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I guess also bike wheel sizes, screens sizes. Height and body waist? Are you talking about the UK? Europe only uses inches for products that have certain expected sizes.
(may be a bit of an off topic rant)
The cluster fuck that is the UK's measurement system can be easily summarised by looking at fueling a car.
You fill your car from a pump that sells you litres of fuel. Then your car reports its fuel economy in miles per gallon.
How the fuck am I supposed to relate the 40 litres of diesel that I just bought to the 35 MPG on my dashboard without a fucking calculator?
I fucking hate it here. It's the exact same British exceptionalism that brought us fucking Brexit.
How long you been there you ain't figured out 4 and half liters in a gallon? you bought 8 3/4 gallons.
I do know that but my point is that I shouldn't have to know that. Imperial fluid measurements outside the pint aren't used anywhere else in my life.
Oh God forbid you learn something. Are you made every country hasn't switched to English too?
My brain is filled with far too much shite about measurements. I love all of it. I'm a great lover of odd and obscure imperial units. Please don't try to tell me I don't want to know.
The fuck? You literally said you don't want to.
"shouldn't have to" ≠ "don't want to*
they look the same to me