We’re all going to have to fight his wife for that one.
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Why are the heaviest plates in most American gyms 45 pounds? It seems like 50 would be the natural increment. It’s not something I lose sleep wondering about, but I always found it curious.
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I think because the weirdos across the pond started it first with 20kg plates and 45 is close, but a little better
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Are we really going to do the “who has the same measuring systems” thing?
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It really confuses me how Americans manage to turn the “IMPERIAL” system into “FREEDOM” units
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3 barley corns = 1 inch
King George’s foot = 1 foot
The distance from king George’s nose to the tip of his fingers = 1 yard.
It’s simple, really
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There’s a coup in Myanmar so the junta may be persuaded to ditch the Imperial system, leaving Liberia the only anti-metric ally of the US.
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The UK is still Imperial. Except for when it isn’t.
Distances are miles but petrol is litres - try working out miles to the gallon at the pump! People’s height is feet and inches but weight is stones and pounds, but food in shops is in kilograms and grams. Temperature is centigrade, but rainfall is inches.
Beer is pints, spirits are millilitres.
So it’s an anti-metric ally, but also it isn’t.
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Why did the brain tumours from mobile phones paranoia just suddenly disappear? I’m pretty sure it died with the first decent iPhone (iPhone 3?) - people would sooner dip their head in cyanide before putting a phone to their ears back in the day.
Also, bring back phone clips for your belt!
Oh yeah boi:
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We all thought that microwave ovens were going to damage our DNA too…
How is it that every firefighter isn’t female?
You stick your hand into a sink of water poured out by a female and it’s third degree burns. Showers/baths are comparable to the surface of the sun and bed usually involves layers of clothesand bedding plus the heating on.
I assume in a burning house, a woman would just walk in, throwing clothes off as they approach, walk up to the eye of the fire and place their frosty extremeties on the flames, extinguishing them in a blink of an eye.
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I’ve wondered this since the pandemic began. There’s all these new ways to buy without going into a store.
One is you order ahead and they put it straight into the trunk of your car when you arrive. This service always has a goofy name like Store to Trunk.
The best name for this would be: Stacked in the Back. Serviced by appropriately proportioned staff. How has no-one taken advantage of this?
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