Post #1959176

2026-05-03 10:09 UTC

list of units I dislike as a physicist: Wh (watt-hour)lbf (pounds-force)yardsmeasures of area that aren't m² or km² (what in the fuck is an acre)pints (apart from with milk, but that's just me being used to buying milk in pints as a Brit, could easily adapt)what the fuck is a cup and why do Brits and Americans have different definitions of it

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@ic5146@meow.social 2026-05-03 10:12

oh also ounces of a solid or liquid mean nothing to me also how the fuck are you making an ounce measurement of a liquid lol

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@Mycroft@meow.social 2026-05-03 10:27

@ic5146@meow.social even in the US a "cup" can be variable; in cooking it's pretty solid but how much volume a "cup of coffee" is is subjective - my coffee cup holds 4 cups of coffee where a cup of coffee is 2/3 of a cup also have you heard of barleycorns, nearly everyone in the US *and* UK deals with things measured in barleycorns every day, but of course we have three different measurements between us for it isn't that fun

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@CheetahFluff@nyan.network 2026-05-03 10:48

@ic5146@meow.social lbf are cursed. Cups are even more cursed though. It's not just England and the US, most former/current commonwealth countries have their own slightly different versions. And then there's tablespoons, which are even worse. :neocat_woozy:

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@ColorfulCeleste@bark.lgbt 2026-05-03 16:29

@ic5146@meow.social As somebody in the US, I absolutely agree that imperial system measurements are bad. Also, I did not know cups were different between the US and UK, that's horrendous lmao

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