• pyre@lemmy.world
    841·
    6 months ago

    maybe you can’t make the doors fit the stalls properly because you don’t use the metric system.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
      183·
      6 months ago

      No man, you don’t get it, I was told that a foot is much better, because that’s 12 inches and then 12 can be easily divided by 2,3,4,6

      As if you couldn’t just work with wood sizes of 12 or 24cms…

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        241·
        6 months ago

        i would accept that if the rest followed.

        it’s 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile.

        meanwhile everywhere else in the world we just add and remove zeroes as needed. (or move the decimal point)

      • GrosPapatouf@lemmy.world
        51·
        6 months ago

        To be fair, using the decimal system for everything was the No1 mistake of the french revolution. A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            I think that’s the Dewey decimal system, which inspired the Chewy decimal system, which is the next innovation in grocery store layouts.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      101·
      6 months ago

      maybe you can’t make the doors fit the stalls properly because you don’t use the metric system.

      It would be delightful if this phrase started appearing on affected bathroom walls.