Listen, itβs very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk β that comes in litres.
Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if theyβre too far to walk β if you can walk it itβs in metres. If youβre driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.
Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you donβt care much about your weight itβs in stone (but not pounds β no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and itβs hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.
Oh, and if thereβs a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a β100Β°F scorcherβ. But if itβs cold then itβs an βarctic blastβ with βwidespread temperatures below 0Β°Cβ.
I hope this clears things up.
It genuinely bothers me that this setting doesnβt cause Apple Maps to use metres for walking directions and miles for vehicle directions. A yard is what northerners have instead of gardens, not a unit of distance!
@katemorley@hachyderm.io Scotland has its own Yard
@katemorley@hachyderm.io for a yard I always picture the back of my parentsβ house. I have no idea how long a yard is in relation to a metre.
@katemorley@hachyderm.io Surrender to the International Metric System! It makes way more sense.
@Wifiwits@infosec.exchange
A metre is about three foot three. So, if you're just estimating the distance to that bridge by eye, metres and yards are interchangeable.
@katemorley@hachyderm.io
@cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io Oh you want to have an international stubbornness competition, do you?
@PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io
What about this Scottish song?
"But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles"
To fall down at your door
@PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io
What about this Scottish song?
"But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles"
To fall down at your door
@P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io
"But I would walk 800 kilometers
And I would walk 800 more
Just to be the man who walks sixteen hundred kilometers
To fall down at your door"
Yeah.. just doesn't have the same ring to it
@P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io
"But I would walk 800 kilometers
And I would walk 800 more
Just to be the man who walks sixteen hundred kilometers
To fall down at your door"
Yeah.. just doesn't have the same ring to it
@LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io but singing 8000 meters and 8000 more could work.
@LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io but singing 8000 meters and 8000 more could work.
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange @LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io 8000 metres isn't much more than a parkrun. It isn't worth singing about unless it's a song about a drunk bloke who missed the last bus and has to walk home and falls down at your door.
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange @LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io 8000 metres isn't much more than a parkrun. It isn't worth singing about unless it's a song about a drunk bloke who missed the last bus and has to walk home and falls down at your door.
@foobarry@mastodon.social @LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io sounds like you have the concept of your next hit song!
@foobarry@mastodon.social @LibertyForward1@beige.party @P4FKoeln@social.cologne @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social @cacilhas@mas.to @katemorley@hachyderm.io sounds like you have the concept of your next hit song!
Kate Morley
