• @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    247 months ago

    We will use any, and I do mean anything, other than metric as units of measurement. I think because if you do so much as measure a meter, you’ll start sucking dick and change genders or something.

    • cori <3 (she/her)
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      7 months ago

      Can confirm. I started working at an Asian automotive manufacturer using metric measurements and I came out as bi and started HRT within two years. We need to shine a light on the straight man to bisexual metric femboy pipeline that’s destroying America!

      • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        Obviously you don’t need to answer because it’s not your job to educate anyone about your identity, much less a random stranger. But I’ve never heard of hrt for a man-to-femboy. Would you consider yourself cis? Is femboy your gender identity, or do you consider yourself a boy who just chooses to present feminine? (I’m agender so I don’t even know what it’s like to identify as anything at all!)

        • cori <3 (she/her)
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          47 months ago

          I actually just thought the phrase “metric femboy” sounded funny. I could have probably used “metric catgirl” and it would have been more accurate.

          Serious answer: Femboy is sort of an intermediate step of sorts for me bc I haven’t come out publicly yet. I definitely identify as trans though.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Maybe 🤔 f you weren’t staring so much, that wouldn’t happen.

        (The typo made it even funnier)

        • @Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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          37 months ago

          I love how this image is simply getting more and more traction to meme US measurement units. Every time I see a meme about the measurement units, there is at least one comment about this, and if not, I’m doing my part!

          • kase
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            37 months ago

            Good work, fellow lemming. o7

            It is a fine image indeed.

    • @casmael@lemm.ee
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      37 months ago

      Just says corgi so I’d assume an average one. They’d probably have said if it was bigger, and gone to a slightly larger dog like perhaps a beagle or a cocker spaniel

      • Amilo159
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        27 months ago

        Average sized corgi is not exact enough for me dissertation.

        • @casmael@lemm.ee
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          27 months ago

          Perhaps we could break it down a bit, enforce a smaller dog as a sort of standard unit in cases like these eg a Yorkshire terrier or a chihuahua for instance

          • Amilo159
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            27 months ago

            That’s what I was thinking. One corgi and half chihuahua sized meteor.

            • @casmael@lemm.ee
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              17 months ago

              I’m not sure about mixing dog units like that tho, could get confusing. What’s the conversion between corgis and chihuahuas?

  • @tabularasa@lemmy.world
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    177 months ago

    “The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it!”

  • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    Right now, hundreds of upper middle class suburbanite Texans are furiously looking for the breeder who will sell them a coveted elephant sized meteor corgi.

  • Tb0n3
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    Even a sphere with the diameter of a corgi would be 80% denser than tungsten. Oh I missed the baby part. I went with 8000 lb for the low end of an elephant.

    • @ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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      157 months ago

      They need to be more specific if referring to an Asian or African baby elephant. According to Mr Internet, a newborn African elephant is about 165 kg (364 lb.) and a newborn Asian elephant is about 91 kg (200 lb.).

    • @silentknyght@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      Until your post, I thought the description was pretty good. I can visualize a Corgi. I can visualize 4 elephants. I can visualize the mass of those 4 elephants in a Corgi shape. It gets a general idea of magnitude across and it’s a neat mental picture.

      Four Baby elephants, though? I have a really hard time with that. Why 4 of them? Is that like 1 adult? I can’t visualize a baby elephant relative to a Corgi, let alone to an adult elephant. It’s all complicated.

      I think they had a good idea but they fucked up the execution.

      • Tb0n3
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        17 months ago

        I think the article author or maybe editor (whoever makes the titles) just got tunnel vision on trying for a relatable animal based comparison and nobody told them to stop.

    • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      37 months ago

      Hey, mate. We use metric down here and wombats aren’t real. We just stitch dead possums together, stuff them with plaster, and put them upside-down on the side of the road for tourists to make sure they don’t speed.

  • BarqsHasBite
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    107 months ago

    Corgis are the Queen’s measurement. Elephants are the African measurement. Stop mixing and matching!

  • @Rhoeri@lemmy.ml
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    27 months ago

    Who downvotes this? Especially knowing that voting is entirely irrelevant- what is wrong worn people?