Post #3289263
2026-06-03 23:43 UTC
I am also fascinated by the measurement “two soccer fields.” Americans largely play soccer on American football fields, so any American would just say “two football fields.” But everyone else hates calling it “soccer” and prefer to use metric rather than comparisons? This just seems like they chose all their measurements to be maximally irritating.
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@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-04 01:09
Aren’t soccer fields like 20% larger usually?
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@blitzen@lemmy.ca 2026-06-03 23:52
Calling it two football field would still work. Americans would think brown oblong ball field, everyone else would think black and white orb game. In in all cases they’d be thinking of essentially the same measurement.