| ▲ | ChrisRR 4 hours ago |
| Imperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs? |
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| ▲ | Xmd5a 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton > he long ton,[1] also known as the imperial ton, displacement ton,[1][2] or British ton,[3] is a measurement unit equal to 2,240 pounds |
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| ▲ | guenthert 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They could have said 3300 stones stones ... |
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| ▲ | masfuerte 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That's the way they like it. American road signs have mad shit like "No trucks over 15,000 lbs". |
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| ▲ | hamdingers 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This is an is-ought inference. Americans have not been given an option and use the units they're provided with, which is a frustrating mix of everything depending on context. Nobody seems to like it this way. | |
| ▲ | walthamstow 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Surely they don't actually like drill bits measured in fractions of an inch, do they? | | |
| ▲ | edoceo 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, in USA the bits are in fractions and stuff you purchase will have instructions like, drill 3/8 hole for a wall anchor, or 2+1/4 hole for a door-bolt set. |
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| ▲ | dboreham an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The American thousands of pounds thing is even more weird than that: I buy gravel from the gravel pit. They weigh my truck and dump trailer in lbs and then charge me per ton. Everyone talks about tons: e.g. I'd call a dump truck operator and ask him to deliver 18 tons of rock, not 36,000lbs. But the weighbridge and road signs and regulations about vehicle and axle weight are always in lbs. If you only read things and never talked to other people you'd never know tons existed. | | | |
| ▲ | thechao 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's because we measure weight in tonnage. | | |
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