This man’s exasperated rant about imperial measurements is a hilarious argument for going metric
Because it’s the internet, other people made things so much worse.
Have you ever wondered how many pounds are in a hundredweight?
That's an actual name of an actual measure.
Go on, guess.— Pete🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌱 (@muddyfox50) November 26, 2018
go on
say it
but if anyone tells me anything other than one hundred here I am tearing this entire fucking place to the groundhttps://t.co/6goRvfoQQU
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 26, 2018
I HATE ALL OF THIS, AND I HATE ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING ME KNOW IT pic.twitter.com/Rn28qKt1Sx
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 26, 2018
nobody tell Innes the boiling point of water in fahrenheit
— dave makes 🌌🚄 (@davemakes) November 26, 2018
nobody can because nobody actually knows
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 27, 2018
212, because there's 180 degrees (half a circle?) between boiling and freezing water, and the guy who devised the system set 0 at the coldest temperature he could generate by salting ice, which happened to be 32 degrees below the freezing point of water.
— GreatLimmick (@GreatLimmick) November 27, 2018
are you shitting me
212
is this an actual fucking joke
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 27, 2018
They tried to make the scale so human body temperature would be at 💯, but they kind of missed and now it's 98.6 degrees.
— Matt Van Horn 🌊 (@nycplayer) November 27, 2018
I think they broke him.
Yes – they definitely broke him.
no-one has even mentioned oxgangs though so you're all fired pic.twitter.com/QS9JAI9dR9
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 26, 2018
Wisely, he decided not to learn anything else.
Wait until you do the nautical stuff
— Matt Baker (@mattwbaker) November 27, 2018
I'll be doing that after I walk out into the sea after seeing all the responses to this thread
— moth dad (@innesmck) November 27, 2018
We’ve all learnt something here – we’ve learnt we shouldn’t tell @innesmck any new imperial facts for the good of his sanity.
