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minus-squaredisorderly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·1 month agoFriend, I don’t think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We’d stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoThe temporary solution in 1980s Germany, when prices climbed over 1 DM/l, was to charge per 0.5 l. So they might charge per 0.5 gal now.
minus-squareWesternInfidels@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month ago they might charge per 0.5 gal now. Please, please, please. Per pottle. Of course.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoOh sorry. Of course. Please forgive my ignorance. I wasn’t aware of that.
minus-squareMonument@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoIt’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!) But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959. International Yard and Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
minus-squareCodandChips @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month ago It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)> Dollars and cents!
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoLol!! I use metric daily, and I’m 100% with you on this hahahaha
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBut you will start selling in quarts.
Friend, I don’t think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We’d stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.
The temporary solution in 1980s Germany, when prices climbed over 1 DM/l, was to charge per 0.5 l. So they might charge per 0.5 gal now.
Please, please, please. Per pottle. Of course.
Oh sorry. Of course. Please forgive my ignorance. I wasn’t aware of that.
It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.
It’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959.
International Yard and Pound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
Lol!! I use metric daily, and I’m 100% with you on this hahahaha
But you will start selling in quarts.