@geekysteven Bicycles? Pfeh. That's Canadian. Americans use the grill of a Ford F-150.

@geekysteven yeah but we measure our balloon sizes in how many school buses.

@geekysteven Metric can't measure this amount of freedom! 😜

@geekysteven you measure in quarter pounders with cheese, we measure in royal with cheese...

@geekysteven American here. I see nothing wrong with this.

@geekysteven I know "everything's bigger in America" but you must have some massive bicycles over there!

@geekysteven @Talia_christine The speed of light is roughly 1.8 megafurlongs per microfortnight. Don’t make me convert that to jiffies per hectare-hour.

@geekysteven adding this to the wacky pile of measures

@geekysteven What kind of hamburgers are we talking about, here? White Castle sliders, a basic McDonalds hamburger, a Wendy's T-Rex burger?

@geekysteven Which bicycle? They come in different sizes.

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for @shawnp0wers :)

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@geekysteven Ain’t that the truth… I wonder how many Milfs there are in a kilometre 🤔

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What kind of deer?
Muntjac or Red?

@geekysteven are we talking deluxe burgers or just the patties

@geekysteven Hamburgers? Must be from Hamburg, Germany. And Cheeseburgers were invented in the town of Cheeseburg.

@geekysteven When I was in elementary school, we were learning the metric system. It wasn't hard. No one was getting hurt. Then Regan got elected.

@geekysteven oh come now, who could turn a cold shoulder to organic terms like pounds, feet and slugs?

it positively brings out the gardener in me.

@geekysteven - True, but at least our dough is metric. The Brits Brexited so they could go back to ducats and ha’penny farthings and shit.

@geekysteven This is Paolo, tooting from within the metric system. To be fair, the bicycle analogy worked for me

@geekysteven Israel somehow decided to challenge us, though: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223

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TBF they have been using 9mm in schools for a while now...

@geekysteven agreed, let’s stay in medieval times. The distribution of wealth is also medieval standard.

@geekysteven That made me laugh. Thank you. 😂🤣

@geekysteven I remember talking about the US switching to the metric system in the 2nd grade. I'm not telling you my age but The Beatles were still together.

@geekysteven Rofl. I love that, it made me snort.

@geekysteven I love how the measurement system doesn't even use items that are standardized in size

@geekysteven americans use metric for their bullets, so we know what they turn to when it really matters

@geekysteven I am annoyed by their tendency to measure areas in football fields. And as a European I don't even know if they mean football or the American variant, which is not played with a ball or feet.

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https://themetricmaven.com/asimov-and-metric-prefixes/

@geekysteven the metric system would be easier to work with from what we remember of it.