A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

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What is this metric shit? I'm an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!

u guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet

You say that like there's a problem. It's twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

I don't know what a hundredweight is, but I'm just guessing based on American experience that it's a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.

1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.