Now do metric vs imperial.

artisinal 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing screams freedom more than using ancient terms like horsepower and measuring tires in inches and percentages.

The other day I heard an American talk about a TV being 65 inches. Took me a while to understand they had a 165 centimeter diagonal television.

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tancop 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

most tv makers and electronics stores in europe give you the screen size in inches first and cm second. they only come in a few common sizes so the specific units dont really matter.

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clickety_clack an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I bet you’d use lightyears over petametres or exametres though.

	▲	Alpha3031 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's more typical to use parsecs in practice for astronomy.

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vel0city 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Speaking of tires, its actually a crazy mixture of units here in the US. You might have a size like P215/65R15 which translates to a radial passenger tire of a 15" rim, 215mm wide tread (sidewall to sidewall), and an aspect ratio of 65 which is a ratio of the sidewall to tread width.

So a tire size is expressed in inches, millimeters, and ratios.

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alehlopeh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Surely you mean tyres? It’s all arbitrary. Get over yourself.

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Jblx2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ahem U.S. Customary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units