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minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up65·1 year agoSaturday Night Live actually had a good sketch about this a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk Washington: "We fight for a nation where we choose our own laws… choose our own leaders… and choose our own systems of weights and measures. I dream that one day, our proud nation will measure weights in pounds, and that 2000 pounds shall be called a ton." Rebel: “And what will 1000 pounds be called sir?” Washington: “Nothing. Cause will have no word for that.” … Washington: “Distance will be measured in inches, feet, yards and miles. 12 inches to a foot!” Rebel: “12 feet to a yard…” Washington: “If only it were so simple. 3 feet to a yard.” Rebel: “And how many yards to a mile?” Washington: “Nobody knows.” Rebel: “Ok, how many feet to a mile?” Washington: “5280, of course! It’s a simple number that everyone will remember.”
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://www.piped.video/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Saturday Night Live actually had a good sketch about this a few weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
Washington: "We fight for a nation where we choose our own laws… choose our own leaders… and choose our own systems of weights and measures.
I dream that one day, our proud nation will measure weights in pounds, and that 2000 pounds shall be called a ton."
Rebel: “And what will 1000 pounds be called sir?”
Washington: “Nothing. Cause will have no word for that.”
…
Washington: “Distance will be measured in inches, feet, yards and miles. 12 inches to a foot!”
Rebel: “12 feet to a yard…”
Washington: “If only it were so simple. 3 feet to a yard.”
Rebel: “And how many yards to a mile?”
Washington: “Nobody knows.”
Rebel: “Ok, how many feet to a mile?”
Washington: “5280, of course! It’s a simple number that everyone will remember.”
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.