[monkeyshine]

Metric system makes more sense to me from an analytical mind. But in the USA it’s hard to adopt. Everything from distance to socket-wrenches.

I was in the hospital last year. The nurse said she could not discharge me unless I could produce enough water. She said I had 800 ml of water in my bladder and needed to get it out. But they had me on meds that kept me, well, inhibited at the moment. I gave her 300 ml. She said I needed to give her more.

I told her there is no man who can’t hold a pint. Took her a couple of seconds.

Got home and I was like a racehorse who just ran 6 1/2 furlongs.

[hanamizu]

Got home and I was like a racehorse who just ran 6 1/2 furlongs.

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I always got a kick out ‘furlong per fortnight’. But the origin of furlong is once again based on human activity. I believe it was how far a team of oxen plowing a field could go before they needed a break. French revolutionaries were determined to get rid of human-based measurements in favor of scientifically-based measures. Having it based on multiples of 10 was a good idea, but the resulting units were often unsuited to daily life as lived by human beings.

[Fitzy_888]

A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the energy it take to increase the temperature of a pint of beer one degree Fahrenheit.

Somehow it all comes back to beer, I can relate to that.