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Pounds is just one mostly-American unit. Add to that miles, feet, inches, ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, barrels, acres, bushels and Fahrenheit, each of
by Symbiote 2y ago
Pounds is just one mostly-American unit. Add to that miles, feet, inches, ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, barrels, acres, bushels and Fahrenheit, each of which might be relevant at most once a year, even for someone who watches a lot of American media.
It's about as useful as knowing how many sickles in a galleon, or knuts in a sickle — 1 point gained in the trivia quiz!
No-one in Europe will "look at you funny" if you don't know the conversion, except maybe if you live in Britain and it's miles, feet, inches or pints.
- Retric 2y agoMostly-American or historical European. The Count of Monte Cristo isn't that old yet it was written long before France went metric. Critically measurements are frequently meaningful in works of fiction. Back to the Future's 88 miles per hour would mean something very different if it was the equivalent of 40 kph or 400 kph, but nobody is looking it up while watching. Sickles in a galleon shows up in one franchise, inches shows up in millions.