The Picard ManeuverWait, not like that
cdf12345Drugs too!
GreenPlasticSushiGrassLet's not forget liquor!
But liquor comes in shots, cups, pints, fifths, and handles?
A fifth is 750 mL, a pint is 200 mL, and a half pint is 100 mL. I always assumed it was no coincidence that the amounts in mL are so even, but maybe I'm wrong.
A fifth is 750ml!? There’s no way that’s true. So when someone says they drank a fifth, they drank 750ml of ~80% alcohol!?? That is wild…
Most things that are sold in a fifth are 80 proof, which is actually 40%
A US gallon is 3.785L which makes a fifth 757 ml. A pint is 1/8 gallon so ~473 ml.
An imperial gallon is 4.54609L which makes a fifth 909ml and a pint 568ml.
If your bartender is giving you 200ml pints you’re really getting ripped off.
Quarts and forties too. And smoots.
EdibleFriendIt also comes in my dad :(
Hi it’s me, Liquor.
Saw a great joke on TikTok the other day:
Father: “Okay, any did you call me to school?”
Principal: “Your son was found smashing pumpkins.”
Father: “What? What’s the big deal? Bring him here, I want to speak to him.”
Principal: “Alright, bring him in.”
Father: “What? This isn’t my son.”
Other Student: “Nah, I’m Pumpkins.”
Don’t you want your dad to have a little fun once in awhile?
Also quit spying on us, it’s creepy.
Hold on, that’s not fair, we also use it to measure how much Coca Cola is in the bottle…hmm never mind that’s not helping… let me start over…we also use it for drugs! Wait, shit…
snooggumsI love how soda comes in 12 oz cans and 2 liter bottles. Mix and match!
And don’t forget the 20oz bottles too!
Dharma Curious (he/him)My favorite is the 16.9 ounce. It’s such a weird and awkward number that makes no sense until you realize it’s the nicely round 500 milliliter bottle.
But people still call it the 16.9 ounce bottle. -_-
𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆I recently converted all my recipes to metric and now I dump everything in a bowl on a scale. Total game changer.
I usually use grams to measure things into equal portions, easy maths I can often do in my head.
oce 🐆Welcome to the modern times!
That is because weight is more accurate than volume.
Volume was previously used because the measuring tools were cheaper and easier to use than a scale.
no bananaI do, as a metric person, feel like doing things by volume is way more fun though. And I mean visual volume, no measurements. I’m radical like that.
What are measurements precious?
CatoblepasI feel that you are the type of person that is responsible for recipes with instructions like “knead until it feels right” or “make in the usual way” 😜
My favourite recipes are 100 years or older. They usually aren’t very instructive.
It’s more accurate, it dirties fewer dishes, it’s easier to scale recipes for larger batches, and it’s much easier to fine tune portions. Plus, I make a very consistent coffee. I found something I like a lot, and I want it to be extremely repeatable.
But what if you cook on the moon? Checkmate!
Huge portions!
Actually doesn’t even matter, but you will cook for 24 people instead of 4.
Nah, we just use it to define inches and pounds and the like.
Metric was too confusing for bullets, so we use both, and but neither of them are actually the diameter of the bullet, most of the time.
.223" is the same diameter as 5.56mm (which is 5.7mm across), but if you use 5.56 in a 223, it might kill you.
223 in 556 is fine, might fail to cycle.
strawberrythen why is it called 556 if its actually 5.7?
Dr. CoomerMaybe the original was 5.56mm and some dumbass decide “nah, not enough b u l l e t, better make it 5.7mm.”
OK, so there is a 5.7mm, that’s the same diameter as 5.56/.223, but it’s not compatible with either because of the french.
Is it a special round? For example, the cz 75 uses special 9×19mm parabellum or 9x21mm.
Kinda?
The case is both shorter and narrower than 556/223, so it won’t even sit right in anything not designed for it. But FN makes quite a few guns that use it.
556 was the measure of the inner diameter of the rifling of a barrel of a gun that shot 556.
It’s confusing. That’s why for most shotguns, we measure the width by the number of spheres of that diameter that would equal one lb, eg a 12 ga shotgun is the diameter of a 1/12lb sphere of lead.
The problem is it’s impossible to tell whether you’re joking or being serious
Mostly.
He’s correct and showing the…quirks of the system.
say it ain’t so!
he’s serious. The old casting method for round shot was to dump a measured amount of molten lead from a tower into a pool of water 40 feet below. the molten lead would form a sphere in free fall and fully set in the water, so it was convenient to define gauge diameter by fractional weight of a pound. Twelfth pound sphere fits a 12 gauge gun, etc.
That’s actually fascinating. Thank you.
No problem. There’s always a reason, and usually a pretty interesting one, for old odd hold overs like this, but it’s been 200 years since shot towers were a thing, only history buffs and muzzleloader enthusiasts really know about these.
The problem is it’s impossible to tell whether you’re joking or being serious. Throwing molten metal off the tower sounds like the most ridiculous thing ever, but apparently is a real thing.
Here’s where it gets political. I learned about shot towers in passing and though that was a good idea. You learned about shot towers with a detailed explanation, and thought that was ridiculous. One of us is prone to rational thought and the other is not.
Ah no, it’s just that from reading this, I imagined it being poured outside, not inside the tower.
Like, someone looking at Galileo doing his experiments dropping weights off of Pisa tower saying:
— What if we put a bucket underneath? What a splash it’d make!
And another one going:
— Yeah! And why just weights, let’s throw molten lead off! What safety concerns? Haven’t heard any
Hot Pennies Day - Visit Devon
Dating back to the 13th Century, Honiton’s Hot Pennies Ceremony remains unbroken for several hundred years, and still takes place on the first Tuesday after July 19th each year. This year the event will be held on Tuesday 25th July. The original celebrations involved the wealthy residents of Honiton throwing hot coins to peasants on the street below and enjoying watching them burn their fingers while trying to collect the change. In keeping with the tradition, every July the residents of Honiton take part in a similar celebration, throwing warm – not hot – coins into crowds of children below. The first pennies of the event are thrown from the balcony of the former Assembly Rooms, above the Old Pannier Market, and then a procession follows the garlanded Pole to a number of pubs and public houses where ‘hot pennies’ are thrown to the gathered children. The event will begin at 12 noon in the Old Pannier Market, The Town Cryer, accompanied by The Mayor and local dignitaries.
Grains as a measure of weight comes from the Troy weight system, think Troy ounce of gold. It is a very old system that for a long time was mostly used by apothecaries and probably has its origins in Ancient Rome.
Grains Apothecary is used to measure powder charge weight is because it was a “fine” enough scale for measuring small amounts of things that if you get it even a tiny bit wrong, can kill you. So, ammunition manufacturer’s looked around and scales used for accurately measuring small amounts of drugs were commonly available, so they went with that.
Cool side point: Powder charges are checked by weight and dosed out, (or thrown), by volume as it has always been done since the first gonnes were a thing.
Even the “metric” measurements for firearms ain’t necessarily true measurements either. Lots of them get rounded off or simply depend on just how they made the measurement to start with, (land to land or groove to groove). In any case a bullet diameter is almost always going to be just a tiny bit larger than actual bore size for modern cartridge bullets.
To be fair, we mostly just did that for the European bullets
I think the British measure calibres in imperial.
bruhduhWe also use it for engine displacement.
Basically all cars are all metric (for fasteners, etc.) these days. Even my '90s Ford is metric.
empireOfLove2GM past about 1978 is almost entirely metric too, depending on the engine combination and specific plant. I took an 1984 Cadillac apart a few weeks back and the entire drivetrain is Metric while most of the body panels are SAE/inch. Very confusing amalgamation.
PriorityMotif3.8l was almost all metric except for the intake bolts for some reason.
You will never regret buying a lot of extra 10mm sockets and wrenches. Bonus points if you have some spare 12s as well.
Bonus points if you have some spare 12s as well.
Nah, it’s 13mm that’s the other common size. (Why? Because it’s secretly 1/2" in disguise, LOL.)