I think that it’s because USians hate decimal places more than metric measurements—160 ft is more palatable than 53.3 yds.
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Internet refuses to tell me what dog breed has the same average volume as a 60 cm diameter sphere.
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It’s 10.74m long, and 2’ 2⅝" wide.
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If you go down to the hardware store and buy DAR timber, the standard plank is 19mm thick. Which always bugged me. Why nineteen millimeters? Why not an even 2cm?
Then there was the flash of illumination when I realised that 19mm ≃ ¾". And the answer to “why 19mm?” is “because 12.7mm is too thin and 25.4mm is too thick for home joinery, duh!”
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Yep, when it comes to building supplies, all hatred for the metric system and fractions go out the window. It’s pretty funny.
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How much is that in giraffe necks?
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“one thirty-third of a mile”
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26.65 fathoms?
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Parsecs can only be purchased by the dozen.
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Me either. I always have to picture two quarter-hectares.
(ducks, runs).
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