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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] infectoid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I only understand Rhode Island’s.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

It is a god damn conspiracy that Rhode Island is always drawn on the map so small, Connecticut got jealous and entered into a conspiracy with Massachusett to hide the the vast rolling prairies of Rhode Island's great interior by forcing cartographers to cook their numbers and it goes to the HIGHEST levels of Big Map.

Don't believe me? Find a real life human who can proove they crossed Rhode Island in a single day.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We talking standard Rhode Islands, or Olympic-size swimming pool Rhode Islands?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago

a swimming pool filled with rhode-island sauce?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

International Competition Standards Rhode Island is the preferred measure

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Just Rhode Island or the entire Commonwealth of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations?