And I would walk 800 kilometers

And I would walk 800 more

Just to be the man who walks 1600 kilometers

To fall down at your door

Heck, let’s go get a whole liter….

Hmmm… nobody pointing out that yard is not a unit of distance in this context?

A ten gallon hat is a misnomer. The gallon in “ten-gallon hat” came from the Spanish “galón“ meaning “braid“, so a ten-gallon hat is a hat with a braiding around the brim and did not refer to the holding capacity of the hat.

Okay Ralph. burp. :)

Geez. Try walking a kilometer in my shoes.

I’ll take a real pint, please, not one of those undersized Yank ones.

Of course, if the Ancient Romans had modernized and dumped the Sextarius (1.14 pints or .546 liters) they might still be a super power.

Tire sizes use both, as do socket sets. The drive is always imperial- 1/4", 1/2", etc.

All the world uses metric, the one that doesn’t, put a man on the moon.