As an Australian, where we changed from miles to kilometres in the 1970s, am trying to remember the imperial measurements that Myanmar, Liberia and the US still use.
So an inch is the king's thumb. Three of those make the scrote, or Richard III's scrotum. And 12 inches makes a king's foot (King Alfred's?). And 3 of those make King Henry VIII's armspan, or a yard. And a bunch of those make a mile. How many?
Has any American considered their current imperial measuring system might be a tad feudal, monarchic and random? (Even though I did invent the 'scrote', the rest of the real imperial units are still a sort of weird, inbred form of measurements you'd reckon would be used by men married to their sisters.)
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As an Australian, where we changed from miles to kilometres in the 1970s, am trying to remember the imperial measurements that Myanmar, Liberia and the US still use.
So an inch is the king's thumb. Three of those make the scrote, or Richard III's scrotum. And 12 inches makes a king's foot (King Alfred's?). And 3 of those make King Henry VIII's armspan, or a yard. And a bunch of those make a mile. How many?
Has any American considered their current imperial measuring system might be a tad feudal, monarchic and random? (Even though I did invent the 'scrote', the rest of the real imperial units are still a sort of weird, inbred form of measurements you'd reckon would be used by men married to their sisters.)