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There's a great Simpsons joke where Grandpa says, "the metric system is the tool of the devil, my car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I like
by tmountain 4y ago
There's a great Simpsons joke where Grandpa says, "the metric system is the tool of the devil, my car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I like it!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8
- chucksta 4y agoThose are/were real units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAre there, by chance, any fake units that exist?
- buttocks 4y agoI’m fond of the shit ton. The Canadian metric equivalent is the metric crap tonne.
- dwighttk 4y agoButtload is not fake however
- thedrbrian 4y agoUs brits have “shed load”
- cwillu 4y agoThe shit tonne and the fuck load come to mind.
- selimthegrim 4y agoF**stick?
- AaronM 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
- ars 4y agoYes, the smoot
- gostsamo 4y agoDoes the Register's measurement converter count? https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
- quantified 4y agoThat's why it's Grandpa and funny.
- Sebb767 4y agoSo his car takes roughly 300l to move 200m in SI units, or 45000l/100km.
- gen220 4y agoFor those who are curious, 1 rod is 0.003125 miles. Thus, 40 rods is 0.125 miles. 1 hogshead is 1/63 of a US gallon. Thus, 40 rods to the hog's head is 7.875 miles per gallon, 29.87 L/100km, or 3.348 km/L. EDIT: sorry, 1 hogshead is 63 US gallons. This comes to about 0.002 miles per gallon... yikes! (divide all the numbers in the previous paragraph by 63^2)
- dwighttk 4y agoHuh. Why is a hogshead so small? If you had asked me to guess I would have said like 3 1/32nd (or some weird small additional amount) gallons. Wait. I’m seeing that hogshead is like 63 “wine” gallons, not 1/63 gallon. (Not sure conversion of wine gallons to usual gallons though.)
- gen220 4y agoOoh you're totally right, thank you for pointing it out! I think my brain was subconsciously seeking a miles-per-gallon result in a "reasonable" order of magnitude. Edited original comment.
- dwighttk 4y agoThey don’t make hogs like they used to
- BizarroLand 4y agoFrom a quick search it seems both a normal gallon and a wine gallon are measured at 231 cubic cm of liquid, so they're the same. There is a proof gallon which only counts the ethanol content of the liquid towards the gallon, so a 100 proof alcohol would require 2 gallons of liquid to equal 1 proof gallon of liquor.
- cossatot 4y agoThe greatest Simpsons car-and-measurement-unit bit is of course this one: "She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene" which maybe makes sense if you're plowing a field... Part of a pretty amazing 20 second bit. Pure old Simpsons gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vdtBMG4Kg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vdtBMG4Kg
- drewzero1 4y agoIf you wish that 20 seconds would last a little longer, and also be remixed into a song, check out "Put it in H" by Dankmus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXT7fDkf9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXT7fDkf9I