• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    99% of it is metric. I think the biggest outlier is home care, where you go visit some grandma who’s actively offended by metric, so if you tell her to take 7.5mL of something she’ll just do the deer in the headlights thing, then shove the bottle up her ass.

    Tell her instead that she needs to take 3 Mountain Dew caps full and suddenly she can follow instructions enough to not kill herself.

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      2 months ago

      I thought everything is bigger across the ocean but your Mountain Dew caps are tiny over there! ;)

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        2 months ago

        Just googled it and apparently they’re about 5mL each. Apparently I’m not great at eyeballing volume.

        Add it to the pile of conversion failures between metric and imperial.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah, 5ml is a teaspoon, but I’m not sure if it’s reasonable to assume teaspoons have similar sizes across countries.

          But after your first month in the job you’ll convert and eyeball it even when half asleep :)

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            2 months ago

            I know it should be obvious and maybe I missed the sarcasm, but the teaspoon unit is in no way the same as an actual teaspoon utensil. I also don’t use my own feet to measure length.

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              2 months ago

              I didn’t think that was sarcasm, it’s just such a jacked up system of measurement that he’s not confident it doesn’t change with borders, which is honestly a pretty reasonable point of uncertainty.