• ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
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        But they’re the sort of British that yearns for the good old days, when we still had shillings and inches and diphtheria and jumpers for goalposts and no womens’ rights and all that great British stuff.

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      I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      Its time to retire the metric system in favor of something base 12. Base 10 is for children who need to count on their fingers, base 12 is easier to divide into quarters or thirds. Babylon was right.