@LilahTovMoon I’m an American but have lived overseas for over 22 years now and just got used to the metric system and now have trouble going back to not using it when I go home for a visit…I wish America would just switch to metric already.
@saja0486 @LilahTovMoon Give them time, after all it was only legal in 1866 and the act to change was only in 1975
Toronto's basket ball team had an American player (actually there are lots of them), but this one in particular about 20 years ago now was a total winner. He wanted to get traded back to the United States and the mockery he received was just gold when one of his reasons was "my kids learn metric here. Where in the world are they gonna use that?"
@LilahTovMoon I can never get my corgis to stack this neatly, I'm jealous
Why Not Zoidberg? 
@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social@LilahTovMoon the number of bald eagles per football field this car can go is too damn few.
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Wait, I think we're on to something with this one
@ScottSoCal@computerfairi.esHey, you can't blame the US for this. Corgis are a UK thing.
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@LilahTovMoon funny to see you compare Americans with dogs 
@LilahTovMoon yes but we're learning about the corgis system
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Oh thank god I was wondering about that...
@LilahTovMoon I do love that the .4 corgi scales proportionally though, that was a good choice
@LilahTovMoon ok fine, 840 centicorgis
@LilahTovMoon Wouldn't 12 feet be 3 corgis?
I mean, if each corgi has the usual 4 feet they're normally born with, of course.
@GrumpusNation@mastodon.social@LilahTovMoon Here’s a great cheat sheet from your neighbours!
@LilahTovMoon ...heyyyy wait -- those are metric Corgis!
@LilahTovMoon It’s true.
What’s worse, they don’t indicate whether they’re using Cardigan or Pembroke Corgis as their metric.
@LilahTovMoon Indeed, until recently, Corgis was as Imperial as it gets
AO 
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Whoa, you can stack corgis up to 4 meters?! Amazing!
The average height of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the more common type of Corgi, is 25-30 cm. (224cm)
@LilahTovMoon okay, but I kinda want to measure everything in corgis now because then I just picture a bunch silly happy corgis!
@FlippoFlip@norden.social@LilahTovMoon we should introduce it in time. Just to fuck with 'em
@LilahTovMoon Most useless chart for Europeans ever.
None of those measurements make sense.
@LilahTovMoon These ridiculous comparisons are funny.
But, switching to the metric system won’t fix people with seemingly no understanding of dimensional space. In the US, we all grew up on this non-metric system. You’d (maybe?) be shocked at how many people can’t judge or visualize any amount of inches or feet. Even with metric, they will all still need to know how many Corgis in 4 meters.
I think it depends on where you grew up in the USA?
I was incarnated in California as a human in the 1970s this go round and was definitely taught metric and other measurement systems in public school.
Attached is a road sign example from California which has both mileage and kilometers listed.
Albeit, this may have varied somewhat. For example, while I was taught Fahrenheit and Celsius in public schools when I was younger, by the time I was taking Physics at a private high school, I also learned Kelvin.
I'm not sure where Corgi measurements are taught, but I graduated from University in 1999, so it might be a new thing? Speculatively, probably promulgated by Cowboy Bebop Ein fans. Grateful to have one reference point now at least!
Hope I won't have to use it often.
@LilahTovMoon all of this talk about how to accurately measure using Corgis and no one has taken on that this is implying she can jump 12 F-ing feet into the air.
@barryallen2023 @LilahTovMoon or that 8.4 corgis go as far as her toes and the 12' seems to be to her nose.
@barryallen2023 @LilahTovMoon oh wait, it stated total jump in feet, and clearance. So her height is 12' - 8.4 corgis
@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social@barryallen2023 @LilahTovMoon Yeah! If she has a day off from gymnastics she could stroll over to the track and field competition and try high jump. With a half twist, just for fun.
@LilahTovMoon Not Americans but U.S. Americans! The rest of the nations in the continent use the metric system. Because you're addressing the Fediverse, not just USA!
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@LilahTovMoon Pretty much. i've never understood the metric system. I grew up with the imperial system.
@gocu54 @LilahTovMoon it is not so hard. I grew up in the UK and I remember the farthing coin (which was, if I remember, 1/4d). But I was then taught science and discovered there was this really simple system of measurements called Metric.
@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social@LilahTovMoon We do sell soft drinks in two liter bottles, which strikes me as an odd thing to make an exception for.
@LilahTovMoon This works out at 17 inches per corgi. Those are very tall corgis
No, no. Don’t drag Americans into this. “Corgi” is clearly a British unit of measurement!
@gregoryantony@mastodon.com.br@LilahTovMoon Literalmente pulando o corguinho
@LilahTovMoon there's a pic of Biles standing next to Shaq. She comes up to his hips. She could comfortably flip over him.
@LilahTovMoon The Corgi numbering system is Base 4
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Now I have to convert corgis to collies
@LilahTovMoon the amazing thing is that they managed to make it to the moon and back without metric measurements.